Getting Started

The Basic Arcana
The Basic Arcana is a guide book for a magic apprentice containing details about the Mana System and Spell casting, as well as 9 basic spells. The spells included are Practice, Blaze, Winter Roar, Gills, Zephyr, Locate Ore, Electrocute, Growth, and Light Sword.

There are three challenges to prove you're worthy of magic; the first and easiest way is to create a golem (either snow or iron will work); the second way is to enchant an item with an Enchanting Table; and the third and final way is to brew a potion in a Brewing Stand.

Upon completing one of these tasks, a Phoenix will appear near you. Simply right-click it, and a Basic Arcana will appear in your inventory. However, make sure your inventory isn't full, because if it is, the book will be given to you but will disappear. If this happens you'll have to redo all three challenges to get a new Basic Arcana to show up.

Getting a Wand
The Basic Arcana describes the basics of the magic system of the mod, from mana to spellcasting. The first thing you want to do after so is creating your wand. The recipe is as follows: In the top right corner is a stick, in the middle is a gold ingot and in the bottom left corner is a diamond.

Learning Spells
Now that you have your wand, you are half-way through getting to cast spells. First, you'll need to learn them. You may have noticed that your Basic Book of Magic had a few spells in it that you could learn. To cast these spells, you must first place your book in a podium.

To craft a podium, you need four logs of one type of wood in all four corners of the crafting grid, two slabs of that same type of wood on the top and bottom squares of the grid, and a bookshelf at the centre (if the wood used comes from the mod, the bookshelf must also be of the same type of wood used). Then, you place your podium and you right-click the front of it (Not the top!) with your spellbook and it will be placed on the podium.

Now, to learn a spell, you must flip the pages of the book by either right-clicking the right side or the left side of the top of the podium until you find a spell you want to learn. Then, holding your wand, you sneak, hold the spell wheel button (v by default) and right-click the page. The spell should now appear on the spell wheel.

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