Spells

Every spell there is so far, pulled straight from the game's own data. A spell spends its runes every cast, whether or not it lands, and pays its Magic XP for the cast itself; damage pays 2 Magic XP a point on top.

Casting: open the spellbook tab (the purple book), click a spell, then click a creature. That casts it once, from up to ten tiles away, whatever you're holding. A staff can cast a spell over and over: right-click the spell and choose Autocast, then fight with the staff's Cast style, or Cast warding to share the XP with Defence.

Tiers: every spell in a tier hits as hard as the strongest spell of that tier you have the level for. Gale Shot hits up to 2 at level 1, and up to 8 once you reach Ember Shot at 13.

The elemental spells

Curses, binds and the rest

A curse lowers one of a creature's levels for a minute, and a curse cannot be cast on a level that is already lowered. A bind holds a creature where it stands, though it still hits anyone beside it. Both turn the creature on you.

Spells cast through their own staff

Each of these is cast only with its own staff in your hand, and a staff can autocast only its own. Charge (level 80, 3 × Gale rune, 3 × Ember rune, 3 × Heart rune) makes Sunfall, Pyre and Wildclaw hit up to 30 for 7 minutes; it can be cast once a minute at most (100 ticks).

Spells on your pack and the ground

The bones spells and Charge go the moment you click them. For a gilding, Hand Forge or an orb spell, click the spell and then the item in your pack; for Beckon, click the spell and then the item on the ground.

Teleports

Click a teleport to cast it. A teleport takes 1.8 seconds and then goes, even if you click to walk in the meantime. Hearthward costs no runes and pays no XP. It takes 9.6 seconds to bring you home to the Emberville green, and a step, a fight or a blow breaks it. After it lands, you have to wait 30 minutes before casting it again.

Enchanted jewellery

Cut a gem with a chisel, set it in gold or silver at a furnace (see Recipes), and cast the gem's enchanting spell on the piece in your pack. Every enchanted piece gives a worn bonus that rises with its gem. The gold amulets are the strongest: the sapphire gives Magic, the emerald defence, the ruby Strength, the diamond a little of everything, and the three best more of it. A few do more:

• Ring of Thorns (a ring): returns a tenth of each blow you take, and one more, to whatever struck you; it crumbles after returning 40.
• Rekindling necklace (worn at the neck): heals three tenths of your hitpoints when a blow leaves you under a fifth, then crumbles.
• Lifeward ring (a ring): takes you home to Emberville green when a blow leaves you under a tenth, then crumbles.
• Homing ring (a ring): rub it to go home to Emberville green.
• Wyrm amulet (worn at the neck): rub it to go to Emberville, Brinehaven, Kilnhold or Deepdelve.

A rubbed piece rests 10 minutes before it answers again.

Enchanted arrows

Chisel a cut gem into twelve tips, put ten tips on ten arrows (Fletching; opal, jade and topaz go on iron arrows, the rest on steel), then cast Enchant Arrows on them: ten a cast. Now and then an enchanted arrow does more when it flies:

Sending someone else

Click a Send-to spell, then another player up to ten tiles away. They are asked whether they want to go, and go only if they say yes. The runes and the XP are yours when you cast it, whatever they answer.

Runes

Elemental staves and battlestaves

Each stands in for every rune of its element, so a Gale staff casts Gale Shot on thought runes alone. A battlestaff is the better staff; you make one by setting an orb in a plain battlestaff (Crafting, at a fire, a range or an anvil).

Still to come: the spells that wait on other things (a house, a boat, minigames), and the other spellbooks; see the Roadmap.