Playing together

Everything that happens when casters meet: parties, sharing spells, fighting side by side, and fighting each other.

Parties

What it is

A party is a group of up to 8 players. Party members can’t hurt each other, and your helpful spells (heals, shields, buffs) land on them.

How to use it

Command	What it does
/party or /party list	Shows your party
/party invite <player>	Invites a player. The invitation lasts 60 seconds.
/party accept <player>	Joins that player’s party
/party decline <player>	Turns down an invitation
/party leave	Leaves your party
/party kick <member>	Removes a member (leader only)
/party disband	Ends the party (leader only)

• Only the leader can invite, kick and disband. If the leader leaves, the member who joined earliest becomes leader.
• You can send one invitation a second, with up to 8 waiting at once.
• Your party lasts through death and logging out, but ends when the server restarts.

The full rules are on the Parties page.

What a party does

• No friendly fire. Your spells, weapons, arrows and pets can’t hurt party members or their pets.
• Helpful spells reach them. A Heal aimed at a party member works, just as it does for a teammate.
• Chorus together. Party members count as allies for a chorus.
• Shared hearths. Party members can charge each other’s Runic Hearths.
• Duels still work. Two party members can still agree to a duel.

Sword Master trials

Up to 8 challengers can fight a Sword Master together. Being in a party doesn’t sign you up: each challenger joins the trial on their own. A party is still worth it, so your spells spare each other during the fight.

Sharing spells

Way	What they get	Need the runes?	Need a Cord?
A spell code	The recipe, to thread themselves	Yes: only runes they know load	Yes
A Spell Scroll	One cast of your spell	No	No
A Knot	Your whole spell as one rune, for good	No	Yes, one that holds the Knot’s tier
The runes themselves	Runes to learn	They learn them from the items	Yes

Spell codes

Every spell can be written as a short code that starts with wc:, such as wc:bolt.frost.split. A code holds up to 12 runes.

1. Open the Cord screen (K), pick the spell and press Copy spell code.
2. Paste it into chat. Everyone sees a spell card in the spell’s colour.
3. Hover the card to read the spell. Click it to copy the code.

To load a code, copy it, open the Cord screen, pick the spell row to replace and press Paste spell code. Only runes you know and your Cord can hold are loaded; you’re told how many were left out.

A code carries runes only: no ranks, names or Knots. To share a Knot, give the Knot itself. See The Cord Screen.

Spell Scrolls

A Spell Scroll is one of your spells on paper. Anyone can cast it once, without a Cord or the runes.

To inscribe one: open the Cord screen, pick the spell and press Inscribe a scroll. It uses a sheet of Paper, an Ink Sac (or Glow Ink Sac) and twice the spell’s mana cost. Creative mode needs nothing.

• To read it, hold it and right-click. The spell goes off from you and the scroll is used up.
• A scroll casts at plain strength. The reader’s Heart Circles and gear don’t add to it.
• After reading a scroll, wait 1 second before the next.
• Scrolls stack to 16. Your first scroll earns the Scribe feat.
• Empty spells, and spells holding Reweave, Excise or Lesson Pack runes, can’t be inscribed.
• The reader is the caster, so the friendly fire rules are the reader’s.

A Runesmith sells paper and ink sacs.

Fighting side by side

Unison

Hit a foe with a different element within 1 second of another player’s hit, and your hit lands a Unison: it deals 50% more damage, and both of you earn the Unison feat.

• Two different players, two different elements, the same foe.
• A Unison never lands on a player.
• You don’t need to be allies.

Chorus casting

Cast the same shape at the same target as your allies, each within a second of the one before, and the last spell goes off up to twice as strong. See Chorus Casting.

Casters against casters

Domain clashes

Two Domains meet: Domain clash!

Two Domains can’t overlap. When one opens into another, friend or foe, they push against each other for a moment and the weaker one shatters. Its spell ends. The winner earns the Domain Clash feat.

What makes a Domain stronger:

• Its power: everything that strengthens the cast, plus its own Focus and Vow runes.
• Your Heart Circles: each uncracked circle adds 10%.
• Its size: bigger is stronger, but not in proportion.
• A tie goes to the Domain that was there first.

See Shapes and Heart Circles.

Shooting spells out of the air

When your Bolt or Arc meets an enemy caster’s Bolt or Arc in flight, both burst:

The two bolts	What happens
Same element	Both burst, harmlessly
Different elements	5 damage to enemies within 2.5 blocks
A reacting pair	A named reaction: 8 damage to enemies within 4 blocks

The reacting pairs: Fire and Frost (Shatter), Frost and Storm (Conduct), Fire and Wind (Wildfire), Void and Arcane (Implode), Fire and Storm (Overload), Earth and Frost (Fracture), Life and Void (Blight), Blood and Wind (Rupture), Fire and Time (Elapse).

“Enemy” means a caster you could harm, like a Runebound, or a player when PvP is on or you’re duelling. Allies’ bolts pass through each other. You earn the Spell Collision feat.

To stop spells aimed at you, see Shields and Parrying.

Friendly fire and PvP

Who your spells can harm

Harmful effects never touch:

• you (except movement on a Self spell),
• your own pets,
• your party and your scoreboard team, and their pets,
• players in Creative or Spectator mode, and armour stands,
• other players and their pets while PvP is off.

Everything else can be harmed.

Who your spells can help

Helpful effects only land on you, your own pets, your party and your team (and their pets). Without a party or team, a Heal aimed at a friend does nothing.

Player against player

• PvP on: your harmful spells can hit other players.
• Damage is scaled down: by default a spell hits a player for 60% of what it does to a monster.
• Duels override this for the two duellists, even inside a party. See Duels.

Monsters and familiars

A spellcasting monster’s spells hit players, their pets, golems and whatever it’s hunting, never other monsters. Your familiar follows your rules: it only harms what you could harm.

Who counts as allied

	Needs
Helpful spells land on them	Your party or team (and their pets), or your own pet
Harmful spells avoid them	Your party or team (and their pets), your own pet, or PvP off
Chorus together	Party, team, or neither able to harm the other; not duelling
Unison	Any two players
Domain clash	Any two casters
Spell collision	Casters who could harm each other