Magic skills

Magery, Evaluating Intelligence, Meditation, Resisting Spells, and Inscription — formulas and how to raise each skill.

Five skills govern the magic system. Magery is the foundation; the others amplify damage, sustain mana, resist incoming spells, or produce consumable scrolls.

Mana is a separate resource tracked independently of the hunger bar. The hunger bar still functions normally. See the magic system for spells, reagents, and casting details.

Magery

Effect: Determines cast success rate and scales spell damage.

Raises when: You attempt to cast any spell (success or failure both count).

Difficulty: Spell circle × 10 (Circle 1 = difficulty 10, Circle 8 = difficulty 80).

Cast success formula

base_success = (Magery - spell_circle × 10) + 50
INT_bonus    = INT / 5
final_success = base_success + INT_bonus

Capped at 5 % minimum and 100 % maximum.

Example: Magery 70, 5th-circle spell, INT 60

base_success  = (70 - 50) + 50 = 70 %
INT_bonus     = 60 / 5        = 12 %
final_success = 70 + 12       = 82 %

Casting time reduction

cast_time = (2000 ms + circle × 500 ms) × (1 − Magery_reduction)
Magery_reduction = min(Magery / 100 × 0.3, 0.3)   // max 30 % shorter

At Magery 100, all spells cast 30 % faster.

Spell damage scaling

Magery acts as the primary damage multiplier for attack spells:

Magery_modifier = Magery / 100   (range 0.1 – 1.0)

At Magery 0, spells deal 10 % of their base damage. At Magery 100, they deal full base damage (before Evaluating Intelligence is applied).

Evaluating Intelligence

Effect: Adds a damage multiplier to all magic attacks. Also lets you read an enemy’s current mana with /evaluate.

Raises when: You deal magic damage to a target.

Damage bonus formula

EvalInt_modifier = 0.5 + (Evaluating Intelligence / 100)   (range 0.5 – 1.5 → shown as 0.6 – 1.5 because minimum Magery is 0.1)

At skill 0 the multiplier is 0.5 (half magic damage). At skill 100 it is 1.5 (50 % more magic damage).

Full magic damage formula:

spell_damage = base_damage
             × (Magery / 100)
             × (0.5 + EvalInt / 100)
             × (1 − target_resist_reduction)

/evaluate command

Run /evaluate, then left-click a player in the targeting window.

• The plugin displays their current mana / max mana.
• At low skill the reading has up to ±20 % error; at skill 100 it is exact.

Example output: Steve's mana: 12 / 20

Meditation

Effect: Accelerates mana regeneration while you are sneaking and standing still.

Raises when: You recover mana during meditation.

Mana recovery details

Natural recovery (always active):

natural_regen = 0.5 × (1 + INT / 100)   per 5 seconds

• INT 0: 0.5 mana / 5 s
• INT 50: 0.75 mana / 5 s
• INT 100: 1.0 mana / 5 s

Meditation (requires sneaking still):

meditation_regen = 0.1 × (1 + Meditation / 100)   per 0.5 seconds

• Meditation 0: 0.1 mana / 0.5 s (0.2 mana / s)
• Meditation 100: 0.2 mana / 0.5 s (0.4 mana / s)

Other sources:

Item	Mana restored
Golden Apple	+5
Enchanted Golden Apple	+10

Combining high INT with high Meditation gives strong passive mana sustain. Between engagements, crouch and stand still to top up before the next fight.

Resisting Spells

Effect: Reduces incoming magic damage and improves resistance to magical status effects.

Raises when: You take magic damage.

Damage reduction formula

damage_reduction   = Resisting Spells × 0.7   (max 70 % at skill 100)
status_resistance  = Resisting Spells × 0.8   (max 80 % at skill 100)

Final damage received:

received = incoming_spell_damage × (1 − Resisting Spells × 0.7 / 100)

Skill	Damage reduction	Status resistance
0	0 %	0 %
50	35 %	40 %
100	70 %	80 %

Resisting Spells only raises from taking magic damage — you must actually be hit by spells. Early-game mages fighting you provide the best training opportunity.

Inscription

Effect: Creates magic scrolls that let anyone cast a spell once without a spellbook or reagents.

Raises when: You successfully create a scroll using /scribe <spell>.

Difficulty: Spell circle × 10 (same scale as Magery gain difficulty).

Scroll creation success rate

success_rate = Inscription − (spell_circle × 10) + 50 %

Capped at 10 % minimum and 95 % maximum.

Example: Inscription 70, 3rd-circle spell

success_rate = 70 - 30 + 50 = 90 %

On failure: paper is consumed, reagents are not.

Scroll quality and success bonuses

Scroll quality depends on your Inscription skill at the time of creation:

Quality	Skill threshold	Cast success bonus
Low Quality (LQ)	< 50	+10 %
Normal Quality (NQ)	50 – 69	+20 %
High Quality (HQ)	70 – 89	+30 %
Exceptional (EX)	90 – 100	+40 % + scribe’s name

The bonus adds to the reader’s own cast success rate when they use the scroll.

INT stat and magic skills

INT is the average of Magery, Evaluating Intelligence, Meditation, Resisting Spells, Inscription, and Animal Lore. Raising these skills directly increases INT, which in turn:

• Reduces all mana costs by up to 50 % (INT / 2 %)
• Adds a cast success bonus of up to 20 % (INT / 5 %)
• Increases natural mana regeneration

A build that maxes all five pure magic skills (Magery, Evaluating Intelligence, Meditation, Resisting Spells, Inscription) will reach INT ≈ 83 from those five alone, leaving the cap largely for non-magic skills.