A curated list of addons for Ars Nouveau 1.21.1, grouped by what they add and how well-supported they are.
Ars Essentials
“Must have” addons
Ars Elemental - adds elemental gear, additional spell glyphs, new archwood biomes, and magical creatures
Ars Additions - adds Ars structures to the world, plus a number of new quality of life items
Not Enough Glyphs - adds additional glyphs and the spell binder
Ars Expansions
Addons that add new content not linked to a specific non-Ars mod
Starbunclemania - Adds additional options for automation and the ability to convert source to a liquid.
Ars Controle - Adds Blocks, Items, and Glyphs focused on giving you more control
Ars Fauna - adds variant Ars creatures to the world
Ars Artillery - adds deployable defense turrets that can be crafted
Ars Caelum - adds additional floating island rituals to create a wider variety of biome islands
Ars Structurize - adds a variety of Ars themed structures
Ars Affinity - adds school-based perk trees
Ars Zero - adds a caster staff and new glyphs
Ars Trinkets - adds a leveling system and configurable stat boosts
Ars Ingressum - adds a ritual for traveling to other dimensions
Ars Musique - adds music disc crafting and buffs
Ars Astrologique - adds new content themed around space
More Arsnouveau - adds a few new glyphs
Ars Nouveau Combat Glyphs - adds two new glyphs specifically for combat
Ars Prism (WIP) - reworks mechanics into multiple types of magic based on a series of new types of source gems
Adam’s Ars Plus (WIP) - adds high end content, including powerful new glyphs and bosses
Ars Equipment
Addons that focus on adding new Ars gear
All the Arcanist Gear - Adds additional tiers of gear designed for “All the Mods” modpacks.
Ars Elemancy - Extension for Ars Elemental that adds dual and quad elemental gear.
Ars Nouveau: Greatest Discount - adds higher tiers of mana-related accessories
Ars Violetgold Equipment - adds new tier of stronger equipment beyond netherite
Ars Functionality
Addons that tweak functionality without adding significant new content
Ars Unification - adds glyph functionality with processes from other mods
Ars Polymorphia - adds recipe selection support to the Lectern
Ars Lumos - adds glowing effect to Archwood and Source
Ars Numeric HUD - shows mana numbers
Put Mana In - lets you manually charge source jars
Ars Deco - adds dyeable variants of many Ars blocks
Ars Planarium Eternal Day - changes the skybox of the planarium to daytime
Ars Nouveau: Two-Way Portals - adds a new type of warp scroll that creates a two way portal and support for Immersive Portals
Ars Nouveau: Chapters - lets you create new tabs in a spellbook, allowing for more spells
Crafting Terminal Improvements - modifies the lectern GUI
Custom Ars Portals - allows for irregularly shaped ars warp portals
Ars Compatibility
There are a number of compatibility mods out there, so if you have a favorite mod check to see if there is an addon that integrates with Ars
Ars Nouveau Flavors & Delight (Farmer’s Delight)
Ars Creo (Create)
Ars Ocultas (Occultism)
Ars Energistique (AE2)
Enigmatic Unity (Enigmatica)
Custom Machinery Ars Nouveau (Custom Machinery)
GeOre Nouveau (GeOre)
Modular Machinery Reborn Ars Nouveau (Modular Machinery Reborn)
Reliquified Ars Nouveau (Relics)
Ars Technica (Create)
Ars Hex Unity (Hexerei/Malum/Iron’s Spells)
Ars Monde Attuner (Ars Monde datapack) discontinued
Ars Monde Lib (Ars Monde datapack)
Ars Morph (Identity)
Cat’s Jewelry Tweaks (Iron’s Gems and Jewelry)
Ars Expanded Combat (Expanded Combat)
Maid Mana Source (Touhou Little Maid)
Refined Types (Refined Storage)
Ars Sable (Sable)
Skill Tree for Ars Nouveau (Pufferfish)
Hex-Ars Linker (Hex Casting)
Ars Mekanica (Mekanism)
Ars Shiny (Cobblemon)
Create: Ars Nouveau Compat (Create)
Ars Tensura Compat (Tensura)
Ender IO: Source Conduits (EnderIO)
Archwood Colonies (MineColonies)
Dragon Ars Bridge (Dragon Survival)
Archwood Good (WIP) (Every Compat)
Ars Retextured
Texture packs that alter appearance only
Ars Nouveau Refresh - a more colorful variation of many of the Ars textures
Ars Nouveau Brass-ified - changes the gold on most Ars items to Create-style brass
Ars Nouveau Rekindled - another option for brass items
Ars Loafers - a more colorful and whimsical look for much Ars content
Ars Colored Glyphs - adds colors to many glyphs
Ars Dark Lectern UI - darkens the lectern UI
Use With Caution
General
These mods are made to work with Ars Nouveau, but are not widely recognized in the Ars community.
Ars Nouveau Delight - poor quality food addon (BANNED from CurseForge)
Ars Nouveau Dungeons - poor quality structure addon (BANNED from CurseForge)
Simple Ars Nouveau Starter Kit - starts players out with a spellbook and Arcanist Hat
Ars Repairing - enhanced version of the Repairing Thread (unnecessary with current version)
Ars Spellbook Rebalance - changes the Spellbook recipe
Ender Source Jars - adds ender source jars with multiple channels (makes warp relays obsolete)
Ars Janky ME Source Compat - changes to Ars Energistique ME Source Jar
Ars Compressed - adds compressed source gem blocks
Ars Dragongate - locks Ars content behind the Ender Dragon
Liquid Source - adds liquid source (just use Starbunclemania)
Make Ars Lectern Great Again - modifies the lectern GUI (use Crafting Terminal Improvements instead)
Ars Arcane Matrix - adds a source generator and ore generator multiblock to Ars Nouveau
Mana Unification
These mods are designed to unify or convert mana pools between mods. This is HIGHLY discouraged, as it can very quickly create balance issues due to differences in how mods handle mana usage.
Ars <-> Iron Mana Bridge - merges mana pools
Ars ‘n Spells - compatibilty between Ars and Iron’s Spells
Ars Technic (not to be confused with Ars Technica) - adds RF<->mana conversion
Incompatible
These mods are made to work with Ars Nouveau, but cause crashes or directly break base mod functionality in some way
Create Ars Compact - adds AN recipes to Create (breaks recipes) MODRINTH only
ArsThread Expansion - allows non Ars armors to have threads added (unneeded with Ars Additions and breaks recipes)
Ars Meteorites - summon meteorites using magic (causes crash)
Dynamic Trees - Ars Nouveau (Dynamic Trees) (causes instability)
Better Storage Lectern - breaks scrolling on lectern
Vminus - technically NOT an Ars addon, but manages to break Ars recipes