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• You dont have to have played the original game Magicka but you need to be responsible for what you do and you'll have to explore the aspects of the mod mostly by yourself, of course i'll be there too.
• You must own Minecraft because the server does not allow cracked client.
• You should have skype so me and other admins / testers can contact you directly any time which is more convenient than using the website.
• You should have a decent amount of free time to go online almost everyday.
• You will have to follow our admins instructions without questions. If we tell you to jump and die, jump and die. No. Questions.
• You have to be a polite and well-behaved citizen.

• Firstly, you wont be in creative mode. You'll have to play as a normal character trying to survive in the world and gather all the resources to become the greatest wizard of all time.
• We wont be guiding you all the time, we will only tell you the first steps into Minegicka. From then on, it's pretty much self-explanatory.
• We encourage testers to PvP with magic as much as possible to test out all the spells available. Which is balanced, which is not, which can be improved, etc.
• We ask you to be polite to other testers as well as the owners, admins and moderators (when there are some). We seek to create a friendly environment where people can blast each other out with spells, not physical nor verbal violence.

• You dont have to have played the original game Magicka but you need to be responsible for what you do and you'll have to explore the aspects of the mod mostly by yourself, of course i'll be there too.
• You must own Minecraft because the server does not allow cracked client.
• You should have skype so me and other admins / testers can contact you directly any time which is more convenient than using the website.
• You should have a decent amount of free time to go online almost everyday.
• You will have to follow our admins instructions without questions. If we tell you to jump and die, jump and die. No. Questions.
• You have to be a polite and well-behaved citizen.

• Firstly, you wont be in creative mode. You'll have to play as a normal character trying to survive in the world and gather all the resources to become the greatest wizard of all time.
• We wont be guiding you all the time, we will only tell you the first steps into Minegicka. From then on, it's pretty much self-explanatory.
• We encourage testers to PvP with magic as much as possible to test out all the spells available. Which is balanced, which is not, which can be improved, etc.
• We ask you to be polite to other testers as well as the owners, admins and moderators (when there are some). We seek to create a friendly environment where people can blast each other out with spells, not physical nor verbal violence.

Quote from TwoThe

Hi,

I've seen a mod showcast featuring Minegicka II few days ago and was totally amazed, then thought: why not give it a try? However after playing it for a few hours, the excitement soon vanished. Nevertheless I think this mod has great potential, so I'd like to give you some feedback for possible improvement.

First: The description. Best mod desciption ever! On this web-page and in-game (even though the jokes are a bit cheesy), everything was clear right from the beginning.

Next step was: "Dafuq do I get dust?!?" I realized later that the drop chance of mobs was about 5% or less, but to get started for real, you need about 15 dusts, which means that you have to kill about 1000 mobs just to get started with this mod. Or in other words: when I got enough dust, I was about level 63 just from killing mobs. Now I love if a mod doesn't take it too fast, but this is just plain rediculous.

Even if you just go for the staff + book you need to kill a huge amount of mobs. If you lack a bit of drop-luck like I did, you probably have each existing spell unlocked, before you can even cast the first one. And then the first spell you can cast ist barely enough to kill a single mob with some aiming and half your mana bar. This feels even more ridiculously considering that I already had to kill about 200 mobs by hand to get that spell.

While some spells are useful, no single one feels like it was really worth going through that blood-shed to get them, the other half of them are explosions with different animation. And the spontaneous casting (which I was very excited about) turned out to be only what feels like 5 spells just with different colors. In addition after some testing it turned out that the fire spell beast about everything, because why carefully aim with a beam, if a single fire-symbol causes an inferno and kills everything?

I do feel that this mod has great potential, but at the moment there are some severe issues with it that made me uninstall it again. For once the way to get started is... well let's say uncreative. Considering that I played Thaumcraft 4 at the same time, where you have to run around with your detection lense to identify attributes of objects to learn "spells" vs mindless mob bashing... let's just say that I see some room for improvement here.

The balance between time required to get started and what you get in the beginning is very much off. At first you have nothing, then you bash 23948723947 mobs, then you suddenly have everything. I could imagine a more paced approach here. For example let's say the drop-rate of dust was 20%, so you get your staff and book after about 10-20 kills, but the basic wand can only do single-symbol invocations. To be able to cast combinations and a first set of spells, you need to upgrade the wand once, but this requires a few of the next tier of dust + a few special items, so either another ~100 mobs to kill or start setting up the dust-production + some hunting for rare components. Thinking of it in form of a "Quest", the mod currently gives me the "Kill 100 wolves" quest everyone hates, but why doesn't it give me something more interesting and creative instead?

The spontaneous casting system definitely has great potential that is sadly currently mostly unused. I get several combinations of damage spells, but in the end I only need one, and that one needs to be more useful than my sword, considering the time it takes to type and cast it. I think it would be helpful if for once a right-click always casts the spell I typed, including special spells like "Teleport" if I got them right, and for second if the symbols wouldn't vanish after each invokation. I think it would be best if the current spell would only be erased after 1) I casted it at least once and 2) typed a new one.

I think you got the basics right here, the variance with the symbols is nice, but then whatever I type somehow "magically" ends up to be a ray spell. I think it would be better if the first rune would dictate in what form the spell unleashes, so if I type i.E. water + whatever I always get a cone spell, lightning + whatever is always a chained style spell, and so on. Currently it is not very intuitive what I will get in the end, which makes the whole system feel more like a guessing game instead of having any noticeable system. And then there seems to be no difference between casting fire vs firefire vs firefirefirefirefirefire. Also: spells backfiring if you do something too wrong would be nice. Having something as deep and logical as the Mystcraft symbols and prefixes would be great.

The named spells you get through the scrolls are a good start, but currently you get too many "BOOM!" spells. I do like explosions, but I do like variance as well, and if all of them are armageddon-style kill-everything spells, this is not only massively overpowered, but as well gets boring after a few minutes. If you had some kind of easy API here that allows others to write spells for you (like "Spell-packs" instead of resource-packs), this might take some load of your back and would greatly enhance the experience.

But beside all critics: keep up the good work. I am very sure this mod will in the end be one of the well known must-haves with some polishment. =)

the variance with the symbols is nice, but then whatever I type somehow "magically" ends up to be a ray spell. I think it would be better if the first rune would dictate in what form the spell unleashes, so if I type i.E. water + whatever I always get a cone spell, lightning + whatever is always a chained style spell, and so on. Currently it is not very intuitive what I will get in the end, which makes the whole system feel more like a guessing game instead of having any noticeable system. And then there seems to be no difference between casting fire vs firefire vs firefirefirefirefirefire.