Bukkit

Version 2.16

• Added Chain, Cleanse, Craft, HomingMissile, ParticleProjectile, and Transmute spells
• Buff spells now have cancel-on-teleport and cancel-on-change-world options
• Added the particleline spell effect
• Added levelup trigger for the Passive spell
• Added right-click-cast-item option to all spells
• The zap spell should now work with projectiles
• Support for 1.6

Version 2.15

• Updated to 1.5.2 (removed 1.4.7 support)
• Added Arrow spell
• Added general check-world-pvp-flag option
• Added spell-on-interrupt option to Ritual spell
• Added block data support to Wall spell
• Added cast-random-spell-instead to MultiSpell
• Various bug fixes

Version 2.14

• Updated to 1.5.1
• Added particle effects
• Added 'duration', 'nameplate-text', and 'use-caster-name' options to SpawnMonsterSpell
• Added 'block-chat-output' and 'str-blocked-output' options to ExternalCommandSpell
• Added 'prevent-blocks', 'spell-on-land', and 'apply-spell-power-to-velocity' options to ThrowBlockSpell
• Added 'apply-spell-power-to-velocity' option to ProjectileSpell
• Added 'min-range' option to all targeted spells
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version 2.13.1

• Fixed volley spell
• Changed enable-new-spell-handling default to false (it's not ready to be default yet)

Version 2.13

• Updated for compatibility with CB 1.4.7-R1.0
• Added general enable-new-spell-handling option; if it is enabled:
  • This is an experiment, and is still a work in progress
  • Spells are now cycled with sneak+scroll rather than right click
  • New general options are available: cast-with-left-click (default true), cast-with-right-click (default false)
  • New spell options are available: cast-with-left-click and cast-with-right-click

Version 2.12

• Updated for compatibility with CB 1.4.5-R1.0 and CB 1.4.6-R0.1
• Scrolls and tomes have been changed yet again, and are not backwards compatible (sorry about that, but some Bukkit changes made it practically required)
• Added the fireworks spell effect (requires 1.4.6)

Version 2.11

• Improved config file handling by using multiple config files (to see how this works, rename your current config file to something like config-backup.yml then reload your server)
• Due to the above change, the 'explodeconfig' feature and 'alt-config' option have been removed
• Added general enable-tab-completion option
• Added the ThrowBlock and SpawnMonster spell
• Added new spell effects: angry, bluesparkle, greensparkle, and wolfsmoke
• Added predefined-scrolls option to Scroll spell
• Added delay and send-failure-messages options to Passive spell
• Added rightclickblocktype, hotbarselect, and hotbardeselect triggers to Passive spell
• Added ambient option to PotionEffect spell
• Added add-to-ender-chest option to Conjure spell
• Added horizontal-spread and vertical-spread options to Projectile spell
• Added beneficial option to External Command spell
• Added max-y and max-altitude options to Windwalk spell
• Added falling option to Materialize spell
• Added use-as-respawn-location to Mark spell
• The armor spell can now last through logout+login and/or death+respawn
• Colored armor and lore tooltip support for item names
• Added predefined-items option to general config
• Added durability (of the currently held item) as a spell cost option
• Added 'enabled' option to no-magic zones
• Mana ranks can now have individual prefix, color-full, and color-empty settings
• Added forcecast special command
• Various bug fixes

Version 2.10

• Added the Enderchest spell and Waterwalk spell
• The Ritual spell will no longer be interrupted if participants move (only if the caster moves)
• The Scroll spell has been updated, however old scrolls will no longer function in this new version
• The Conjure spell can now conjure tomes and scrolls
• The Recall spell can now teleport to another player's mark
• The Dowse spell can now use %d in the str-cast-self option to fill in the distance
• Added fly-speed option to Windwalk spell
• Added support for tab completion
• Spell names are no longer case sensitive
• Config values for item types now support custom item names in many places (cast-item, cost, conjure, etc)
• Added config option ignore-cast-item-names (defaults to false)
• Players in creative mode will no longer be targeted by spells
• Fixed bug with enchanted item parsing
• Updated for Minecraft 1.4.2
• CastModifiers addon updated to version 1.3
• Shop addon updated to version 1.5

Version 2.9

• Added new spells: Switch, Pulser, Forcebomb, and Dowse
• The Tome spell no longer uses BookWorm, but instead uses built-in books from 1.3 (note that any tomes created with BookWorm will no longer function on this version)
• Added new spell effects: sound and soundpersonal
• Item names can be used in many more places
• The Conjure spell now supports enchantments
• Added cancel-on-take-damage option to Levitate
• Added no-target option to Volley
• Added target-caster and target-invisible-players options to AreaEffect
• Added new Passive triggers: death, respawn, rightclickblock, ticks
• Added interrupt-on-cast option for any spell with a cast-time
• All buff spells now have the toggle option

Version 2.8.2 (July 24)

• Item names can now be used for cast items and reagents
• Added magicspells.tempgrant.spellname permission node (note this only works for the /cast command, not cast items)
• Added 'buff' trigger for Passive spell
• Added support for enchantments on cast items
• The Gate spell now supports specifying a yaw and pitch
• Some bug fixes

Version 2.8.1 (July 5)

• Added 'beneficial' option to PotionEffect, Projectile, and AreaEffect spells
• The Build spell can now be used with the Projectile spell
• Added stopsprint, sneak, and stopsneak Passive triggers
• Passive spell-based triggers (spellcast, spelltarget, spelltargeted) can now specify more than one spell
• A couple bug fixes

Version 2.8 (June 28)

• New spells: Passive, Ritual, Lilywalk, ManaRegen, Farm, SpellHaste
• The channeled spell category has been removed, and is replaced by the Ritual spell
• The Summon spell is now a targeted spell, and the Sun spell has been renamed to Time and is an instant spell
• The mana system has been slightly rewritten, and mana groups have been added
• Buff spells can now be set to be disabled when entering a no-magic zone (see the buff-check-interval general config option)
• Cooldowns can now use decimal values and now also persist through reloads (added cooldowns-persist-through-reload option)
• All spells should now support spell effects
• Added spell icon feature (see spell-icon-slot option in the general config and the spell-icon option in the spell config)
• Added disallowed-spells (blacklist) option to no-magic zones
• Added general options ops-ignore-reagents, ops-ignore-cooldowns, ops-ignore-cast-times, enable-error-logging, enable-stat-collection, and always-show-message-on-cycle
• Added cast-time, interrupt-on-move, interrupt-on-damage, spell-on-interrupt, str-cast-start, and str-interrupted options to all spells, and use-exp-bar-as-cast-time-bar general option
• Added new permission node magicspells.nocasttime
• Added always-granted option to all spells
• Added cancel-on-logout, cancel-on-give-damage, cancel-on-take-damage options to all buff spells
• Added cancel-on-spell-cast option to Invisibility spell
• Added temporary-op to ExternalCommand spell
• Added max-targets option to AreaEffect spell
• Added instant option to Drainlife spell
• Added power-affects-quantity, power-affects-chance, calculate-drops-individually, and auto-equip options to Conjure spell
• Added check-plugins option to Telekinesis spell
• Added explosion-size option to Fireball spell
• Added permanent option to Armor spell
• Added shoot-interval and remove-delay options to Volley spell, and made it work better
• Added reset-delay option to Materialize spell
• Added wall-depth, prevent-breaking, and prevent-drops options to Wall spell
• Added call-target-events option to forcepush and freeze (allows target modifying plugins like MagicSpellsTowny to work better with those spells)
• Fixed small-fireball option on Fireball spell

Version 2.7 (May 18) [1.2.5-R2.0]

• New spells: Levitate, Armor, Tree, Silence, AreaEffect
• New graphical effects: itemspray, hearts, nova
• Added the incantations option to all spells, which is a list of chat messages that will trigger the spell
• The Projectile spell can now use any item as a projectile
• Spells can now be bound to multiple cast items instead of just one at a time
• Added require-cast-item-on-command option for spells (forces player to be holding the cast item even if using the /cast command)
• Added Residence support for no-magic zones
• Added show-mana-on-experience-bar and show-mana-on-hunger-bar options
• Added add-fire option to the Explode spell
• Added allowed-pass-thru-blocks to phase spell
• Added remove-scroll-when-depleted option to scroll spell
• API changes: Improved the ManaChangeEvent and added SpellSelectionChangedEvent
• Various bug fixes

Version 2.6 (March 25) [1.2.4-R0.1]

• Added the option of "exploding" your spell config into multiple small files; to do this, type "cast configexplode" on the console, then open the plugins/MagicSpells/spellconfigs folder
• Added 'TargetedMultiSpell'
• Added 'UnbindSpell' (the old way of binding to your empty hand will no longer work)
• Added general 'allow-cast-with-fist' option, and 'allow-bind-to-fist' option on the bind spell (note: if you enable this option, it is possible that any spells "unbound" using the old method will now be bound to the player's fist; also, cycling spells on the fist only works when right-clicking a block, it will not work when right-clicking in air)
• The 'windwalk' spell no longer uses creative mode (which means it's actually usable!), it also has new options: launch-speed, cancel-on-teleport, cancel-on-logout
• Added 'restrict-to-worlds' option to all spells, as well as a general 'str-wrong-world' option and the same option for all spells
• Added transparent-types option to stonevision to allow for multiple transparent types
• Added prevent-player-damage option to explode spell
• Setting target-players to false on lightning and fireball will now completely prevent player damage from those spells
• Added aoe-radius, target-players, and allow-target-change options to projectile spell
• Added 'cloud' effect
• The 'mark' and 'recall' spells can now have copies made (the 'recall' spell now has a mark-spell option, which should specify the internal name of the mark spell it corresponds to) (Important: due to this change, you will need to rename your marks.txt file to marks-mark.txt [or marks-markspellname.txt if you've changed the internal name of your mark spell])
• The first spell bound to a cast item will be auto-selected if allow-cycle-to-no-spell is false
• Fixed bug when casting forget from console
• Fixed bug with WorldGuard based no-magic zones
• Fixed consume-book option on tome spell to apply when the tome is used, not when it is created
• Using enderpearls with a projectile spell will no longer cause the caster to teleport to the target location (and probably to their doom)
• Using eggs with a projectile spell will no longer spawn chickens
• Various other bug fixes and improvements

Version 2.5 (March 1) [1.1-R6]

• Added 'prerequisite' and 'replaces' options to all spells
• Added 'always-activate' option to targeted spells, which makes them always consume reagents and start cooldowns, even if they miss
• Added 'separate-player-spells-per-world' option
• Added 'creature-types' option to purge spell
• Added 'effects' option to spells, which applies to most spells and allows you to customize the graphical effects of spells
• As a result of the above, the 'show-spell-effect' and similar options have been removed from the following spells: blink, build, gate, heal, shadowstep, and invisibility
• Added entity-names option for use with messages about targeted spells
• All targeted spells that target entities now have a str-cast-target message, and %t can be used for str-cast-self and str-cast-others (it will pull creature names from the entity-names option)
• The stack prevention of the scroll spell should work much better now
• The magicspells.advanced permission is replaced with magicspells.advanced.*, and there are now these permissions as well: magicspells.advanced.list, magicspells.advanced.forget, magicspells.advanced.scroll
• Plugin metrics have been added, meaning your server will "report home" every half hour to give useful statistics (if you wish to opt-out of this, you can do so by modifying the file in plugins/PluginMetrics) (this is Hidendra's system, which is also used in other plugins like LWC and Vault)
• The haste bug has been fixed properly this time (I hope)

Version 2.4.2 (February 24) [1.1-R4-R5]

• Fixed prevent-block-damage and damage-multiplier options on explode spell

Version 2.4.1 (February 22) [1.1-R4-R5]

• Fixed error with explode spell
• Fixed combust doing insane damage
• Fixed haste spell not removing haste effect
• Fixed some default config issues
• Fixed small issue with alt-config
• Added enable-volatile-features option
• Added new multi-spell loading method (works like normal spells now)

Version 2.4 (February 20) [1.1-R4-R5]

• Added new spells: Invisibility, Materialize (example: water), Shadowstep, Projectile (example: explosivearrow)
• Added ignore-armor option to drainlife, geyser, and pain
• Added fire-tick-damage and prevent-immunity options to combust
• Added spellbook-block option for spellbook (will work with enchanting tables)
• Added experience option to all spells (casting spells will grant experience)
• Added execute-as-target-instead option to external command spell
• Added ignore-canceled option to explode spell (it will charge reagents and set cooldown even if the explosion is prevented by another plugin)
• The permissions magicspells.noreagents, magicspells.nocooldown, and magicspells.notarget will now obey the default-all-perms-false setting
• Some tweaks to the carpet spell (I hope I didn't break anything)
• This will be a bit annoying, and I apologize in advance, but it had to be done. Many spells previously marked as "instant" spells are now "targeted" spells instead. You will need to update the spell-class values for these spells. Spells affected: blink, build, combust, cripple, disarm, drainlife, entomb, explode, fireball, forcetoss, geyser, heal, lightning, pain, potion, telekinesis, volley, zap
• This version will break compatibility with the current version of MobArena (v0.94.3.24), however, it appears bleeding builds of MobArena should work fine

Version 2.3.1 (February 1) [1.1-R1-R3]

• Fixed bug with binding spells to items with data values
• Restored old event handling system for compatibility with plugins that used it (but marked it deprecated)

Version 2.3 (January 30) [1.1-R1-R3]

• Added prevent-block-damage and damage-multiplier options to explode spell
• Added bindable, bindable-items, and str-cant-bind to every spell
• Added bindable-items, str-cant-bind-spell, and str-cant-bind-item to the bind spell
• Added cancel-if-no-targets option to roar spell
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 2.2 (January 25) [1.1-R1]

• New spells: freeze, roar, and food
• Fixed mana regen yet again; regen-tick-seconds is now regen-tick-rate and is tick-based (20 ticks per second), and regen-percent is now regen-amount, and is a fixed amount rather than a percentage
• Added require-known-spell option to help spell
• Can now repair bows, and added ignore-items and repair-amount options to repair spell
• Added delay option for multispells
• Added use-bed-location option for recall spell
• Added play-fizzle-sound option to most instant spells (plays the fire extinguish sound when a spell fails to find a target)
• Added consume-book option to tome spell
• Added portal-animation option to blink spell
• Added target-non-players option to PotionEffectSpell
• Windwalk prevents all block interaction now, which should fix most free-item issues with it
• Added cancel-if-full and show-spell-effect options to heal spell
• Fireball now uses damage-multiplier option instead of additional-damage
• Fireball now plays casting sound
• New fireball options: small-fireball (doesn't work well and fire can't be prevented), no-explosion-effect, no-explosion-damage, no-explosion-damage-range
• Removed safefall spell (use invulnerability instead, see default config for example)
• Various other improvements

Version 2.1.3 (January 15) [1.0.1-R1 + 1.1-DEV]

• Fixed multispells again
• Added spells-to-hide option to list spell
• Added unobfuscate option to stonevision for compatibility with ore obfuscator plugins
• Another attempt at fixing mana regen crash
• Various minor improvements and bug fixes

Version 2.1.2 (January 9) [1.0.1-R1]

• Firenova no longer triggers double doors (hopefully)
• Added burn-tall-grass option to firenova for fun
• Fixed mana regen not triggering ManaChangeEvent (thanks oceanor)
• Malformed cost values are now handled more gracefully

Version 2.1.1 (January 6) [1.0.1-R1]

• Multispells have reagent costs and cooldowns again

Version 2.1 (December 28) [1.0.1-R1]

• Added PotionEffectSpell (examples: blind, haze, poison)
• Added PermissionSpell
• Various bug fixes

Version 2.0 (December 21) [1.0.1-R1]

• Added experience and levels as reagent options
• Added cast-time option to gate and recall spells
• Added magicspells.notarget permission node
• Changed drainlife to be more generic: removed 'damage' and 'heal' options, which are replaced with 'take-type', 'take-amt', 'give-type', and 'give-amt'
• Possibly fixed issue with mana regen stopping randomly
• New spell loading system
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.3 (October 24) [1337]

• New spells: reach, conjure, windwalk, phase
• New config options for zap spell: allowed-block-types, check-plugins, drop-block, drop-normal
• Added pass-through-ceiling option for blink
• No-magic-zone config changed a lot, new features added
• Can now use data-values for cast items
• Added ignore-cast-item-durability to still allow tools and stuff to be used as cast items without problem
• Added global-cooldown option, as well as ignore-global-cooldown for spells
• The magicspells.silent permission only silences broadcast messages now
• Added ManaChangeEvent
• Many bug fixes

Version 1.2 (October 3) [1240]

• New spells: cripple, haste, and empower (for real this time)
• Added hunger as a spell cost (works similar to mana and health)
• The list spell is now castable from the console
• The forget spell now has an option to be castable on self (without a player target)
• Along with the above, casting forget on another player now requires the magicspells.advanced permission node
• Added SpellLearnEvent
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.1 (September 16) [1060, 1185]

• New spells: disarm, empower, forcetoss, mana, reflect, repair, walkway
• The mark and recall spells are now instant spells, so they can be bound to a wand
• Added shared-cooldown option for all spells
• Removed legacy Permissions support (please use PermissionsBukkit, PermissionsEx, or bPermissions)
• Added new permission nodes: magicspells.noreagents, magicspells.nocooldown, magicspells.silent
• Removed config options: cast-for-free and cast-no-cooldown in favor of above permission nodes
• Added multi-world support for no-magic zones
• External spells greatly improved:
  • Command options now use the list format (with commands on different lines prefixed by dashes) rather than being separated with double bars
  • Added delayed command feature to external spell (command-to-delay and command-delay options)
  • Added targeting option for external spell (require-player-target, obey-los, range options)
  • Can now use %t and %a in commands to fill in the target player and the acting (casting) player
  • Can now add a temporary permission node
• Some refactoring, any custom coded spells will need to be updated (sorry about that)
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.0.4 (August 22) [1060]

• Added additional-damage option to lightning
• The forcepush spell will now work with just a vertical velocity (I think)
• Fixed a bug

Version 1.0.3 (August 22) [1060]

• Added ability to cycle backwards through spells with shift-right-click
• Added geyser-type option to geyser (options are water or lava)
• Added multi-spell functionality
• Renamed 'windwalk' to 'carpet' and fixed it
• Added spell events for other plugins to hook in to
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.0.2 (August 8) [1000]

• Added alt-config option (see configuration section for more info)
• Added permission node "magicspells.advanced" for advanced spell features (see permission section for more info)
• Added require-teach-perm option to scroll and tome
• Added require-scroll-cast-perm-on-use option (a person must have spells.scroll.cast to be able to use a scroll)
• Added allow-cycle-to-no-spell option
• Changed return type of castSpell() from boolean to enum
• Various bug fixes

Version 1.0.1 (July 26) [1000]

• Added max-uses option to scroll and tome spells
• Added charge-reagents-for-spell-per-charge option to scroll, if this is true, the reagent cost for all scroll uses will be charged when the scroll is created
• Added "base" scrolls
• Added cast-delay option to channeled spells
• Fixed scroll loading
• Various bug fixes

Version 1.0 (July 22) [1000]

• New "channeled" spell type, with new spells: sun and summon
• More new spells: scroll, confusion, drainlife, geyser, and pain
• The tome spell can now have a number of uses defined
• Changed the freecast-no-cooldown option to a player list called cast-no-cooldown
• Implemented the new Bukkit permission system ('classic' Permissions is still supported for now)
• Changed "base" commands used by the plugin to allow easier aliasing and compatibility with other magic plugins
• More windwalk adjustments
• Added reload option to spellbook spell
• Added ability to load external spell class files
• Various bug fixes

Version 0.8 (July 12) [953]

• New spells: leap and tome (tome requires BookWorm)
• External spells now support multiple commands separated by a vertical bar (|)
• Added mana potion functionality
• Windwalk works better (still not perfect)
• Added no-magic zones
• Mana regen now uses its own thread instead of the scheduler
• You can now unbind spells by binding to an empty hand
• Added require-entity-target and related options to the fireball spell

Version 0.7.3 (June 27) [935]

• Added reload-granted-spells option to the list spell; if this is true, the plugin will check the player's Permissions for any new granted spells
• Some improvements with player spell list handling to hopefully maybe fix a problem

Version 0.7.2 (June 25) [928]

• Blocks in the windwalk platform will no longer drop when broken
• Removed the use-health-bars option (it never did anything anyway)
• Fixed PvP check with fireball
• Fixed gate spell not working with most coordinates
• Other minor bug fixes

Version 0.7.1 (June 24) [928]

• Fixed bug with cancel-on-teleport option for windwalk
• The build spell will now work correctly with blocks that have block data
• Removed some left over debug console spam

Version 0.7 (June 23) [928]

• Added new spells: minion, stealth, gate, build
• Added external plugin spell
• Added glass head effect for gills
• Added animation to zap
• Added cancel-on-teleport and cancel-on-logout options for windwalk
• Added ability to reload a player's spellbook with /cast reload <player>
• Added mana system
• Spells can now cost health
• Fixed various bugs

Version 0.6.2 [860]

• Added an additional-damage option to fireball.
• Many bug fixes:
• Fixed PVP issues with firenova.
• Added missing "fade" messages to several spells.
• Fixed spell durations.
• Lightwalk will not cast if the player doesn't have the reagents.

Version 0.6.1 [860]

• The telekinesis spell is fixed.
• Added multi-line and color support for config strings. Use &0 through &f in a string to add colors.
• Added smoke trail effect to blink.
• Changed the way targeting works. The precision option is no longer used, but a new option, obey-los, has been added (determines whether the plugin should obey line-of-sight rules).
• Many bug fixes.

Version 0.6 [860]

• New spells: firenova, lightwalk, and stonevision!
• Added check-plugins as an option to multiple spells, in an attempt to have spells play nice with other plugins (PvP in particular).
• Various bug fixes.

Version 0.5

• New spells: bind, fireball, flamewalk, invulnerability, lifewalk, purge.
• The bind spell allows players to add custom item bindings.
• The teach and forget spells can now be cast from the console.
• Fixed gills giving complete damage immunity.
• Fixed not being able to rename the entomb spell.
• Added permissions for teaching and casting.
• Added max-vertical-force option to forcepush.

Version 0.4.1

• Added option to remove cooldowns for those who can cast for free.
• A wand item with just one spell will have that spell auto-assigned now.
• Added spell names to config file to avoid confusion.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 0.4

• Added forget spell.
• Added wall spell.
• Added volley spell.
• Added telekinesis spell.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 0.3

• Added frostwalk spell.
• Added windwalk spell.
• Added heal spell.
• Numerous bug fixes.
• Added missing config file options.

Version 0.2

• Added spellbook spell.
• Added Permissions support.
• Fixed a potential issue with multi-world mark and recall.
• Fixed the default config file.

Version 0.1

• First release.