Draconic Evolution (DE) is a popular and somewhat complex mod for Minecraft which adds end-game content. With Draconic Evolution, you can make powerful armor, bows, energy storage, teleportation, and more.
This mod is a common addition to many modpacks, including Stoneblock 2 and Sky Factory 3. Since the mod is designed for end-game, you might not get to it when you first start playing.
This guide will go over everything you need to get started, including how to get draconium ingots, how to do fusion crafting, the armor sets, energy cores, and the chaos guardian fight.
Draconic Evolution Tiers Explained
Almost everything in Draconic Evolution follows the same four tiers, so it helps to learn them right away:
| Tier | What you unlock |
|---|---|
| 1. Basic (Draconium) | Draconium ingots, draconic cores, basic fusion crafting injectors |
| 2. Wyvern | Wyvern armor, tools, and weapons with RF shields |
| 3. Draconic | Draconic armor with creative-style flight, top-tier tools |
| 4. Chaotic | The strongest gear in the mod, unlocked by defeating the chaos guardian |
Your goal in the mod is simple: work your way up the tiers. Each tier needs materials from the tier before it, and the chaotic tier is locked behind a very difficult boss fight.
What You Need Before Starting
Draconic Evolution uses a lot of resources, so it pays to prepare before you start. Here is roughly what a full Wyvern set with tools requires:
- Access to the End. Killing the ender dragon drops a large pile of draconium dust (around 64) plus a dragon heart, so dragon kills are worth repeating.
- A wither farm, or at least a way to fight the wither. Nether stars are needed for draconic cores and wyvern cores. Our wither guide can help you here.
- Around 176 gold ingots and 43 diamonds.
- Three or more stacks of draconium ingots.
- A serious power setup. Fusion crafting and RF shields both drink energy.
Those numbers look scary, but by the time you reach the end-game of a pack like Stoneblock 2, you will have farms that produce all of this automatically.
Draconium Dust and Draconium Ingots
Draconium ingots and blocks are needed for most aspects of the mod. The way you get these depends on your modpack. If you are playing Stoneblock 2 or Sky Factory (no overworld), you will use Mystical Agriculture to grow draconium.
If you are on a normal modpack with explorable land and overworld, you can simply mine draconium dust deep underground similar to other ores like diamond ore. Draconium dust can be smelted to yield one draconium ingot.
Once you have a steady supply of draconium ingots, you will be able to move into other parts of Draconic Evolution like fusion crafting and energy cores.
Draconic Evolution Fusion Crafting
Fusion Crafting is a common thing you will do with this mod. This type of crafting is not done in a crafting grid or workbench, it is done “in the world” with a Fusion Crafting Core and many Fusion Crafting Injectors. It’s up to you where you build your setup, but anywhere near your house is a good idea!
The process requires a lot of energy, so make sure you have a major energy source. It is a good idea to put your fusion crafting setup near your storage room so you have easy access to materials.
You will need at least one Fusion Crafting Core and four or more Basic Fusion Crafting Injectors. Once you have these, place them as shown in the photo above. Other arrangements are also possible, as long as the injectors are no more than 16 blocks away from the core. Note that you will have to provide energy to each fusion crafting injector.
All fusion crafting recipes can be looked up with the NEI (Not Enough Items) or JEI (Just Enough Items) mod. Each recipe has its own tier (in order from easiest to hardest to make): Basic, Wyvern, Draconic, or Chaotic. The tier determines which Crafting Injector you have to use. For example, to make an item with a tier of Chaotic, all crafting injectors used must be upgraded to Chaotic or the recipe will not work.
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Upgrading Fusion Crafting Injectors
To progress with the mod, you should focus on upgrading all your crafting injectors to at least Draconic or even Chaotic. This will allow you to craft most or all of the items used in the Draconic Evolution mod. The photo below shows the recipe for upgrading a Basic Crafting Injector to a Wyvern Crafting Injector (first tier to second tier).
The recipe indicates you need to have a minimum of eight basic fusion crafting injectors. You can determine this by looking at the tier (basic) and the number of items used for the recipe on the left and right (eight). You will also need one more basic fusion crafting injector to put into the crafting core. This injector will be the one that is upgraded to Wyvern tier.
Instructions for upgrading your basic fusion crafting injector:
- Step 1: Make sure you have a crafting core and at least eight basic fusion crafting injectors arranged as shown in the earlier photo.
- Step 2: Make sure EVERY crafting injector has an energy source. If you have EnderIO, conduits are fine to use.
- Step 3: Place one basic fusion crafting injector into the fusion crafting core (by right clicking the core).
- Step 4: Right click each injector with the items indicated from the recipe. The eight injectors should have (in any order): diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, draconium block, wyvern core, draconic core, and draconic core. All of the items (other than the diamonds) can be crafted using a workbench grid. Your setup should look as the photo below.
- Step 5: Right click the fusion core. If everything has been placed properly, there will be a craft button you can click.
Draconic Evolution Armor Sets
The Draconic Evolution mod allows you to make some of the most powerful armor and weapons in the game. You will have to start by crafting each Wyvern armor piece (helmet, chest, leggings, and boots) which can be done with normal crafting in a workbench. Each piece can then be upgraded individually to Draconic using fusion crafting.
Wyvern armor provides the benefit of an “RF Shield”. Each armor piece can be charged with RF using the draconic evolution “energy infuser” block. When damaged, you will take damage to the RF charge instead of your hearts. This makes it very difficult to die in the game.
Draconic armor also gives you the RF Shield, but with a larger capacity for holding RF. If you have all four pieces of the armor set, you will also be able to fly as if you are in creative mode.
Energy Cores
Draconic Evolution also adds the biggest energy storage in modded Minecraft: the Energy Core. It is a multiblock structure, meaning you build it in the world out of draconium blocks around a core block, and it stores a truly ridiculous amount of RF.
Energy cores come in 8 tiers, and each tier makes the structure bigger and the storage larger. The top tiers can store more energy than most players will ever generate. To move power in and out of the core, you place Energy Pylons next to the structure. One pylon set to input, one set to output, and your whole base can run off the core.
A tier 4 or 5 core is a good goal for most playthroughs. Save the giant tiers for when you have a draconic reactor or another massive power source to actually fill them.
The Chaos Guardian
The chaos guardian is the final boss of Draconic Evolution, and it makes the ender dragon look like a passive mob. You will find it on chaos islands, which generate in the End every 10,000 blocks out from the central island. In Stoneblock 2, the fight is replaced by the chaos chicken, but the idea is the same.
Do not attempt this fight until you have full Draconic armor with a charged RF shield and a strong weapon. The guardian hits extremely hard, and its crystals protect it during the fight. Your reward for winning is dragon hearts and access to chaos shards from the crystal at the center of the island, which unlock the Chaotic tier of gear. One warning: breaking the chaos crystal destabilizes the island and causes a massive explosion, so grab your loot and fly away quickly!
The Draconic Reactor
The draconic reactor is the mod’s end-game power source, and it generates absurd amounts of energy from awakened draconium. It is also famous for one thing: exploding. If the reactor runs out of fuel containment power, it goes off like nothing else in Minecraft and will erase your base from the map.
If you build one, place it far away from everything you love, keep backup power on the containment field at all times, and never leave it unattended. Half the fun of the reactor is the danger, but you have been warned!
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the tiers in Draconic Evolution?
There are four tiers: Basic (draconium), Wyvern, Draconic, and Chaotic. Each tier of gear and fusion crafting builds on the one before it, and Chaotic gear requires defeating the chaos guardian first.
How do you get draconium?
In normal packs, mine draconium ore deep underground and smelt the dust into ingots. In skyblock-style packs like Stoneblock 2, grow it with Mystical Agriculture. Killing the ender dragon also drops a big pile of draconium dust plus a dragon heart.
What is the chaos guardian?
The chaos guardian is Draconic Evolution’s final boss, found on chaos islands every 10,000 blocks out in the End. It is far harder than the ender dragon and guards the chaos shards needed for Chaotic tier gear.
Does Draconic Evolution armor make you invincible?
Very close. The RF shield absorbs damage using stored energy instead of your hearts, so as long as your armor stays charged, you are extremely hard to kill. Full Draconic armor also lets you fly like in creative mode.
That concludes our Draconic Evolution guide! Do you have any questions or tips of your own? Leave a comment below!
Hammdring
Friday 28th of July 2023
sometimes the injector takes the whole stack...How do I get the extras back, I tried shift clicking and non-shift clicking but cannot get my items back. I am only trying to upgrade RF level in my flux capacitor so only need one item per injector but even breaking the injector retained my items.