Soulrend Act III: the Eight Sins and the End Portal (16 Eyes)

What Act III contains

The moment you craft the seal, Act III - Into The Flames opens in the quest book. The chapter has 72 quests and its first one, Into the Flames, is a checkbox; its reward is a Runic Tablet. Every Act III branch depends only on this quest; do them in any order.

1. Nether structures Nether Fortress, The Cathedral, Underworld Arena and the Citadel (Nether).
2. The Wither You summon the Wither yourself (Wither).
3. Eight Sins Eight Cataclysm dimensions and their bosses; optional (Eight Sins).
4. Legendary Eyes and the End Finish 5 of the 16 eye quests and enter the End: Act III completes and Act IV opens. The portal needs 12 different eyes (portal rule).

The Legendary Eye (one of the 16 special eyes that go into the End portal) quests are not inside Act III but in a separate chapter, Journey To The End. It opens from the Journey To The End / Magical Eyes button in Act II, so you can start collecting eyes before you ever enter the Nether (Act II side branches).

Act III side branches

• The Nether: a separate chapter gathering the Nether's structure quests; it opens from the button in Into the Flames' rewards.
• The Caverns: the five cave dimensions of Alex's Caves and the boss of each. The recipes for the dimension keys need boss materials; the bosses are in the catalog.
• Eight Sins weapons: after each Sin, a quest opens for a Cataclysm weapon made from that boss's materials (Soul Render, The Annihilator, The Immolator…).

The portal rule: 5 eye quests, 12 different eyes

The frame block is the Ancient Portal Frame (the pack's End portal frame block). The portal room has 12 of them: three on each side of the 3×3 portal area. The frames come empty; none has an eye in it.

Eye quests do not take the eye

The pack's quest book does not take items for item quests: an eye quest only wants to see the eye in your inventory. So the same eye completes its quest and then goes into the portal. The eye quests cannot complete until the End Remastered quest (one Ender Pearl) is done.

Before placing an eye, check in the quest book that its quest is complete. A placed eye does not come back, so if you place an eye whose quest is unfinished, you cannot finish that quest with the same eye (inferred from the game files).

The stronghold and the portal room

The portal room is inside the pack's reworked stronghold; the quest text says the structure has “many enemies and rooms”. Only a thrown Legendary Eye finds the stronghold. The Eye of Ender cannot be thrown: the game says “This eye doesn't know where to go” (the throw_ender_eye line in the config is never read by the code). A thrown Legendary Eye never breaks; it drops and you pick it up again. Follow its direction to the stronghold; the structure is full of enemies, so go in prepared.

The 16 Legendary Eyes and their sources

The cards sort the 16 eyes from easy to hard by the quest book's difficulty note. Chest percentages are per chest, mob and boss percentages per kill. The pack does not change these tables; it adds three recipes and the Cryptic Eye's enchanting route.

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  Corrupted Eye

  Pillager outpost chest (30%).

  Quest book difficulty: 1/10

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  Nether Eye

  Nether Fortress chest (30%).

  Quest book difficulty: 2/10

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  Wither Eye

  The Wither (its eye pool rolls twice, 90% each) or a Wither Skeleton (10%).

  Quest book difficulty: 2/10

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  Witch Eye

  Recipe: Eye of Ender + Witch Pupil. The pupil drops from Witches (10%) or is made on a smithing table from a spider eye + phantom membrane + ghast tear.

  Quest book difficulty: 3/10

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  Old Eye

  Desert pyramid chest (15%), dungeon chest (2.5%).

  Quest book difficulty: 4/10

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  Cryptic Eye

  An Eye of Ender on the Apotheosis enchanting table: Eterna 20–25, Quanta 10, Arcana 25–30. The mod's own enchanting route is turned off; the pack adds this recipe.

  Quest book difficulty: 4/10

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  Lost Eye

  Abandoned mineshaft chest (20%), dungeon chest (2.5%).

  Quest book difficulty: 5/10

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  Rogue Eye

  Jungle pyramid chest (40%).

  Quest book difficulty: 5/10

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  Cursed Eye

  Bastion treasure chest (50%).

  Quest book difficulty: 5/10

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  Guardian Eye

  An Elder Guardian (30%) or smithing: tide armor trim + Eye of Ender + netherite ingot.

  Quest book difficulty: 6/10

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  Undead Eye

  Recipe: Undead Soul + phantom membrane + bone + rotten flesh + ghast tear. The Undead Soul drops from skeleton horses (25%) or is made from 8 black steel nuggets + soul sand.

  Quest book difficulty: 7/10

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  Exotic Eye

  Recipe: Eye of Ender + four corals (fire, bubble, horn, tube) + 2 conduits + 2 glow ink sacs.

  Quest book difficulty: 7/10

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  Black Eye

  Buried treasure (30%), shipwreck treasure (5%) or the recipe: Heart of the Deep (the item that opens the Otherside portal) + Eye of Ender.

  Quest book difficulty: 8/10

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  Magical Eye

  Woodland mansion chest (10%) or an Evoker (5%).

  Quest book difficulty: 8/10

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  Cold Eye

  The Yeti (100%) or an igloo chest (70%).

  Quest book difficulty: 9/10

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  Evil Eye

  Only the Infernal Dragon (100%). The Cleric villager trade is turned off.

  Quest book difficulty: 10/10

Which 12 eyes?

The difficulty note depends on your route:

• If you finished Act II, two eyes may already be yours. The Yeti drops the Cold Eye and the Infernal Dragon the Evil Eye, both 100%; the book rates them 9 and 10. The Bottom-Right shard needs two of three bosses; if you beat the Yeti and the Infernal Dragon, both eyes are ready.
• The Wither Eye is Act III's own job. It comes when you summon and beat the Wither (Wither).
• The Nether Eye and the Cursed Eye come from Nether chests (Nether Fortress, bastion treasure).
• The Black Eye's recipe route is a chain. The Heart of the Deep depends on The Decaying King's loot (Decaying King). A buried treasure chest may be quicker.

These suggestions were inferred from the drop chances and recipes in the files; the game does not force an order on you.

The Nether: structures, the Wither and The Decaying King

The Nether branches rest on four structures and none is part of the Act IV lock; their most lasting reward is the Knight Sword's skill tree nodes. Levels and budgets are in the boss list.

Nether Fortress and Burning Ashes

You complete Find Structure: Nether Fortress by entering a fortress. The next quest wants Burning Ashes, with a count of 4. Ignited Berserkers drop Burning Ashes with a 25% chance. It is a leaf quest: the reward is 3 Estus Flasks and no other quest depends on it.

The Cathedral and the High Priest

The Cathedral is a structure found in crimson forest and nether wastes biomes; the High Priest lives inside. Beating him opens a small quest that wants Fleshy Cloth and rewards 2 Huge Estus Flasks.

Underworld Arena and the Knight Sword

Underworld Arena spawns in nether wastes and soul sand valley biomes (the quest spells it “Underworld Area”). The Underworld Knight inside drops the Knight Sword. Picking this sword up yourself once unlocks 54 skill tree nodes: the subclass keystones of the Warrior, Rogue and Ranger trees (18 in total) and the Mage's 36 school keystones. It follows on from the 21 nodes the Nether Crystal unlocks (locked nodes). The quest that asks for the sword also gives 2 Huge Estus Flasks.

The Citadel and Echo of Tyros

According to the quest text, the Citadel is a big black castle with a glass dome; a Cinderous Soul Rune block sits in the middle of the dome. Ring a Cinderous Soulcaller next to it, and the Echo of Tyros, First Flamebearer that appears drops a Decrepit Key when beaten. The Citadel's vaults open with keys like trial chamber vaults; the quest text tells you to get Pyrium from them.

Summoning the Wither

The Prepare the Ritual quest wants 4 Soul Sand and 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls. Since quests do not take items, you can summon the Wither with the same materials. The next quest, Confront The Wither, is an advancement quest and completes the moment you summon the Wither; its reward is 3 Huge Estus Flasks.

Even though the quest is done, beating the Wither is worth it: the Wither's eye pool rolls twice at 90% each, so one Wither usually drops two Wither Eyes. Wither Skeletons also drop the eye with a 10% chance. The second eye is no spare for the portal, because the same eye cannot be placed twice.

The boss with no Act III quest: The Decaying King

The Decaying Kingdom structure in the Nether holds The Decaying King; Act III has no quest for it, and in practice it is always level 200. According to the wiki, the Withered Demon Heart drops from it. That item goes into the Heart of the Deep recipe (recipe), and the Heart of the Deep opens both the entry to Act III-b and the Black Eye's recipe route.

The “Find Decaying King” quest in Act V describes a different creature, the soldier in the Past (Galactic Core).

The Eight Sins: eight eyes, eight dimensions, eight bosses

Eight Sins (the Act III quest that gathers the eight Cataclysm bosses) brings together eight Cataclysm bosses. Each boss has its own dimension, and you enter that dimension with an eye you craft. These eyes are not the End portal's Legendary Eyes; they do not go into the portal. The pack raises all eight Sins' health: ×1.2 for six, ×1.3 for The Harbinger and Scylla (mod default ×1). The map may show biome names that differ from the quest book: Sanctum Fallen, Bastion of the Lost, Soulforge Anvil.

1. Craft the eye. The recipes are in the table below.
2. Hold Shift and right-click. With the eye in hand, Shift + right-click takes you to that eye's dimension.
3. Enter the dimension. The quest for first entering each dimension rewards a Warp Scroll; plan your way back with it.
4. Beat the boss. Each Sin quest rewards a Wisdom Scroll (+1 skill point), 5 XP levels and a random Chipped Gem.

The Eight Sins: eye recipes (each also needs 1 Eye of Ender) and the long-range cut-off

Boss	Eye and recipe	Long-range cut-off
Ancient Remnant	Eye of Desert: gold ingot, 2 chiseled sandstone, emerald, dead bush, cactus, rotten flesh, bone	14 blocks
Scylla	Eye of Storm: 2 prismarine shards, lightning rod, 2 diamonds, 2 prismarine crystals, water bucket	10 blocks
The Harbinger	Eye of Mech: the pack recipe is 4 andesite alloy blocks, 2 lava buckets, 2 redstone blocks; the mod's 4 redstone blocks + 4 iron ingots recipe works too and needs no andesite	35 blocks
Ignis	Eye of Flame: 3 blaze powder, 2 netherite scrap, 3 soul sand	150 blocks
Ender Guardian	Eye of Void: 2 purpur pillars, 2 shulker shells, 2 end stone bricks, 2 purpur blocks	100 blocks
Maledictus	Eye of Curse: 4 gold ingots, bone, 2 phantom membranes, rotten flesh	10 blocks
Netherite Monstrosity	Eye of Monstrous: 4 lava buckets, 2 netherite scrap, 2 blackstone	18 blocks
The Leviathan	Eye of Abyss: 4 crying obsidian, 4 obsidian	38 blocks

The quest book spells the eye “Eye of Monsterous”; the item in game is the Eye of Monstrous. For the Eye of Mech, the mod's recipe is the easier route: the pack removed Create's andesite alloy recipe, so that material only comes from scrapping and Create villages.

The damage budget and Boss Ultimatum in a Sin fight

The eight Sins are in the 5% damage budget group: they lose at most 5% of their maximum health per second, so a Sin fight lasts at least 20 seconds and burst damage is wasted. On a budgeted boss, only the damage the budget lets through counts toward your Soulrend level, too. The Sins have a fixed level of 250. How the budget works is on the Combat and equipment page.

The long-range cut-off

Each Sin is immune to attacks from beyond a certain distance; the distances are in the last column of the Eight Sins table. If you play an archer or a caster, stay inside the limit: 10 blocks for Scylla and Maledictus and 14 for Ancient Remnant count as close range. The Leviathan also takes no damage while out of water (the game says it is “invincible outside of water”).

Act III bosses: the short list

For loot and tactics, follow each name to its card in the boss catalog. Levels and budgets read the same way as in the Act II list.

Nether bosses

• Underworld Knight · Underworld Arena · level 150 · no budget. Its Knight Sword unlocks 54 skill tree nodes.
• High Priest · The Cathedral · level 150 · 20% budget. The follow-up quest gives Huge Estus Flasks.
• Echo of Tyros, First Flamebearer · the Citadel, with a Cinderous Soulcaller · level 100 · 20% budget. Drops the key for the Citadel vaults.
• Wither · you summon it · at least 150 · 20% budget. The main source of the Wither Eye.
• The Decaying King · Decaying Kingdom · at least 200 · 20% budget. Not in the quests; matters for the Withered Demon Heart.

Eight Sins bosses

All eight have a fixed level of 250 and a 5% budget; how to enter is in the Eight Sins table. Catalog cards: Ancient Remnant, Scylla, The Harbinger, Ignis, Ender Guardian, Maledictus, Netherite Monstrosity, The Leviathan.

Act III-b's boss, the Corrupted Champion, is below in its own section.

Act III-b: Deeper and Darker (optional)

The chapter opens from the The Otherside quest in Act II. Entry requires the Heart of the Deep; the Warden no longer drops it, so you craft it. Because of the Withered Demon Heart in the recipe, in practice this branch happens during Act III (The Decaying King).

1. Open the portal. Clear the Sculk Veins inside the Otherside portal frame and right-click it with the Heart of the Deep.
2. Find the Ancient Temple. The temple quest points you to the Sculk Transmitter; its subtitle in the quest book reads “Used to summon...”.
3. Go to the Lich Prison. Right-clicking the altar with the Sculk Transmitter wakes the Corrupted Champion. If one is already within 50 blocks, the game says “The Lich has already been awakened!” and does not summon a second.
4. Finish the Bone Staff quests. After the boss come five Bone Staff quests; the last one closes Act III-b. Each kill drops a single Bone Staff of a random colour (five colours, 20% each); the five quests take at least five kills.

The Corrupted Champion (graveyard:lich): its level is between 300 and 310 and it has no damage budget. The Shriek Worm in the Otherside ignores damage from more than 7 blocks away, and the game warns “Too far away!”.

If you are stuck

• It says “This eye can't be placed”: that eye type is already in the portal. Place a different eye (portal rule).
• It says “This eye doesn't know where to go”: you threw an Eye of Ender; only a Legendary Eye finds the stronghold (stronghold).
• 12 eyes are in but Act IV did not open: check in the Journey To The End chapter that at least 5 eye quests are finished (eye quests).

Act III checklist

Tick off the steps of Act III and the optional Act III-b here. Marks are stored only in this browser and share the same record as the series checklist on the Getting started page.

Next step: Act IV and the Ender Dragon

When you step into the End, Act III completes and Act IV - Beyond Reality opens. The first big target is the Ender Dragon, fixed at level 467. If you skipped Scylla in the Eight Sins, note this: the Ender Dragon quest's rewards include an Eye of Storm.

• Next: Acts IV–V: the Ender Dragon, the Past and the final bosses
• Full cards for the bosses on this page: Boss catalog
• If you want to go back: Act II: Nether seal · Getting started and the checklist

If something looks different in your game, let us know through the contact page; this guide was written for version v8.5.2 of the pack.

Frequently asked questions

How many eyes does the End portal need in Soulrend?

1. The portal room has 12 Ancient Portal Frames and each needs a different Legendary Eye. The pack has 16 eye types, so 4 are spares. The 5 eye quests the Act IV quest asks for are not enough to light the portal.

Do I have to beat the Eight Sins bosses for Act IV?

No. Although the quest text says to beat at least four Sins, the lock quest requires none; it depends only on 5 of the 16 eye quests and on entering the End. The Sins are worth doing for Wisdom Scrolls, loot and gear.

Is the Eye of Ender any use for the End portal?

No. An Eye of Ender cannot be placed in a frame and cannot be thrown either: the game says “This eye doesn't know where to go”. A thrown Legendary Eye finds the stronghold, and it never breaks. A placed eye cannot be removed and the same eye cannot be placed twice.

Does the Eye of Flame need Burning Ashes?

No. The quest text says so, but the recipe is 3 blaze powder, 2 netherite scrap, 1 Eye of Ender and 3 soul sand. Burning Ashes are used only in a separate quest after the Nether Fortress and in some weapon recipes.

Is Act III-b required?

No. The quest book marks it as optional and the chapter unlocks nothing. The road to Act IV runs through Act III itself.

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