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@alek123222

Oh, about the fireball thing- there is already a spell ("flare") that has the firework icon- so you'd have to delete that spell or change its icon to something else if you want to use the firework icon for fireball. I think the plugin will print warnings about this (same material used for two spells) on startup.

@alek123222

I'll see if I can figure that out- there's probably some weird case where the wand gets deactivated but my plugin doesn't catch it. If you can reproduce it that would be helpful :)

As for invincibility- some spells are admittedly not ready for prime time, in particular the "effect" spells like invincibility, levitation, etc. They don't support durations or draining costs while active- they are just on/off. (which is very unbalanced).

I will probably make levitation work better at some point, but I was never too crazy about invincibility as a real spell, especially now with item (and wand) enchantments for protection. I might invest some time in that eventually, though.

Thanks for all your interest! I'd be curious to see what you're doing with the plugin if your server is public.

@alek123222

That's pretty weird, but I could see how maybe that'd happen... So you were punching or swinging other tools, and it was still casting spells?

@alek123222

Cooldowns are in milliseconds (I don't use timers for cooldowns), so maybe that's the issue?

I just tested with the "sniper" spell on my dev server (mine.elmakers.com), it has a default cooldown of 1000 (which is 1 second) and that seemed to work fine.

I'm not really a big fan of chat messages or commands in general. Magic is meant to be as integrated an experience as possible- nothing you will ever do in the core Minecraft game will print text on the screen, and I aim to do the same.

That said, I can look into throttling cooldown messages if enabled- but I'd prefer any ideas you have on better feedback. I thought the sounds were a nice addition, but I don't always play with sound- maybe a particle effect or something?

@alek123222

Thank you, I will test with that one!

Very few spells have cooldowns by default, not sure if you've been tweaking things. I'm pretty sure they do work, but I don't use them much anymore in favor of xp and xp regeneration (which is going to be a more robust mana system eventually).

There are messages for everything, I just find them annoying so they're off by default. There is audio feedback (a "bonk") if you don't have the mana or are under cooldown. If you really want all the chat spam you can turn off the "quiet" option in the magic.yml file (which you must create, copying the default to start with).

If that ends up being too much chat spam, let me know and I can see about adding an in-between setting, like only print messages on failure (I think that may print a message on cast for most spells...)

@alek123222

Good point, I think I need to support the new(ish) max health stuff. I've never noticed that because I don't use any plugins that artificially increase health (which I assume is what you've got?)

I'll reply to you when that's fixed! If you could let me know what you're using I could test with it.

@Soljnir

Quick update, I just tested on my own server to be sure, changes to spells.yml do work. I added a spell and modified the existing "shell" spell and both works. Just make sure you've copied the file and you aren't editing the default.

I'll see if I can add a better explanation of all this to the docs when I get a chance.

@Soljnir

Are you changing spells.default.yml - or did you copy it to a new spells.yml? Magic will overwrite the "default" files each time it runs, but it will use "spells.yml", "magic.yml" and "wands.yml" if you've created them.

Here's a copy+paste of my note from earlier:

One other thing about the config files that's worth mentioning- you have to copy .defaults and rename it (e.g. magic.yml, wands.yml). The defaults files are just there for reference, and get overwritten on each run. I change stuff in there a lot, so if you go down the road of having your own config it can get complex if you also want any new spells, balance changes, etc that I might add to the configs.

EDIT: Also make sure to disable enchanting and crafting in magic.yml if you don't want wands

@Soljnir

Great, glad to hear it! Makes sure that just "/cast shell" doesn't work either :) (should be disallowed for non-ops by default, but.. just in case)

Note that "shell" is one of the configurable ones .. you can do stuff like

For smaller/bigger shells (default radius is 10)

/cast shell radius 30

For shells made out of specific materials (will use whatever they're pointing at by default, which is pretty abusable as far as cloning blocks goes ...)

/cast shell material glass

Etc... Hope it works out for you!

@Soljnir

Ah, I see! Sounds cool!

Well, I just uploaded 2.5.2 which has options in magic.yml for "cast_command_cost_reduction" and "cast_command_cooldown_reduction". Set these to "0" for normal behavior when using /cast.

I like the idea of attaching spells to tools- let me know how that works out! And let me know if you have any questions about configuration options for spells- a lot of that isn't documented, but you can get a feel for what's available by the spells I've made.. e.g. sniper, arrowrain and arrow are all the same spell configured differently.

You may want to configure custom costs (you can specify items and amounts) though unless you want it to cost XP to use - the mana system only works with a wand equipped.

Do try out the wand though! I've spent a lot of time trying to make a useable multi-purpose tool that can do a lot more than just assigning commands to a click will do for you. :)

One other thing about the config files that's worth mentioning- you have to copy .defaults and rename it (e.g. magic.yml, wands.yml). The defaults files are just there for reference, and get overwritten on each run. I change stuff in there a lot, so if you go down the road of having your own config it can get complex if you also want any new spells, balance changes, etc that I might add to the configs.

EDIT: Also make sure to disable enchanting and crafting in magic.yml if you don't want wands :)