Lenses are single block structures that are used to redirect or extend beams of starlight from Collector Crystals. While they can be useful on their own, using several of them together and with Colored Lenses can cause some amazing effects!
Crafting[]
While it seems like crafting them might be fairly easy, there are a few things that are left out. When making lenses it's important to use a good Rock Crystal for it, as the Purity and Size will have a bearing on the quality and amount of Lenses you will craft. The size of the crystal you use will change how many Lenses you receive when you finish crafting, on the other hand, the Purity is a bit more complex. When a lens is used to extend or change the beam of starlight, some of the power is lost from the original beam. If the Purity of a Lens is high, the beam will not lose as much power as it would if the Purity were low, and chaining lenses compounds this effect. Having Lenses made from Rock Crystals with perfect or 100% Purity will cause none of the starlight to be lost, if you can find such a crystal.
Usage[]
Lenses have a wide variety of uses, especially when used with their cousins, the Colored Lens and the Prism Lens. Not only will it allow you to redirect starlight to structures not within line of sight to the Collector Crystal, you can chain them to stretch the beam far beyond its original range. This will allow you do create a sort of wiring grid out of starlight, powering various altars at once.
Colored Lens[]
Colored Lenses are much more than just a fancy lightshow waiting to happen, each of them carry very helpful and powerful effects depending on their color. The only difference is that these "Lenses" are simply additions to regular Lenses ones and must be clipped onto them. Keep in mind these beams can pierce blocks.
- Red: Damage - Any mob that steps into these beams will take significant damage for as long as the beam is in contact with them. It does technically do magic damage so witches will have some resistance to it. These beams will not work on players.
- Orange: Ignition - Anything that touches the beam emitted from this Lens will be set on fire, or in the case of foods, instantly cooked! Simply throw the preferred food into the beam and profit! Will not work on placed blocks.
- Yellow: Break - Any placed block that is in front of this beam will begin to be mined very quickly. The beam does still take time depending on the toughness of the blocks though.
- Green: Growth - The green beam will cause any crops or plants to grow VERY quickly when it hits them. Use this to make a very fast and efficient farm!
- Light Blue: Push - This Lens will simply act as a conveyer belt for mobs, pushing along any mob that enters its beam. Very helpful for farms or mob grinders!
- Pink: Regeneration - The Regeneration Lens is a bit misleading as is does not actually give the regeneration buff. Instead it heals anything that enters the beam very quickly, as if it were being healed with potions of healing!
- Purple: Ethereal - Most of the beams that pierce through blocks can not link up to more Lenses, but the purple lens allows you to do just that. Using these lenses means that you can project the starlight through a wall and link it up on the other side.
Prism Lens[]
Prism Lenses will act just like other Lenses except that they will split any starlight that enters them into equal parts. This makes them act like Collector Crystals, but just like them the more beams you add the weaker they get. You can even add Colored Lenses to them in order to give one of those many effects!