Rustbound Magic

VINTAGE STORY MAGIC EXPANSION

RUSTBOUND MAGIC

PEER BEYOND THE VEIL

Rustbound Magic is a massive progression-based magic expansion for Vintage Story.

Peer beyond the veil into the Rust World, harness temporal instability, create arcane machinery, perform rituals, discover spells, bind an Animus companion, and eventually bend the boundaries between dimensions! Magic is not simply another crafting tree. It is a second path through Vintage Story. A path built around discovery, world interaction, experimentation, infrastructure, and progression.

✦ Progression Magic ✦ Rituals ✦ Arcane Machinery ✦ Spellcraft ✦ Gateways ✦ Animus Companions

This mod is best played with temporal stability and rifts enabled! This mod is also designed with multiplayer servers in mind and it encourages roleplaying. If you play on a multiplayer server and don't care for magic, you don't have to use it! Magic should be a choice, not a requirement. Non-magic users can still make use of utility blocks, spell scrolls, and other services mages can provide. I made this mod to act like an expansion pack to the base game, a second path to walk. It is a slow burn and will take time to get through it. I have plenty of config options that can speed up various parts of the mod.

──── ✦ ELEMENTAL DAMAGE MODIFIERS ✦ ────

FOR MODDERS

This system is applied directly to entities and can give them up to 3 weaknesses, resistances, and/or strengths to certain elemental types of damage. This system will work on any entities, even from other mods. Feel free to directly apply or patch the required attributes and behavior in. Most vanilla entities will have a resistance already applied. You can look at the patches I made for the vanilla creatures and the Fantasy Creatures mod to use as examples.

How to Use

To use this system, patch in the EntityBehaviorElementalDamageModifiersRM behavior on the client side, required for displaying all attributes, along with your pick of one or a mix and match of the 3 attributes below. An example would be weaknessElement1RM AND weaknessAmount1RM.

The Elements to choose from are:

fire water wind earth lightning frost nature arcane

Weakness An element that does bonus damage.

Resistance An element that does less damage.

Strength Converts damage from the element into healing.

Amount Examples

• 1.0 = no effect.
• 1.5 = 1.5 times damage.
• 0.5 = half damage.

──── ✦ EQUIPMENT ATTRIBUTE SYSTEM ✦ ────

FOR MODDERS

This system allows armor to also provide various stat modifiers for various aspects of magic. Feel free to directly apply or patch the required attributes and behavior in.

How to Use

To use these stats, patch in the CollectibleBehaviorMagicEquipStatsDisplayRM behavior, required for displaying all attributes, along with magicStatModifiers in the attributes section. You can look at my vanilla armor patches or any piece of equipment in the mod to see how to use the stats.

There are 3 kinds of attributes in this system: direct magical stats, magic protection stats, and passive skill stats. You can apply positive or negative effects as well. Look at my attunement cores for example. You gain a lot of magical stats, but lose -50 max mana.

DIRECT MAGICAL STATS

• manaregen = meditation mana regen.
• maxmana = max mana through armor.
• genericmodifiermanacost = manacost of all spells.
• genericmodifiercasttime = casttime of all spells.
• genericmodifierduration = buff duration time of all spells.
• genericmodifierdamage = damage of all spells.
• genericmodifierstats = buff stat of all spells.
• evocationmodifiermanacost = manacost of evocation spells only.
• evocationmodifiercasttime = casttime of evocation spells only.
• evocationmodifierduration = buff duration of evocation spells only.
• evocationmodifierdamage = damage of evocation spells only.
• evocationmodifierstats = buff stat of evocation spells only.
• alterationmodifiermanacost = manacost of alteration spells only.
• alterationmodifiercasttime = casttime of alteration spells only.
• alterationmodifierduration = buff duration of alteration spells only.
• alterationmodifierdamage = damage of alteration spells only.
• alterationmodifierstats = buff stat of alteration spells only.
• incantationmodifiermanacost = manacost of incantation spells only.
• incantationmodifiercasttime = casttime of incantation spells only.
• incantationmodifierduration = buff duration of incantation spells only.
• incantationmodifierdamage = damage of incantation spells only.
• incantationmodifierstats = buff stat of incantation spells only.
• conjurationbonustimetolive = how long summoned items last (unused atm).
• conjurationmodifiermanacost = manacost of conjuration spells only.
• conjurationmodifiercasttime = casttime of conjuration spells only.
• conjurationmodifierduration = buff duration of conjuration spells only.
• conjurationmodifierdamage = damage of conjuration spells only.
• conjurationmodifierstats = buff stat of conjuration spells only.
• walkspeedmodifier = player movement speed.
• meditationstabilitylossmodifier = stability lost while meditating. Using a number above the threshold amount, such as 10, will result in no stability drain while meditating. That threshold differs depending on class, usually between 4-5.

MAGIC PROTECTION STATS

Important: You must have all the attributes below for this system to work. Failure to do so will result in a null crash.

• perTierRelativeMagicProtectionLoss
• perTierFlatMagicDamageReductionLoss
• flatMagicDamageReduction = The flat rate of damage absorbed before the percent.
• relativeMagicProtection = The percent reduction of damage.
• magicProtectionTier = Protection tier that gets checked against tier of incoming damage.

PASSIVE SKILL STATS

• grantspassiveskillclairvoyance = Grants the passive skill "Clairvoyance".
• immunitytorustsickness = Grants immunity to all forms of "Rust sickness".

If something doesn't look right:

• Fully close the game.

• Update Rustbound Magic to the latest version.

• Remove the Cache folder from the VintagestoryData folder.

• Remove duplicate mod archives from the Mods folder and from the server mods folder if playing multiplayer.

• Start the game again.

Some systems were inspired by MC mods Ars Magica 2, Witchery, and maybe Thaumcraft? Just magic stuff.

Thank you Verlia for some awesome models / textures!