Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Eric Blank]

Spellcrafts Version 1.00.0 for Steam and Classic release.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Currently supports learning from secrets through books, slabs.
More mundane spells can be learned by eating "essences." These count as a vermin/fish type creature, and only dead ones can be eaten.
Also includes werebeasts, vampires, night trolls, bogeymen, nightmares, undead, weird monsters, megabeasts etc etc etc

You will no longer need to write-in the reactions to the vanilla entity files.


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 her 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 into your dwarf fortress/mods and generate a new world with spellcrafts added to the load order.

If you want to add the reactions to an entity, you will need to add these lines to entity_spellcrafts_default

[SELECT_ENTITY:xxxxx] < your entity's ID
   -No more alchemy skill
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_ALCHEMY_LAB]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RECUPERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RESIST_DISEASE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_REGENERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_STONE_PRODUCTS_SALT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_STONE_PRODUCTS_RESIDUE]
   [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_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_BOULDER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_LOG]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_BAR]
   
   [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]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_AETHER_FOCUS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_MEDISEPHOS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_HYAZITH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_DEMENTED]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_KINEROCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_POLYBESTIAS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_RUNESTONES]

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

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

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

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

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

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_ATHAME_KINEROCH]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_KINEROCH]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_KINEROCH_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_FREE]
   [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_CORPSEPIECE_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_CORPSEPIECE_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_CREATURES_DEMON]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_PETS_ONLY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_FAMILIAR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_PEON]
   [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_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_ROCK]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BLOCKS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_GEM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LOG]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BARS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_AXE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SPEAR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SWORD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HAMMER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MACE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW_BOLTS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SHIELD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HELM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BREASTPLATE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MAILSHIRT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LEGGINGS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HIGH_BOOTS]

   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_FAMILIAR_MAMMALS]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:RECUPERATION]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:RESIST_DISEASE]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:REGENERATION]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]

[SELECT_ENTITY:PLAINS]
   -No more alchemy skill
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:SPELL_ALCHEMY_LAB]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RECUPERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_RESIST_DISEASE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_POTION_REGENERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_STONE_PRODUCTS_SALT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_STONE_PRODUCTS_RESIDUE]
   [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_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_BOULDER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_LOG]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_ALCHEMY_QUIESCENCE_BAR]
   
   [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]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_AETHER_FOCUS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_MEDISEPHOS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_HYAZITH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_DEMENTED]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_KINEROCH]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_POLYBESTIAS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_TOOL_RUNESTONES]

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

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

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

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

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

   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_ATHAME_KINEROCH]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_ESSENCE_KINEROCH]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_LEARN_MAGIC_KINEROCH_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_FREE]
   [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_CORPSEPIECE_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_CORPSEPIECE_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_CREATURES_DEMON]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_PETS_ONLY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_FAMILIAR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CONJURE_PEON]
   [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_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_ROCK]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BLOCKS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_GEM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LOG]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BARS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_AXE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SPEAR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SWORD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HAMMER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MACE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_CROSSBOW_BOLTS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_SHIELD]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HELM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_BREASTPLATE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_MAILSHIRT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_LEGGINGS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:SPELL_CREATE_AETHER_HIGH_BOOTS]

   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_FAMILIAR_MAMMALS]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:RECUPERATION]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:RESIST_DISEASE]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]
   [ANIMAL]
      [ANIMAL_TOKEN:SPELL_POTION_CREATURE]
      [ANIMAL_CASTE_TOKEN:REGENERATION]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PET]
      [ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT]

And then load spellcrafts after your mod when creating a new world.


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.


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

A legacy version for DF version 47.05 is available here;
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=6378

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



What you need to learn magic;

Fort mode buildings and reactions:
______________________________________________________________________________________________

Your dwarves will use spells they know in combat or other situations they encounter which the AI considers appropriate for that spell.

Firstly, most sapient races can have "natural" magic, spells they "know from birth." These are simulated by an interaction they'll undertake themselves upon entering the map. This includes invaders. Familiars can trigger this interaction in races that dont have them (the various animal peoples or modded races) but races added by this mod and vanilla races can do so themselves. These powers are not all particularly useful or powerful, and many are race-specific. But not every dwarf will acquire any "natural" magic, and some may acquire multiple spells.

You can teach your dwarves further 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.
Special tools are necessary to produce essences of the specialized spheres. These can be made in craftsdwarvs shops and forges as well.
The Conjuring Circle enables one to summon creatures and items. It can be built using ashes. Aether salts will be necessary. To summon many creatures a Tome of the Planes will be necessary, which can be obtained, rarely, from exchanging aether salts.
The Alchemy Lab can be used to create potions. Special alchemical ingredients, namely plants, will be necessary, the most commonly needed being milk bulbs.
The Enchanting Table can be used to create magic items and bronze golems, which require a full suit of bronze armor.
The Holy Altar can be used to pray to the gods for special favor.
The Runic Circle doesn't do anything productive yet...

-Aether Salts are the most important magical reagent, and can be made at the magician's studio. They can be generated freely, but slowly over time or made by combining various materials.
-Aether Residues: Salts can be exchanged for "residues," also a byproduct of many reactions, which are necessary for some further reactions.
-Essences are the products of magic learning reactions (the game won't let me write books yet, so its complicated). Eating an essence gives a creature the spell associated with that essence. Each school of magic offers multiple spells which come from different essences.
-Potions, like essences, are consumable food items. However, their effects are only temporary. Many reactions to summon creatures will produce a potion, which can then be eaten. The dwarf that consumed it can then summon the creature associated with it.

Dwarves can also learn magic by being "blessed" by the gods if they desecrate a temple. 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. Writing secrets into codices is extremely rare/may never happen at the moment, due to a bug.


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.
Kineroch: Storms, thunder and lightning, wind, and telekinesis.

(planned)
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, creatures, or magic powers.

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

[Eric Blank]

Non-Creature Feature list
This post contain some small summaries on important features.

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.
Studded Leather: a reinforced form of leather made from leather and bone, producing clothing and armor that can take additional punishment. It is not a replacement for proper metal armor.

Metallic materials:
-Metallic Aether is a metal that can be conjured at the conjuring circle. It is significantly weaker than bronze, but is virtually free and always available.
-Flint is a stone some civs use, roughly equivalent to obsidian.
-Carved bone is another primitive material available to some civs, made from bones and roughly equivalent to bone, if bone were treated as a metal
-Reinforced bone is a slightly reinforced form of carved bone, with a slight edge over copper.
-Lunar Glass is a material produced from raw glass and base metals or their ores like zinc, tin or nickel. It is very close to bronze, but is slightly heavier and makes good blunt weapon material.
-Prismite Glass is produced from raw glass and aether salts, and is slightly superior to bronze, weaker than iron. It produces extremely sharp edges.
-Enchanted Iron is produced from iron and aether salts, and is a slight improvement over iron. Many supernatural creatures are explicitly weak to this material.
- Gilded Steel is a heavier form of steel produced by combining steel and gold. It is especially fit for use in bludgeoning weapons. Many supernatural creatures, especially undead, are weak to this material.
-Mithril is produced from steel and adamantine. It is superior to steel, and slightly lighter.

[Eric Blank]

Bestiary/list of creatures

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bestiary

-@-Playable Races-@-

Komeng
The komeng is an intelligent elemental creature, in the shape of a humanoid. They inhabit forest retreats in shurblands and savannas and are usually agreeable in disposition. Its core/bones are composed of hematite, its muscles of tough wood, and its skin of bark. Its torso, limbs and head are additionally protected by ceramic plates, and these plates bear tattoos. Its face mask is also usually shaped like the head of some sort of animal.
Komeng are immune to most forms of illness, pain, cannot suffocate, are immortal, and are the size of a human (70,000cc) They can have strange moods and produce artifacts. They cannot learn any form of magic, and are also weak to most direct physical assaults with magical materials.

Paklara
Paklara are peaceful intelligent bird with wings twisted to form arms, appearing in saltwater wetlands and spreading along coasts. They cannot fly, but are excellent swimmers. They quickly learn to use bows, daggers and swords for defense, and tend to prefer fishing and woodworking as crafts. Paklara are the result of an ancient vutchnell wizard's experiment on shore birds, and they do not possess a soul, and cannot be ressurected once killed. They also cannot perform magic, but have no particular weaknesses to it either. They are smaller than a dwarf (50,000cc), and live for anywhere between 50 and 100 years.

Carp Man
The carp men are a race of carp with humanoid limbs, and are typically found in swamps. Carp men come in many castes, each of which fulfill specific roles in society, including nobles (leadership and charisma), magi (scholarship, magic and healthcare), warriors (killing things), beastmasters (animal work), foresters (farming and woodsmanship), makers (crafting), firewalkers (metalsmithing) and peasants, who primarily perform unskilled labor. Carp men are very small (20,000cc) and do not live more than 40 years. They typically form small tribes in caves.

Vutchnell
Vutchnell are a mongoose-person race occuring in tropical forests. Vutchnell society is ancient and typically very pious, worshipping deities of pregnancy or birth to give them healthy children. They divide themselves into three castes depending on general health and attributes, with high vutchnell being very healthy and fit, low vutchnell being weak and sickly, and the average person falling somewhere in-between. Members of the high caste are traditionally the only ones permitted to take on leadership positions, and members of the low caste are often slaves or exiles. They are the size of humans (70,000cc) and are typically very tall and thin. Vutchnell are long-lived; the average vutchnell can expect to live to be 150, and the high-born to live to be at least 180, although low-born may die as young as 70. They are technologically as advanced as the dwarves, and are renowned for creating many important artifacts, but typically live agrarian lifestyles in small villages. They will send trade liaisons to negotiate trade agreements, and offer many wild beasts to trade.

Gnolls
Gnolls are hyena-like humanoids born in tropical savannas, renowned and reviled for their savagery and ferocity. Females are as large as humans (70,000cc), while males are the size of dwarves (60,000cc), and live for roughly 60-75 years. Gnolls are incapable of learning magic, but are also immune to many magical effects. They are generally quite fast, strong, and durable. They typically form small tribes in caves.

High Elves
A rare culture of elves that revere not nature, but magic and power. High elves typically live in the mountains, and are extremely tall, making them slightly larger than humans on average (71,000cc). High elves are immortal.

Blood Elves
Blood elves are another rare variety of elf typically found in caves or mountain halls. Blood elves have a nasty, bloodthirsty, depraved personality, and innate neromantic powers. They are, in fact, undead, or at least not entirely alive. They're somewhat larger than dwarves, but smaller than humans (65,000cc)

Orks
Orks are a large humanoid (75,000cc) renowned for their physical prowess, found in the empty deserts. They are often mistaken for goblin-kin or simply extremely large goblins, but are mortal, living for around 100-120 years. Orks regard warfare as an honorable and necessary activity to establish a society's place in the world.

Ice Giants
Ice giants are massive (5000000cc), fur-covered humans at home in the tundras, glaciers and taigas. Ice giants raise giant mammoths as their chief domestic animal, as most other creatures are simply not capable of meeting their needs. They are completely immune to the effects of the cold weather of their homelands, and their blood in fact never freezes. Ice giants can live to be 450 years old.

Dryad
Dryads are another elemental race, composed of meat, wood and fungi. Some are humanoid, and others are humanoid from only the waist up, with their lower bodies and legs replaced by the body of a deer. Dryads are immortal, weak to magical materials, resistant to silver, and are also possessed of powerful magics of their own.

Wizards
Some people are born with innate magical abilities, and a fabled race of pure-blooded wizards was thought to exist, often rumored to inhabit deserts, mangrove swamps, tundras or glaciers, rarely spending time in civilizaed societies and instead wandering the wilds because their needs are wholly fulfilled by their magical natures.

Fauns
People who have been cursed to take on a hideous half-goat appearance, fauns typically live alone in woodlands, and when the gods curse someone new to become one, they are often exiled as well. Fauns are quite small (45,000cc) and thus tend to live only in benign, good forests with few threats.


-@-Companions to the Wizard-@-

Essences
Essences are a sort of magical pseudo-entity, baring some of the elements of living things and in an active, "alive" state are best kept in cages. Essences are produced from magical processes or environments, and possess the basic elements necessary to cast spells once consumed, depending on the magics that produced them.

Familiars
Familiars are an animal with a second soul, granting them intelligence. They can cast many spells themselves, including to heal, protect or attack enemies. Familiars also can help one unlock their own innate abilities, if any. Familiars are immortal.

Peons
Entities that appear as physically normal humans, peons lack a soul, will, or personal interests. Peons can be used as laborers, guardians, or companions. Peons do not require food, drink or sleep. They develop combat skills quickly, but learn most other skills at less than half the normal rate. Peons are immortal.

Master Chefs
Beings devoted to the culinary arts, master chefs resemble squat humanoids with the head of a boar. They are a gift from a deity of food and agriculture, to teach mortals the proper ways to prepare food, instead of eating charred meat like barbarians.

Feedlings
Another gift from the gods, feedlings provide the most perfect, most succulent meat, milk and cheese.

Golem
Golems are an automation, controlled by animal souls, used to guard over wizards' possessions and homes. They are originally a creation of the dwarves, traditionally being made of bronze and armed with a sword and crossbow. The single vulnerability of golems is the gem which contains the soul, deep in the automation's chest, but which must be exposed in order to drain power from its environment. Successfully destroying this would "kill" the golem, but a less skilled warrior could still theoretically hack it to pieces.

Enchanted Basins
While not traditionally thought of as being alive in any sense, basins nonetheless have semi-conscious soul enchantments in order to function, casting spells on those nearby. Many variations exist for various purposes, whether to clean contaminants off of passers-by, heal them, or slay intruders.

Potions
Don't be confused. The potions aren't alive and they aren't laughing at you. You don't need to keep them in a cage, just drink the damn thing.


-@-Megabeasts-@-

Monstrous Serpent
A beast resembling an enormous snake with a human torso where the head should be, monstrous serpents are deadly adversaries in combat. Their venom causes fatal paralysis, but they are intelligent and often keep weapons with them.

Spider Queen
Another half-humanoid monster, the spider queen represents a gigantic spider four times the size of an elephant, with the torso of a maiden coming from the cephalothorax above the spider's mouth. The spider queen possesses venom that causes paralysis, which some races can endure and survive, but the real threat comes in the form of their ability to spray webbing from the tip of the abdomen, and in their innate necromantic powers, allowing them to raise the dead and simultaneously transform them into miniature versions of the spider queen, to act as her servants and guardians. These servants can also spray webs and deliver venom, making spider queens extremely dangerous.

Master Sorceror
Not all who pursue great power can wield it without going mad. Sorcerors who are born with the most powerful magics often feel compelled to dominate others, and are especially dangerous. Master sorcerors are indeed masters of their craft, and can be masters of entire civilizations if they can convince them of their divine provinence. It is said one could acquire their powers if one were to drink their blood.

Primeval Vampires
Another threat to civilization at large, the primeval vampire is one ancient and powerful, often taking charge of civilizations and leading them to their doom for the beast's own sustenance. Primeval vampires possess great power, which can be stolen by consuming their blood.

Fear Liath
A giant humanoid with the power to warp the minds of those around it, instilling them with a sense of impossible dread and terror. These monsters are so terrifying in this way that most mortals cannot approach them without being driven away or frozen in fear, and promptly stomped into paste.

Tree of Death
This monster in the shape of a plant kills its prey not only with razor-sharp thorns on its many slashing limbs, but also the venom contained in those thorns, which can cause further bleeding, necrosis, swelling, fevers, extreme pain and partial paralysis. The shear enormity of the thing makes it a herculean task to kill one without the use of fire, which the thing will slither through as if unaware.

Chimeras
Taking many different forms and having many different abilities, chimeras are dangerous in a myriad of ways, from often having multiple heads, redundant organs, magical abilities, poisons and venoms, or simply being enormous, with sharp claws or teeth.

Element worm
These freakish monsters from another reality escaped mages of old and made their home in our world. Each of their six tails threatens death by a different element.


-@--@-Night Creatures-@--@-

-@-Night Trolls-@-

Dusk Troll/Witch
The dusk troll is a huge, hideous humanoid of great strength and endurance, which carries away maidens into the night and transforms them into dusk witches, who possess some magical powers, casting wooden thorns and plant-killing toxins.

Gorophile
Gorophiles are a reptilian humanoid infatuated with rotten meat, covering their spiny scales in bits of it. They kill and carry away unwary travelers to add to their flesh piles in their dens, and females will bury men in these piles to create a husband for themselves. Gorophiles don't have magical powers, but are large and powerful close-quarters fighters.

Redcap
A vicious fae creature in the shape of a small humanoid, redcaps die their scalp red with the blood of their victims, and use an illusion to trick women into believing they are a handsome and strong prince, before feeding them to fae wives summoned from the aether.

Sandman
The terrifying visage of the sandman, one which is almost human but clearly without real eyes, any nose, and having a lipless mouth full of teeth made of shards of glass, is the last thing some children see before they are carried off into the night, and trapped in never-ending nightmares from which the only escape is death, while possessed by an evil spirit the sandman consorts with. The sandman itself is of course made of sand, but covered in human skin taken from a child, stretched too thin by the bulk within. The sandman can spray one with its sand to instantly trap them within a dreamlike state, and inky black gas that oozes from its wounds has the same effect.

Incubus/Succubus
Incubi and succubi, male and female forms respectively, are demonic entities that inhabit the mortal world, taking slaves and concubines wherever they may be found. These demons are deadly adversaries in close combat, not least because of their attempts to distract with seduction.


-@-Vampires-@-

Nosferatu
A humanoid being that violently attacks victims to suck their blood. Being bitten by one will result in permanent transformation into one.

Vampire bat
Vampire bats are large, dangerous winged beast which sucks the blood from its victims.

Vampire Seducer/Seductress
These humanoid monsters kidnap people to make into their thralls and spouses, as well as draining the blood from other victims. They possess some magical abilities as well. Drinking their blood can cause simple vampirism.


-@-Werebeasts-@-

Werewolves
A large humanoid wolf-like monster. They can be found naturally in savage temperate or freezing forests and shrublands. Being bitten by one can cause a victim to transform into one upon the full moon.

Wereserpent
A gigantic serpent found naturally in any temperate or tropical, savage and evil environment. Being bitten by one can cause a victim to transform into one upon the full moon.

Weresalamaner
A large bipedal salamander. They occur both underground in wet regions and aboveground in savage swamps. Being bitten by one can cause a victim to transform into one upon the full moon.

Weresnail
A huge snail found in savage and evil wetlands and lake and ocean shores. Its shell is made of iron and it is covered in iron scales, and its radula can slice through metal. Being rasped by its radula can cause a victim to transform into one upon the full moon.


-@-Bogeymen and Nightmares-@-

Madman
A human driven totally insane by the evil night, taking their frustrations out on other wanderers.

Seductress
A monster in the shape of a beautiful women that attempts to seduce wanderers, only to murder them.

Lurking Horror
A humanoid creature which attacks and eats people lost in the darkness

Lo
Partially-incorporeal entities which appear as orbs or humanoids of absolute darkness, absorbing all light that would otherwise pass through the space they occupy. Loes devour the minds of lost souls. They are commonly found in caverns and evil lands

Witchlight
The witchlight is a brilliantly glowing orb of aetherial vapors, a remnant of a deceased soul that now devours the blood and soul of the living, leaving a desicated husk. They often inhabit caverns and evil wetlands


-@-Demons-@-

Fire Demon
A huge, powerful demon with control over the elements of fire and lava. Extremely dangerous.

Tentacle Demon
Evil monsters released from the underworld to torment the living. They have the power of telekinesis, hurling stones at targets, as well as debilitating venom they can both spray and inject with a stinger on their tail

Demon Warrior/Witch
These deadly entities defend or assault the interests of more powerful demons and represent warfare and destruction. All the males are trained to perfection in the martial arts, and all the females possess terrible magical abilities.

Spirit of Fire
Although relatively weak in terms of demonic entities, the spirit of fire is a deadly foe capable of spreading endless fiery destruction, and possessing a deadly intelligence of its own.


-@-Angels/Divine avatars-@-

Divine Wind
An elemental of reasonable power, the divine wind carries messages from the gods to mortals, or deals out their wrath

Angelic Healer
These angels are sent from a deity to protect and heal. They usually appear as androgenous humanoids with bald heads and eyes without iris or pupil

Angelic Warrior
Angelic Warriors are beings of war and destruction, either guarding divine interests or slaughtering unbelievers.

Adamantine Sentinel
The fearsome and nigh-unstoppable adamantine sentinel is often a direct avatar of a deity, representing their interests in the mortal world.


-@-Achwurms-@-
- Achwurms are elemental sprites, entities consisting entirely of magic, created by magic, and occasionally incorporating elements of their surrounding environment including living tissue.
    Achwurms are spontaneously generated in nature where large amounts of magical energies build up, and can be created intentionally or accidentally by mages or natural events.
    Their appearance can be completely random, from an unthinkable horror to a fairly normal looking animal or plant, or entirely invisible to the naked eye.
    All achwurms are weak to and feed on magic, whether in the environment or that of living creatures.
    They can be incredibly dangerous and unpredictable. Some possess human-level or greater intelligence and some being totally mindless, like a vegetable.
   They differ from elementals and natural sprites in that they are not guardians or manifestations of an elemental force, even those incorporated into their structure. They are more like a random monster.

Abomination
A hideous humanoid monster composed mostly of aetherium. Abominations are always crazed, mindlessly attacking everything around them.

Whisper Light
A tiny mote of light that can be attributed to magical mishaps. Whisper lights will steal magic from people and objects around them. One of the most common manifestations of animate magics.

Phantom
An apparition of magical creation, mostly attacking the living around it.

Storm Achwurms
An achwurm incorporating features of lightning and storms in general into its being. Dangerous and will attack with lightning and metallic nails on its fingertips


-@-Undead-@-

Spirit Wisp
Dead souls may be returned to the mortal world as a spirit wisp. In the form of a wisp, a soul can speak to the living, but is quite vulnerable despite being able to drain life from attackers and launch spheres of ice/.

Ghouls
Reanimated corpses oozing toxic pus, these monsters seek only the flesh of the living

Rotten Corpse
Simple-minded zombies summoned by necromancers or found wandering evil regions.

Skeleton
Animated bones of long-dead humanoids. Necromancers may summon them, and they wander evil regions.

Specter
Mostly-incorporeal, usually thought to be simply an animate image or memory of a soul that experienced trauma before passing on.

Enchanted armor
An undead manifestation of a dwarven warrior, armed and armored in steel. Only its throat is especially vulnerable, though it may also yield to magical materials.


-@-Those Cursed-@-

Fauns
Once again, fauns are the result of a magical curse.

Wildman
In contrast to the madman, the wildman is one who maintains most of their intellect and sanity, but is consumed by cannibalistic lust for flesh, attacking and eating vulnerable travellers.

Evil Witch
People who acquired great power, but terrible, wicked cruelty and cannibalism, going mad with power. Such witches have various powers at their disposal to harm those around them.


-@-Elementals-@-

Water Man
This elemental resembles a human torso upon a snake, but is entirely composed of a thin layer of skin surrounding a mass of animate water. They will hurl spheres of ice in self defense.

Air Man
A humanoid composed of spinning vortices of wind and debris. Air men cast powerful air bursts to force attackers back.

Greater Fire Imp
A larger and deadlier version of the common fire imp. It sprays jets of fire as well as fire balls, and even launches globs of molten or solid gabbro.

Ice Imp
Tiny, evil manifestations of freezing cold, ice imps are the antithesis of fire imps, hurling spikes of ice and deadly-cold liquid.

Greater Ice Imp
The greater ice imp is the size of a man, and more powerful than its tiny brethren. They additionally spray freezing liquid as a vaporous mist that condenses on the unwary, freezing them to death.

Air Beasts
A hound-shaped monster composed of deadly spinning vortices. Their teeth and claws are magically enhanced. and they can hurl blasts of dense air at opponents


-@-Misc. Beasts-@-

Unnatural Child
A fae entity with a childlike personality. These beings are definitely not human, and probably not even really children. People with divine powers in the sphere of birth may give birth to these things.

Void Squid
These squid-like entities are native to another realm of reality. They can fly and spit toxic pus and fluids. Their blood also hosts disease-causing agents. They are quite intelligent and may not be initially hostile.

Reformation Coccoon
This mass of flesh is used by healers to repair wounds their other spells may not have been effective against. While in this state, the subject is immobilized and unable to defend themselves.

Diseased Vermin
These rat-like creatures spread diseases and plagues across the land. They are found in evil lands and are not of the living, nor the dead.

Spider Llama
A creation by curious mages, the spider llama grows hair that is best described as being like spider silk. This hair is shed regularly even if the creature is not shorn and can be collected in nest boxes. They also spray sticky webbings from their mouths.


-@-Wild Things-@-

Mushroom Man
These large humanoids inhabit swamplands and are composed entirely of fungi, and have a large mushroom cap upon their head. They are quite intelligent, but prefer to live in family groups in the wilderness.

Ent
The ent is a mobile, intelligent tree taking a humanoid form. They are fairly tough adversaries in hand to hand combat.

Walking Ginkgo
Gargantuan roaming ginkgo trees. They appear devoid of real thought or emotion, but can somehow sense the world around them and the intentions of other creatures. If tamed, these behemoths provide a source of wood. They die if left underground for too long.

Tanglethorn bush
Violent and aggressive, these mobile carnivorous bushes attack with deadly thorns any animal they can find, absorbing nutrients from the corpse once they implant their roots into it.

Giant Magical Octopus
These highly intelligent and massive sea creatures can survive on land for a time. They primarily hunt sea creatures such as giant crabs and clams, but may find easy prey in weak humanoids. They can hurl spikes of ice as well as launch underwater foes with extreme force.

Stormscale
A huge somewhat-bipedal reptile, these beasts can attack with lightning, and their scales are made of solid bronze.

Cheese Creatures
These bizarre creatures are composed entirely of cheese, with waxy rinds and fur. They are mostly quite benign and inoffensive. They include humans, elephants, goats, turkeys, rabbits, toads, fish, foxes and monitor lizards.

Dust Rabbit
Dust rabbits are a species of hare which inhabits the caverns. They use their prickly fur as a defense mechanism, practically exploding in dust and irritating hairs when threatened.

Root Serpent
A large monster in the form of a long, gnarly root or vine, completely composed of wood with a thick, rough bark. Where a head would be is an open maw of sharp thorny teeth which inject a paralyzing and bloodletting venom.

Root Deer
A large quadruped composed of wood and fruity flesh, featuring tiny leaves for fur. Root deer does secrete a sweet nectar from their teats, which can be processed into fine alcohol, syrups or dried sugars, or simply consumed as-is.

Carrot Man
A tiny humanoid carrot, these creatures fear being eaten by most anything. They really are quite tasty.

Spider Vines
Aggressive predators in the form of a mass of vines that creeps along the forest floor like a spider. Although it has no venom, its powerful jaws and vines are perfect for grasping and strangling prey.

Cave Shark
Furry shark-shaped creatures found far underground around water. They are amphibious, being able to crawl through the muck with their fins. Those near them can be enchanted and thus no longer need to breathe.

Craven Creeper
The fearful, anxious craven creeper is a sapient humanoid mushroom, which uses its drowsiness-inducing spores to escape its many predators.

Rose Buddy
A small hedgehog-shaped creature with many bristly leaves in place of thorns. It lays eggs in the shape of rose buds.

Mini Dwarf
These extremely tiny dwarves can be kept in a hive and will produce bars of steel and coal, among other things.

Large Honey Bee
Large honey bees are the size of a small dog. Workers carry a nasty sting, and all are capable of inflicting bites. Such large honey bees often live with dryads who prize them for their honey, ability to be trained, and defensive nature, siccing them on the dryads' enemies.

Giant Honey Bee
Nearly horse-sized bees. Workers can sting and can also be milked for honey or venom (workers produce one or the other, not both)

[Viax]

Compatibility with myths V 5.0.8 version?

[Eric Blank]

If you mean Dark Ages: War and Mythos, probably not but I've never tried it. It claims to have changed a lot of vanilla content, and Spellcrafts relies on that vanilla content, at least as far as materials and tissues and inorganic goes. Use at your own risk.

[Eric Blank]

Update for V1.00.4 uploaded to both Steam and DFFD. Classic version doesnt have any graphics currently as I'm making sure not to use any Premium assets. I probably could have left the tools in, I'll get that fixed soon.

Got some bug fixes mostly, to reactions, interactions and materials. The reaction to turn plant creature bits into wood logs finally works, and mithril production produces four ingots of mithril from one adamantine and three steel, making it a means to multiply the usefulness of limited adamantine instead of an inferior alternative.

[baldamundo]

How are the basins supposed to work? I had a fireball basin and an icestorm basin assigned in pastures at my front entrance, and when the goblin siege came, they just sat there and got cut apart by the goblins without launching any spells or anything. Am I misunderstanding something about how they work?

[Eric Blank]

They're supposed to just attack any enemies in sight. I'll see if theres something in particular wrong with them.

[Eric Blank]

Updated the mod to version 1.00.6

June 28th - V1.00.6 Released. Updated mundane magic schools to use secrets system, some bug fixes, additional graphics sprites. Now uses palette-based equipment colors for armor and weapons.
Thanks to DPh Kraken for the example of palettized graphics.

[DPh Kraken]

Ahaha, glad to be of aid! Good to see this mod alive and kicking.

[ChaosPotato]

Can you please bring back the separate folders so I can use the actual magic system without the rest of the mod?

[Eric Blank]

I am actively working on that now, actually!

[Wafflelordling]

Just wanted to poke in and say this is rather awesome!

When I start my next Fortress world I will definitely be including this mod to cause chaos with. XD