This is the online version of the Mediaworks documentation.

Mediaworking Changes

The media flow in the world feels somewhat different lately. It has become more... perhaps, the word I am looking for is "workable"?

I have unearthed legends about casters pulling media from items inside Shulker Boxes, though only after all other available media sources are exhausted. Application rules seem to be the same as for media from Media Phials.

When choosing an inventory slot to pull media from, it no longer matters how much media there is in the slot's item stack. This means that multiple successive casts will now prioritize fully exhausting inventory item stacks instead of "load-balancing", and thus will free up my pockets more quickly.

A Scrying Lens worn in my helmet slot or face slot now also condenses the casting grid, much like when held in the other hand. However, having multiple lenses on my person is redundant, because 2 or even 3 of them have the same effect as just 1.

Featherweave Cloak

Many scripts hint at cities deep underground where masters of magic wore feathered cloaks. The cloaks were bestowed upon them by a powerful mage who figured out how to embed ideas into the threads of dark fabric. With this fabric did he create the first cloak of this kind.

If I ever manage to obtain one, I will document further discoveries about it here.

Featherweave Cloak

The cloaks exist after all! After god knows how many centuries in the Deep Dark, the weave feels oddly pristine to the touch, and the threads can hold iotas in a way that I have so far failed to replicate.

I can write iotas to and read them from a Featherweave Cloak much like with a Focus. It doesn't seem like waxing it would work, though.

Conveniently, I can also read from a cloak without taking it off, and cut quite the dashing figure while doing so.

Speaking of dashing figures, I can dye the cloak almost any color imaginable! The fabric absorbs dyes much like the mundane leather gear, yet infinitely more befitting of a true mage such as myself.

Should I ever need to get rid of the applied dyes, a good ol' cauldron wash will do.

However, this is not the full extent of their potential, far from it. I have been finding some peculiar Enchanted Books unique to the dark and damp ancient cities, so perhaps the way to greater power lies through the secrets of enchanting.

On the following pages I have compiled a list of enchantments applicable to featherweave cloaks.

Reciprocation

Enchanted Book

Whenever I take damage, this enchantment forces the cloak to retaliate by automatically evaluating its stored iota. An empty cloak will not do anything, and a cloak with a non-evaluatable iota will cause the usual mishap.

This also triggers when overcasting from health, thereby causing a self-perpetuating loop that can easily consume my mind in the blink of an eye.

However, if it cannot kill me for some reason, it should fizzle out after about 50 repetitions.

Media Shield

Enchanted Book

Adds an external layer of defense that absorbs a percentage of incoming blockable damage, 10% per level at most. This triggers before any armor calculations, and every absorbed damage point costs as much media as a single health point gives when overcasting. the media is spent in the same way as when casting with a staff.

If there is not enough media to cover the full effect and no way for Nature to force it out of me, the enchantment will only absorb as much damage as the available media allows. Otherwise, the media is spent in the same way as when casting with a staff.

Locale Magnification

Enchanted Book

The rarest of them all! An enchantment that unconditionally extends my standard range of influence by 8, 16, or 32 blocks, depending on the level. This extension even applies to my raycast distance, like when using Archer's Distillation!

Other Enchantments

Enchanted Book

A featherweave cloak is wearable and damageable. It stands to reason, then, that it accepts any enchantments available to other such items (e.g. the Elytra).

More scrawls on ancient paper... "He betrayed us, these cloths given to our leaders were nothing but a way to disarm us. The Skulk will follow soon after. I am leaving before it's too late. Beware these dark fabrics..."

I should stay away from this place and its heirlooms. These linens are cursed and no allure of power would ever change that fact.

But how bad could it really be?

Mediaworks Containers

In a modified world, there can be all kinds of containers besides Shulker Boxes. Some of them can even act as media sources in much the same way! I will be cataloguing such special containers here.

Sack

Mediaworks-MoreIotas

It appears that Strings have some special properties when used with Text Visages. Specifically, the Calligrapher's patterns extract the underlying strings rather than their colored, quoted displays, and let me take advantage of the old ways of formatting.

To format text, I need only type the "codes" with the & symbol instead of the paragraph symbol, since I cannot normally type the latter. Any instances of & that are not part of a formatting code are left as-is.

Mediaworks

Curiously, the media in Casting Items seems to be obscured: they do not contribute to a player's evaluated media total. However, this obscurity does not hold under closer scrutiny: when evaluating a dropped casting item directly, the pattern does report its contained media.

Stored Casting Items do not contribute to the calculated media total.

Cloakworks

This pattern can extract the iota held in a worn featherweave cloak, without the need to take it off and resort to traditional methods.

Astral Projection

Seeing how inert and defenseless the body becomes without a mind actively governing it, I suppose it is a boon that this spell only targets the caster.

Casting the spell costs about 2 units of Amethyst Dust per second of duration.
If my ravenmind holds any iota when I cast this spell, the iota is captured as an Astral Iota for the entire duration of the projection.

During such a massive paradigm shift, concentration is hard to maintain, so all the patterns I've drawn and iotas I've saved to my previous stack are lost.

Lastly, it seems that I cannot extend my remaining time while already dissociated. Trying to do so leads to an Entity is Immune mishap.

Macula Concepts

Macula is the part of my eye where visages are etched. Due to its physical nature, it is not carried between different bodies (like when respawning). It can hold Lasting Visages - shown indefinitely - and Fleeting Visages. Fleeting visages fade gradually in the last second of their lifetime, unless the lifetime is 1 second or less in the first place. However, it appears that my Macula is somewhat fragile, so it cannot hold more than 32 visages at a time, and neither can it accept Fleeting Visages that stay for longer than 1 full day.

Word of Caution

Though etching things onto my own eyes phases me curiously little, I should probably still be careful that nothing goes wrong, lest I incur the Black Eye mishap.

Macula Patterns

Black Eye Mishap

Occurs when I have tried to put more than 32 visages onto my Macula, or to create a Fleeting Visage for longer than 1 day.

Causes black sparks and damages my Macula, clearing it and blinding me for a couple of seconds.

Good thing the blindness is temporary...

Text Visages

A type of visages that can show any text, with a constant line height of 9. Their ability to capture iotas' current texts makes them a more flexible equivalent of Reveal.

Text visages can be unbounded or bounded. The former can stretch infinitely, and the latter wrap lines that exceed the max width, displaying only the lines that fully fit within the max height.