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Quote from tolerantUsurper

Expanding upon the whole summoning idea: The conjuration, binding and creation of undead and golems. I haven't found a single mod that gives off the ritualistic feel of crafting a permanent minion, and I think this mod has the ambition and class to do it. So let's discuss possible minion types: Each "group" could have different classes; A laborer, a bodyguard, a builder, a mount, and a harvester.

Laborers would be your typical miners and tunnelers; Imps with pickaxes, zombie prospectors, stone-eating golems.

Bodyguards are big and mean minions of each group, designated to attack or defend, like skeleton champions, devil swordsmen, etc.

Builders would create and or terraform your area to suit your group; Necromancers would build a tower for you and help corrupt the surrounding land into a dead graveyard. Golems would build a stronghold for you, and erect large stone monuments and walls. Might be a bit too complex for this mod, but it'd be cool.

Then there's mounts. Minions that look cool and help you get around; I'm assuming they'd be a pain in the **** to bind or create though.

And finally, harvesters: Your lumberjacks and farmers.

Now, on to the groups:

Undead: In order to make undead minions, you'll need bones, rotting flesh, cobwebs, and all sorts of spooky stuff, and a dark essence. You'll have to build a gated graveyard with 4 stone brick pillars, and an altar in the middle. This rudimentary summoning ground would allow you to make laborers and a builder. In order to make minions, you would throw the materials on the altar, cast the reanimation spell which will reanimate the remains, and bind the creature to your will.
Additions to this area could involve some kind of necromanctic sphere, a large cauldron, or other things that would allow you to create ranged and melee bodyguards and harvesters. Maybe at higher levels you can divine specific souls of the deceased to reanimate them to your will, allowing you to bind Hecates and a mount.

Demons: To summon demons, you need a flat stone platform with a lava fountain made from obsidian at one end. You divine the needs to call a certain demon, and throw the required items in the fountain. Then you would have to bind the demon on the platform with a spell (Maybe some kind of spell duel mechanic or something?). Possible additions to this area would be a floating flaming sphere, a hellfire portal, and tomes of truenames which would allow you to bind greater demons.

Golems: To create golems, you need to build a henge with a stone bowl in the middle. You throw your materials into the bowl, and animate them with elemental spirits, and then bind them to your will. Possible additions could be stone statues, an orb of lightning, and a pit of living earth. These would allow you to divine greater elemental spirits and golem recipes.

Now, about that weird sigil structure thing in the teaser: Maybe that can be a requirement instead of the ones I listed. For example, in order to have enough mana to cast augmented spells, you'd have to build some kind of magical core that generates energy. Then, you can upgrade that core with essences that give you access to demons, undead, golems, or whatever else.This then acts as your headquarters and summoning ground, kind of like the dungeon heart in Dungeon Keeper.

Like I said before, this is probably way too complex, but I'm throwing it out there.

Anyways, onto something that's a bit less ambitious: TOTEMS!

Basically, you throw down totems that act like magical turrets and protect you. There could be simple set it and forget it ones that just shoot at monsters, but there could also be complex ones that require a charge or a sacrifice, stuff like a totem that makes a force-field, or summons a big bodyguard.

Now, if used in conjunction with those summoning ideas, you could use totems as temporary summons, in case you don't have a summoning ground built yet. Like a totem that summons a skeleton miner that digs straight in the direction the totem was placed, or one that makes a woodcutter golem that will cut down trees in a 30 square radius or something.

Quote from Azradun

Very interesting mod. I'll be eager to give it a try when it's ready.

Also, it's amusing that some people are comparing it with Thaumcraft. Thaumcraft doesn't have any spells whatsoever and won't have. Not in TC2, not in TC3, and possibly not ever, as a conscious design decision. While some ideas do overlap, it's hardly just to say Thaumcraft ever had any exclusive rights to a magical power source. Nope. The basic idea is broad enough and known enough to falsify such statements

More mods, more fun for users. And I love spells

Quote from Mithion

Towers are meant to be rare, yes. On average, you'll find one per 500 block cube. There aren't many towers that don't have a chest, and the ones that don't for the most part are only spawning for debugging purposes at the moment. They are intended for a future feature.

Mage archives, which are underground, are far more common, occurring on average once per 75 block cube.

Quote from Mithion

It won't be when I "fancy" a release. It's when the mod is stable and working as I intended it to. There are still bugs to fix, and I won't release this project until I'm good and satisfied with the result. Not before.

It's not going to be any fun for anyone if it's riddled with bugs. I take pride in my work, and this will be properly polished off before it gets out.