Becoming a Hero

Becoming a Hero

Every hero has one way in. Recipes are on Items and Crafting, which also lists where the rare items are found.

The rules

Rule	Detail
One power per player	A player is exactly one of: no powers, Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Vision, Tommy, Billy, Loki, Thor, the Phoenix, Spider-Man, Thanos, Ultron, Apocalypse, Agatha, Cyclops, Professor X, Heimdall, Odin, Hela, Doctor Strange, the Hulk, Wolverine, Deadpool, Captain America, Red Hulk, Iron Man, Falcon, Love or a custom hero of the Hero Creator. Powers never stack.
Permanent	Once unlocked, a power survives death, logging out and changing dimension. Only an operator command removes it: /enhanced power set <player> none (see Commands).
Creative and Spectator	Creative and Spectator players are never killed by the Mind Stone or the Hex wall.

The ways in

Hero	How
Magneto	Craft Magneto's Helmet from 5 Netherite Blocks (helmet shape) and put it on.
Scarlet Witch	Find the very rare Scarlet Witch Gene. Hold it in one hand and use Loki's Scepter with the other to touch the Mind Stone (without the gene, you explode), or use the Tesseract with the other hand instead.
Quicksilver	Craft Quicksilver's Goggles (sugar, iron ingots, glass panes and a Block of Diamond) and put them on.
Vision	Craft a Synthezoid Core (Blocks of Redstone, Netherite Ingots and a Nether Star). Hold it in one hand and use Loki's Scepter with the other.
Tommy or Billy	Craft the Witches' Road Door (amethyst shards, soul lanterns, dark oak trapdoors and an Eye of Ender) and place it in the floor. Open it holding a Scarlet Witch Gene, walk the three trials of the Road, and choose which of Wanda's sons you become.
Loki	Find the Tesseract and use it: you vanish in a blue flash and reappear far away, as Loki. (With a Scarlet Witch Gene in your other hand it makes you the Scarlet Witch instead.)
Thor	Forge Mjolnir (Netherite Ingots, a Nether Star, a Heavy Core and a Breeze Rod). Only the worthy can lift it, and the first worthy player who lifts it claims it for good. Lift it, and lightning makes you Thor.
Phoenix	Find a very rare Phoenix Ember in a chest (End City, Bastion, Ancient City, Stronghold library, Nether Fortress and Woodland Mansion chests), hold it with no power, and hold right-click for 3 seconds. The Ember burns into you and you awaken as Jean Grey.
Spider-Man	Craft a Radioactive Spider (Fermented Spider Eyes, Glow Ink Sacs and a Slime Block), or find one in a mineshaft, dungeon or Ancient City chest, a Trial Chambers reward chest (or, rarely, from a Cave Spider you kill). With no power, right-click with it: it bites you, you are sick for 7 seconds, and then you awaken as Peter Parker.
Thanos	Hold the Tesseract in one hand and Loki's Scepter in the other and hold right-click for five seconds to call the Mad Titan. Beat him, and hold the Infinity Gauntlet he rewards for three seconds with no power.
Ultron	Beat the Ultron boss (woken with the Ultron Program and Loki's Scepter) and take his Core. Hold the Core in one hand and use Loki's Scepter with the other.
Apocalypse	Craft a Capstone (a Nether Star, five Gold Blocks and a Lapis Block), plant it in sand by day with a Scarlet Witch or a Phoenix near, beat En Sabah Nur, and hold the Essence he leaves for three seconds with no power.
Agatha	Craft the Darkhold and, with no power, hold right-click on it for 3 seconds. You keep the book.
Cyclops	Find his Ruby-Quartz Glasses (in Scott Summers' room of the Mutant School, or rarely in a woodland mansion or stronghold library) and put them on with no power.
Professor X	Craft his Wheelchair (leather, iron ingots and an Eye of Ender) or find it in the Professor's study of the Mutant School, and with no power hold right-click on it for 3 seconds. Then choose the young or the old Charles.
Heimdall (3.5)	In Asgard, win Heimdall's Guardian's Watch in the Observatory (strike seven Shadows of Hela in three minutes) and get Hofund; with no power, hold your own Hofund.
Hela (3.5)	In Asgard, break Hela's Seal behind the Throne of Asgard and beat her; with no power, hold her Headdress for 3 seconds.
Odin (3.5)	Beat Hela, take Gungnir from its stand in Odin's vault under the throne room, and with no power sit on the Throne of Asgard holding your Gungnir.
Doctor Strange (3.6)	Craft the Eye of Agamotto (8 gold blocks round the Time Stone of a Sanctum Sanctorum) and, with no power, hold right-click on it for 3 seconds. You keep the Eye.
Hulk (3.6)	Craft a Gamma Emitter (iron blocks, lime stained glass, an emerald block and a redstone block), place it and right-click it; with no power, stand in its green beam for 3 seconds.
Wolverine (3.7)	In the X-Men lower lab under a Mutant School, take an Adamantium Injection from the Weapon X rack (one per player per rack) and, with no power, hold right-click on it for 3 seconds. A hero is refused: take the Mutant Cure first (the lab's Cure Station fills one for a glass bottle).
Deadpool (3.7)	In the same lab, with no power, step into the Weapon X Pod and right-click it: 5 seconds of "treatment".
Captain America (3.8)	In the lab of an Avengers Tower, take a Super Soldier Serum from its case, use it and choose Captain America. Any hero is replaced; you get a Vibranium Shield.
Red Hulk (3.8)	The same serum: choose Red Hulk.
Falcon (3.8)	Take the Falcon Exo-Wings from the tower's observation deck (its highest room), then use the serum with the wings in your bag and choose Falcon (locked without them). Wear the wings on your chest.
Iron Man (3.8)	On Tony's desk in the tower's Iron Man workshop, take an Arc Reactor and hold right-click for 2 seconds (or wear the Nano Arc Reactor). Any hero is replaced. Then take the suits from the workshop's displays and put them on with H.
Love (3.8)	In the End, find the Shrine of the Cosmic Entities, right-click Eternity's altar holding a key of the Bifrost (Stormbreaker, your Mjolnir, Hofund or your Gungnir), and in Eternity's realm wish to become Love. Any hero is replaced; you get a Stormbreaker.
A custom hero	In Creative mode (or as an operator), use the Hero Creator from the creative tab: become any hero at once (since 3.4 with that hero's items), or make your own.

Step by step

Magneto

Craft the helmet and wear it. The first time you wear it, all of Magneto's abilities unlock for good (if you have no other power). While you wear the helmet, your skin turns into Magneto's classic suit.

Scarlet Witch

1. Find a Scarlet Witch Gene: a very rare item in the chests of woodland mansions, strongholds, Nether fortresses, bastions, ancient cities, End cities, jungle temples and desert pyramids, and dropped by witches and evokers. On its own it does nothing at all.
2. Find Loki's Scepter, a relic kept in the vault of every Hydra outpost (3.3: only there; /locate structure enhanced:hydra_outpost). The Mind Stone sits in its blue gem.
3. Hold the gene in one hand and right-click with the scepter in the other. The gene and the stone's energy fuse, the gene is used up, and you awaken as the Scarlet Witch. Wanda's Crown appears in your inventory: wear it to transform.

The Tesseract works too: hold the gene in one hand and right-click with the Tesseract in the other, instead of the scepter, and you awaken as the Scarlet Witch in exactly the same way. The gene is used up and Wanda's Crown appears, the Tesseract is not used up, and you are not taken anywhere. Without the gene the Tesseract makes you Loki, as always.

If you touch the Mind Stone without the gene, it tears you apart: you explode and die instantly. (Creative and Spectator players survive.) If you already are the Scarlet Witch or Vision, touching the stone is safe. If you have a different power, the gene can't bond and nothing happens.

Quicksilver

Craft the goggles and wear them. Like Magneto's Helmet, the first time you wear them you become Quicksilver for good, if you have no other power.

Vision

Craft the Synthezoid Core, hold it in one hand and use Loki's Scepter with the other. The Mind Stone moves into the body: the core is used up and you become Vision for good. Holding the core also protects you from the stone, exactly like the gene does for Wanda.

Tommy and Billy

1. Craft a Witches' Road Door and place it in the floor.
2. As a player with no power, in Survival mode, right-click it while holding a Scarlet Witch Gene. A ring of blue-green light runs around the door, the doors open onto a spiral stair, and the Road asks: "Seekest thou the Road?" Press Walk the Road.
3. Walk the three trials of The Witches' Road, alone, in a place of your own: a Parkour over the void, a structure to copy block by block, and a long ice-boat race. Each success opens the next; falling never hurts, and you can leave at any time with your Gene.
4. At the end of the Road, choose Billy: Wiccan or Tommy: Speed. One gene is used up, and you are taken back to the place where you came in.

Without a gene the door won't open ("The Road only opens for witch blood"). A hero already "walks their own road". (A server can switch the trials off with witches_road.enabled; the door then gives the instant choice of 3.1.) See Billy and the Witches' Road.

Loki

Find the Tesseract. It is not crafted: it turns up in End City treasure chests, stronghold libraries, woodland mansions and ancient cities (chances are on Items and Crafting). Use it (right-click) as a player with no power: the Space Stone swirls round you, you vanish in a blue flash and reappear 100 to 250 blocks away, on safe ground in the same dimension, as Loki. The cube is never used up. If no safe spot is found, you stay where you are and still become Loki.

Holding a Scarlet Witch Gene in your other hand changes that: you awaken as the Scarlet Witch instead, the same way as with Loki's Scepter, and you are not taken anywhere.

A hero who uses the Tesseract does not become anyone else: they are simply taken to the block they look at, even with a gene in the other hand. See Loki.

Thor

1. Craft Mjolnir, or find one lying in the middle of a Mjolnir's crater (3.3). A Mjolnir nobody has claimed yet belongs to nobody.
2. Be worthy: Thor himself, Vision, anyone who has proven themselves a hero by saving a village from a raid (the Hero of the Village advancement), a player in Creative or Spectator mode, or everyone, if the server option thor.anyoneWorthy is on.
3. Lift it. The first worthy player who lifts a Mjolnir claims it (a worthy player who forges one claims it at once): from then on only its owner can lift it, and its tooltip says "Bound to" followed by the owner's name.
4. If you have no other power, lightning strikes and you become Thor. A Vision who claims Mjolnir fights with it but stays Vision.

Everyone else finds Mjolnir far too heavy: it slips out of their hands. See Thor for the details, including the server option that turns ownership off.

Phoenix

1. Find a Phoenix Ember. It is not crafted: it turns up, very rarely, in End City and bastion treasure chests, Ancient City chests, stronghold libraries, Nether fortresses and woodland mansions (chances are on Items and Crafting).
2. With no power, hold the Ember in either hand and hold right-click for 3 seconds. Gold and orange flames spiral up around you and you hear the Phoenix gather. Let go early and the flames sputter out; nothing is used up.
3. At the end the Ember burns into you and is used up (not in Creative), a burst of fire goes out that hurts nobody, and you are the Phoenix: you can't be burned, and you have five abilities on R G V B N.

A hero who tries is told "Your body already holds a power" and keeps the Ember. Loki's Scepter and the Scarlet Witch Gene have nothing to do with the Phoenix: the Ember is her way in. See Phoenix.

Spider-Man

1. Get a Radioactive Spider. Craft it from 4 Fermented Spider Eyes, 4 Glow Ink Sacs and a Slime Block (the recipe is on Items and Crafting; it unlocks when you pick up a Glow Ink Sac), or find it, in a chest of an abandoned mineshaft, a dungeon or an Ancient City, in the reward chest of a Trial Chambers, or as a very rare drop of a Cave Spider that you kill.
2. With no power, hold it and right-click. You hear the bite, green motes rise from your hand, one spider is used up (not in Creative) and you take 1 damage.
3. For 7 seconds you are sick (Nausea, Weakness, Slowness, and Poison at the end, which never kills). Drink milk and the bite is cured: nothing happens. Otherwise, when the 7 seconds are over, you awaken as Spider-Man in the Homemade Suit, and everyone on the server is told.

A hero who tries is told "The spider's bite changes nothing: your power does not mix" and keeps the spider. Press H to put on the Iron Spider or the Brand New Day suit. See Spider-Man.

Thanos

Thanos is the end of a long road, and, like Ultron and Apocalypse, a hero you cannot simply craft or find: you win him from his boss. Hold the Tesseract in one hand and Loki's Scepter in the other and hold right-click for five seconds, in open country with the sky above you, to call the Mad Titan: a portal opens in the sky and he falls through it. Beat him (he takes a new Infinity Stone every 90 seconds of fighting, so do it fast and do it together) and he rewards an Infinity Gauntlet to everyone who did 3 percent of his health and to whoever struck the last blow. Hold the Gauntlet for three seconds with no power and you become Thanos. Neither the Tesseract nor the Scepter is ever used up. The fight is on Thanos.

Once you hold the Gauntlet you are Thanos: the five stones of the Power Blast, the Portal Step, the Transmute, the Soul Drain and the Rewind are on R, G, V, B and N (Sneak for the other five), and you are a tank with a toolbox. You can also give the Gauntlet to a friend who has no power, and take the fight again later. See Playing Thanos.

Ultron

Like Thanos and Apocalypse, Ultron is a hero you cannot become without a fight: you must beat him first.

1. Craft the Ultron Program (a Nether Star, four Blocks of Iron, two Echo Shards and two Blocks of Redstone: you need a Wither and an Ancient City). See Items and Crafting.
2. Find Loki's Scepter (in the vault of a Hydra outpost). Hold the Program in one hand and the Scepter in the other, look at open, level, dry ground with room above, and Sneak + right-click. The Program is used up, scrap rises out of the ground, and in six seconds Ultron stands there with six Sentries.
3. Beat him, with friends: dodge the tells, clear the Sentries, keep your feet inside the ring when Sokovia rises, and destroy his body again and again until no Sentry is left. Everyone who fought for a minute and hurt him or his Sentries gets one Ultron's Core, and so does whoever lands the last blow. See Ultron.
4. With no power, hold the Core in one hand and use Loki's Scepter with the other. The Mind Stone gives the Core a mind: the Core is used up and you become Ultron for good. (With a power already, nothing is used up: keep the Core for later or give it to a friend. Holding the Core also keeps the Mind Stone from killing you, like the gene.)

A server can switch Ultron off. Operators can start the fight without the Program: Commands.

Apocalypse

Apocalypse is the end of a fight, and the only hero who needs a friend with a particular power. Craft the Capstone and Sneak + right-click it on sand (or sandstone) in daylight under the open sky: a wall of sand rises round a circle of 24 blocks, a violet portal opens and En Sabah Nur steps out, inside a golden shield that stops everything except mind power. The ritual refuses unless a Scarlet Witch or a Phoenix is within 64 blocks, because only they can break the shield; bring them, and bring a team for the twelve-second windows when it shatters. Beat him (three shields, three phases, his Horsemen, the fall of his armour) and every fighter who stayed a minute and hurt him or his shield gets the Essence of En Sabah Nur, and so does whoever struck the last blow. Hold the Essence for three seconds with no power and you become Apocalypse. The Capstone is used up when the ritual starts and given back if the fight fails for a reason that was not yours. The fight is on Apocalypse.

Once you hold the Essence you are Apocalypse: sand waves and entombing on R, levitation on G, a violet portal on V, a golden shield that stops everything but mind power on B, and power bestowal (and, with Sneak, a sandstorm) on N. You can give the Essence to a friend who has no power. See the hero.

Agatha

1. Craft the Darkhold (netherite scrap, a wither rose, echo shards, a book and a wither skeleton skull: see Items and Crafting).
2. With no power, hold it and hold right-click for 3 seconds. Violet motes spiral into you and the book whispers. Let go early and nothing happens.
3. The Darkhold opens to you and you are Agatha Harkness: its purple beam, hex mark and mind glimpse on your keys, flight, 40 health, the Power Drain, the Witch's Shield and the Rune Trap. The book is kept. Not on the Witches' Road. See Agatha.

Cyclops

1. Find the Ruby-Quartz Glasses: always one pair in Scott Summers' room of the Mutant School (/locate structure enhanced:mutant_school), or rarely in a woodland mansion or stronghold library chest.
2. With no power, put them on (the head slot). You are Cyclops. Keep them on: when they come off, a giant beam pours from your eyes until you put them back on. See Cyclops.

Professor X

1. Craft Professor X's Wheelchair (three leather, an Eye of Ender and two iron ingots: see Items and Crafting), or take the one in the Professor's study of the Mutant School.
2. With no power, hold right-click on it for 3 seconds. A ring of light closes round your head; let go early and nothing is used up.
3. You are Professor X. Choose Young Charles (he walks) or Professor X (he sits in his wheelchair); H changes it later. See Professor X.

Heimdall, Hela and Odin (3.5)

All three are won in Asgard. Get there first: open the Bifrost (Mjolnir, Stormbreaker, a Hofund or your own Gungnir, right-click, and choose Asgard), or, with no power, right-click a Bifrost Rune Stone in the Overworld (/locate structure enhanced:bifrost_site). You land in Heimdall's Observatory.

Heimdall

1. Talk to Heimdall in the Observatory (right-click him) and choose Take the Watch.
2. In 3 minutes, find and strike the seven Shadows of Hela hidden in the city. You see them glow gold through walls, and a needle points to the nearest.
3. Win, and Heimdall gives you Hofund, bound to you. With no power, hold it: you are Heimdall. Lose, and try again after a minute. See Heimdall.

Hela

1. In the throne room, right-click Hela's Seal behind the throne, and again within 5 seconds. Bring friends: the warriors of Asgard will help.
2. Beat her three phases. Everyone who did 2% of her health (or struck the last blow) gets Hela's Headdress and the right to Gungnir.
3. With no power, hold right-click with the Headdress for 3 seconds: you are Hela. See Hela.

Odin

1. Beat Hela (above). Her first defeat wakes Odin and opens his vault under the throne room.
2. Right-click Gungnir's Stand in the vault: Gungnir is yours.
3. With no power, sit on the Throne of Asgard (right-click it) holding your Gungnir, and stay for 3 seconds of golden light: you are crowned Odin. See Odin.

A player with no power who beat Hela chooses: the Headdress makes him Hela, Gungnir and the throne make him Odin.

Doctor Strange (3.6)

1. Find a Sanctum Sanctorum in the Overworld (/locate structure enhanced:sanctum). The Time Stone floats on a pedestal on its top floor, under a green light.
2. Someone who may hold the Time Stone takes it (right-click the pedestal): a god (Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Odin, Hela), the Scarlet Witch, the Phoenix or a sorcerer (Billy, Agatha). A player with no power can't: the stone slips away from him.
3. Craft the Eye of Agamotto: 8 gold blocks round the Time Stone. Give it to the friend who will be Strange.
4. With no power, hold right-click on the Eye for 3 seconds: it opens, and you are Doctor Strange. The Eye is yours now. See Doctor Strange.

The Hulk (3.6)

1. Craft a Gamma Emitter: iron blocks in the corners, lime stained glass at the sides, an emerald block in the middle, a redstone block at the bottom (see Items and Crafting).
2. Place it, and right-click it (or power it with redstone). It warms up for 3 seconds, then a green beam 6 blocks long shines for 3 seconds.
3. With no power, stand in the beam the whole time: you become Bruce Banner, and Hulk out at once. N changes you back and forth. See Hulk.

Wolverine (3.7)

1. Find a Mutant School (/locate structure enhanced:mutant_school). Its lower lab is built under it when you come near.
2. In the Professor's study (the west wing), right-click a bookshelf of the west wall north of the fireplace: two shelves swing open. Stand on the X behind them and hold Sneak: the lift takes you down. See The X-Men lower lab.
3. Take the stair tunnel to the lower level, and the X-door under the sign "Weapon X" into the Weapon X lab. Right-click the Weapon X rack: an Adamantium Injection (one for each player from each rack).
4. With no power, hold right-click with it for 3 seconds: silver light, a snikt, and you are Wolverine. See Wolverine.

Already a hero? "The adamantium needs a body that can heal. Take the Mutant Cure first." Go back to the medical bay on the upper level, right-click the Cure Station with a glass bottle to fill a Mutant Cure, hold right-click with it for 2 seconds (your power is gone), and then the injection.

Deadpool (3.7)

1. Go down to the X-Men lower lab, as for Wolverine, to the Weapon X lab.
2. With no power, step into the Weapon X Pod (the steel pod with a glass front and a green light, at the end of the room) and right-click it.
3. Stand still for 5 seconds of treatment (Sneak stops it). A red flash, and you are Deadpool. See Deadpool.

Captain America, Red Hulk and Falcon: the Super Soldier Serum (3.8)

1. Find an Avengers Tower (/locate structure enhanced:avengers_tower) and climb the ladder in its core to the floor whose door says THE LAB.
2. On the workbench between the two brewing stands, right-click the glass case ("Project Rebirth"): a Super Soldier Serum (one for each player from each case).
3. For Falcon first climb on to the observation deck, the highest room, and take the Falcon Exo-Wings from their case (one pair for each player). Keep them with you.
4. Use the serum: a screen of three cards opens. Choose Captain America, Red Hulk or Falcon (open only while you carry the wings). Your old hero is replaced, whoever he was; Escape keeps the serum. See Super Soldier Serum.
5. Falcon: put the wings on your chest, and fly.

Iron Man (3.8)

1. In an Avengers Tower, climb to the floor whose door says IRON MAN workshop.
2. On Tony's desk, right-click the case under the sign "Arc Reactors": an Arc Reactor (and the other case: the Nano Arc Reactor).
3. Hold right-click with the Arc Reactor for 2 seconds (or put the Nano Arc Reactor on your chest): it goes into your chest, and you are Iron Man. Your old hero is replaced.
4. Right-click the Suit Displays along the wall for the suits (one of each for each player), and press H to suit up. See Iron Man.

Love (3.8)

1. Get a key of the Bifrost: Stormbreaker (anyone can forge it and hold it: see Thor), your own Mjolnir, a Hofund or your own Gungnir.
2. In the End, fly out to the outer islands and find the Shrine of the Cosmic Entities (/locate structure enhanced:eternity_shrine).
3. Right-click Eternity's altar in the middle with the key in your hand, and stay by it for 3 seconds.
4. In Eternity's realm, choose Become Love. It is your one wish. See Eternity and Love.

A hero of your own

In Creative mode, or as an operator, take the Hero Creator from the Enhanced creative tab and use it: Choose a Hero turns you into any hero of the mod, in any look, at once; Create My Hero makes your own, with a name, powers from a catalogue of thirty and, since 3.4, any of the abilities of the mod's heroes (150 since 3.8) and the six Infinity Stones (each with a strength from 1 to 10, within a budget of points), on your keys plain or with Sneak, with the heroes' moves, your colours, your own skin and extras like a cape, which everyone on the server sees. Since 3.4, Choose a Hero also gives you that hero's items (Thor's Mjolnir, claimed; Agatha's Darkhold...), never twice. Your hero can be saved to a file and loaded on another server. See Hero Creator.