Powder Vacuum Field
Powder Vacuum Field is a spell that creates a magical field of energy which sucks up materials within its' area of effect. A short time later these are released again in a fountain of material.
Tips
- The field can be made to move using various modifiers. Boomerang is particularly useful as it keeps the field, and its' effect, close to you.
- Stacking multiple copies on top of each other will increase the rate at which powder is collected - the Divide By spells are particularly good for this since their damage penalty has no effect.
- Each instance of Powder Vacuum Field can (temporarily) hold about 7 times as much material as a Powder Pouch, and gathers material at around 10 times the rate.
- Powder Vacuum Field works on a larger variety of materials than the Dissolve Powders perk, including powdered metals, and even some apparently solid materials like Sandstone.
- The Unlimited Spells perk works with the Vacuum Field spells.
- Paired with Ground to Sand, and a lifetime modifying spell, Powder Vacuum Field allows you to dig through (almost) any material. See below for details.
Deleting Material Permanently
By default, Powder Vacuum Field only temporarily contains materials - they are released again after 5 seconds in an explosion of material eminating from the centre of the field. There are various ways to bypass the release of material, so that it vanishes along with the field:
- Spell modifiers that reduce lifetime (e.g. Reduce Lifetime, Nolla etc.)
- Spell modifiers that enforce a fixed lifetime shorter than 280 (e.g. Projectile Energy Shield, or Matter Eater - which is also a natural complement for digging).
- Spell modifiers that remove script effects from other spells (e.g. Chaotic Transmutation).
- Spells to Power and other Spells to variants.
All of these work in basically the same way. Internally, these Field spells are acting like a big Pouch or Bottle. Those are programmed to spill their contents upon death. Spells, at the end of their lifetime, will expire - which doesn't trigger death behavior. The extra scripting required to make this work is what is bypassed or disabled via the techniques above.
Moving Material
Vacuum mining
You can use Powder Vacuum to extract powdered metals (e.g. gold) from the ground without digging. When cast, the vacuum sucks up any powders from the area of effect. After 5 seconds these are released again in an explosion of material which originates at the field's centre. By casting a series of vacuum fields in a line, with a timing offset between them, you can shift the material along from one field to the next, eventually bringing it above the surface.
History
- Mar 30 2021: Added to the game.
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