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@Lightyblue9

Oh, and if you don't want crafting I'd suggest adding "enable_crafting: false" to config.yml to turn it off- no security through obscurity :)

You can also do "enable_enchanting: false" if you don't want them to be able to upgrade via an enchanting table.

@Lightyblue9

Hi! Thanks for your interest. And thanks for pointing out the issue with Magic Missile - that was kind of an oversight, and I just fixed it. Level 2 shouldn't cost more. I also scaled down the costs of levels 3 and up- though generally players don't get those until they've leveled up their wands and have more mana.

If you want to update to the latest dev build (see link above for my CI server), that should be fixed.

Otherwise, you can easily tweak this yourself- just add something like the following to spells.yml:

missile|2:
    costs:
        mana: 15

You can do that for any of the levels (or any spells) to change their costs. You could also do this:

missile:
    upgrade_required_casts: 0

To prevent it from levelling up at all- but the intention is it gets better (much better) with levelling, I just messed up the balance there.

For mana upgrades- the "wand level" upgrade items can be used to bump up mana in a nice scaled way- check out "student_upgrade", "apprentice_upgrade", "master_upgrade", etc.

You can also make your own (just copy+paste into wands.yml and modify)- or set up commands to do it like this:

wandp @p configure xp_max 100
wandp @p configure xp_regeneration 50

@LordBoos

Build #718 and up has your halo effects :)

There is a new item- "/mgive haloeffects" to see it. This involved adding a few new features:

1. Wand particle FX can now use the wand's core color for colored particles (like redstone)
2. effect_particle_radius can be used to control the radius of the effect ring
3. effect_particle_offset can be used to control the Y-offset

And, whee, trails! Enjoy :)

@Fisaken

Firstly, always check the logs for errors on load! I'm guessing you'll see some big nasty parse errors in there.

Secondly, a webpage like YAMLLint is super helpful for finding annoying little YAML issues.

In your case, it looks like a missing colon after "cure".

I fixed that (and <bounce> - I realize my instructions may be confusing there) and tested this one:

http://pastebin.com/0Wc0gpYf

It worked for me, so please give it a try! Here's your more expensive Levitate:

@LordBoos

I like that! I think it'd be easy to tweak what I have now to look like that halo- maybe a configurable radius or something. I agree they're not the best, I don't think anyone really uses them right now :)

And thanks!

@LordBoos

Oh, one more thing about the "special wands on upgrade"- the default configs have a second wand item that is a bit bigger and fancier, but is reserved for Engineer and Architect level. If you want to see it, do

/wand configure icon gold_axe

On your wand. If you like this, and want people to get it on master, you can add the following to wands.yml:

master_upgrade:
  upgrade_icon: gold_axe

@LordBoos

Ah- well you *do* need to use bookshelves to progress from Student, maybe that's the problem? Just an enchanting table on its own isn't enough.

That broom thing sounds like a Spigot 1.8 bug that was fixed a while ago- if you're using Spigot, could you try and update? It was missing the entity dismount event, which is how I capture and cancel the shift button.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, the new 1.8 enchanting system is fixed at 1,2 or 3 levels. However, you can control how high in level the player needs to be to enchant- and since levels cost more XP the further up you go, it's kind of the same thing. Kind of.

Try "/wand configure effect_particle <tab>"

You can set effect_particle, effect_particle_count, effect_particle_interval - it will make a ring of particles around the player when the wand is held :)

@LordBoos

Ah, yeah- that could probably work better. I haven't tried different configs with spells disabled as much as I should.

For what it's worth, the engineering spells are not normally obtainable- you are "gated" on the Rollback spell, meaning you (as an admin) would have to set up a way for them to get that spell, before they could proceed to Engineer.

But I understand wanting to have them all disabled :)

I think you could fix this by adding something to enchanting.yml like this:

master:
 upgrade: ""

Basically, remove the upgrade path from Master- at which point it should instead say "Your wand is fully enchanted (for now)" - this message is of course configurable.

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/defaults/enchanting.defaults.yml#L306

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/defaults/messages.defaults.yml#L174

@LordBoos

Yes! If you use WGCustomFlags, Magic adds 4 new flags you can use to finely control spell casting in a region:

• allowed-spells: A list of spells to allow (will bypass build perms and PVP checks!)- or "*" for all
• blocked-spells: A list of spells to block, or "*" for all. Will override allowed-spells, unless set to "*".
• allowed-spell-categories: A list of spell categories to allow
• blocked-spell-categories: A list of spell categories to block

EDIT: For that message - that sounds buggy, maybe? Have you removed/disabled engineering spells?

The expected behavior is that when you get to "maxed out" on a Master wand, it tells you that you need to learn "Rollback" to continue. At this point you're done, unless your setup allows them to learn engineering magic.

You'd probably have to tweak enchanting.yml to change this, if you want things to just end at Master. I can help out with that, just let me know!

I'm happy to have completed the new introduction video for Magic! Showcasing all the great new stuff since 3.0, like custom wands, spells and sounds.

Let me know what you think!

@LordBoos

Nice! Neat trick, I'll have to check out Crate Reloaded... :D