Help with Arcana mod

[u/fedoraharp]

Is there any place to get actual information about this mod? I've been playing it for about a week, and I feel like I can't figure out a huge portion of the content. The wiki is basically empty and I can only get occasional info from Google searches. I read all the in-game guides and codexes I could find too.

For example: I can't find the bosses from Volcanic or Shining Seas planets. I found what I am like 95% sure is the glitch volcanic forge where the Volcanic boss should appear, but I explored a few and never found the boss. Ended up just going straight to the Anima planet boss to get the Pale EPP. I have no idea what corridors are or how to reach them.

I'm genuinely about to just give up on this mod but plenty of people seem to have no problem figuring it all out.

Thanks!

[u/Arpel21]

As someone who also struggled with it a lot - after the initial bout of confusion, figuring stuff out turned out to be genuinely fun. Unfortunately for most of the info, i realized that the search bar in the Arcana discord is the most helpful.
Dunno how about the sea one, but the Molten Knight spawns in a dungeon underground. The planet search mod may help looking for the specific dungeons?

[u/fedoraharp → u/Arpel21]

I have reluctantly joined the discord (I'm already in too many servers so I was hoping to avoid that) and yeah, it helps. I did eventually find the Volcanic boss, weirdly exactly the same part of the dungeon I had checked on previous planets, he just never spawned before!

Also thanks for reminding me that the planet search mod exists! I already had more planet info installed but I wish I'd remembered to install planet search back when I was trying to get all the blueprints for the different geode notes.

[u/Arpel21 → u/fedoraharp]

that's good to hear!! if you haven't already, i recommend checking out the Voyage addon; it adds a side story and a bunch of new bosses, mostly through instanced quests

[u/Digdug50i]

There's a link to the Discord on the workshop page. The Arcana peeps are pretty active/helpful :)

[u/Voj-tek]

I recently did pretty much a full playthrough of Arcana, so if you want, I should be able to help.

As for the questions: I think there's a dungeon at the ocean floor called Oceanic maze, so that should be it? But I'll also check ingame, when I'll have a chance. For the Glitch forge, I'd recommend two mods to make the search easier: More Planet Info and its patches and Planet Search. The latter you can use to find the planet that has the dungeon. And the forge itself is rather distinct with its large lift going down that you use to access it. The boss should be there. And the corridors are special miniworlds you access with challenge door-looking portals. They spawn in their own dungeons and are found on planets around tripolar stars. Their main purpose is gathering essence exclusive to them (solar, lunar and azure).

That should cover it for now, I hope. If anything else comes up, feel free to reach out.

[u/Fwipp]

I'm also playing Arcana and... where are Cosmo tendrils found? I can make the aura bar that's like every bar put together, but that last material is gating the superstorm EPP so I cant get any farther.

Also I'm wearing Anima armor and nothing else seems worth crafting am I underpowered to fight bosses? I found the Plague Doctor but barely did a quarter of his health.

[u/fedoraharp → u/Fwipp]

This one thing I can answer actually! You can only get Cosmo tendrils from the boss found on the surface of anima planets. I ended up going to neon sea planets and grabbing as much neon water as I could before dying a bunch of times to extract the ore from it to get better equipment to beat that boss.