Magic

Table of Contents

Server Compatibility

Please make sure you download the correct version for your server:

1.20.5 and Up => Latest Build
1.9 => Magic-10.9.8 (or latest Magic-Legacy build)
1.8.8: => Magic-5.5.6
1.8.3: => Magic-5.3.3
1.7.x => Magic-CB1.x
Earlier: => Check Compatibility in Files Section

Need Help? First Try:

Check the FAQ
Read the rest of the wiki
Check the reference manual for configuration options
Check the config info page for spell, wand and other info
Find examples in the builtin configs
Check your logs for errors

If you can't find what you're looking for, come join us on Discord for help or ideas!

Found a bug? Have a Feature Request?

Use our issue tracker

Overview

Magic is a plugin that adds powerful magic wands, items, mobs and more to your server. With over 200 spells, a variety of wand templates, and complete customization, you can use Magic to craft a unique experience for your server.

The default experience is an "RPG lite" extension to survival. Other examples are included, such as a Harry Potter setup, Star Wars, GTA-Style guns and cars, elemental bending and more.

Magic is infinitely customizable, allowing you to script your own spells, actions, items, mobs and anything else you see done in the included example configurations.

Live Demo

If you'd like to try out Magic, please go to our development server:

mine.elmakers.com

Tutorial Videos

More Information

Please see the Magic home page on github for up-to-date information!

Metrics Collection

This plugin uses bstats for metrics collection. The information sent to bstats.org is completely anonymous, publicly viewable, and includes the following metrics:

A unique identifier
The server's version of Java
Whether the server is in offline or online mode
The plugin's version
The server's version
The OS version/name and architecture
The core count for the CPU
The number of players online
The Metrics version

Opting out of this service can be done by editing plugins/Plugin Metrics/config.yml and changing opt-out to true, or by editing this plugin's config.yml and changing "metrics_level" to 0.

Changelog

Full changelog can be viewed on github

Comments

elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2848 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 25, 2016
@ProWco

What version of Magic do you have? There is no "/magic help" and the "/mage" command is relatively recent (versions here are all pretty old).

Do /wand elder if you just want to test.

The progression in the potter example works like this:

1. Players use the spellshop to learn new spells at their current year. 2. Every year has a specific spell required to graduate to the next level. You are meant to give your players this spell, or to provide an NPC that does this.

In general the potter configs are called an "example" because they are just that. You're meant to make it your own and craft whatever experience you have in mind!

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2847 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 25, 2016
@millemila

So, I'm not sure I'd want to implement your suggestion about showing the spell- I will give it some thought. But you have to keep in mind, it's not just an icon - it would be changing the actual item the player is holding - so if they hit someone, for instance, while the spell "display' is active, they are actually hitting with a skull item instead of a sword. They would look like they are holding a small cube with the spell texture (when viewed by another player) and not a sword. In general it would be pretty weird.

That said, you can do everything else you want- simple change that mode_cast parameter to have the sword cast on swing, rather than quick-cast. This makes it behave just like a normal wand. The mode_drop parameter (the default for the word) makes it open/close spell inventory with the drop button rather than right-click, since that is normally block with a sword (at least until 1.9)

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19602769
- Join Date: 4/6/2015
- Posts: 37
- Member Details
#2846 _ForgeUser19602769

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 25, 2016
Hi i have a problem iam using the harry potter example so i want tests all the spells first but i cant a lot of commands like /mage or /magic help say me u dont have permissions for this and iam op another thing is i need tests the spells but every time y try use a advanced spell like patronus o avada kedavra the system say me u dont have enough resources i supose i need energy or mana but i dont know how have more mana or more energy? i put the wand in a enchantment table but i cant enchant the wand. pLease help me My questions are. How i can a studen go to the year 2? with a cmd How i can give me more energy or more mana? How i can test all the spells with out cooldown or resources? How i get access to the cmd /mage bc iam op and i dont have access?

Last edited by _ForgeUser19602769: Feb 25, 2016

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19341650
- Join Date: 3/14/2015
- Posts: 20
- Member Details
#2845 _ForgeUser19341650

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 21, 2016
@NathanWolf

Thank you @NathanWolf for awnsering me back,

Sadly i didn't explained myself well enough on one point :l

What i was talking about in the second point (the not-lag-suffering part) is that I would like to allow players to use a different kind of cyclemode that allows them to switch sowrd with the drop button, but that mode (This is really important) also displays the spell that is armed on the sword by showing it in the hotbar for a few seconds, they can then cast spells by right clicking (or swinging the sword, make this configurable) but certains have also (or have only) effects that are casted when the players actually hit someone, and example could be the granade spell that is casted by right clicking, but generates an explosion when an user hits someone (separated cooldown for the 2 effects of the spell).

For lag i meant that players with slow internet connections have got difficoulties at casting spell because they see in late where the spell is being casted and they are not sure if the spell has striked the target, if instead they could also use the normal swords' hit they would be sure that the spell is being casted against the player because they striked him.

Thank you for replyng me back about the other questions i asked, you are a really active dev :D

And also thak you for giving me your time, regards millemila

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2844 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 20, 2016
@millemila

Hi! Ok so I think we have a few of these features already:

- Magic hooks into Essentials (and CommandBook) for warps. See my example configs for how to set this up on your server:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/examples/elworld/spells.yml#L72

- Magic swords behave mostly as describe- do "/wand battle" to try it. I've made the drop button the toggle for opening/closing the wand, and the spells are quick-cast. I personally find it annoying for spells to cast on swing, but if you want that do "/wand configure mode_cast false"

- I had planned on magic bows that fire arrows with spells attached, but at this point I'm waiting for 1.9 if I ever try to implement that feature, since it now has custom arrows as a vanilla feature.

I'm not sure what in here was meant to address lag- I think if you're worried about slow clients, either have them turn off particle effects, or you'd need to customize all the spell FX to reduce the particle count (a daunting task). I will probably be adding more particles, not fewer, in the future since 1.9 has greatly optimized particle effects on the client side.

Hope that helps! Let me know if there's anything else :)

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19341650
- Join Date: 3/14/2015
- Posts: 20
- Member Details
#2843 _ForgeUser19341650

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 19, 2016
Hallo

My name is millemila and i'm currently working on a minecraft server that involves magic.

I would really like to ask you to add some features in this plugin that is awesome, but isn't really easy to understand for users and may suffer of low-powered internet connections, so i'm writing you for propose some features that doesen't suffer much about laggy connections because minecraft does half of the job needed client-side.

This is a personal request for my server, and what i am asking is iif you could make the plugin hook into essentials for casting the recall spell in some warps and the the spawn (maybe using permissions nodes, if you dont have the permission magic.warp.namewarp you wont be able to teleport there)

This is the not-lag-suffering part, i would really like to see some spells for the swords, not like the ones that are made for wands, what i am asking for is ones made only for swords, like if they cast when you hit someone after you enabled the spell (that costs mana) using right click on the sword, and when you want to disarm the spell you do by pushing the drop key while holding it. Maybe you can add the feature in the cyclemode to allow users to see the spells they are arming on the sword in the slot next to the sword's one or making it replace the sword slot for something like a second so you are able to see the spell you arm before you use it.

If i am not asking too much i would really like to see this done even for bows and it would be cool to have spells that consume themself after the use (please make this configurable too so owners can choose wich one make configurable and wich ones don't, so owners would be able to disable mana cost in certain spells that are consumable).

Sorry for bothering you with thoose requests but if you realise them that would be really awesome and i think many of us (server owners) would be using your awesome plugin :D and also please scuse me for repeating many times the word sword, english is not my native language

if you need explanations of any kinds about my ideas PM me and i'll write you back as soon as i can.

regards millemila

Last edited by _ForgeUser19341650: Feb 19, 2016

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2842 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
@saltnpepperr

/cast spellshop

Will do that. Take care not to give players permission to use /cast though- Magic commands are not meant for players.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser23589995
- Join Date: 2/6/2016
- Posts: 14
- Member Details
#2841 _ForgeUser23589995

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
Hello Nathan! Is there a command that when you type it, it'll pop up a menu of spells you could buy.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2839 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
@marckusfransson

Try this:

/trait magic /mtrait addspell /mtrait parameters spell alohomora path_end year1

That will make the NPC give alohomora on right-click, and will only be accessible to students who are ready to graduate from year1.
Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2838 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
@NathanWolf

I tried to make a NPC give a spell to me, but he is just casting it on me... How do I change that?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2837 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
@marckusfransson

Ha, yeah elder is not great for testing!

Advancement generally works the same way as survival, using Skill Points:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/SkillPoints

If I recall correctly, the difference is in the potter configs each "year" has a special spell you must learn to proceed to the next year. I would generally set this up with NPCs, Quests, or some other means for players to get that spell when they're ready to graduate to the next year.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2836 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 18, 2016
Well, there is my problem... you can't graduate with elder wand because it is already graduated xD

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2835 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 17, 2016
I'm trying to "advance" with the potter example. How do I do that? It says I need 25 SP, and I know that survival spells makes you advance when you have a specific amount of spells.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2834 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 15, 2016
@marckusfransson

Oops! Apparently I had to remove the # bits on the configs, now I got a ticket from Ollivander, which makes me say: It works!

Last edited by _ForgeUser19517461: Feb 16, 2016

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2833 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 15, 2016
It still doesn't work. All of the survival spells are still there, and none of the Potter spells is.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2832 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 15, 2016
@marckusfransson

Just put "example: potter" in your config yml :)

See the wiki for more info: https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/Examples

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser19517461
- Join Date: 3/29/2015
- Posts: 8
- Member Details
#2831 _ForgeUser19517461

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 15, 2016
Hello Nathan! How do you load the potter configuration? I can't seem to get it to work.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2830 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 15, 2016
@saltnpepperr

In spells.yml, put

spellshop: parameters: use_sp: false

That will translate SP values to emeralds. You can change the item used for currency, and the scale in config.yml (check the defaults for how to do this).

Alternately, you can make your own spell shop with specific lists of of spells and costs, see the engineershop for an example.

If you're not using sp, it'd also be a good idea to put "enable_sp: false" in config.yml to disable the system completely.
Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser23589995
- Join Date: 2/6/2016
- Posts: 14
- Member Details
#2829 _ForgeUser23589995

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 14, 2016
Question; How could I change the shop currency into items, not keep it as SP. Like, players have to use specific items to pay for spells in the spell shop, and not use SP. :P

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
elBukkit
- Location: Union
- Join Date: 9/18/2011
- Posts: 1,782
- Member Details
#2828 elBukkit

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Feb 14, 2016
@nathan2439

There are a couple of ways, using /mgive - see the wiki:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/wiki/SkillPoints

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.