Tiers & Getting Started

Blood Magic 3's progression is still being reworked, and the first few steps are significantly different from Blood Magic 2's.

We are still retooling our guidance, but we are waiting until the progression is locked down. In the meantime, here is a quick overview on how to progress in Blood Magic 3.

The first step of Blood Magic is to build a Blood Altar and Sacrificial Knife. Use these to generate LP from Self-Sacrificing.

Use this LP to craft a Weak Blood Orb, several Blank Slates, and a few Soul Snares.

The Alchemy Table uses LP from a player's Soul Network (drawn from the bound Blood Orb in it) to craft various different objects, such as:
• Arcane Ashes
• Reagents for Sigils
• Anointments
• 2x Ore Processing
• and various other odds and ends.

An Alchemy Array is made by placing some Arcane Ashes on the ground. The Alchemy Array can have 2 items inserted into it via [ПКМ], and will either craft an item (such as a Divination Sigil) or perform some kind of function (such as turning day into night).

The Hellfire Forge crafts using Demon Will. You get your first Will by using Soul Snares, though upgrading to a Sentient Sword is recommended. The Hellfire Forge is used for stuff directly related to Demon Will (like Tartaric Gems and Sentient Tools), and consumables (like Explosive Charges and Throwing Daggers).

At this point, you will be able to craft a Dagger of Sacrifice in order to slaughter mobs for more LP. Various Upgrade Runes should be available for your Blood Altar, and some more Sigils will be available. As before, you should focus on further upgrading your Altar.

If building your Altar is getting tiresome and you feel in need of a distraction, why not try out the newly available Potioncrafting system? you will be able to craft Alchemy Flasks or Tipped Amethyst Throwing Daggers and imbue them with literally dozens of effects.

By this point, you will have the ability to create some basic Rituals and Living Armour as well. This armour is very versatile, though you'll have to work hard to unlock its full potential. At this point you should look into upgrading your Altar and your Ritual Diviner to unlock more powerful Rituals. How, you say?

By performing the Edge of the Hidden Realm, that's how! This will allow you limited access to Demon Realm, and hopefully to Tau Fruit, which can be cultivated into Saturated Tau and then converted into Weak Blood Shards in the Alchemical Reaction Chamber. These can be used to make the Tier IV Altar, more powerful Anointments, and Potion Catalysts.

at Tier 4, you will gain access to the Ritual Diviner [Dusk], and with it, a plethora of more advanced Rituals, allowing such feats as automating your LP supply, unlimited creative flight within your base, and even summoning a devastating meteor from the heavens, chock full of goodies!

You may have tinkered around with Living Armour by this point, but the relatively low cap of points may have started to chafe. With the Ritual Diviner [Dusk], you are now free to augment your armour like never before. Firstly, The Ritual of Living Evolution will allow you to raise your points cap from 100 to 300.

If that's not enough, you can use the Sound of the Cleansing Soul to strip your armour of its upgrades. These tomes can be copied into a Training Bracelet, or re-applied to your armour to ensure you only train Upgrades that you actually want.

Any leftover Upgrade Tomes can be kept as fuel for the Penance of the Leaden Soul. This ritual allows you to apply Downgrades to your Armour.

While these are expensive (and each comes with a hefty penalty), their negative point-cost will give you more room to further improve your upgrades.

Want to be incredibly tough and healthy, and don't mind being slow? Try combining Body Builder V, Brilliance V, Healthy X, and Tough X with Leadened Pick X and Limp Leg X.

Feel more like exploring and going fast? Perhaps you don't care about your offhand? Maybe Strong Legs X, Quick Feet X, and Crippled Arm would be more your speed.

Feel like having both at different times? Make multiple chestplates and swap between them! There are dozens of upgrades and downgrades, so mix and match to find your favourite combinations.

You may want to look into the Ritual Tinkerer and the various kinds of Will Aspects available to you, and consider how they may be used to refine your existing rituals and alter how your Sentient Tools and Weapons work. To progress beyond this point, however, a delve into the Demon Realm will be needed...

By performing the Pathway to the Endless Realm, you can gain access to the Demon Realm proper, along with all of its treasures and terrors. Come equipped for a fight! Delve deep, and you may find a rich source of Demonite Ore, which can be combined into block form and used for the capstones on your altar, along with the Archmage's Blood Orb.

This is the top tier. At this point you have access to everything that Blood Magic has to offer. Continue to delve into the Demon Realm to hunt for rare treasures, and you may be lucky enough to find Intricate Hellforged Parts, which can be used alongside some Netherite Scrap to double the power of each of your altar's Runes!

What? No. Look, even in 1.12, this only existed as a favor to pack makers and was otherwise unimplemented. You've come too far. Go back a page.