Various Witches

Various Witches

A mod that aims to add several custom witches (currently one), which use custom unique potions, allowing the player to do the same.

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Screenshots

Aftermath of a Piglin Witches flask rain
The piglin witch cathedral

About this Mod

VARIOUS WITCHES MOD

This mod aims to add several witches with unique behaviours and attacks, which use custom potion effects. Currently the mod adds one witch.

REQUIRES SMARTBRAINLIB AND GECKOLIB

Piglin witch

Spoiler

The Piglin Witch

The piglin witch spawns in the Piglin Witch Cathedral, which is a common strucutre in the upper parts of the nether.
The strucure itself functions as an arena, containing the witch, it has several lava pools which the player must keep wary of.

The piglin witch uses several attacks and potions:

FLASK RAIN

When the player is within a certain close range of the witch, it will throw several combustive flasks into the air, making them rain down randomly around the witch. This attack can be negated if the player uses fire resistance, as the flasks will not damage entities with fire resistance.

METEORIC FALL

When the player is on the other side of the arena, or the witch is stuck in lava. It will use the meteoric fall attack. It affects itself with the Meteoric fall potion effect, and throws a propulsion potion at itself, midair it will launch itself towards the player aiming to land on top of its target, causing damage and knockback.

PUNCH

If the player is withing meleee range of the witch, it will attempt to punch the target away, trying to remain a certain distance from the target.

CROSSBOW SHOT

Its most common attack, the Piglin Witch uses COMBUSTION ARROWS, which speed up the farther away they fly, and explode on contact.

Upon death it drops Crimson Truffle Spores, which are a new type of nether crop. They can be planted on soul sand, their crop Crimson Truffles are used to brew every new type of potion related to the Pilgin Witch, they can also be used as food, or turned into stew.

Potions

Spoiler

Piglin Witch potions

- Porcine Potion

Used as a base for every next potion, brewed using a water bottle and Crimson Truffle.

- Blazing Trail Potion

A simple potion brewed using the porcine potion and a blaze rod, makes the affected leave a trail of fire.
Brewed using a porcine potion and blaze rod.

- Meteoric Fall Potion

A positive effect, makes the affected leave a fiery shockwave upon landing from a height greater than 1 block. The shockwave's size, damage and knockback scale with the falling distance.
Brewed using a procine potion and magma cream.

- Wart Spores Potion

A utility potion that prevents piglins from zombifying in the overworld. The effect can be made permenant by using an golden apple on an affected piglin, making them imune to zombification forever.
Brewed using a porcine potion and nether wart.

- Flame Propulsion Potion

A utility potion, doesnt last long, launches the affected entity into the air, can be used in combination with the meteoric fall potion.
Brewed using a porcine potion and firework star.

- Fiery Combustion Potion

This is the most dangerous potion in the collection. The first phase of the effect begins to function 30 seconds before it expires, the affected entity will release sizzle sounds in short intervals, as the time decreases the sizzles get faster and increase in pitch. The second phase starts at the last 10 seconds, indicated by flame particles that spawn at the entity's position, its movement speed gets increased the lower the time is. Once the effect expires the entity explodes, this scales with the entity's size.
Brewed using a porcine potion and fire charge.

Misc

Spoiler

- Crimson Truffle

A new food item for the nether, grown from Crimson Truffle Spores, dropped by the Piglin Witch.

- Crimson Truffle Stew

Used as a new food source in the nether, can be made with crimson truffles and a bowl.

- Combustion Arrow

A new type of arrow, the longer it's in the air the faster it flies, explodes 1.5 seconds after being shot, or when it hits an entity/the ground.

- Incendiary Flask

A projectile which can be thrown like a potion, damages and sets on fire entities hit, if it hits the ground it leaves a fire cloud which does the same thing but in an AOE.

FUTURE PLANS

  • An undead witch, supporting squads of undead in the overworld
  • A block which lets villagers use different witch "schools" to defend a village
    Open to suggestions

Available Versions

Various Witches 0.1-betabeta
MC 1.20.1forge
September 21, 2025

How to Install Various Witches on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Various Witches". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forge

Minecraft Versions

1.20.1

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Various Witches server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Various Witches compatible with forge?

Various Witches officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Various Witches – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Various Witches consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
MIT License
Server-side
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Supported Versions

1.20.1