I devote this section to the magical and mysterious items I might encounter in my studies.
It seems like many of these items have uses when held alongside my staff. I suppose I will have to choose what goes in my other hand carefully.
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By encrusting an enchanted book with charged amethyst and edified wood, it traps media within the pages like an echo chamber. I can then introduce a pattern-to-pattern-list binding for the grimoire to keep bouncing endlessly inside.
When I then cast the pattern associated with a pattern list with my staff and the grimoire in my inventory, the pattern expands with a faint sound of a Hex being cast. I create shortcuts for tedious tasks with this, like the raycast mantra or large patterns. The grimoire can even hijack Nature's patterns, to overwrite or add extra functionality.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Write Grimoire (pattern, [pattern] →)
Writes a pattern-to-pattern-list binding into the grimoire in my offhand.
Erase Grimoire (pattern →)
Erases the pattern-list binding to the pattern in the grimoire in my offhand if it exists.
While stable with only a few strands of media whizzing around inside, a single grimoire can not hold more than sixteen pattern bindings. When attempting to introduce more, the grimoire simply rejects it and throws itself onto the ground with a shower of blue sparks.
Archivist Reflection (→ [pattern])
Gets a list of all patterns stored in the grimoire.
When ignited for the first time, either magically or with a flint and steel, these delightful little candles have pale white flames. When someone interacts with it though, it happily copies their pigment. I can also right-click it with a pigment item to change its color directly. To extinguish, sneak right-click.
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Living scrolls are mixed with a pinch of amethyst, enchanting the ink to move and wiggle like the patterns I draw with my staff. Not only that, living scrolls can display lists of patterns.
You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?
I can freely write and rewrite the scroll's patterns at any time, along with reading it back out. The scroll accepts only a list of pattern iotas, or a pattern iota which is automatically wrapped in a list. When displaying a list of patterns, a living scroll shows one pattern at a time. It changes once per second. Even when I write the same pattern list to two of them at two different moments of their cycle, they end up in sync.
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What follows are some spells I've found for manipulation of living scrolls. The changes caused by these most enchantments can be reverted by casting the spell on the scroll again. They are all free.
I can craft this little decorative jar of liquid media that glows quite brightly. Unfortunately, it seems the glass is too thick for me to draw media through it, although I have read tales that ancient Hexcasters were able to solve this issue and being able to bottle up liquid media and use it for their Hexes. I wonder what I would see if I took a sip.
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A list of all the patterns I've discovered, as well as what they do.
After my enlightenment, I find myself acutely aware of certain patterns that seem to aid with my newfound abilities to perceive and manipulate media. These patterns don't seem to require anything new from me, perhaps I've always been able to cast them but was unaware of their existence.
Epiphany Purification (player entity → boolean)
Pushes whether the given player has achieved enlightenment like I have.
Sentience Purification (entity → boolean)
Pushes whether an entity "has been magically relieved of its mind". I feel this is strongly related to Flay Mind somehow...
Caliper's Purification (entity → number)
Similar to Stadiometer's Purification but pushes the width of an entity rather than its height.
Theodolite Purif. (entity → vector)
Similar to Alidade's Purification but pushes the vector that points upwards from their head rather than the entity's facing vector.
Dioscuri Gambit II (many, number → many)
Takes a number and duplicates that many elements of the stack while preserving order.
Similarity Distillation (any, any → boolean)
Pushes whether two iota are of the same type.
Congruence Distillation (pattern, pattern → boolean)
Pushes whether two patterns have the same shape, even if they have different orientations.
Glyphmaker's Dstl. (pattern, number → pattern)
Takes in a pattern and a number and produces a pattern of the same shape, but different stroke order. My notes reveal that ancient hexcasters used this for some grand library.
In certain regions of the world, ambient media is more concentrated. I can measure that concentration and even extrapolate backwards and forwards in time to get a quasi-random number between 0 and 1, corresponding to that location at that time. Points in time and space that are close to each other often have similar values.
Perlin Distillation (vector, number → number)
Measures the concentration of ambient at that point in space and time, normalized between 0 and 1.
Naval Distillation (vector, vector → vector/null)
Works similar to Archer's Distillation but targets only liquids, piercing through all other blocks.
Lilypad Distillation (vector, vector → vector/null)
Works similar to Architect's Distillation but targets only liquids, piercing through all other blocks.
Railgun Exaltation (vec, vec, id → vec/null)
Works similar to Archer's Distillation but accepts an additional identifier. It will pierce all blocks until it hits the block specified by the identifier.
Laser Exaltation (vec, vec, id → vec/null)
Works similar to Architect's Distillation but accepts an additional identifier. It will pierce all blocks until it hits the block specified by the identifier.
Media is the energy of thought and consequently, it can interact with thoughts as well. Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately for me, the minds of players are too resistant to be swayed by Hexes and even the minds of villagers resist tampering. There is a notable exception though: my own mind is open to my own media, allowing me to read and write thoughts.
Telepathic Reflection (→ null/number)
By focusing on a particular image, I can detect that concentration via this pattern. Pushes how long I have been holding down the telepathy key, or -1 if I am not holding it.
Send Thought (any →)
Momentarily displays the iota above my hotbar. If cast repeatedly, each cast overwrites the previous message instantly.
Shout Thought (any →)
Displays a iota across my screen. It obstructs my vision and takes some time to fade in, so I shall only use it sparingly.
Hallucinate Pling
Causes me to hear a pling that is inaudible to other players.
Hallucinate Click
Causes me to hear a click that is inaudible to other players.
Charge Reflection (→ number)
Pushes how long I've been intending to move forwards, or -1 if I am not pressing the forwards key.
Retreat Reflection (→ number)
Pushes how long I've been intending to move backwards, or -1 if I am not pressing the backwards key.
Dodge Reflection (→ number)
Pushes how long I've been intending to move leftwards, or -1. Can be easily differentiated from Evade Reflection because d comes to the left of e.
Evade Reflection (→ number)
Pushes how long I've been intending to move rightwards, or -1. Can be easily differentiated from Dodge Reflection because e comes to the right of d.
Leaping Reflection (→ number)
Pushes how long I've been intending to jump, or -1 if I am not pressing the jump key.
These patterns manipulate an imaginary counter. I shall find them useful when my Ravenmind is occupied or overkill, for example to count iterations in a Thoth's loop. Some ancient scraps recommend its use for some sort of recursive depth.
I shall also note that they don't work properly when drawn by themselves with my staff. It seems memory is maintained only for an instant.
Soroban Reflection (→ number)
Pushes the current soroban counter and then increases it.
Soroban Reflection II (→ number)
Pushes the current soroban counter and then decreases it.
Soroban Gambit
Resets the soroban counter.
It's useful to end a Hex early once it has reached some desired state, without the difficulty of using Charon's Gambit because Janus' can bypass the "containment" of Hermes' and Thoth's.
It is always important to know when something has reached its end.
It's extremely versatile and I can mend almost any error in my stack using Bookkeeper's Gambit, pushing iota after a dive, and transforming surfaced iota. It was named after a goddess of mourning and rivers, lending to how it buries/dives down into the stack.
... the unknowns of time travel... is akin to descending blindly into the depths of the freezing water and reappearing as an acorn.
This simple gambit can be accomplished via Flock's Reflection, Flock's Gambit, Selection Exaltation, and Flock's Disintegration but this serves as a handy short pattern for clearing up my stack. It also pairs extremely well with Thoth's Gambit, letting me clean up the pseudo-stack should I want to only operate on and return first few iota.
Everything is possible, but not everything is necessary.
While I have heard of self-producing Hexes called quines used to make infinite loops, they can be slightly unwieldy to work with. This gambit simplifies that process by just repeatedly casting a list until it runs out of evaluations or encounters a Charon's Gambit. The Ravenmind is persisted between iterations and it always casts with the base stack.
One always finds one's burden again... One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
After each iteration, it demands a number at the top of the stack which will correspond to that iota. At the end of the gambit, a list is pushed with the iota sorted by that number in increasing order. The order of identically numbered iota are kept. If it encounters Charon's Gambit, it will create a sorted list with only the iota it has come across.
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
I have discovered some conveniences for akashic libraries! I can right-click or magically interact with a filled akashic bookshelf to copy its iota into my stack. I can also right-click with a scroll to copy the pattern of the bookshelf onto the scroll. Finally, I have discovered two patterns that can read and write directly to a bookshelf within ambit for free.
Librarian's Purification (vector → any)
Reads the iota from an akashic bookshelf within ambit. Free to cast.
Librarian's Gambit (vector, pattern, any →)
Writes an iota under a pattern to an akashic bookshelf within ambit. Free to cast.
Patterns and actions that perform a magical effect on the world.
The blocks from Conjure Block last forever, are consequently a pain to clean up, and are not too versatile. Luckily, Nature offers an elegant and flexible alternative. These mage blocks come with a suite of modifiers. I could even stack multiple modifiers on one block or reapply a modifier to toggle it off.
Conjure Mage Block (vector →)
Conjures a mage block at the location. Costs three dust.
I can create a city out of nothing, or I can cover it in volcanic rock.
Bouncy (vector →)
This modifier makes the block delightfully fun to bounce on! It returns more force to me than regular slime blocks and I notice even if I sneak, the block bounces me regardless.
Energized (vector, number →)
This modifier makes the block emit a Redstone signal, with the number corresponding to the power level of the output.
Ephemeral (vector, number →)
This modifier takes in a number in addition to a position and shatters the block after many twentieths of a second. Subsequent casts can lengthen or shorten the duration.
Invisible (vector →)
This modifier prevents the block from emitting the telltale particles that accompany my casting, even when being stood on.
Replaceable (vector →)
This modifier is useful for construction! With this modifier applied, I find I can easily place another block in the place of the mage block.
Semi-Permeable (vector →)
This modifier makes the block semi-permeable, only allowing the last caster of it to pass through while all other entities can not.
Volatile (vector →)
This modifier makes the block break other mage blocks it's touching. Notably, if it breaks another volatile block, that block breaks and so on until every volatile block shatters.
The dye spell and its specialized iota allows me to alter the color of blocks and entities. The dye iota represents a color, but also seems to represent the potential to be colored. For example, attempting to get the dye of grass returns null but getting the dye of terracotta returns uncolored, which I can use to "bleach" dyeable blocks.
Chromatic Purification (vector/entity → dye/null)
Gets the dye of a block or entity.
Dye (vector/entity, dye →)
Dyes a dyeable block or entity. Costs an eighth of a dust.
The valid block targets for this spell include beds, candles, cakes with candles, carpets, concrete, concrete powder, glazed terracotta, sand into red sand and vice versa, sandstone and all blocks derived from it into its red variant and vice versa, shulker boxes, stained glass, stained glass panes, terracotta, tulips into their multiple colors, and wool blocks. As for entities, cat collars, dog collars, shulkers, and item entities of all of the above blocks are valid.
Vision Purification (dye → vector)
Translates a dye color into a vector, where each component is from 0 to 1 and represents the red, green, and blueness of the dye respectively.
Pigment Distillation (vector, number → vector)
Samples my pigment color at a certain place and time as a vector, where each component is from 0 to 1 and represents the red, green, and blueness of the dye respectively.
Magic Missile (vector, vector →)
Conjures a small silver of amethyst that always deals a full heart of damage and decent knockback. Costs one amethyst dust.
The projectile has a few interesting properties. It automatically disappears after roughly ten seconds or shatters upon hitting an entity or block. It pierces all forms of armor and protection. It is also unaffected by gravity and water drag.
A weak but enchanting sparkling projectile.
The conjuration location is quite esoteric: no wonder most users stick to conjuring it in front of them. The basic gist is a vector, where my head's position is the origin, my facing is the Z+ axis, the vector pointing up from my head is the Y+ axis, and the vector from my head pointing rightwards is the X+ axis. For basic purposes, the zero vector conjures it inside my head and a vector resembling (0, 0, n) conjures it n blocks in front of me.
Prestidigitation (entity/vector →)
Causes a small magical effect on the block or entity, usually not too distinct from the original nature or function of the block or entity. Costs 1/10th dust.
This spell differs from all others I've seen. Rather than a single specific effect, this spell seems to combine dozens of small effects into a single spell. It targets a vast array of blocks and entities, and I am constantly finding uses for it. I have documented them on the following pages.
Alteration Purification (entity/vector → boolean)
Pushes whether an entity or location is able to be manipulated with Prestidigitation.
I've compiled all of its recorded uses from my notes: opens and close fence gates, trapdoors, and doors of all materials; flicks levers and presses buttons; holds down and releases pressure plates; extinguishes fire and soul fire; lights and extinguishes candles and campfires; rings bells; strips wood; carves pumpkins; makes a note block play its sound; triggers dispensers and droppers; dries mud into clay; turns most soil blocks into path blocks and path blocks into tilled soil...
toggles Redstone lamps; drain cauldrons; modifies the state of Redstone repeaters, comparators, and daylight sensors, ignites and deprimes TNT and creepers; shear sheep; give and take arms from armor stands; makes squid squirt ink; makes pandas sneeze; removes the helmet of a snow golem; make pufferfish instantly swell up; and activates some kind of "great work" whatever that is.
I can perform the standard magic trick of vanishing an item and bringing it back. The item hides in the wristpocket, where I can use media to manipulate it. Wristpocketed items stay with me even after death and I can recall them once I have a staff again.
Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back.
Wristpocket
This spell vanishes the stack of items in my other hand, or conjures it back, swapping if my other hand is holding something. Costs 1/8th of a dust if an item is inserted or swapped in.
Pocket Reflection (→ identifier/null)
Returns the identifier of the item in my wristpocket, or null if it is empty.
Pocket Reflection II (→ number)
Returns how many items I have in my wristpocket, or 0 if it is empty.
Mage Hand (entity/vector →)
Conjures a magical hand that uses my wristpocketed item to interact with the world. If my wristpocket is empty, acts as though I had interacted with the world.
- if taking an entity, interacts with the entity with the item.
- if taking a vector, interacts with the block with the item.
A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range.
Assimilate Food
This spell makes me eat my wristpocketed item, nourishing or applying potions to me. Regardless of the item's time to eat or if I'm full, this spell makes me consume it instantly.
I can conjure an image of an iota into the world, called a speck. Nature allows me to customize them quite extensively, altering their size, thickness of stroke, and more. They also take on my pigment color. Once they are in the world, I can move, rotate, and otherwise alter them for free, regardless of range.
Conjure Speck (any, vector, vector → entity)
Conjures a speck with the iota, position, and rotation. Costs one-hundredth of a dust. Pushes the speck iota to the stack.
Move Speck (speck entity, vector →)
Moves a speck entity to the position.
Rotate Speck (speck entity, vector →)
Rotates a speck entity to face the vector.
Roll Speck (speck entity, number →)
Accepts a number between 0 and 1, representing a fraction of a full rotation, and rotates the speck's image by that amount.
Alter Speck (speck entity, any →)
Changes the speck's iota.
Time Speck (speck entity, number →)
Commands the speck to disappear after that many twentieths of a second.
Resize Speck (speck entity, number →)
Scales the speck, can range from 0 to 10. Represents size in blocks and is zero by default.
Thicken Speck (speck entity, number →)
Changes the stroke thickness of a pattern speck, can range from 0 to 10. Represents twentieths of a block, and is zero by default.
Dismiss Speck (speck entity →)
Forces a speck to disappear.
Zone Dstl.: Specklike (vector, number → [entity])
Returns specks similarly to other zone distillation patterns.
Conjure Hexburst (vector, any →)
Conjures a hexburst at the location with the given iota. Costs one dust. Is subject to the Transgress Others mishap.
Hexbursts are edible items created by taking an iota and wrapping media around it, over and over until it gains size. When eaten, a hexburst instantly adds the iota it was made from to the consumer's stack. I shall find this property considerably useful if I ever want to trade my entity reference.
Conjure Hextito (vector, list of patterns →)
Conjures a hextito at the location. Costs two dust. Is subject to the Transgress Others mishap.
Hextitos are triangular crunchy snacks I can conjure. When consumed, I feel the sudden desire to cast the Hex used in its creation, using my caster's stack rather than an isolated stack like a regular casting device. I shall find it useful to make simple actions like raycasts, especially in conjunction with hexbursts. If a consumer's stack has an unclosed Introspection, it will not cast, making it quite safe to hand out to other people.
Gasp (entity →)
Instantly replenishes a creature's air bubbles, always costs one dust.
Regardless of amount of breath restored, this spell costs exactly one dust so I should ideally wait as long as I safely can before casting this spell. I will find it useful while diving, being teleported into a block, or even keeping sea creatures alive on land.
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
Chorus Blink (vector →)
Between Blink, Greater Teleport, ender pearls, and chorus fruit, this spell serves a harmonious midpoint for safe, precise, and cheap teleportation.
It consumes a chorus fruit from my inventory and teleports me up to 16 blocks using an offset vector. The cost is a single dust whether I teleport the full 16 blocks or less, and has no penalty for multiple casts in one hex. Ambit works strangely with repeated casts of this spell because each blink shifts my ambit to my new position.
I could be there in a heartbeat.
Conjure Compass (vector, vector →)
Conjures a compass at the location pointing towards the second vector. Costs three dust.
The compass does not remember the dimension it was formed in, so regardless of dimension, it points towards the same location. If read with Scribe's Reflection, it returns a unit vector pointing towards the location inside it.
Aye, the compass doesn't point North. But we're not trying to find North, are we?
I hear rumors of a sorcerer illager that can summon fangs from the ground. While I find it hard to believe that villagers can shift media, I have taken inspiration from those myths and created this spell that brings forth spikes from the ground to skewer targets.
Conjure Spike (vector, vector, number →)
Takes a non-air position, an axis vector, and a delay in seconds up to ten seconds long and conjures a spike at that location. Costs one shard.
Each spike takes about a half second to strike and deal a hefty three full hearts of damage. If I attempt to cast this spell where a spike has already been primed, it will do nothing. Spikes will also throw back targets in the direction they were conjured.
Conjured staves are not unlike cyphers. They have a battery for casting and when they run out, unable to consume my health or my inventory's stash for media. They are not rechargable or reprogrammable, and using Erase Item on it simply destroys it. However, its true power is input interception.
Conjure Staff (vec, num, num, [pattern] →)
Conjures a staff at the location with the amount of media, rank, and Hex respectively.
This is my staff. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
When I use my primary or secondary use keys while holding a conjured staff, it intercepts my click, preventing me from interacting with the world while holding it. After a number of clicks corresponding to the rank I assigned at conjuration, it casts the Hex I gave it, starting the stack with false and true, corresponding to the left and right clicks respectively. If I pause for too long between clicks, it simply cancels the current "cast".
The spell is not too expensive, requiring only an amethyst shard, an amethyst dust for every rank, and the media for the battery. The result is a speedy and versatile casting device, with infinitely more possibilities and no cooldown compared to other casting devices.
Not only that, conjured staves feature an iota storage that can only be edited from the staff itself.
Staff Reflection (→ any)
Reads the iota from the conjured staff's inner storage.
Staff Gambit (any →)
Writes an iota to the conjured staff's inner storage. Does not allow player references.
Wand Reflection (→ boolean)
Pushes whether this Hex is currently being cast by a conjured staff.
When the media courses through the boundaries of a circle, it saturates the domain inside the circle with media, allowing me to manipulate the environment inside far more flexibly than I am used to. The following are some spells I've come across or developed, which are to only be cast by a spell circle.
Displace (entity, vector →)
For absolutely free, I can teleport an entity in my circle to anywhere else inside within the same circle. Unlike Greater Teleport, takes in world coordinates rather than an offset.
Media is the energy of thought, so it stands to reason that I should be able to simply think magic into existence rather than waving around a staff. After all, I have two chunks' worth of charged amethyst in me at my prime, double that of a staff. I am not yet great enough to shift arbitrary effects into reality but I can bring it forth a prepared Hex into existence, taking media from my inventory.
Internalize Hex (list of patterns →)
Internalizes a hex, allowing me to evoke that spell by pressing the R key to use it even without a staff. Costs one charged amethyst for etching process.
Evoker Purification (player entity → number)
Pushes how long since a player has been trying to evoke. Resets to 0 with every successful evocation and is -1 if they are not currently evoking.
Evoker Reflection (→ boolean)
Pushes whether evocation is being used to cast this pattern.
I have stumbled across some spells all about conjuring fireworks. The media hums quite festively around the patterns, as if they were once used for grand celebrations, although I shudder to imagine how effective they'd be as a weaponized projectile.
You don’t need to say anything. Just watch the fireworks.
Simulate Firework (vector, vector, number →)
Analyzes the firework star in my other hand and conjures a firework, with position, velocity, and flight time related to gunpowder amount. Costs one shard plus one dust for each additional gunpowder.
Conjure Firework (vec, vec, num, num, [dye], [dye], bool, bool →)
Conjures a firework of my exact specifications. It is one of the most complex spells I've discovered. Costs the same as the other firework spell.
Basic Theory
The first two parameters of the spell are simple position and velocity. The third parameter dictates flight duration, a number from 1 to 3. I can imagine it as being the amount of gunpowder I would add to a firework rocket.
The remaining parameters can be imagined as specifications for a virtual firework star.
Shape
The fourth parameter controls the shape of the explosion, based off a number 0 to 3.
- 0 is a simple, small ball-shaped explosion.
- 1 is a large ball-shaped explosion.
- 2 is a star-shaped explosion.
- 3 is a large creeper face-shaped explosion.
Colors
The fifth and sixth parameters are lists of dyes. The first list controls the colors of the firework's initial burst, while the second controls the colors that the first particles fade into. There must be at least one dye specified for the first list, but the second list can be empty if I do not want any fades.
Special Effects
The seventh parameter controls whether the particles of the firework flicker, as if adding glowstone to the virtual firework star.
The eighth parameter controls whether the particles of the firework leave trails, as if adding a diamond to the virtual firework star.
Getting Started
Hexical Changes
Items
Grimoires
Hex Candles
Living Scrolls
Media Jar
Genie Lamp
Mysterious Lamp
Offerings
Arch Lamps
Patterns
Enlightened Patterns
Hexical Patterns
Quasirandomness
Special Raycasts
Telepathy
Soroban Patterns
Hexical Metaevals
Akashic Utilities
Mage Blocks
Colors
Prestidigitation
Wristpocket
Specks
Hexical Spells
Conjure Compasses
Conjure Spike
Circle Spells
Evocation
Pyrotechnics
Scrying
Blocks
Entities
Identifiers
Items
Status Effects
Great Spells
Greater Blink
Meshes