Manage Familiar Health and Storage with Beds and Houses

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This guide explains how to manage your familiars' health and storage using Familiar Beds and Familiar Houses. Familiars are new mobs found in the world that can be tamed with Arcane Essence to follow and fight alongside you with spells. They can be transported using a Familiar Tome.

Familiar Bed

A Familiar Bed allows a familiar to recover its health. To use it, place a Familiar Tome containing a familiar into the bed.

The recipe for a Familiar Bed is:

Two White Wool
One magic_cloth
Two Oak Planks

Familiar House

A Familiar House is crafted using a Familiar Bed, suggesting it may offer additional functionality for familiars beyond just health recovery, possibly related to storage given one of its ingredients.

The recipe for a Familiar House is:

One Red Mushroom
Two Dark Oak Log
One Familiar Bed
Two Stone
One Ender Chest

Tome of Familiar Alignment

The Tome of Familiar Alignment is another item related to familiars. While its specific function isn't detailed, its ingredients suggest a magical purpose.

The recipe for a Tome of Familiar Alignment is:

Four Archmage Shard
Two Memory Fragment
One mithril_ingot
One diamond_spell_book
One magic_cloth

Shrinking is a 1.21.1 feature

The seven shrinking recipes in this mod exist only on the 1.21.1 build — the category is entirely empty on 1.20.1, as are rituals, smithing transforms and the alchemist cauldron.

If shrinking is the reason you installed the mod, the version matters more than anything else in this guide.

What the mod actually contains

Alshanex's Familiars is 75 pages across 66 items and 9 blocks, with four structures in the world. The block count is low because this is a companion mod: nearly everything is held, used or summoned rather than placed.

Where to find what you need

The four structures are the non-crafted source of materials:

Graveyard at spacing 20 with separation 5, underground
End Laboratory at spacing 25, on the surface
Hunter Campsite at spacing 40, on the surface
Origin Island, placed by top-layer modification

The graveyard's spacing of 20 makes it roughly twice as common as the campsite, and being underground decoration it turns up while caving.

Practical order

On 1.21.1, work through crafting into rituals and then into the shrinking and smithing systems, using graveyard trips to keep materials flowing. On 1.20.1, the crafting list is the whole mod.

Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Familiar Bed Familiar House Tome of Familiar Alignment

Tome of Familiar Alignment