I don't know how complicated this would make everything, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

The only problem I have with the mod, as it currently stands (since you fixed the bugs I ran across) is that I have to get relatively far into the game before I can become a caster, with the possible exception of being a Druid. That's because the statues need rare materials to make.

I can always use the give command to just give myself a statue (or the materials) or if I want to play a favored soul I can use a shipwreck seed and quickly raid a few treasure chests... but what if there were two tiers of statues for each class?

The first tier would be the statue made of cheap, accessible materials, but it would only get you up to maybe level five or six in terms of casting. After that you'd need to create the more expensive statue in order to unlock the higher level spells. That way you could allow people to start using the classes right away, but still lock the higher-tier abilities behind finding the rarer materials you need to create the more advanced statue.

I figured the recipe can always be changed on the user/modpacker end via data packs or another mod.