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/
Is there a way to backport this to 1.12.2 ?
When trying to automate vellum production, I attempted to use the activator module (which can simulate player actions) from the Modular Routers mod to right click the cauldron with a leather in the router's inventory, but it would not work. When I questioned the MR devs, they responded with: " Since Mana and Artifice is not an open source mod, I can't take a look at that mod to find out what their right-click logic for leather & cauldrons looks like. Please ask them, and if you get any useful information out of them, feel free to raise an issue...". I don't know where the issue lies, but can you provide any insight?
Anyone else having problems with the Staffs in servers? I keep getting a chat message saying "Error setting spell data values; serverside validation failed!"
In reply to Mist_XP:
Known issue; I'll have it fixed next update - avoid putting spells on staves for now. Sorry!
In reply to AWildCanadianEh:
Will it be fixed in 1.16.4 or just 1.16.5?
In reply to Lefteris_D_Dragon:
1.16.3/1.16.4/1.16.5 all generally are cross compatible, but the next version will be built against 1.16.4.
I remember always watching game play of ars magic, it came to my attention when i saw the magic police by the yogscast, it was a shame that i didnt play it, but i played this and it truly is a great mod, well done my friend, i hope its used alot in upcoming modpacks
Just wanted to say: Amazing mod thank you!
Ars Magica 1 and 2 were amazing and this is one too!
In reply to mochman:
Thanks so much :D It makes my day to read that ^^
I am aware that it is under works, but may I ask what is the quickest way to completely disable faction raids? Config files or whatever. I just really, really NEED them gone. They are causing huge ruckus, irritation, and making the game unenjoyable.
They've spawned once during a fight with Gaia Guardian II from Botania, and the pixies lifted me so far up that I went out of the combat zone, and the Gaia Guardian despawned. That's one Gaia ingot gone. I'd just like to add that there is NO way to dodge or block the pixie attack so far--I get lifted 100 blocks, easy, continuously, for 3 to 5 minutes even if I have my creative flight on. On low end PCs like mine, I cant even properly see where they are, and I have to spam spells hoping one hits a pixie by sheer dumb luck.
Another time today, my max enchanted armor were all badly damaged during an AFK farm session because mobs spawned in an area that shouldn't be spawnable, and ganged up on me. I was tossed about 500 blocks away from my original AFK spot. Thank goodness I returned to my seat early and only lost my pneumatic helmet with all the upgrades.
It's not a joke, it's not an enjoyable feature, and it's not fun anymore. I would even welcome a hotfix if it meant temporarily removing faction raids entirely. Basically if you aren't picking Fey faction, you are consigning yourself to getting troll-tossed every 30 minutes. It's like getting griefed, except you can't negotiate with them, and it occurs every 20 minutes or so. I can't build properly, I can't farm properly, I can't even sit still to read a guidebook much less try to get started on a new mod.
Yes, i can't build properly. One of the core characteristics of minecraft, I can't do properly because I get CC'ed frequently to the point of frustration.
I'm not sure how to phrase this more seriously, but Faction Raids HAVE to go until we have some legitimate, survival way to deal with them. They are making the game itself unenjoyable and causing great pains
I hope this feedback is heard. and i apologize for sounding too rude or harsh, but it's been a terribly long day where I've been disrupted or have taken lasting damage on several occasions because of this "feature". Thank you very much for your consideration
In reply to lock2r:
If you really don't like the mechanic, then you can turn it off in the config. The file `mana-and-artifice-general.toml` contains the following config:
raidBaselineIncrease = 0.05
raidTierIncrease = 0.05
Change both of those values to 0, and it will effectively disable raids after one last attempt.
In reply to FoxMcloud5655:
To add to this, Warding Candles can block faction raids from spawning. But yeah, they're already being re-tooled.
Looks like there might be a bug with the ring of silk in the newest version. I am getting two of everything I break. One as if I broke the block without silk touch and one like it was broken with silk touch.
Side note: I really like that it is a rechargeable item now instead of having to rebuild it regularly.
In reply to foxstele:
Just confirming you're experiencing this bug in version 1.3.0.2? I know it existed in 1.3.0.1 but I thought I fixed it.
cool mod
This reminds me of ars magica 1 and 2
In reply to enikimmarc:
It should - I wrote those too and wanted to keep a similar style for M&A :)
In reply to AWildCanadianEh:
I loved the original mods ars 1 and 2 and have been hoping for an update that i know will never come. I wanted to play them in 1.16.4 but there is no update for it. :(
Hi, just wondering if it would be okay for me to use your mod in a modpack for my server?
In reply to austin_ravenwood:
You know, that's actually a great question; it is not stated anywhere that it is free to use in modpacks, though I'm sure that that's the entire point of hosting it here on CurseForge. I would like to know this too, as I'm developing a modpack that currently contains Mana and Artifice that hasn't been released yet.