Element wands

Quickstart

Craft the Dirt Wand from a stick, dirt, and another stick in a vertical line:

Equip it and use it to cast Dirt Puff. Sneak while using a wand to open its ability menu, check your mana and unlocks, and select another spell when available.

For a stronger starting spellcaster, craft the Elemental Gemwand and its ammo. The wand is called the Water Wand in its ability menu and HUD. Keep matching ammo handy for projectile wands.

Overview

Element wands add seven magic wands, a shared mana pool, spell progression, a flying broomstick, a Gem Trader, and three summonable boss encounters. Your action bar shows your held wand, selected ability, mana, and mastery rank.

What It Adds

The mod also includes a Flying Broomstick, Mana Tonic, Gem Trader Bell, and the encounter items Labyrinth Sigil, Storm Beacon, and Deepstone Idol.

How To Use

• Cast or fire: Use a wand to activate its selected ability. Elemental Gemwand and Fire Wand can fire their matching projectiles; Earth Wand uses Earth Chunks.
• Choose a spell: Sneak and use the wand to open its menu. Locked abilities show the number of casts needed to unlock them.
• Use melee: Hitting a creature with a wand applies an elemental effect. Void and Light wands also have special melee effects.
• Fly: Use the Flying Broomstick to toggle flight. Look up to climb, dive to accelerate, and sneak to brake. Use it again to stop.
• Call a challenge: Use a Labyrinth Sigil, Storm Beacon, or Deepstone Idol to summon its encounter nearby. These items create or place encounter spaces, so use them away from builds. Use a Gem Trader Bell to summon a trader; Gem Traders can also appear naturally in villages.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft wand equipment and supplies at a crafting table:

Arcane Dust is used in several wand recipes. The Labyrinth Brute, Cloudstorm Titan, and Deepstone Colossus each reward Arcane Dust when defeated. These bosses also drop, respectively, Ember Crystals, Gale Feathers, and Deepstone Shards; their distinctive drops include the Labyrinth Crown, Stormheart, and Deepstone Heart.

Mana Tonics are consumed like a drink, restore 100 mana, and leave a glass bottle. Earth Chunks are the Earth Wand’s projectile ammo.

Abilities And Mechanics

Spells cost mana. Water Master fires a spread of water shots; Tidal Lift and Whirlpool control nearby creatures. Fire Burst and Worldfire burn an area, while Inferno Dash combines a forward burst with flames. Wind spells knock back or lift targets, and Sky Step launches you upward with slow falling. Earth spells can take a block you’re looking at and throw it, damage and slow nearby enemies, or strengthen your defenses.

Void spells offer banishment, powerful self-buffs, a temporary arena, and Singularity. Light spells combine strong attacks with defensive and healing effects. Holding a wand can also grant passive benefits: for example, Fire Wand provides fire resistance, Wind Wand enables mana-draining flight, and Light Wand provides several ongoing buffs.

Progression And Strategy

You begin with 100 shared mana. It regenerates over time; defeating a creature restores mana, and a Mana Tonic restores 100. Some environments and held wands improve recharge. Keep an eye on the action-bar meter, especially while using Wind Wand’s flight.

Casting with a wand builds that wand’s cast count and unlocks its later abilities. Repeated casting also raises your shared mana capacity, up to 250. Use the ability menu to check the next unlock and choose a spell that suits the situation.

The encounters reward different supplies for expanding your wand collection. The Cloudstorm Titan attacks from range but switches to melee up close; the Deepstone Colossus reacts to disturbances and can unleash a powerful ranged attack.