Beginner's Guide to Blood Magic

[keybounce]

All I know about blood magic and digging is a giant ... actually, it only digs dirt/sand/etc, so it clears the surface off the ground. For a large chunk of life points.

I mean, I can understand the bound pick for clearing a room-sized hole, but the shovel?

 

[Padfoote]

All I know about blood magic and digging is a giant ... actually, it only digs dirt/sand/etc, so it clears the surface off the ground. For a large chunk of life points.

I mean, I can understand the bound pick for clearing a room-sized hole, but the shovel?

For those times you need to move an entire desert in a day.

 

[Zaflis]

What am i doing wrong? After getting Tier 2 altar and Apprentice orb i wanted to make some runes of self sacrifice. They are supposed to increase LP gain with sacrificial knife, but i'm still getting only 200 LP each time. I replaced 4 blood runes that were in the corners with sacrificial runes. Speed runes in the middle seem to work very well, increasing the crafting speed and altar's LP seems to be used faster than without.

 

[Padfoote]

What am i doing wrong? After getting Tier 2 altar and Apprentice orb i wanted to make some runes of self sacrifice. They are supposed to increase LP gain with sacrificial knife, but i'm still getting only 200 LP each time. I replaced 4 blood runes that were in the corners with sacrificial runes. Speed runes in the middle seem to work very well, increasing the crafting speed and altar's LP seems to be used faster than without.

What modpack are you running? I had the same exact issue a while back. Never could trace it back to anything though.

 

[Zaflis]

What modpack are you running? I had the same exact issue a while back. Never could trace it back to anything though.

This is recommended version of Magic Farm 2 (Blood Magic v1.0.1c.zip in the mods\ ).

I did another test by putting the sacrificial runes in the middle slots and they worked. So it seems tier 2 altar can only support 4 upgrade runes, not the corners?

 

[Padfoote]

So it seems tier 2 altar can only support 4 upgrade runes, not the corners?

No, it can definitely handle all 8 being self-sacrifice runes / any combination. I think it's a mod incompatibility issue, since I had the same exact issue on a modified DW20 pack, but no issue with just BM or in a modified Monster. I just wasn't able to find what did it.

Edit: I was corrected below.

 

[madnewmy]

it seems that when you have a tier 2 altar, you need to fill the non corner first. I experienced that in monster, MF2 and AgS

 

[Steel]

What am i doing wrong? After getting Tier 2 altar and Apprentice orb i wanted to make some runes of self sacrifice. They are supposed to increase LP gain with sacrificial knife, but i'm still getting only 200 LP each time. I replaced 4 blood runes that were in the corners with sacrificial runes. Speed runes in the middle seem to work very well, increasing the crafting speed and altar's LP seems to be used faster than without.

The tier 2 altar only supports 4 active rune slots, the ones at the four compass directions. The corner slots need to be filled, but they will have none of their usual effects. Once you get to tier 3, all runes will take effect.

 

[SwiftLilEagle]

For those times you need to move an entire desert in a day.

Lol he thinks the bound shovel is ridiculous? Let's wait till he gets to spells xP

 

[Talonar]

For those times you need to move an entire desert in a day.

I actually did pretty much this because I needed ALOT of sand for my glass dome fortress I 'was' planning. Eeeh, I still haven't finished it but I believe after digging out a biomes worth of sand I shouldn't need any more sand for a long time

 

[RedBoss]

If I use Thaumcraft, I can categorize myself as a Thaumaturge. With BM, would I be a Blood Mage? An Alchemical Wizard? These are the silly questions I ponder after yard work in 100°F weather.

 

[PurpleMentat]

If I use Thaumcraft, I can categorize myself as a Thaumaturge. With BM, would I be a Blood Mage? An Alchemical Wizard? These are the silly questions I ponder after yard work in 100°F weather.

Sanguimancer.

 

[RedBoss]

Sanguimancer.

You Sir. That is as smooth as butter. But I expect no less of a Mentat.

 

[YX33A]

So, I'm pretty far into blood magic, and I realize, I've never used any spells in it. Go looking for some documentation on the effects, and find there is nothing for the advanced spells. Anyone found anything like that on here?

I was working on a guide in the style of the guides here and realized that I know very little about it beyond what WayOfTime said in his video on them.

 

[Wagon153]

Direwolf20 just did a spotlight on blood magic, including the spell system.

 

[Padfoote]

Direwolf20 just did a spotlight on blood magic, including the spell system.

TBH I'd rather fumble around with the spell system for a few days than watch the "IHateFun" spotlight.

 

[dwappo]

TBH I'd rather fumble around with the spell system for a few days than watch the "IHateFun" spotlight.

I don't get it, I thought it was a pretty awesome/informative spotlight.

 

[Eruantien]

Well, then, I'm gonna have to watch it.
If he gets that deep into the spells...

 

[WayofTime]

Well, then, I'm gonna have to watch it.
If he gets that deep into the spells...

Like most of his spotlights, it is more of a general overview of mechanics. I think @PurpleMentat is making a very in-depth tutorial on the individual paradigms.

 

[SatanicSanta]

I don't get it, I thought it was a pretty awesome/informative spotlight.

I think what @Padfoote is saying is that DW20 spotlights are boring, and it doesn't seem like DW is even enjoying himself.