The Arcane Catalyst is used for soul storage and advanced enchanting. It stores souls, which can then be used by a nearby Stabilized Enchanter or for direct book enchanting.
Soul Collection
The catalyst automatically collects any souls released within a 16-block radius. Souls are released when mobs die nearby or when Soul Flowers are harvested.
Stabilization & Storage
The catalyst has a base capacity of 50 souls. To store more, it must be supplied with energy, such as from a Laser Arm.
- Charging: Every 20 RF/t provided increases the soul capacity by 1.
- Decay: If the energy supply is cut, the capacity will slowly drop back to 50.
Danger
Stability Risk: If the catalyst contains more souls than its current capacity (e.g., if power is lost while it's full), it will become unstable. After 3 seconds (60 ticks) of instability, it will explode. The explosion strength increases with the amount of excess souls.
Hyper Enchanting
By placing an Enchanted Book in the first slot and an item in the second, you can enchant items directly.
- Level Requirement: The book used must be at the maximum vanilla level for that enchantment.
- No Restrictions: This method ignores standard enchantment rules, allowing you to apply any enchantment to any item.
- Hyper Levels: If the item already has the enchantment at its maximum level, the catalyst can "hyper enchant" it to even higher levels.
- Consumption: The enchanted book is consumed during the hyper enchanting process.
Hyper enchanting costs much more souls than standard enchanting, scaling exponentially with the target level.