Changelog

0.7.0 - 2026-09-13

• Reduced the base recipe to 10 core wood, 5 fine wood, 2 silver and 1 black core. Upgrades now use core wood, fine wood and silver with native quality scaling.
• Added one historical base-recipe reimbursement per eligible character when their old wand is in their inventory. Return 20 Yggdrasil wood, 30 refined eitr, 5 black cores and 2 red gemstones; keep the wand, fill available inventory space and drop the remainder at the player's feet. Notify that player through local chat.
• Require the wand's recorded crafter/upgrader to match the local character. Exclude new-recipe wands, known cheated items and existing claims. Historical upgrade costs and other mods' price changes cannot be reconstructed from old saves.
• Reserve a durable receipt before delivery and preserve character/item markers. Empty, interrupted or corrupt receipts block repeat awards; ambiguous inventory/drop failures stop without automatically retrying. Preserve the refund receipt folder across mod/profile updates.
• Mark native newly created and upgraded wands before inventory insertion, including positioned upgrades, without patching global attack or crafting UI methods.
• Added 101 refund scenarios covering 1,120 assertions, including real-file concurrent claims, interrupted delivery, rollback, replay and crafting-scope cleanup.
• Added default SilverCore appearance: wood body, shiny silver base and a faintly emissive dark-purple core tip. Preserve the same mesh, size and grip. Choose ClassicWood in the local visual config to restore the previous appearance immediately.
• Update modded clients and servers together to 0.7.x. Native API checks and deterministic builds passed; live Valheim refund delivery, crafting compatibility, appearance and multiplayer validation remain required before public release.

0.6.3 - 2026-09-12

• Removed Spirit Orb from active custom spells, including casting, sound and local/remote effects. Custom Lightning Strike remains disabled.
• Numpad + now cycles Lumos → Telekinesis. Their controls, the default-Off/server-controlled custom setting and native staff alternate casting are retained.
• Updated the description and config help; kept inactive spell code and stable identifiers for future work.

0.6.2 - 2026-09-12

• Temporarily disabled custom Lightning Strike, including selection, casting and remote visual playback/relay. Retained its implementation for a future return.
• Numpad + now cycles Spirit Orb → Lumos → Telekinesis. Their existing controls and Protection alternate remain.
• Updated the description and config help. Native staff spells, including the separate Deep North Lightning Strike, are unchanged.

0.6.1 - 2026-09-12

• Restored the earlier lightning style, removing 0.6.0's added HDR material boost, glow shells and thin tributaries/forks.
• Raised the blue strike origin to 300 m above its target and moved the purple gathering to 280–320 m overhead. Preserved the orbital circle, fast purple → blue → red timing and single impact at 1.15 seconds.
• Kept materials local to each strike, the eight-visual limit and cleanup. No global lightning, camera, fog or bloom setting is changed. The reported interaction with other lightning could not be reproduced here.
• Retained 0.6.0 telekinesis following, held raising, pulling and momentum release.
• Shortened the description with a quick overview, clear controls and telekinesis instructions. Kept Gaakrin's MagicTweaks credit; moved the full reference to the source ZIP.

0.6.0 - 2026-09-12

• Added emissive lightning cores, wider soft glow and attached thin tributaries/forks. Kept the purple → blue → red sequence and single damage impact at 1.15 seconds.
• Capped lightning presentation at eight simultaneous instances, with bounded geometry and material/texture cleanup; damage remains independent of visual eviction.
• Telekinesis now follows player movement and camera aim at a retained distance. Held secondary raises it; held Block brings it closer.
• Acquisition remains held when its button is released. A later short secondary tap releases existing swing momentum; holding instead raises and keeps the target. Primary keeps the 32 m/s powered expulsion.
• Added collision-aware follow targets, responsive velocity tracking, stale/blocked hold cleanup, and velocity-preserving fling impact monitoring. Menu/policy/death cleanup cannot trigger a fling.
• Preserved Lumos, Spirit Orb, native Protection and all staff progression/network behavior. Custom spells remain Off by default and server-controlled.
• Isolated custom test build directories so linked test programs cannot share stale apphost/incremental outputs. Added follow/gesture/control regressions; actual gameplay and visuals still require in-game checks.

0.5.0 - 2026-09-12

• Condensed Plus cycling to Spirit Orb → Lumos → Lightning Strike → Telekinesis.
• Telekinesis now uses secondary attack to lift/release, held Block to pull closer and primary attack to throw. Increased throw speed 24 → 32 m/s while retaining damage caps, ownership, costs and cleanup.
• Disabled the blue custom forward shield and its damage hook. Spirit Orb/Lightning secondary now uses the full native Protection spell with its own unlock, recorded level, costs and effects. Custom selection remains intact; saved Dead Raiser cannot redirect it to Trollstav.
• Retained the lightning targeting circle; added high purple sky buildup, a bright blue downward strike impacting at 1.15 seconds, then red lightning rising from the ground. Damage occurs once at the blue impact.
• Renamed Magical Light to Lumos; its wisp appearance, passive behavior and 30-second detached lights are preserved.
• Added a quiet short casting sound to Spirit Orb, with native audio lookup and a soft synthesized fallback. Remote launches sound once; failed/duplicate casts do not.
• Preserved Off-default/server-controlled custom policy, native spell progression, client-only vanilla support, artwork and held model. Update installed clients/server together to 0.5.x.
• Added focused controls, native Protection and lightning timeline regressions. In-game appearance, audio, physics and networking still require testing.

0.4.0 - 2026-09-12

• Added wand-only custom casting, default Off under [Custom Spells] Custom Added Spells = On/Off. Local worlds use the local choice; a modded server controls clients. An unmodded/unconfirmed server always means Off.
• Added configurable Numpad + cycling: Spirit Orb, Magical Light, Lightning Strike, Levitate, In / Out, Expulsion. Existing numbered keys and Enter retain native staff selection. No Fallen Valkyrie spell is included.
• Spirit Orb fires rapid Spirit/Lightning projectiles. Lightning calls an aimed area strike with blue/violet effects, optional available native red-lightning color, thunder and one hit per target.
• Wisp-like light follows the tip while equipped. Left-click throws a light; right-click places it at the tip's current position. Detached lights last 30 seconds and survive ordinary spell switches/unequip.
• Spirit Orb and Lightning right-click create a blue forward barrier with directional caster-only damage absorption, finite capacity and duration.
• Levitate holds eligible mobs/objects; hold left/right in In / Out to pull/push. Expulsion throws them and applies native impact damage to both health-bearing objects, including chop damage to struck trees. Delayed impacts retain launch skill/world data.
• Added confirmed-peer visual relay and server permission renewal. Policy/world/death/ownership cleanup removes ongoing custom gameplay. New effects require explicit server support; no custom network-prefab registration is needed.
• Kept custom input blocked after permission loss until explicit native selection, preventing accidental stale staff casts. New queued custom/native choices cancel older choices from the other selector.
• Preserved native complete-spell alternates, highest recorded staff levels, carrier networking, inventory transparency and small held model. MagicTweaks notice and Gaakrin inspiration credit remain.
• Added focused custom controller, policy, shield, light motion and telekinesis snapshot checks. Real Unity rendering, damage/physics and multiplayer testing remain required.

0.3.2 - 2026-09-12

• Made alternate casting a built-in wand feature, enabled by default under [Casting] Enable Alternate Casting. Disabling it restores the selected source's native secondary behavior.
• Right-click casts unlocked Trollstav with Dead Raiser selected, otherwise unlocked Protection. Left-click and the saved primary selection are preserved.
• Retained full native alternate spell data and its separately recorded level, costs, skills, restrictions and delayed-effect snapshots. No manual shield or extra summon is applied.
• Prevented repeated/opposite clicks during an active cast from replacing its target data or level before the trigger frame.
• Removed the MagicTweaks casting integration and soft dependency. Detection now logs a compatibility notice after plugin initialization; remove incompatible MagicTweaks 1.0.0 and restart. This release does not disable that separate DLL's global attack patches.
• Built-in alternate casting inspired by MagicTweaks by Gaakrin. No MagicTweaks code or assets are bundled.
• Preserved optional server installation, vanilla-spell networking, visuals and saved progression. Added regressions with MagicTweaks absent; actual shield absorption, summons and multiplayer still require in-game verification.

0.3.1 - 2026-09-11

• Fixed the MagicTweaks right-click adapter carrying Embers item data with a copied Protection animation, leaving out the target spell's status-effect and skill data.
• Run the complete native Protection source through the secondary slot at the character's recorded Protection level. Dead Raiser uses the complete Trollstav source at its recorded level.
• Keep the wand's own identity and selected primary spell during alternate casts; no manual shield lookup or MagicTweaks secondary initialization is required.
• Added three regressions covering shield data through the trigger frame, missing MagicTweaks initialization, and correct alternate data for every primary mode.
• Retained the 0.3.0 network protocol, controls, unlocks, icon and model. In-game shield and multiplayer verification remain outstanding.

0.3.0 - 2026-09-11

• Added client-only operation for all twelve vanilla spells; Universal Wand is now optional on the server and other clients.
• Publish the selected vanilla staff's equipment identity while restoring the custom wand model locally for viewers with Universal Wand.
• Store and drop wands through a vanilla Staff of Embers carrier with a versioned item marker, retaining selection and physical quality through standard item serialization.
• Migrate older custom-prefab inventory records before Valheim replaces their custom data; normalize legacy dropped items when loaded with the mod.
• Prevent the carrier from granting an unearned Embers unlock and clear visual markers when another weapon is equipped.
• Preserve hidden-item visuals, highest source levels, delayed casting snapshots, bindings, transparent icon and existing hand-aligned geometry.
• Require confirmed server support for the optional custom Staffs of Fracturing projectiles; absent-server variants are skipped without deleting progression.
• Added client compatibility regressions and checked every new Harmony target and argument against the supplied Valheim 1.0.12 assembly. Live multiplayer testing remains required.

0.2.0 - 2026-09-11

• Rebuilt against the supplied Valheim 1.0.12 game and Unity assemblies; requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 and Jotunn 2.30.0 or later.
• Replaced private equipment-member access with public Valheim 1.0 APIs; no publicized game reference is required.
• Added Echo Spike, Spirit Caller, Northern Vengeance and Lightning Strike with independent unlocks and highest-level progression.
• Added configurable Numpad Enter cycling for unlocked Deep North staffs, preserving all existing keys and saved progress.
• Captured wand-only casting snapshots for delayed projectiles, area effects and summons so later switches cannot change their level or source data.
• Protected physical wand quality during item saving and inventory cloning, including saves/drops during a cast.
• Preserved native combat/crafting paths, optional integrations, transparent inventory icon and held model.

0.1.6 - 2026-09-11

• Replaced direct publicized-only gameplay-input access with a cached runtime method binding, preserving Valheim's own menu and typing guards.
• Restored active-backend keyboard support through BepInEx UnityInput.Current, while retaining tolerance for unrelated held gameplay keys.
• Enabled compiler support for access to game members through publicized references.
• Aligned the plugin's .NET Standard 2.1 target with its Unity 6000 reference assemblies.
• Isolated update stages and added deduplicated error reporting so a maintenance failure cannot silently disable selection.
• Made selection and queued switching use the same current-weapon lookup as casting.
• Process explicit selection requests before refreshing the prior mode, and only commit fallback state after its source view is prepared successfully.
• Added 17 executable integration scenarios covering all eight vanilla selections, unlocks, highest staff levels, queued switching and unequipping, MagicTweaks alternates, input backends and exception recovery.
• Corrected the build script to execute its regression runners.

0.1.5 - 2026-09-01

• Fixed a gameplay input bug where BepInEx's exact KeyboardShortcut.IsDown() modifier test could reject Numpad selection whenever movement, sprint, or another unrelated keyboard key was held.
• Replaced exact-shortcut polling with main-key polling that requires configured modifiers but ignores unrelated gameplay keys.
• Added [Testing] Unlock All Spells, a live non-persistent override that exposes every resolved spell at level 1 while preserving legitimately recorded higher levels.
• Added explicit selection diagnostics: detected locked requests, successful spell/level selections, and resolved-source application failures now produce distinct feedback/log entries.
• Renamed keybind config entries from Slot 0–Slot 9 to the corresponding staff names.
• Added automatic one-time migration of existing slot-key values and removal of the obsolete slot entries.
• Strengthened immediate progression recognition by checking both the current weapon and right-hand item when they differ.
• Preserved the confirmed 0.1.4 MagicTweaks shield path, native combat isolation, crafting isolation, icon, and held model.
• Expanded pure core coverage from 20 to 23 checks.

0.1.4 - 2026-09-01

• Hardened source-staff recognition after runtime testing showed that Frost worked but other acquired/used staffs could remain locked.
• Added stable source-name and attack/projectile identity fallbacks for cloned or rewritten inventory item instances.
• Added an immediate, read-only progression check when a non-wand source staff begins an attack; normal weapons still return directly to Valheim and cannot be cancelled by this check.
• Contained progression-scan exceptions so a bad inventory item cannot stop Numpad selection or wand updates; failed scans retry automatically.
• Explicitly excludes the Universal Wand itself from progression recognition so its temporary casting view or physical quality can never grant/upgrade a source spell.
• Added optional soft-dependency compatibility with MagicTweaks 1.0.0.
• With MagicTweaks installed, wand right-click casts unlocked Protection normally or unlocked Trollstav while Dead Raiser is selected.
• Alternate casts use the target spell's highest recorded source-staff level and a fresh live MagicTweaks secondary-attack view.
• Prevented normal selection refresh from replacing a MagicTweaks compatibility view during an active attack.
• Expanded pure core coverage from 17 to 20 checks.

0.1.3 - 2026-08-31

• Removed the InventoryGui.DoCrafting Harmony patch that could stall AzuCraftyBoxes and normal crafting. Inventory scanning now observes completed crafts/upgrades without touching the crafting pipeline.
• Removed every Attack.OnAttackTrigger and Attack.FireProjectileBurst patch after runtime testing showed that they could suppress damage and spell projectiles for unrelated weapons.
• Kept only one fail-open Humanoid.StartAttack boundary. It exits immediately for non-wands, so swords and original staffs stay entirely on Valheim's native path.
• Changed source-level handling to a wand-only cast lease: the recorded staff quality remains active for the wand's complete attack and is restored as soon as that attack finishes or fails.
• Added exception containment so a Universal Wand preparation failure logs an error but cannot cancel a normal weapon attack.
• Added live-SharedData fallback recognition for source staffs whose inventory prefab name is unavailable or altered by another mod.
• Preserved the 0.1.2 transparent inventory icon and corrected half-size hand-aligned model unchanged.

0.1.2 - 2026-08-31

• Removed personal-name branding from the plugin GUID, assembly metadata, license, save keys, source, and packaged files.
• Separated the artwork outputs: Thunderstore keeps the neutral gray presentation, while the embedded in-game icon uses a genuinely transparent background.
• Reworked progression so carrying a source staff, crafting/upgrading it, or successfully casting it unlocks the matching spell reliably.
• Added versioned per-character source-quality progression. The highest source-staff level ever acquired or used is retained for each spell and never downgraded.
• Applied that stored source quality during the complete native cast path, including delayed projectile bursts, while preserving the Universal Wand's own quality and durability outside each cast.
• Migrated older Boolean unlocks as level 1 without retaining the former identifying save-key prefix.
• Reduced the held model to half its previous dimensions, made it completely straight, removed the permanent tip object, and placed its wooden base at the hand attachment point.
• Expanded pure core coverage from 15 to 17 checks.

0.1.1 - 2026-08-31

• Added optional soft-dependency compatibility with Staffs of Fracturing 1.0.0.
• Added Iolite, Jade, and Bloodstone to the Fracturing family without taking additional direct-selection keys.
• Repeated Fracturing-key presses now cycle through installed and individually unlocked family entries in a stable order.
• Added per-character craft-or-successful-cast unlock handling for each Fracturing variant.
• Kept clean fallback behavior when the optional mod or a previously selected variant is absent.
• Replaced the runtime model with an actual three-sided wooden stick with flat triangular caps.
• Enlarged the cyan tip orb and centered its core directly on the wand endpoint in both the runtime model and icon.
• Expanded pure core coverage from 10 to 15 checks and added supplied-DLL identifier verification.

0.1.0 - 2026-08-29

• Added the quality 1–4 Universal Wand with a lightweight faceted, subtly irregular continuous-taper wood model and matching low-poly original icon.
• Added eight data-driven adapters for the current vanilla magic roster.
• Added exact default Numpad 0–9 mapping with slots 6 and 7 reserved.
• Added per-character craft-or-successful-cast unlock progression and spoiler-safe locked feedback.
• Added per-item selected-mode persistence and safe queued switching during attacks.
• Added configurable live BepInEx shortcuts, deterministic duplicate handling, HUD notices, and pooled switch flash.
• Added EveryoneMustHaveMod/Minor network enforcement and dedicated-server visual guards.
• Added tests, deterministic-build checks, package validation, source archive, architecture notes, and the Valheim 1.0 maintenance plan.