Please see this video for important update information if you're updating from before 10.0!

10.0.1 Hotfixes

• Fix empty wand (broomstick) slot lore not using name from messages
• Fix camo armor coloring other armor worn at the same time
• Fix spells all having broken icons if using bending, potter or stars configs without survival loaded
• Fix PlaceholderAPI placeholders

10.0 Release Notes:

New Features

• Wand Mechanics re-work, the default survival wand mechanics have changed (1.16+)

  • Right-click now cycles the active spell, drop button (Q) toggles spell inventory
  • There is a new 2nd hotbar display when the spell inventory is closed and the player has the resource pack
  • This uses the action bar, but can be reconfigured to a boss bar if there are compatibility issues
  • Wand instructions improved and streamlined, instructions: false added to wand config to easily turn them off
  • Wand controls changed to use slot system, so controls can be changed after the fact
  • Controls menu has detailed button mapping and GUI options
  • Downstream changes:
    • Add requirement_properties wand feature, allows wands to vary their properties based on the player passing some requirements
    • Add resource_pack: true requirement option
    • Added cycle_spell and cycle_hotbar wand effect options
    • Add swappable: false wand option, which allows you to use the swap key while the wand inventory is closed.
    • Allow cycling hotbars with the wand inventory closed
    • Add wand instructions to wand item lore. Use lore_instructions: false in wand config to turn this off.
    • Wand slotted upgrades can be made hidden, swappable and replaceable (now used for controls selection)
    • Added new true/false requirements: resource_pack, spell_inventory_open

• Survival Crafting Recipes Changed (again)

  • The Magic Heart is no more, the client-side Knowledge Book just does not handle it well enough
  • New recipes with the same balance for all magic items
  • Players can right-click any magic hearts they currently have to get a refund
  • You can bring the hearts back with /mexample add magicheart

• Magic Bow re-work

  • Light arrow rebalance
  • Can be enchanted, only the infinity enchantment, which will make it cost-free
  • Added Grapple arrow to Archer path

• MythicMobs support:

  • Mythic mobs can be referred to by name in any configs or /mmob command.
  • Any Magic mob with the same name (key) as a Mythic mob will overlay abilities
  • Use mythic_mob: (mob type) in a magic mob config to make it build on a mythic mob
  • use mythic_mob_level: (level) in a config or spawn parameters to set the MM level

• Improved in-game help system /mhelp command

  • Ops or mods with magic.notify permission will be prompted to try it
  • Can search through help topics, or navigate with clickable chat links
  • Please try it out before asking for support!

• Add support for JSON chat component messages, escaped with backticks such as

  &6Swing &7(&b`{"keybind":"key.attack"}`&7) &fyour &a$wand
  

  • Can be used in wand lore, Message action, action bar, boss bar titles and any in-game messages.yml text

Fixes

• Fix behavior of wand magic attribute stacking
• Fix upgrading mana (and probably other properties) in wand slotted upgrades
• Fix some class configurations not updating for online players when configs are changed
• Fix mob boss bars duplicating on config reload
• Fix not being able to upgrade enchantment level of magic sword and armor with books
• Fix casting cost of Workbench being too high for a Beginner to cast
• Fix stacked wand upgrades absorbing the full stack when dropping on a wand
• Fix unintentionally overriding Mythic mob or naturally spawned mob properties when applying Magic mob behaviors to them
• Fix Drop block break/place rule not being able to drop wands
• Fix mage attributes not being taken into account on a wand's vanilla item attributes
• Fix right-click mode controls menu option turning off a wand's ability to cycle hotbars
• Fix switching spell inventory pages on Bedrock (tapping on the spellbook should now work)
• Fix spawning colored sheep
• Fix slime and magma cube magic mobs
• Fix "invalid NPC" spam on startup from NPCs in spawn chunks
• Fix CheckInventory not detecting a stack of items
• Fix magic mobs continuing to track you no matter how far away you run Use relentless: true on a mob config to restore this behavior
• Fix consecutive empty lines not working in messages and lore

Additions

• Add pickup trigger, fired when a player picks up an items
• Added cooldown, biomes and not_biomes options to block populators
• The ColorItem action can be used to color a potion, firework charge or a firework (will change all effects in a firework)
• Add mgive shortcut for firework_charge:#FF00AA to give colored firework charges
• Add infinity_cost_free wand property, will make the wand cost-free if it has the Infinity enchantment
• Add mgive support for enchanted_book enchantments
• Selector name, description and lore now support placeholders
• Add not_brush parameter to CheckBlock, use-case is only playing effects at a location where a block was modified (not the same as the brush)
• The ColorItem action is now mostly undoable, though probably only suited for mob use (since players can move items around)
• Expand wand slots feature, slots can be config sections now with properties like swappable (for slotted upgrades that can be swapped out) or hidden
• Add magic_blocks list to arenas, arena will turn the magic block on/off when the arena starts/stops
• Add Selector support for simple shortcuts newrow and none
• Boss bar configurations can omit the bar__ prefix in parameters (this kept confusing me)
• The ModifyBlock action can now spawn falling blocks of any type, rather than only spawning them from destroyed blocks
• Add self_destruct wand property, for a wand that will be destroyed when held
• Spell parameters can now be used inside of equations within that spell
• The ModifyAttribute action now supports an x variable holding the current attribute value, just like ModifyProperties
• The /mage deactivate command can now be used as an alias for /mage lock
• Add macro system to messaging, useful for making shortcuts for chat components
• Add item requirement, for checking if a player has an item (similar to CheckInventory action)
• Allow a messages section on a spell config. to embed messages right in a spell (useful for Selector, Shop or other text-heavy spells)
• Add unlock_earns parameter to Selector, rewardshop example of single-time requirement-base rewards
• The spawnmobs example magic mobs will rarely drop special loot that can be sold in the lootshop
• Add use_brush: helmet option to ArmorStandProjectile so it can put a sampled block on the armor stand
• Item configurations can now have a discover_recipes list, learned by players when they hold the item
• Expanded PlaceholderAPI support, exposing all attributes and allowing for custom-defined placeholders
• Add /mexample command as an alias for /mconfig example

Changes

• Smite and Meteor changed to use BreakBlock action, will work in protected areas
• Removed robes from hires RP, added hires-robes and hires-all RP which are selected automatically
• Broomstick upgrades can be swapped out
• Changed how arenas and their templates interact to work more like other magic configs/instances
• Added default_stage properties to arena, to set default stage properties
• Improved lore wrap behavior, taking colors, hex colors and chat components into account, increase default limit to 48 characters
• Players will now be instructed how to turn on the RP if their client declines it. They can disable this message with /getrp off and are prompted to do so If you still don't want the nagging, you can use /mconfig configure message resource_pack.declined ""
• Rebalance Magic Missile to make earlier progression easier
• Turn AureliumSkills mana back off by default, it's way too much of a mess. If you'd like to back on, use /mconfig configure config aurelium_skills.use_mana true
• Changes and improvements to offhand casting, left-swing action always used
• Modifiers can now be used on magic armor, however this required changing the save data format for modifiers, so any modifiers you have manually applied via /mage modifier add will need to be re-applied.
• Nerf wizard armor protection a little so it's not as strong as vanilla chainmail