Astral is a supplementary mod and origins addon intended to be used with Astral SMP.
Currently, the mod provides the following changes to vanilla gameplay:
- Cactus, nether wart, and sugar cane can be bone-mealed.
- Pet parrots can be healed with seeds.
- Mobs grow drastically stronger as you venture further away from spawn.
- Modded armor sets may now support more than two layers.
- Items may now contain the NBT tag
SetGlintto force enchantment glint to be enabled or disabled. - Lightning bolts may now contain the NBT tag
PreserveItemsto prevent them from destroying ground items.
It also adds the following powers / actions / conditions to origins:
astral:modify_scale, which is used to control the size, motion, and reach of a player.astral:repeat, which allows any action to be repeated multiple times.astral:moon_phase, which checks the current phase of the moon.astral:distance, which checks the entity's distance from a position (because the Origins implementation crashes our server lol).
Astral also adds the following content:
- Dyed amethyst blocks and clusters.
- A "randomizer" redstone block, which, when powered, outputs a random comparator signal.
- Cloud fluff and cotton, as well as cotton candy.
- A set of dye-able armor that gives either jump boost or slowness depending on how wet it is.
- A mirror (used in one of the server's origins).
- A data-driven currency system with random rewards and automatic item exchanging.
- A number of custom item models.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as astral-2.5.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 998 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
