JRH Magic

Copper and brick around a furnace. This is where reagents come from, and the only place they can be made. Put materials in the nine squares and take what forms in the vessel beside them.

Count items, not squares. If a recipe asks for two of something, two in one square works and so does one in each of two. Position never matters. Anything the recipe didn’t ask for stops it.

Eight reagents: Brimstone, Nitre, Gallowsroot, Quicksilver, Theriac, Henbane, Quintessence and Natron. Every recipe yields four, so one brew goes a long way — and brewing costs no experience, ever. Only inscribing does.

Paper and planks around an ink sac. The Desk turns reagents into scrolls, and it has three parts that refuse to accept each other’s work.

The ring — eight squares around the outside, reagents only. The four small squares below — the rare things: a Ghast Tear, a Rabbit’s Foot, an Eye of Ender. The ring won’t take them and they won’t take reagents. The centre — a Blank Scroll.

Both stations show their own recipe list beside them, so you can page through and see what a spell wants, where each piece goes, and whether you have it.

Witchlight is the cheapest thing in the mod: one Brimstone, one Quicksilver, a Blank Scroll in the centre, and experience level 3. It costs a single level to inscribe. Hold the scroll, use it, and a cold light settles on the block you’re facing for five minutes.

Casting has weight. First-circle spells leave your hand instantly. Deeper ones make you stand and channel, and taking damage mid-cast loses the words — though never the scroll. After any cast the working has to settle before the next one, for as long as the cast took.

Thirty-two blocks of conjured walkway, laid straight out in front of you over air or water. It steps over anything already in the way rather than stopping at it, so you can bridge a ravine with a tree growing out of the middle of it.

It fades after ninety seconds, and whatever is standing on it falls. Be across by then.

Five spells that only make sense together. Mark sets a sigil into any block within sixteen paces — a marked block goes as hard as obsidian, so nobody mines your waypoint out from under you. Recall carries you back to it. Transvection does the same across worlds.

Gate Travel opens a standing door where you are and another wherever you’re bound, and it carries whatever walks in — you, your horse, the creeper following your horse. Waygate opens the same pair and leaves them standing for half an hour.

Bound for good. Recall and Transvection scrolls start unbound; touch one to a marked block and it’s fixed there forever. It keeps working even if someone later breaks the mark, so a stock of bound scrolls runs down as you spend it rather than dying all at once.

Forty spells across eight circles, and the eighth is where the nether stars go. Empyrean Fall calls fire down across a landscape. Consecrated Ground and Sanctuary lay standing wards. Stasis holds what comes near.

Undying is the exception to every rule. Eighth circle, casts in half a second, and nothing can shake it loose — because it exists for the moment you are already being hit. Every other spell in the mod can be interrupted.