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@yoheius

I like that idea!

I've never used the plugin, but I'm familiar with it. I'm not entirely sure how that'd work out- it doesn't look like there's an API. If there were some way to throw wands randomly into the mix, that'd be very cool- I will PM the dev.

@HddnNinja

Do you have a custom spells.yml? If so, you need to update the arrow and arrowrain spells to use ProjectileSpell (ArrowSpell is gone)- check out spells.defaults.yml to see the changes- or consider deleting your spells.yml if you don't want a custom config anymore :)

@Puffinlump

Are you using creative mode? What version of Magic do you have?

@diannetea

Oops! Sorry. I just tested it in the current dev build, and you are correct. I'll make sure that's fixed in 2.9.3.

@ghosttractor

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@ghosttractor

Well you can use WorldEdit and WorldGuard to restore a region from a schematic or backup file (I believe!), so that could work.

Once Magic's scripting interface is a little more robust (soon), you could set up a command block and button (maybe in an admin-only place) that will regenerate the arena. You'll still need WorldEdit (Magic relies on it for schematic loading), the missing piece is the ability specific a target at the command-line - that is coming soon.

Once there, it'd look something like (you'd put this in a command block)

castp @p blob radius 128 tx 0 ty 64 tz 0 material schematic:arena

You'd have to tweak this depending on the schematic you're using, but this would basically regenerate a 128-block-radius sphere around (0,64,0) using the "arena.schematic" file, which can be in either Magic/schematics or WorldEdit/schematics.

This is something I plan on using a lot on my own server (I desperately need a regenerating spawn area XD) - so I'm hoping to have it functional soon.

@ghosttractor

Hm- if you mean spells for PvP, there are quite a few- but in my opinion you eliminate the best ones if you're unwilling to damage the world. It's much more fun to blow things up, create bunkers, trap players, etc. Can you make an auto-regenerating arena of some kind? Soon you'll be able to hook that up with Magic if that interests you.

That said, let me make another "top of the head" list - spells for PvP that won't damage the world:

arrow, arrow rain, sniper, boom, curse (/boon), fling+levitate+leap (combat maneuverability), disarm, disintegrate (turn off or auto-undo block damage), shrink, frost (turn on auto undo), monster/mob, force, push, pull, heal, fire/inferno (auto undo, though fire will spread), lightning, storm (might cause fire though), invincible/ironskin/leatherskin, neutron bomb, wolf, lava/stream/earth (auto-undo by default)... I dunno, there may be more.

I do plan on adding more- but to be honest, the non-destructive stuff is not really my focus. There's just not very many ways to damage a player without using block changes, tnt or explosive projectiles. I do plan on adding "poison arrow" soon, or just making the arrow spell into "poison arrow". I'm sure there will be a few more, too, but new spells are not the focus pre-release. :) I'd love to collect any suggestions you have for new spells in the "Future Ideas" page here though!

@ghosttractor

Well sorry :) If I change that in the future, I will let you know, but it's not something I plan to look at anytime soon. TNT is destructive by nature, if you don't want destruction you'll have to avoid that spell for now.

To be honest, if you cut out all the spells that could possibly modify the world, there's not a whole lot left in Magic :) Pretty much, as you said, the "airbending" stuff is about it. That and a few of the projectile spells, like arrow/arrowrain and neutron bomb.

(second question) What do you mean by "PvP friendly"?

@ghosttractor

You can set yield to zero- but I believe it will also do no player damage. That plugin might be detecting the explosion and apply entity damage directly, but Magic does not do that.

You can play with it - it's the "size" parameter to any of the grenade spells. So you can for instance "/cast grenade size 0" and see what happens... I'll also try it when I get a chance :)