The official spiritual successor to Ars Magica 2, Mana and Artifice is a new take on adding magic to the world.
Craft and cast powerful spells
The familiar Shapes, Components, and Modifiers return, but with more of a focus on balance and stability.
While the mod currently limits spells to one shape, one component, and three modifiers, more complicated spells are a planned feature, and will be added soon!
Perform more powerful, long lasting magical effects through rituals
Rituals are a way to establish the much more powerful effects. They require a great deal of setup and preparation, but can cause some truly amazing things to happen!
Create portals allowing travel over long distances, controlling time and the weather, travelling to or summoning other players, or making powerful alliances.
A brand new way of enchanting
Go from firing clay plates to smelting things in an arcane furnace, hammering out the rune on a mystical anvil and infusing your own mana into it (along with a few required reagents) - the process truly feels magical and powerful.
Draw magical patterns right in the air
With the new Manaweaving mechanic, an array of powerful magical effects are right at your fingertips!
Using a special wand, you channel your own mana into drawn shapes right in the air in front of you, weaving together complex effects like summoning a grimoire (an ender-chest-like spellbook) or as a way to add magic into rituals.
As an accessibility option, or for those who simply don't care for the mechanic, there is also a block that can draw the patterns for you. Play how you want to play!
Make powerful friends, and enemies
Each faction has powerful benefits and drawbacks, making each playthrough feel unique and fresh.
Guided progression helps you know what to do next
Instead of having to research every single thing in the mod, you instead progress through tiers. These have logical requirements and tie in with natural progression through the game, so you progress just by playing!
Let the book guide you as well
Conveniently laid out pages and recipes show you exactly what you need to do and how to do it.
Create automation or your own personal army using Constructs
Constructs are a rewarding form of automation that lets you do amazing things - interact with blocks, sort items, refill furnaces, and more! Even the act of crafting them in the first pace is a work of magic.
They are completely modular.
Each construct is composed of five pieces: head, torso, legs, left arm, right arm. Each of those pieces gives it various capabilities, things like carrying items, attacking, water breathing, etc.
Each piece can be made from any one of six materials: Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, or Obsidian. You can mix and match too! The material composition changes things like the construct's overall movement speed, fire resistance, whether or not it can float, and more.
Lastly, when you finally craft your construct, you infuse each of the 8 crystals surrounding your workbench with an affinity. You do this by casting spells at them. The overall affinity can also change properties like giving physical resistance for earth affinity, move speed for air, and more. The Codex goes into detail on all of it so you don't need to spend time guessing. It also looks and feels very magical.
Between part types, materials, and affinity, there is a ton of possibility for creating the perfect construct for your situation! And, you can modify them at any time by commanding them to return to a workbench!
Once you have constructs, you can command them using a control rod for basic things (follow me, return to workbench, stay). If you want something more advanced, you can use a Lodestar block to create kind of a job board for them to follow. Assigning one or more constructs to a Lodestar will cause them to start executing the tasks, one at a time. The only limit is your creativity and imagination!
Video Tutorials / Walkthroughs
Vallen from Mischief of Mice has been so kind as to do a video guide; and he nailed it! It's a fantastic guide on all things mana ... and artifice!
How to get started
Check out the getting started guide at https://manaandartifice.com/getting-started/
My own arcane sentries attack me after I relog.
In reply to Desanguinated:
Same gist with wards; I've now been locked out of my warded chests.
where are the bosses? i miss them :)
I tried the ritual to make the Mote of Magic, but it just keeps saying I need more bookshelves. I surrounded the ritual with bookshelves, but it wants more bookshelves. I'm certain the amount of bookshelves is no longer the issue, as I've used over a stack and a half. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Note: The bookshelves were not close enough. I am sped.So uhhh on a server with friends, one of them decided a "magical ward" on all of the doors on my house, and now we can't get rid of them, any block placed in the doorways cannot be broken outside of creative mode. Will there be / is there a way to remove the magical ward? Thanks!
In reply to Collcroc123:
Yes :)
Great mod overall, I love It, It's one of my favourite mods overall, I only want to say for everyone who has problems with librarians not trading enchanted books, you have to go in the config file and change the "ModifyVillagerTrades" rule to false, I know how many times the Owner of this mod had to go to the github website and tell people, so I'm just gonna say It right here I hope I could help someone!
Great mod, love the asthetics.
Please take the next few comments as feedback, not attacks.
the few things I have found annoying or that I dislike.
1. What affinity is each spell? crafting a spell is time-consuming and depending on the materials the spell needs, sometimes expensive based on where you are in the game.
2. Runescribing patterns. I can understand that using up all the materials when making something semi-permanent/permanent that you wear. but making me craft 9 different parts on the runescribing table PER golem? seems a bit excessive if I want to use them more often than once or twice. (I was planning on useing them a bunch when I first learned about them, but with that kinda time involvement I am prolly only going to do it once and not touch it again)
3. Names of items in the book VS in block form. Why aren't they the same? multiple times I'm trying to search for something the book talks about and there is no recipe. then 5 minutes of searching later (book, JEI, internet) I finally find the actual block name and can continue working on whatever part of the book I was working on.
4. Manaweaving shapes (Triangles and inverted triangles specifically). Even when I'm trying to follow the shape that's right in front of my eyes, it only seems as if its catching the correct shape about 1/2 the time.
In reply to neain2017:
Not offended. There's still room for improvement. You also aren't alone; you essentially listed 4 of the main complaints I receive about the mod.
1. ) In the codex entry for each spell component, clicking on the recipe will show the affinity of the component. Shapes and modifiers do not have an affinity.
2. ) Constructs can runescribe for you. That's the intended progression. 1.4.0.0 brings durability to runescribing patterns allowing them to also be used multiple times before needing to be re-made.
3. ) Working on this. It's mainly because I tend to use the same word too many times when describing things, and so am trying to rename things to diversify, but occasionally miss things
4. ) Working on this too.
Hi I just wanted to ask, does this mod change any world gen, since I wanna add a magic mod to my game, but don't want the world gen to have stuff like a mountain inside a desert and stuff like that.
Thanks already!
can you adapt this mod to 1.12.2?
Hello :) I'm afraid of my poor English I'm a Japanese and enjoy your really cool MOD!!! But I'm in a little trouble in your MOD now...
On mana-and-artifice-1.3.0.6, the fonts and items all become black so I can't read and see what I have when showing the mana HUD with any shader packs.
This problem is solved by choosing "never show HUD" in the codex arcana, but it's inconvenient because I can't check my currency mana... Another way I disable shaders, then fonts and items get fixed.
I love both of your MOD and shaders... Could you fix this bug if you have time to do? THANK YOU VERY MUCH :D
anyone having trouble with the ritual kit? im trying to save it to a ritual but i guess i dont know how.
is there a way I can lower the spawn rate of vinteum? Its not projectE compatible and constantly clogs my quarry chests. I haven't found it in the config files yet
please tell me your going to make it for 1.12.2
edit : never mind
Is it possible to make the Spectral Elytra a back slot curio? I would love to be able to keep the mage armor set bonus and fly.
Also, out of curiosity, what's your favorite combination of spells to use in the Rote Book? Mine is Arcane and Lightning damage as a projectile I named Magic Missile.
In reply to Chronos_Aeon:
I copied this from the Constantly Asked Questions section of the Discord server:
Why isn't the Spectral Elytra a curio?
Three reasons:
1.) The vanilla one isn't either. Yes, I know there's a mod that hacks that in. It doesn't work with this one.
2.) It breaks the balance. Spectral Elytra is intended to add significant mobility at the cost of armor.
3.) The default Forge implementation of Elytra-like items requires a chest slot and doesn't support curios. Until either Forge or Curios adds this kind of support natively, or someone PRs the functionality into Forge (and I won't be the one to do that), then it's functionally out of the question.
That being said I am changing the mage armor set requirement to 3 pcs instead of 4 so moot point anyway :)
In reply to AWildCanadianEh:
That's fair. Thanks. And sorry, I should have checked the wiki FAQ first. Can't wait for the next update.
In reply to Chronos_Aeon:
No need to apologize :) The Discord server is the best place for the most up to date information, so that's where I'd go if you want previews on updates/information/help with the mod (if you aren't in there already). Lots of awesome people there.
one question: how do you make an arcane furnace, as jei and the creative menu dont seem to include it? im kinda stressing out because i cant progress