Gravity Crystals and Ghost Matter

Gravity Crystals change nearby players' gravity or push creatures and dropped items. Ghost Matter is a placeable hazard and a retained catalyst for fabricating Gravity Crystals.

Unlocking and fabrication

After tier 1, research Special: Exotic Matter Studies in the well. It has one round, taking 30 seconds at 256 AE/t by default.

Research consumes 64 Certus Quartz Crystals, 32 Fluix Crystals, 32 Amethyst Shards, 64 Copper Ingots and 16 Ender Pearls.

Result	Consumed ingredients	Retained catalyst
Ghost Matter ×4	Ender Pearl ×8, Glowstone Dust ×16, Certus Quartz Crystal ×16	None
Gravity Crystal ×1	Amethyst Shard ×16, Copper Ingot ×8, Fluix Crystal ×4	Ghost Matter ×1

Both recipes take 10 seconds at 256 AE/t. Store Ghost Matter in the Catalysts page of any Pattern Assembly in the same well to supply its Gravity Crystal recipes. The catalyst is retained, excluded from processing patterns and does not need to be multiplied for batches.

Using Gravity Crystals

Crystals mount on any of the six block faces and require no energy. Default attraction directs player gravity toward the mounting surface, allowing standing, walking and jumping on walls and ceilings. Creatures and dropped items are pulled toward that surface.

Control or condition	Effect
Empty-hand right-click	Toggle attraction and repulsion
Redstone signal	Pause the field; removing the signal restores it
Range	A 5×5×5 area centered on the crystal
Solid walls	Block the field
Flying creative players or spectators	Unaffected

Place a crystal on the ground and select repulsion to create a lift. Connecting multiple fields lets players move between different surfaces.

Mine a crystal with a pickaxe to retrieve it. Leaving the field, pausing or removing the crystal, entering water, riding or enabling creative flight restores ordinary gravity.

When Antarchy is installed, its inverted gravity, forced gravity and gravity transitions take priority over crystal attraction. Nearby crystals resume controlling player gravity when Antarchy releases it.

Placing Ghost Matter

Ghost Matter requires a supporting block below and cannot be mined directly. It damages creatures within roughly a 3×3×3 area, bypassing armor. Solid walls provide protection. Dropped items and creative or spectator players are unharmed.

Breaking its support shatters it without an item drop and leaves hazardous mist for one minute. Replacing the support does not restore the deposit.

Suppression with water

Buckets or natural flowing water can waterlog Ghost Matter and suppress its hazard. After removing the water source, the hazard returns as water drains. Creatures immersed in water or bubble columns are protected as well.

Mist left by a shattered deposit still expires after its original one-minute duration. Ghost Matter in inventories or catalyst pages is harmless.

Recipes