# Magical Items and Arcana Skill \[No longer merged, hosted on Github\]

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288>\
**Category:** The Lab\
**Tags:** mod\
**Created:** [August 8, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288 "2015-08-08T23:31:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/81 "2015-10-27T01:14:44Z")

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…have you tested it? \>.\>

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**Author:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/82 "2015-10-27T01:15:56Z")

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…gave up on npc’s before getting to that point…

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/83 "2015-10-27T01:16:45Z")

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Ah. Well…scheisse. Testing it the hard way now. If it doesn’t work as intended, I will eat you. o3o

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**Author:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/84 "2015-10-27T01:18:35Z")

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…Can I offer you a clone instead?.. Ill dig thorough the source code tomorrow if it doesn’t work. I am at school right now and after I get out I am regeneration for the night.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/85 "2015-10-27T01:23:40Z")

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Huehuehue. Tempting. Been source diving too. If this doesn’t work I’ll see if starting\_inv or starting\_gear or whatever might be valid properties, but I’ve finally got past all the errors so now it’ll start the game.

EDIT: Fuck.

![](http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz27/Chaosvolt/Assorted%20Cataclysm%20screenshots/shit_zpspldbvood.png)

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**Author:** ![Midaychi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Midaychi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Midaychi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/86 "2015-10-31T04:24:31Z")

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Poor human corpse. We hardly knew ye.

 ![](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/vjusnsavnexmrbt/spooky.png)

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/87 "2015-10-31T04:33:53Z")

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Eheheheh. It only gets more Fun from there, trust me.

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**Author:** ![Midaychi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Midaychi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Midaychi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/88 "2015-10-31T04:53:57Z")

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Well I was posting the pic more to show that the corpse is named “human corpse of human corpse”

Edit: Also if you wait around for an hour, all the monsters kill themselves on the pits.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/89 "2015-10-31T05:22:12Z")

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…oh wow, I just noticed that. What the fuck. .\_.

And yeah, I might have to replace the pits with shallow ones.

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**Author:** ![Midaychi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Midaychi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Midaychi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/90 "2015-10-31T05:30:37Z")

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Should make it “human corpse of human corpse of human corpse of human corpse of human corpse …” etc \

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/91 "2015-10-31T15:27:12Z")

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Hmm. Check the various map specials and such. Do their corpses bug like that? \>.\<

Because code-wise the corpses spawning there should act the same, aside from not being pulped (not some of the JSON-spawned corpses aren’t pulped).

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**Author:** ![Midaychi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Midaychi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Midaychi)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/92 "2015-11-01T19:15:55Z")

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The map specials are fine. Idk.

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**Author:** ![Logrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/logrin/32/209_2.png) [@Logrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Logrin)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/93 "2015-11-04T05:12:41Z")

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Loving it so far, great work. Had a few thoughts on additional trinkets.

\*What about a cudgel that can expend essence to give enemies the good old fashion hulk swing?

\*Or a mystical weapon that transforms (Press ‘A’ when wielded) like a sling that turns into a flail…

\*A consumable item (Like a token of strength or the like) that summons a very hostile and very OP monster to fight. Better yet if it only drops the same token when killed…

\*Magic traps?

I really, really like your little map dungeons.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/94 "2015-11-04T05:33:51Z")

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Hmm. I might see if some sort of item can be used to give disproportionate knockback relative to damage, maybe. Something like a baton of force, I guess you would call it?

Transforming weapons I’ve considered. Would be amusing for the Rod of Lordly Might. though gun-type weapons kinda can’t have any additional use actions. I have pondered one specific idea that I may or may not add sometime.

As for summoning, hmm. I’m half-tempted to make my next mapgen addition have the relevant boss be summoned rather than already present.

Magic traps, though? If only SET\_TRAP could allow for more versatility. ;w;

And…thank you. There are a few mapgen derps that I have a fix PR’d for. [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13886](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13886)

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**Author:** ![Logrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/logrin/32/209_2.png) [@Logrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Logrin)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/95 "2015-11-04T05:38:07Z")

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/96 "2015-11-04T05:40:30Z")

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Huehuehue. Been juggling too many PRs today. I still need to work on the mapgen that’ll be associated with the Sanguine Order. X3

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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/97 "2015-11-07T04:52:34Z")

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/98 "2015-11-07T05:12:40Z")

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I was sorely tempted to ponder magitech. Almost wonder if that mini-hakkero mentioned previously could factor into it.

In fact I was tempted to add a FF1 reference for my designated floating mapgen addition and have the boss monster be Warmech, before I went with the Archon instead.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/99 "2015-11-07T17:23:56Z")

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Id addition, while I’m pondering a good place to add a magic laser thingy, and while doing work on an aquatic structure, I’ve noticed a slight disparity in the three main crafting books. I hunger for ideas to fill this. owo

The Cleansing Flame:  
Book: The Cleansing Flame  
Tool: Hammer of The Hunter  
Melee: Incorruptable Sword  
Ranged: Wraithslayer Crossbow  
Armor: Gilded Aegis, Mask of Insight

Keepers of The Oath:  
Book: Oaths to The Chalice  
Tool: Offering Chalice  
Melee:  
Ranged: Symbol of Judgement  
Armor: Thunder Gauntlets

Sanguine Order:  
Book: Sanguine Codex  
Tool: Silver Athame  
Melee: Veinreaver  
Ranged: Hellfire Stave (need to fix the booklearn)  
Armor: Revenant Crown

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**Author:** ![Logrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/logrin/32/209_2.png) [@Logrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Logrin)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/magical-items-and-arcana-skill-no-longer-merged-hosted-on-github/10288/100 "2015-11-08T09:32:05Z")

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How’s this for a suggestion?

Penitent’s Knout - Acts as a whip but can be 'A’ctivated to self-flagellate, bestowing a ‘mystical fervor’ of some sort.

or perhaps:

Slumbering Spear - A heavy leaden spear that deals blunt damage, but may be briefly ‘awoken’ to preform a single powerful strike.

If it were possible I’d suggest a weapon that only functions at day/night

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Unrelated note, have you thought of added a morale bonus to some of this mods items for those that have the spiritual perk?

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