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@KnightcraftRPGServer

Use the "restricted" list- add something like this to materials.yml:

# Which materials are always completely off-limits.
# Any spells not on this list can not be copied, cloned, replicated
# or otherwise built with using a Wand brush.
# Note that ender_portal blocks can horribly lag the server and client, keep that one on here.
# Mob spawners seem gitchy on removal and leave a perma-effect
# Copying command blocks can be dangerous and cause unintended effects
# It's a good idea to put any indestructibles in here, since they can't be removed.
restricted:
- bedrock
- command
- ender_portal
- portal
- mob_spawner
- iron_block
- gold_block
- diamond_block
- emerald_block
- coal_block
- iron_ore
- gold_ore
- diamond_ore
- emerald_ore
- coal_ore
- redstone_ore
- anvil
- chest
- furnace

I'd love to know what you feel needs to be added to that list. I'm hoping to make Magic viable on an economy-based server, even with all the crazy construction magic.

This will restrict usage of these materials by non-OP-wands in any way. This includes schematics, copy, clone, replicate, Repair, etc.

Additionally, only some very common materials will be given naturally to wands:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/defaults/wands.defaults.yml#L369

Again, let me know if you feel like any of those are too valuable to be naturally obtainable on an enchanting table.

The Absorb spell, copy, replicate and clone brushes are no longer naturally available, even though they adhere to the restricted material list.

@Silversbane

Well that's good news!

And yeah some of those are not right- they have to match the (sometimes odd) Bukkit enum names, underscores and all (though it's not case-sensitive)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bukkit/Bukkit/master/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Material.java

So NETHER_WARTS, SLIME_BALL and SNOW_BALL.

However, nether_warts may suffer from the same issue as sulphur, sugar and pumpkin seeds:

http://jira.elmakers.com/browse/MAGIC-78

(er, note, maybe it's nether_stalk that will have the issue... I forget the difference between the two)

I've slated this for 3.2, which I hope to release soonish, and I'll try and get this fix into a dev build ASAP. It feels like one of those things that's probably a one-line code fix, but I just need to get in and figure it out.

I suppose in the meantime if you want, you can change any of the special icons in config.yml to ones you don't plan on using for reagents:

# Represents erase (fill with air)
erase_item: sulphur
# Represents copy (fill with the target material)
copy_item: sugar
# Clone will copy the area you are standing in when the clone material is activated
clone_item: nether_stalk
# Replicate works like clone, but will sample a moving area, allowing you to "paint"
# in a section of the world across multiple spell casts.
replicate_item: pumpkin_seeds
# The map material brush will fill in blocks from the last Map item you held. (Pixel art)
# It will use stained clay, wool or stained glass. The default is stained clay, but it will
# use one of the other types if it was the last material on your brush.
map_item: map
# The schematic material brush can be used (if WorldEdit is present) to construct with
# schematic files
schematic_item: paper

@mewen25

Ah, yes. This is an internal Bukkit issue, it also affects lots of other plugins interacting with wands.

Please go vote for this issue if you'd like to see it fixed for real!

https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-3221

I've submitted a PR to the Bukkit Dev team that will provide an API so I (and other devs) can make custom items that will be respected as real items.

@Silversbane

Well it does play nice, is the odd thing. I'm trying to figure out what could be different about your setup.

I am specifically using this version: v5.9.1-SNAPSHOT:1296-4422d53,master

I've always used WG, it's the first plugin I ever integrated with.

What I meant by "Do you have some worlds that are unmanaged?" - does WorldGuard have a per-world configuration? Is it possible to have it completely ignore a specific world, in which case maybe I don't get a region manager for that world?

The latest dev build has some safeguards for this problem and should not throw NPEs anymore, but without knowing the root cause I fear I'm potentially skipping permission checks in some weird case where I should be doing them.

@KnightcraftRPGServer

You can use the "duration" parameter on Fly and Levitate.

There is no way to make spells only visible to certain players, unfortunately. If you want a spell gone, you have to disable it completely (remove it for everyone).

The wand's inventory is also the wand's ... well, inventory. If an item is not there, the wand doesn't have that spell anymore. So I can't just hide them.

I'll try and think of a way to fix this, but I really don't want some newbie holding an awesome wand to make the wand get all jacked up.

@Silversbane

This looks like a problem with spells that are doing PVP checks, but I'm not sure what's up. You're using WorldGuard? The specific error is in interacting with the WG API, it seems:

RegionManager regionManager = worldGuard.getRegionManager(location.getWorld());
ApplicableRegionSet checkSet = regionManager.getApplicableRegions(location);

That second line is generating the error, meaning I'm getting a null regionManager back from WG- something I don't expect. Do you have some worlds that are unmanaged? Is that even possible?

I'll have to fix the reagents to go through a different naming call, that should be easy. Otherwise sugar, sulphur, sugar, nether wart and pumpkin seeds will all be renamed to their corresponding brushes (erase, copy, clone and replicate).

@HannahEliz92

Well Cure is supposed to do 10% health, Heal is full health- Cure also removes negative potion effects, and Heal feeds you. So they are a bit different.

But you also need to update to the latest Magic dev build for them to work at all.. otherwise they're both the same old Heal spell.

This is the most complete spell customization reference I have: https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/SPELLS.md

There are links in the "legend" to the enums that make up all the values. You want "effect" for the Bukkit effects - "particle" is my own enum since there's no built-in API for that. That doc should spell it all out pretty nicely.

One great trick for testing the particle effects, use "/wand configure effect_particle <tab>". It will show all the options and let you preview them live in game (the wand uses a RingEffect) on a timer).

The TrailEffect works two ways, depending on the spell that's cast with it:

1. It makes a trail from the source to the target. This is the most common case as nearly all spells in Magic are targeting spells. In this case, "length" is ignored, determined by the length of the line segment between the two points. (Mathematical!). You can still tweak the other properties like "iterations" (how many times to play an effect between the two points).

2. It makes a trail from the source that is "length" blocks long. This is used for spells that don't specifically target, like Grenade, Arrow, Push.

I'd really like to integrate with EffectLib, and I plan to eventually. My original intention was to keep adding new effect player types, but I think I'm good with the two defaults if I can tie into EffectLib to add 30 more if you're willing to download it.

Unfortunately EffectLib isn't Mavenized so I can't do that yet without making Magic difficult for other devs to build... working on it!.

Anyway, what I think you really want is just a better effect trail? I'll see if I can make it fuller or something, but... yah when I see EffectLib's Helix and other trail types, it makes me just wanna give up and use that XD

Oh, and, right, lastly- yes, I do! I'd like for the Boon spell to work that way eventually. My plan is to adjust the PotionEffectSpell in two ways:

1. 1 Support the generic "duration" parameter instead of using the funky <ticks>,<power> syntax
2. 2 Support "active_costs" by making the duration a couple of seconds long, but constantly renewing it while active.

The second part is nearly ready, I did the gruntwork to make the wand regen buffs use potioneffects... as it turns out, not sure that's going to work out (health regen is nuts), but it does mean I have a good system for repeatedly renewing a short-lived potion effect now :)

With a lot of help from @Xikage (this required some code changes in both of our plugins to really make work well), I've been working up some cool MythicMobs integration for my Survival server:

As always, I'm sharing the live versions of all of my configs if you want to play with it. You'll need a very recent dev build of Magic, and ... well I think you may need a dev build of MythicMobs, too, so you may have to wait a little bit!

This uses MythicMobs's "cmd" skill to "/castp", so it's not a direct plugin integration (which is cool). The special thing, though- it's not just telling Magic "cast the spell here, target here" - it's telling Magic "cast the spell as Entity id 12345". So Magic knows which Entity is casting the spell, and treats that Entity like a full-blown Mage.

This means you can cast the new Counterspell on it to rollback its spell casts, you can Curse it to prevent from casting spells for a while. Each boss mob shows up independently on dynmap (yeah I need to time out the spell cast markers). Hunters will stalk them down with Player-level priority. It's pretty cool, so far I'm liking it and I think it adds a huge new element to my server.

@HannahEliz92

(moved from PM:) So is there a way to get a spell that boosts health? I have tried effect_healthboost but that doesn't work and there are no examples of it in the default configs

I think "effect_health_boost" should work for increasing max health, though I haven't tried that myself. That's a fun idea, I should make Boon do that?

I moved this conversation from PM because it's had some really good questions in it :)

Hannah also motivated me to add the "Cure" spell, which brought with it several new options for making HealSpell variants:

• amount : A raw amount of health to give the target
• percentage : A %'age of the target's max health to give them. For instance, "0.20" here will restore 20% of the target's health (one heart, normally, for Players- less for other entities)
• feed : Will also feed and saturate the target Player
• cure : Will remove all negative potion effects from the target

Hannah also motivated me to add "Shields", which is kind of a placeholder spell. It's a simple auto-undo/target-self variant of Shell at the moment, but when 1.8 comes my plan is to make it use Barrier blocks (assuming this doesn't do anything weird).