Resonant Arcana

✦ RESONANT ARCANA — 0.3.0 ✦

Orbital Ray · Faster Rituals · Reworked Magic & Sound Design

This release focuses on making powerful magic feel faster, more impactful and visually spectacular. Cataclysms have been rebalanced, God-tier rituals feature redesigned visuals and audio, and the new Orbital Ray introduces an entirely new cinematic spell.

🌌 New Spell — Orbital Ray

Channel an enormous amount of arcane energy into a growing sphere, launch it high into the sky, and unleash a devastating orbital strike on your target.

• 15-second casting ritual with a growing violet energy sphere.
• Arcane wisps, sculk-blue and amethyst-purple electricity swirl into the charging orb.
• The charged sphere rises skyward over 4 seconds.
• A colossal purple beam descends for 3 seconds before detonation.
• Massive arcane explosion with a 16-block blast radius.
• Custom charging, firing and detonation audio.
• No visible TNT, terrain destruction or destructive nuclear entities.

Spell attributes: Legendary · 500 Mana · 384 Base Damage · 64-Block Range · 180-Second Cooldown.

The target is locked during casting, with obstruction checks and ally protection. Optional Alex's Caves cloud effects enhance the impact without being required.

⚡ Faster & Better Rituals

• Regular Cataclysms: Reduced most base casting times to 6 seconds, including Doom and cave Cataclysms.
• God-tier Spells: Reduced base casting times to 10 seconds.
• Recorded Spells: Preserved their original synchronized audio and casting timings.
• Improved charging sequences with more recognizable and impactful visual effects.
• Rebalanced the pacing of high-tier spellcasting to reduce excessive waiting.

✨ Visual Effects Overhaul

God-tier spells and Cataclysms now feature more distinctive magical effects instead of relying on similar particle patterns.

• New magical ice spires, roots, canopies and golden arches.
• Added soul pillars, tidal crests, crimson formations and shadow effects.
• New confection orbits, fracture lines and fiery wing patterns.
• Improved spell silhouettes, brightness and visual readability.
• Added yellow and purple particle trails to Arcane Devastator.
• Moved player-cast beam origins closer to the hands.
• Improved beam alignment, obstruction handling and luminous source effects.
• Preserved Thunder of the Heavens' massive lightning spectacle.

🔊 Improved Sound Design

• Introduced new themed charging sounds for God-tier magic.
• Improved charging volume so powerful rituals are clearly audible.
• Added synchronized volume progression as magical energy builds.
• Replaced Doom's overlapping ambience with a redesigned dark-pressure charge, gravity-well soundscape and collapse.
• Refined Orbital Ray's charging audio to avoid excessive volume.
• Added new magical electricity, sculk soul and Echo Cannon-inspired firing effects.
• Preserved all four supplied spell recordings and their synchronized timing.

⚙ Fixes & Improvements

• Improved client/server beam alignment and clipping.
• Corrected beam origins and added brighter source effects.
• Improved spell obstruction checks and protected allies from unintended damage.
• Refined Orbital Ray's charge, ascent, impact and explosion timing.
• Maintained terrain protection and safe cleanup of temporary effects.
• Updated spell registration and network synchronization.

📦 Compatibility & Installation

Current spell count:

• 164 Core Spells
• 17 Additional Bosses'Rise Spells (optional)
• 24 Additional Alex's Caves Spells (optional)
• 205 Total Spells with both integrations installed

Requirements: Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge and Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks with its required dependencies.

Important: This release updates the network protocol to 22. Install the same Resonant Arcana version on both the client and server.

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