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[Eric Blank]

This is the next iteration of the release of "Spellcrafts," a mod I've been working on for a few years now.

This time there are more ways to learn spells, and at the moment no way to know any magic innately (creating an adventurer who already knows magics, I mean.) except to start as a wizard (creature).
You can;
Learn spells from secrets stored in towers of great sorcerers - slabs might also be stored elsewhere, as not all secrets allow building towers.
Learn from the lectures of wizards, or murder them and drink their blood.
And study on your own. This will take time, perseverance, an inscribed slate, and lots of junk to grind into aether salts for the reaction. You can also use aether salts to conjure basic items like food or drink in adventure mode, although the utility of this is negligible.

The magics you can learn are further described in the following post

The mod can be downloaded from here:
Main Mod Download

But additional steps must be taken during installation for now:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are also changes you will want to make to vanilla DF to make it less crash prone if you're copying in the reactions and buildings manually: in entity_default.txt, under ENTITY:MOUNTAIN, under the values section, change [VALUE:LEISURE_TIME:15] and [VALUE:MERRIMENT:15] both to [...:-5]. Then copy and paste both of those in ENTITY:PLAINS underneath where it says [VARIABLE_VALUE:ALL:-30:30], so it should then read;

   [VARIABLE_VALUE:ALL:-30:30]
   [VALUE:MERRIMENT:-5]
   [VALUE:LEISURE_TIME:-5]

This should stop more of the worldgen crashes.

If you follow the "copy the entire entity_default.txt provided in the "Vanilla Entity and extra info" folder into the raw/objects folder" then you don't have to worry about that, because I changed the value tokens in that copy of the file to already.

A legacy version for DF version 44.12 is available here
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15030

A copy of the current readme file can be found here:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the readme document for the Spellcrafts mod, by Eric Blank.

Credits:
Eric Blank - I did lots of typing and copy/pasting. At least some of the ideas I generated of my own accord, even if they aren't entirely original.
Putnam - I like his solutions to problems so much I implement them occasionally if I hit a roadblock.
Gizogin - who posted the ice spike spell that I used to help me understand other parts of the interaction system, and is still included.
With ideas shamelessly stolen from; everyone who dares to post on the bay12forums, popular culture, and mythology.
Help catching bugs and such from: gnome, Nahere and hertggf

Short summary:
This mod adds various night creatures, secrets, and ways to learn "magic" through interactions, reactions and syndromes in Dwarf Fortress. The player can learn magic in both fortress and adventure modes, through multiple means. The mod is intended to be compatible with vanilla DF and other lightweight mods which dont change many of the basic game's files. As such it is intended to run off of the vanilla DF files and does not modify them.


Installation:

Extract the contents of the zip file directly into the game's raw/objects folder. If you have an unmodified, vanilla entity_default.txt, you can simply copy the entity_default.txt in the same folder as this readme into the objects folder to override the base game and allow dwarves and humans to develop magic. If you do not have a vanilla entity_default.txt, you can copy/paste the following into the entity definitions for MOUNTAIN and PLAINS:






   [PERMITTED_JOB:ALCHEMIST]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_ALCHEMY_LAB]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RECUPERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RESIST_DISEASE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_REGENERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONV_BASIN_CLEANING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONV_BASIN_HEALING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONV_BASIN_ICESTORM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONV_BASIN_FIREBALL]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONV_BASIN_WEBBING]
   
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_MAGIC_STUDY]

   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_HOLY_ALTAR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_HOLY_ALTAR_PRAY_NO_SACRIFICE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_HOLY_ALTAR_SACRIFICE_FOOD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_HOLY_ALTAR_SACRIFICE_GOLD]
   
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_ENCHANTING_TABLE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_WAND]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_STAFF]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_SPELLBOLTS]

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BOOK_MAGIC]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_INSCRIBE_SLATE_SIMPLE_FORT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_GENERIC]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_GENERAL_ALL_FORT]

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_AETHER_FOCUS]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_AETHERIAL]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_AETHERIAL_FORT]

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_ATHAME_HYAZITH]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_HYAZITH]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_HYAZITH_FORT]

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BESTIARY]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_POLYBESTIAL]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_POLYBESTIA_FORT]

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_AMULET_MEDISEPHOS]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_MEDISEPHOS]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_MEDISEPHOS_FORT]

   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SP_COMBINE_WOOD_LOGS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SP_MAKE_PLANTCREATURE_ALCOHOL]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SP_MAKE_PLANTCREATURE_SYRUP]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SP_MAKE_PLANTCREATURE_POWDER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_WOOD_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_COAL_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_COAL_METAL_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_WOOD_BARS_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BONE_BARS_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_WOOD_BONE_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BONE_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BLOOD_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_PET_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_WILD_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_DEAD_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FISH_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FISH_RAW_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_CORPSE_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_PLANT_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FRUIT_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_SEED_GEM_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BLOOD_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BLOOD_PLANT_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BLOOD_FRUIT_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_BLOOD_SEED_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_PET_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_WILD_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_VERMIN_DEAD_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FISH_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FISH_RAW_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_CORPSE_WOOD_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_PLANT_BONE_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_FRUIT_BONE_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_MAKE_AETHER_SALT_SEED_BONE_FORT]

   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ENCHANTED_IRON_MAKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_RESIDUE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_REDUCE_RESIDUE]

   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CONJURE_CIRCLE]
   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_ATHAME_DEMENTED]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_DEMENTIA]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_DEMENTIA_FORT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_CREATURES_MISC]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_EXCHANGE_AETHER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_WOOD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_OBSIDIAN]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_LIMESTONE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_CHEESE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_MEAT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_MEAD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_LEATHER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_THREAD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_CLOTH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_MAGIC_SAND]

   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_ROCK]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BLOCKS]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LOG]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BARS]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_AXE]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SPEAR]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SWORD]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HAMMER]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MACE]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW_BOLTS]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SHIELD]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HELM]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BREASTPLATE]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MAILSHIRT]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LEGGINGS]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HIGH_BOOTS]

   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_FAMILIAR_MAMMALS]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]



This will make the magic studying mechanic, alchemy, familiars, among other things available in fortress mode, and allow spellbooks to appear in bags of junk in adventure mode. You can also paste that in the definitions of any modded entities you have. Even without doing that, the magic effects will be available to a clan of dwarvish wizards that will appear in your world and can be played as a fortress or adventurer. Their noble positions are different from the mountain dwarves but should be playable. Keep in mind that these changes don't take effect until you generate a new world.

IMPORTANT: There is also a "civ set" folder in the "vanilla entity and extra info" now containing new races and civs that already interact with this mod. You must move its contents out into the raw/objects folder for them to take effect just like the modified entity_default.txt file, otherwise the game won't read them. Or delete the folder entirely if you have no intention of using these.


Directions on how to get started in adventure mode:
You'll first want to find or make a slate. There is a reaction to produce one under the spellcrafts - items menu.
You will then want to make aether salts. There is a menu for these that includes many different reactions depending on what components you have available.
There is also a reaction to produce rough gems which are one of the common components in making aether salt.
Once you have both aether salts and a slate, you can perform the "study magic in general" reaction under the same category. This will consume the aether salts, not the slate, and has a fair chance to produce one or more of the essences of spells.
Eat the essences to gain their respective spells.
In the process of producing these essences though there is a much smaller chance of generating a "magic aura" which will vaporize instantly upon performing any action. If you're quick, you can throw these away from you and they will vaporize where they land. If not, there is a chance you will inhale their vapors and be afflicted by their syndromes. These should not be fatal, but they can be a nuissence. If you have high disease resistance, your chances of being affected are greatly reduced.
There is also a spell specifically for increasing your disease resistance attribute. This should help protect you further. If you search in piles of loot or warehouses you can also find an aether focuser, which is used to study aetherial magic, the first school available.
Other schools will exist and ritual items for them also must be acquired.

Fortress mode is much the same:
Your dwarves can produce a slate tool from any hard material such as stone or wood, and build a magician's studio
in the magicians studio you have access to more or less all the same reactions you do in adventure mode.
Only dwarves with the alchemy labor enabled will perform these reactions.
The essences produced can be stored in food stockpiles under the "plant cheese" category.
Essences dont rot, but can be eaten by vermin, so it is advised that whatever stockpile they're to be stored in is protected by at least one cat (or other vermin-hunting critter)
Any dwarves could end up eating your essences. If this is a problem, you can store them in a locked room and drop them onto the stockpile from above by dumping
them or something. Then only allow dwarves you want to be able to perform these spells in. The essence being a food item also allows you to control which essences dwarves are allowed to eat. You can forbid or dispose of any that you dont want dwarves consuming, for instance restricting any fire spells.

In fort mode you can make potions at the alchemy laboratory. Potions will require plant and inorganic components which you will have to source on your own. The implementation is fairly basic at the moment.
Dwarves get special runic traps made at the rune circle. These will perform very well against weak opponents like animals and goblins.

In either mode, you also have the choice to conjure items by using an aether salt component. These include basic materials and food products.

If you have questions, comments, or bugs to report, post in the bay12forums thread and I'll get back to you as soon as possible:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149426.0

The readme file has a little more information regarding these things, so check it out if you need help, or ask in this thread/PM me.

If there's anything else that needs to be said or done with the readme file, let me know.

[Eric Blank]

What you need to learn magic;

Fort mode:
You can teach your dwarves magic in the magician's studio by providing them with an inscribed slate, made of any valid building material, and aether salts, produced from various sources. inscribed slates can be purchased from your caravan, as they are tools, or made on-site at craftsdwarves workshops or forges.
Dwarves can also learn magic from wizard creatures, which might show up as visitors, or being "blessed" by the gods if they desecrate a temple, making them a wizard. (but they could turn into a pig or werebeast or vampire instead...). Secrets can also be written down in books and slabs, and an adventurer could collect these and bring them to the fortress.

Adventure mode:
As an adventurer you have access to all the same avenues of learning as in fort mode. There are reactions available to learn magic and produce aether salts (from all the same sources as in fort mode). Inscribed slates can be made from wood or stone. Towers can hold slabs and books, but to build the tower the mages need a zombie workforce, and not all secrets include interactions to raise the dead. The slabs other mages learn from can be found in sites listed in legends mode, but it's still very difficult to actually locate these. Good places to look include mead halls and artifact halls in dwarven fortresses
You can also find wizards or people "blessed" as wizards for desecrating a temple. Stand around them and they will cast spells that create clouds of vapor, which if your character breathes them in will give you access to spells. This could take a while, however. You could also attack the wizard and drink their blood, making you a wizard and allowing you to teach yourself these spells, but starting a fight and benefitting from it of course implies not losing the fight.

Magic Schools ("mundane" mortal magic):

(currently implemented)
Generic: A collection of simplified spells that would fit into one of the other schools
Aetherial: Mysteries of magic itself, warping the very fabric of reality and summoning beings of pure magic
Hyazith: the mastery of fire and ice
Polybestia: the power to shapeshift into various creatures, and to transform your enemies to disrupt them
Medisephos: Holy magic of healing and protection.
Dementia: evil magic, including spells to paralyze and torture enemies with intense pain. Can also raise the dead and become werebeasts.

(planned)
Storms and Earth elements: lightning, wind, stone and stuff
Shamanism: ancient powers to bless or harm others
Dwarves: mastery of the underground and aspects of dwarven life
Elves: devotion to and reliance on nature and one's bodily needs
Illusion: Affecting the senses of others and planting ideas in their heads.


Summoning and worship:
Can sacrifice, gift or trade with the gods or otherworldly beings to summon useful items or magic powers
Or die horribly, it depends...

Secrets: various gods may gift mortals with immense powers, detailed on legendary slabs and passed down through teaching and literature.

[Eric Blank]

Bestiary and Feature Summary
This post contain some small summaries on important features.

A Bestiary can be found here:
Bestiary
And also contained in the "Vanilla entities and extra info" folder

Plants:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Balm Leaf: Used for its valuable healing properties and to repel disease. Also makes comfortable clothing.
Water Bulb: Common around pools, known for granting temporary water-breathing to those that consume it
Sleeproot: dangerous plant that can be refined into dream ale, used to put people into a coma that can last years. Don't let your dwarves have any.
Lovers' Barb: Consumption can create intense feelings of arousal and attraction to others. Useful for restoring fertility to those afflicted by curses.
Soul Melon: Found rarely in deserts, Consuming a soul melon grants temporary increases in all physical attributes, excluding healing and resisting disease. Cannot be cultivated in farms.
Milkbulb: Useful in bringing out magical properties in other substances exposed to its "milk." Also makes a sweet and creamy liqueur.
Death Rose: Extremely toxic plant that can be used to make equally dangerous alcoholic beverages that taste just like honeybee mead. Used by assassins everywhere.
Panther Thistle: Raw leaves can be eaten to cause spontaneous transformations into various creatures. Can be brewed into a cocktail that prevents transformations and other diseases.
Ash Bloom: Found only in the deepest caverns, raw ash bloom can cause extremely painful blistering and bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. Also rumored to have useful alchemical properties.

Tools
Needed for the various reactions in the mod. Most can be made at forges or craftsman's workshops, or magicians studios. Can also be traded for, may be made by adventurers or found on people in adventure mode. Some however cannot be gained by normal means

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Inscribed slates: used in most reactions to learn magic.
Aether Focuser: a magical tool which helps direct and control magic that hasn't been bound to any earthly material or sphere of effects. Used in Aetherial School reactions.
Athames: daggers used in incantations for some schools. Should bear the name of the appropriate magical school to which they belong.
Amulet of Medisephos: divine symbol of an ancient, dead god of healing, whose power can still be borrowed. Necessary for all Medisephos magic reactions.
Bestiary: a written guidebook of worldly beasts including details necessary to transform into them. Used in Polybeastial reactions.
Tome of Planes: Can only be obtained by exchanging aether salts at a conjuring circle. Currently only affects one summoning reaction. Includes "addresses" for summoning otherworldly beings.

Materials
Some of the things produced by or found in he world.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aether Salts: necessary for magicians to infuse essences or perform various work requiring magical energy. Can be made at the magicians studios by combining almost any two distinctly different materials.
Aether Residue: leftover material from magical reactions. Can be useful in some respects, can also attempt to recharge into aether salts.
Magic Auras: sometimes created by most any magical operations. Effects can be totally benign, or imminently fatal. Familiars will have spells to mitigate these effects for their masters.
Aetherium; the physical manifestation of magical energy. Taking many forms from somewhat similar to flesh or wood, stony, metallic or fluid. Can't normally be manufactured. Achwurms are often made of or directly incorporate these substances.

Enchanted materials:
Enchanted iron: iron imbued with magic, not quite as good as steel but the bane of many magical creatures.

[GM-X]

Your fortress magic system idea is fantastic. If you have no objections, I would like to add your buildings into Dark Ages. I've been tinkering around with various arcane buildings, but yours are basically ideal.

[Eric Blank]

I suppose that's cool, yeah.

[StagnantSoul]

One idea I had in trying to make a magic mod is creating and shooting solid items. In the end, I learned breath attacks that use solid items just cause them to fall to the ground. Though, you could use this for making items like ice swords and stuff, for fighting.

[DukeGod]

So, I got myself a Dorf to learn magic, and he did it. This is in Fortress Mode

How do I USE his magic now?

[GM-X]

I suppose that's cool, yeah.

Thank you. I haven't looked at your raws yet. Generally, I elaborate and collate portions of other mods that fit a horror fantasy theme.

Your name will get added to the lore page, once released.

So, I got myself a Dorf to learn magic, and he did it. This is in Fortress Mode

How do I USE his magic now?

That is the tricky part in Fortress mode. 

[Eric Blank]

It depends on what spells he learned, and it is technically possible that he didn't actually pick up any spell from the vapors, although unlikely.

If it was an offensive spell, he will cast it on enemies, if it's a spell that is activated upon fleeing, like animal transformations, he won't use it until he's running away from a combat situation. If it was a passive healing/buff spell, he'll probably cast it whenever there's another dorf in range. Basically, it depends on the [CDI:USAGE_HINT:x] token, which makes it a matter of putting your dorf in the proper situation to use that spell. If you train up some battlemages and put them in a crossbow squad, that'd be an effective use in fort mode. No way to tell them what to study yet, though.

The reformation spells in particular can be a pain in the ass at times; dwarves that know them will go around turning all their fellow fort members into cocoon-creatures. If a dorf learns those spells, I'd suggest making them a doctor and confining them to the hospital via a burrow, where they will regularly check up on patients and transform them, which results in instant recovery once transformed back.

One idea I had in trying to make a magic mod is creating and shooting solid items. In the end, I learned breath attacks that use solid items just cause them to fall to the ground. Though, you could use this for making items like ice swords and stuff, for fighting.

I actually experimented with that. End result is that item clouds will precipitate great lakes of items on the ground as a big colorful mess. In adventure mode, the adventurer can grab as many thousands of duplicates of that item as they want, but in either mode NPCs will ignore them, except, potentially, to clean up the puddles of swords in fort mode. I'm really hoping Toady does something with that effect such as causing it to actually launch the physical items violently.

I ended up going with the food/drink/materials conjuring you can access now in adventure mode, and I planned to allow that from the magic buildings in fort mode.


Quick question in that regard; how do you guys feel about a possibility of failure on conjuring attempts in either mode?

[Ianflow]

I know I am necro-ing, but honestly this is a nice mod. I am all for there being conjuration failures, but I want to ask if the alchemy skill has been incorporated in some part to this mod, and if there are plans for a workshop that allows the choice of research?
The concept could happily work in line with the next version : D

[Eric Blank]

Mod has been updated to 43.05. Lots of changes, too.

To answer your questions Ianflow, I've been thinking about including alchemy for a long time and never actually done anything with it. The workshops will permit choice of research in the future or a general option, too. I'm just lazy and haven't gotten that far yet.
I've also been wanting to move away from using the inorganic syndromes and to actual secrets and knowledge that can be written down and learned in a library. I haven't succeeded in tricking the game into doing that. People don't seem to write down secrets except if they have a necromancer tower, which never leave the tower unless an adventurer gets ahold of them and always implies the secret requiring the ability to raise the dead, among other problems. That might turn out to be a pipe dream, but a lot of secrets have been moved over to the no-zombies model already. I've found one slab stored in a dwarven library, once. And plenty of folks who have learned their secrets from a slab, but the slab was stored in a hamlet or something and I've never been able to find those ones. Not in houses, the mead halls, etc. I've occasionally found books lying on the ground out in the middle of the fields, so I figure that's what's happening to books and slabs stored in hamlets or hillocks.

[Rumrusher]

so are you going to add toppling a statue to get attention of a god and having to roll the wheel on what syndrome class the god going to gift you with? maybe have this stack repeatedly for hilarious results and call them god perks.

[Sorgklaan]

Awesome looking mod, surprised the thread isn't bigger.

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, the thread is kinda sparse. I literally didn't update for like a year.

so are you going to add toppling a statue to get attention of a god and having to roll the wheel on what syndrome class the god going to gift you with? maybe have this stack repeatedly for hilarious results and call them god perks.

You know, it is tempting to just let you get cursed with all the deity curses, but werecurses at the very least end up being mutually exclusive simply because you can't transform into multiple things at the same time, and the faun (mythological goat-person) and pig curses have you transforming into, well, a faun or a pig. Permanently. Being a pig would kinda put a damper on what you can do. Like opening doors, or talking. I'm not sure how the vampire curses would interact either.

I did want to add a few more curses, but I haven't come up with many. If anyone has suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.

Already lined up for next update: Wereserpents, a food-sphere secret that turns you into a dumb animal that falls apart at the seams (without being fatal, mind) and be butchered and eaten (as well as adding NO_EAT somewhere in there), more to do with "blessed" wizards that can "teach" you the syndrome-based spells, and a fort mode magic study update.


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4.01 Update released. Caught a bug with wizards teaching spells, and added evil sorcerers (who won't teach spells). Food interaction/critter and wereserpent included. Magic studying in both fort and adventure mode updated. There's also the testing reaction you can do in adventure mode to make you a real wizard, real fast, just to play with things without having to obtain a spellbook and aether salts.

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PTW