Your first hour
- Read Magic for Dummies.
- Find a Torii Gate out in the world.
- Right-click it to learn DISCOVER, your first circle.
- Get a magic pen and some paper.
- Study in a proper workshop (an atelier) to learn your first circles.
- Find an Alchemist.
- Read Alchemy for Dummies.
Drawing circles
A circle is a short sequence of runes: a category, a function and a level. You have to learn a word before you can draw it, so each new circle is something you find, not something you look up. As you get better at drawing, the mod lets you type the letters instead.
Circles are drawn on a block face and project along it, so a ceiling circle works downward. Most circles have several levels: higher levels reach further and do more, at a higher mana cost. The Circles section lists every circle and its numbers per level.
Riker Loot and the Eye of Loot
Your next goal is Riker Loot. He doesn't wander in; he has to be called. Defeat him and his eye becomes the Eye of Loot, which reads mobs, circles and spell scrolls for you and opens your journal. Most of what comes later starts here.
How to call him is written down for you:
- Lost Knowledge scraps are brushed out of suspicious sand and gravel at desert pyramids, desert wells, ocean ruins and trail ruins, and turn up in chests in strongholds, desert pyramids, jungle temples, ancient cities and woodland mansions. One of them is about Riker. See Scrolls.
- Once you wear the Eye, daily quests arrive when you wake from a full night's sleep. Some of them pay out in tips, which go into your journal (Ctrl+Y). One of those tips is about Riker too.
Where to go from there
- Levels. Bigger circles need higher numerals, learned one rung at a time. See Magic Levels.
- Alchemy. The Philosopher's Stone is earned, not crafted, through a twelve-step process of riddles built from scraps of Lost Knowledge. See Alchemy Gates.
- Spells. Teachers each guard a signature spell. You can win a spell in a fight, and there is also a way to earn it without one.
- Stands. A Stand is awakened by a Stand Arrow, and Stand Arrows are found deep underground, in the ancient cities. The Arrow judges your soul, and not everyone is found worthy. Later, a daily-quest tip points the way to Deo. See Stands.
The temple dimension
Endgame only
The temple is where the final boss waits. Go there when your gear, spells and soul are ready for the last fight of the game.
The way in is minecart-kun: Learn magic DISCOVER, a minecart running fast will take you there. But do not worry, if you fall in the temple, it sends you home with nothing lost.
Choices matter
Most of progression has more than one route. How you level up, how you learn spells and how you beat a boss all change what the reward costs you. Spending your soul too freely has consequences of its own.