Your affinities

1. What it is
2. How to use it
3. How to get it
   1. Fire
   2. Frost
   3. Storm
   4. Wind
   5. Earth
   6. Life
   7. Void
   8. Arcane
   9. Time
   10. Blood
4. The daily allowance
5. Leaning
6. Resisting other casters
7. Tips and counterplay

What it is

You have an affinity with each of the ten elements. It grows with what you do: cast fire, smelt ore and fight in the Nether, and fire comes easier. Each level makes that element’s spells a little stronger. From III you resist it, and at V its spells cost less. Even a mastered element is only 15% stronger.

How to use it

Level	Points (in all)	That element’s spells	Others’ spells of it on you	Its spells cost
none yet	0
I	100	+3% power
II	600	+6% power
III	1,800	+9% power	10% softer
IV	4,500	+12% power	15% softer
V	10,000	+15% power	20% softer	10% less

• Power means everything the element’s runes do: damage, healing, shields, pushes.
• It counts on spells you cast from your Cord, imbued items and glyphs. Scrolls and passives don’t get it.
• Mixed spells get each element’s bonus on its own effects. At V the price cut applies to that element’s share: half fire, half frost costs 5% less with Fire V.
• Every level is announced. The first level of each element condenses 100 mana toward your next Heart Circle.

How to get it

Three things raise every element:

What	Points	A day, at most
Casting its spells	1 for every 10 mana its effects cost (a Fire Bolt, 12 mana, is 1.2)	100, then a tenth as fast
Setting off a reaction it takes part in	3 to each element in it (at most one reaction a second counts)	45
Finding a creature weak to it (a new weakness in your Bestiary)	25	100

Casting counts the mana you actually paid, split between the spell’s elements. Passives, imbued items, scrolls and Creative mode count for nothing.

Which elements a reaction feeds:

Reaction	Feeds	Reaction	Feeds
Shatter	Fire, Frost	Fracture	Earth, Frost
Conduct	Storm, Frost	Blight	Life, Void
Wildfire	Fire, Wind	Unweave	Arcane
Implode	Void, Fire	Rupture	Wind, Blood
Collapse	Void, Wind	Elapse	Time
Overload	Storm, Fire

And everyday things feed the element they fit. “Every 5 seconds” means for every 5 seconds you spend doing it.

Fire

What	Points	A day, at most
Smelting: taking what a furnace, blast furnace or smoker made (by hand; a hopper counts for nobody)	1 per 4 items	30
Killing with fire: a creature that dies burning, or to fire, by your hand or spell	2 each	30
Being on fire and living through it (not with Fire Resistance)	1 every 5 seconds	15
Standing near lava in the Nether (within 3 blocks)	1 every 10 seconds	15

Frost

In Wildercord, water magic belongs to frost.

What	Points	A day, at most
Catching fish: anything a fishing rod reels in from the water	3 each	30
Snowy and frozen lands, or standing on ice	1 every 10 seconds	15
Frozen stiff (in powder snow, say) and living through it	1 every 5 seconds	15

Storm

What	Points	A day, at most
Out under a thunderstorm, with the open sky over you	1 every 5 seconds	30
Struck by lightning and living through it (a real bolt, not a spell)	40	80
A lightning rod struck within 16 blocks of you	8	24

Wind

What	Points	A day, at most
Flying with an elytra	1 per 100 blocks	30
A long fall that hurts for 3 hearts or more, survived	4	20
High over the world: above y 200 in the Overworld	1 every 10 seconds	15

Earth

What	Points	A day, at most
Mining natural stone with a pickaxe: stone, deepslate, granite, diorite, andesite, tuff, netherrack, basalt, blackstone	1 per 10 blocks	15
Mining ores with the right pickaxe	1 each	30
Deep underground: below y 0	1 every 10 seconds	15

Life

What	Points	A day, at most
Harvesting ripe crops (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, nether wart…)	1 per 4	25
Breeding animals	3 each	30
Healing others with your spells (allies, pets): what it actually restored	1 per 2 hearts	30
Taming an animal (a wolf, a cat, a horse, a parrot…)	10	20

Void

What	Points	A day, at most
Time in the End	1 every 10 seconds	20
Slaying endermen, endermites and shulkers	2 each	30
Throwing ender pearls	1 each	15
Time in the deep dark	1 every 5 seconds	20

Arcane

What	Points	A day, at most
Enchanting an item at an enchanting table	5	30
Meditating (sneak and stand still, wearing a Cord)	1 every 10 seconds	20
Reading a Torn Page (a new riddle)	10	30
Learning a new rune	15	60
Standing on a ley line	1 every 10 seconds	20

Time

What	Points	A day, at most
Watching a whole night: out under the night sky for most of it (four fifths), awake, until dawn	20 at dawn	20
Aging the world with time magic: each crop, sapling, young animal, copper block or furnace your time spells hurry on	1 each	20
Carrying a clock in either hand	1 every 20 seconds	10

Blood

What	Points	A day, at most
Kills in melee (with your own hand or blade)	2 each	30
Paying a Blood Price	1 per point of health	40
A heavy blow: 4 hearts or more in one hit from a creature or another player, survived	3	21

The daily allowance

Each way of gaining points has its own daily cap, so nothing can be farmed. A day is one in-game day of play (about 20 minutes); sleeping doesn’t reset it sooner. Casting never stops counting, but past 100 a day it slows to a tenth. Killing players, Creative mode and spectating earn nothing. Hover an element in the Grimoire to see every way to raise it and its cap.

Leaning

Your leaning is your deepest affinity: level I or more, with at least a quarter more points than any other element. Your Heart Circles and charging circles take its colour, and the first time you earn the Leaning feat.

Resisting other casters

From level III, that element’s spells hurt you less, whoever cast them (Runebound, bosses, players).

• Only damage is reduced. Slows, freezes and knockback land as normal.
• A reaction breaks through it.
• It stacks with your other defences.

Tips and counterplay

• Live your element. A fire caster who also smelts and fights in the Nether grows twice as fast.
• Spread out. Each element has its own caps, so a day of fishing, farming and mining grows three.
• Find weaknesses. Each new one in your Bestiary is 25 points and 25 mana for your heart.
• Set off reactions. Each feeds both its elements.
• Resisting starts at III. If one element keeps hurting you, grow that one.
• A server can switch affinities off or change how fast they grow.