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@Silversbane

Hm.. I don't really have a spell that does that. PurgeSpell could be modified to do that pretty easily, but for no particular reason that spell is part of MagicWorlds.

Neutron Bomb does nearly this, but it uses a projectile rather than a specific spot.

If there were a reliable "harm" potion effect, I'd probably want to implement this as an area-of-effect PotionEffectSpell for flexibility.. but it sounds like a simple area-of-effect damage or kill spell is what you want. I'll add that to the TODO list, maybe just combine it with PotionEffectSpell by giving it a pure "damage" or "kill" parameter.

Anyway, this is all getting a bit off-topic. What you want is pretty specific, I don't think killing mobs without dropping loot is a normal spell kind of thing- you're getting more into PowerTool territory at that point. I think CommandSpell is what you want- I'll try and get that in soon. I think it's really simple to do simply, but I wanted to spend some time making it work with parameters and stuff.

@Silversbane

This is the most complete list I have now:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/SPELLS.md

In-game or console tab completion is also fairly complete and should help suggest applicable parameters.

I don't yet have a "Command" spell, it is on my list but I kind of keep pushing it back .. I'll hopefully really do it for 3.3.

http://jira.elmakers.com/browse/MAGIC-27

3.3 - WAND PROGRESSION

Hi all!

I'm working on a pretty-big new feature for 3.3 that I've been thinking about for quite a while. I finally have what I hope is a good plan, so I wanted to share it and see if anyone has any ideas or feedback.

If you're interested in any of the following (I know a lot of you are!) keep reading:

• Limiting categories of spells players may acquire, such as Engineering magic
• Creating different wand progression paths for different types of wands
• Providing a simpler, more natural way for players to get wands early but not get OP
• Having multiple crafting recipes to craft different wands or other magic items
• Being able to craft spells, or other magic upgrade items

I'm trying to kill a few birds with one stone here by making a consolidated, customizable crafting/enchanting system.

You will be able to specify one or more crafting recipes, here's an example of what the default config might look like:

master:
  # This defines the recipe output- a template wand 
  # will be created, and then upgraded based on its 
  # enchanting path and the # of levels in parenthesis
  output: master(30)

  # This defines the materials that will be required to 
  # craft this wand
  materials:
    o: nether_star
    i: blaze_rod

  # This defines the shape of the recipe, row_1 is the top. 
  # Each row may have up to 3 characters that map to 
  # the materials listed above.
  row_1: o
  row_2: i
  row_3:

apprentice:
  output: apprentice(20)
  materials:
    o: diamond
    i: blaze_rod
  row_1: o
  row_2: i
  row_3:

student:
  output: student(10)
  materials:
    o: diamond
    i: stick
  row_1: o
  row_2: i
  row_3:

battle:
  output: battle(10)
  materials:
    o: nether_star
    i: diamond_sword
  row_1: o
  row_2: i
  row_3:

engineer:
  output: engineer(40)
  materials:
    o: nether_star
    i: wood_axe
  row_1:  o
  row_2:  i
  row_3

You can see I've set up a few new crafting recipes by default. This currently doesn't support spell items, but I'd like to add that in, or perhaps make this into a way to add a spell into a wand via crafting (e.g. wand + feather + nether star = added blink to wand). Still thinking about this part.

This is going to facilitate having different progression paths- each wand here is also linked to a different enchanting path, which will be defined in a separate file (each of these will be new enchanting.yml and crafting.yml files).

The enchanting paths resemble the current wands.yml "random" entry, so are too complex to list here. If you're not familiar with it, it lets you specify how a wand gains spells and other properties when it is upgraded on an enchanting table.

You can now configure more than one enchanting path and link a wand template to a path so that it upgrades a certain way when enchanted. Each crafting recipe will use an empty wand template that is bound to a different enchanting path. So you'll still get a random wand when crafting, but you'll get a fundamentally different kind of wand depending on the recipe used, not just a visually different one.

This means you can craft a wand with a stick and a diamond now- but it will be a low-powered wand with a limited progression path. You'll want to upgrade to at least a blaze rod and diamond, or go ahead and get a nether star for the full wand experience.

Customization-wize, this should make it much easier for you to change how you want things to work. If you, for instance, don't want anyone to get any engineering spells- just change the "master" wand to use the "apprentice" wand path. I am going to try to have "apprentice" basically mean "pretty awesome but not super OP". So no Engineering magic, no Nuke, that kind of thing.

All pre-3.3 wands will be "grandfathered" in as master wands, though that is also configurable.

If you want, comment here with any ideas or suggestions, while there's still time for me to work it in :)

You can also comment directly on the Jira issues, if you'd like your ideas preserved :) http://jira.elmakers.com/browse/MAGIC-79?jql=text%20~%20%22wand%20progression%22 http://jira.elmakers.com/browse/MAGIC-15?jql=text%20~%20%22crafting%22

@GPSforLEGENDS

That should be fixed in 3.2 and the latest dev builds. The fix also required a change to messages.yml, I had the hoe marked as enchantable.

I wanted to take a brief moment to point out a new spell in 3.2 that I've kind of underplayed, but I actually think is really cool, and has an astounding amount of tech behind it.

Counterspell : This spell is meant specifically for deuling other Mages. This can be other Players, or MythicMob bosses that cast Magic spells.

The spell uses the new and improved undo system to Rollback the last spell your target cast, within the last 10 seconds (an artificial configurable limit, for balance purposes).

Since nearly everything is now undoable, this can be a game changer in a magical duel, and I'm hoping provides a new level of strategy- do you lead with your powerful spells, or throw out some feints to get your opponent to burn up some counters?

It probably still needs a lot of balancing, but the potential is there. It's very cool to counter your opponent's Grenade cast- even after the explosion has gone off :)

@HannahEliz92

Oh there's also

wandp @p organize

Which is a one time reorganization. That works on chest mode if they don't want to switch, but then you're stuck with how it organizes you.

I did put quite a bit if work into the organization, though, it works by category as well as your personal favorite spells. Going to add an item for this in 3.2, too :)

@HannahEliz92

Your OCD players (probably any veteran player) should make sure to try out inventory mode. I'm going to add some upgrade items in 3.2 to make this easier, but for now you can use command blocks or admins can do

wandp @p configure mode inventory

The inventory mode gives you the ability to reorganize your wand inventory, as well as a hot bar which will drastically increase your ability to pull off spell combos and generally be more nimble in combat and engineering. It takes some getting used to, though, which is why chest mode is the default.

Why do I love making trailers so much? I don't know!

Magic 3.2 will have a surprise new feature- EffectLib integration. If you're familiar with EffectLib, this should be exciting!

If you're not familiar with it, click the link and check it out. What this means is if EffectLib is present, Magic will have access to all of its effects for spell effects.

I am in the process of updating the default config so many spells will use EffectLib effects. Spells will fall back to the same old builtin effects if EffectLib isn't there, so unless you go download it you shouldn't notice any changes.

And, as always, this will be completely customizable! I've made a system that gives you configuration-level access to all of the API power of EffectLib. You can set up any spell to use any effect type, and customize any of the effects' custom properties.

@danjosh11

Thanks! So kind of you!

@HannahEliz92

ooooh. sorry, no, I meant a dev build - that feature will be in 3.2, so you'll have to wait a bit for an official build. Sorry for the confusion there, and for wasting your time!

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

@HannahEliz92

Unfortunately that lost all the oh-so-important YAML formatting... but "percentage" should be all that's required. So I'm not sure what's wrong there :\

Here's my config for cure: https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/defaults/spells.defaults.yml#L1083

And the code while I'm at it... it'll look for "amount", then "percentage", then just default to full health.

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/main/java/com/elmakers/mine/bukkit/spell/builtin/HealSpell.java#L37

You grabbed the latest dev build?

Does having the "cure" there also remove poison or wither? That was part of the same new feature change. As was the "feed" parameter, so the Cure spell shouldn't adjust hunger. If none of that is working then you somehow didn't get this change :\

The only other thing I could think of is maybe if you have a plugin throwing off max health, in which case "amount" may work even if "percentage" does not?

@KnightcraftRPGServer

Ah, ok, not what I'm after then :)

You've customized wands.yml, "random"- does it have a "materials: []" property? I think that should do it.