Casting

## Lexicon Entry

*Wooden crafting tables, useful as they are, have their limitations. To that end, you have found a way to affix crystal plating to a table, allowing it to store and process crystal energy, this allowing (?) you to craft items that require magical interaction. Hopefully this one will turn out better than your other design, given that this one is not asking you to surround it with skulls or face the consequences of lighting, explosions and noxious purple gas. You are initially unfamiliar with the table, precluding advanced use, but as you grow accustomed to it, you can be more adventurous.*

## Description

**Casting** is a mechanic added by Chromaticraft and is achieved using the **Casting Table** block, the Elemental Manipulator, and a Casting Room. Casting is similar to vanilla crafting in terms of recipe's and interface, however there are a few key differences:

1. Vanilla recipe's cannot be made in the Casting Table.
2. Casting is not instant. The higher tier the cast, the longer it will take.
3. In order to 'cast' an item, you must assemble the recipe and 'confirm' it by right clicking the Casting Table with an Elemental Manipulator.
4. If a chest is directly next to the Casting Table, it will deposit any casted item into the chest automatically.
5. The Casting Table has internal 'upgrades' (see below.)
6. Higher tier casting requires the Casting Room (or upgrades) to be built in order to utilize them. It is recommended to place it in an open, expandable area.
7. Lumen Energy can be fed through the table via an outer perimeter of repeaters, and is used to cast at the final two tiers.
8. You get a unique light and sound show with high tier casting.

## Upgrades

The Casting Table requires upgrading to unlock higher tier casting. This is achieved by casting a certain amount of items using the table. Upon reaching a new tier, a new diamond icon will appear in the top left of the interface. Any diamond past the first will be shown crossed out until the Casting Room (or upgrade) is built to the appropriate tier where a Level 2 Casting Table (2 diamonds) requires a Casting room, Level 3 requires a Casting Temple and Level 4 requires a Casting Complex. If the external structure is upgraded before the casting table has leveled up to match, the structure will be considered 'too complex', and thus not recognized by the table. No casts above level one can be performed if this occurs. As such, it is highly recommended to level up the table first.

The 5th and final level of a table is unique in that it does not have a corresponding structure. Its progress will show as a circular 'flower' icon that shows when hovering over it with an Elemental Manipulator past level 3. This meter will begin to fill as high-tier casts are performed. once the meter fills, the table will 'awaken' and change into a unique appearance.

## Casting Room/Temple/Complex

A focusing structure must be built around the **Casting Table** to enable higher tier casting to be utilized, which can further be upgraded for even higher tier. Any structure can cast items up to it's level of complexity. There are currently 3 tiers of the Casting Room (Room, Temple and Complex), and all 3 tiers make use of Runes in casting. Tier 2 and 3 make use of an expanded interface via Item Casting Stands that allows up to 31 items to be used in casting. Tier 3 makes use of Lumen Energy through the use of 16 repeaters integrated into the structure's perimeter.

### Casting Room

The first tier (Casting Room) can make use of Rune's when casting and requires the following built in a structure:

* 4 Lapis Lazuli Blocks
* 4 Block of Coal
* 1 Casting Table
* 116 Crystalline Stone
* 32 Crystalline Stone Beam
* 52 Crystalline Stone Column
* 8 Engraved Crystalline Stone
* 4 Embossed Crystalline Stone

### Casting Temple

The second tier (Casting Temple) allows for an additional 24 items to be used in casting and gives the casting table interface new slots for where the Item Casting Stands are, however, items have to manually be placed on stands. The Casting Temple requires the following additional resources replacing empty spaces or other already placed blocks:

* 4 Block of Gold (instead of Lapis)
* 4 Block of Redstone (instead of Coal)
* 140 Total Crystalline Stone OR 2 additional (from tier 1 and when taking into account the amount replaced by the Quartz blocks and the ones removed from tier 1)
* 32 Block of Quartz
* 24 Item Casting Stand

### Casting Complex

The third tier (Casting Complex) integrates Crystal Repeaters on the perimeter, increasing the size of the structure to 17x17. This allows the use of Lumen Energy in casting and adds 16 energy bars beneath the output of the table to indicate the energy type required once a recipe is correctly arranged. The Casting Complex requires the following additional resources:

* 4 Block of Diamond (instead of Gold)
* 4 Block of Glowstone (instead of Redstone)
* 64 Obsidian
* 1 of each type of elemental Rune (16 total)
* 232 Crystalline Stone OR 98 additional (from tier 2)
* 56 Crystalline Stone Column OR 4 additional (from tier 2)
* 12 Engraved Crystalline Stone OR 4 additional (from tier 2)
* 16 Crystal Repeater