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Status effects are temporary conditions that modify your abilities or vulnerabilities. Understanding them is crucial for effective combat.

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Water effects

Water magic focuses on healing and crowd control through beneficial and tactical effects.

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Cleansing Water

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Type
Beneficial
Applied by water healing spells
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Color
#01d9cf
Aqua blue particles
Effect: Provides healing over time and cleanses negative effects. How to apply:
  • Cast water-based healing spells
  • Drink cleansing potions (if available)
Duration: Varies by spell (typically 4-8 seconds) Configuration:
  • Synchronized effect (visible to all players)
  • No direct attribute modifiers
Cleansing Water is essential for support builds. Pair it with Bubble Beam for area healing.

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Bubble Foam

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Type
Beneficial
Applied by Bubble Beam spell
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Color
#01d9cf
Aqua blue bubbles
Effect: Creates a protective foam barrier that pushes nearby enemies away continuously. Mechanics:
  • Range: 1.5 blocks radius
  • Repels entities at rate: (target.position - caster.position) / 4
  • Only affects enemies (allies are unaffected)
  • Updates every tick while active
How to apply:
  • Cast Bubble Beam (Tier 2 water spell)
  • Self-buff only (applied to caster)
Duration: 4 seconds base + amplifier scaling Amplifier effects:
  • Each level increases push strength by 20%
  • Amplifier calculated from spell power
Bubble Foam is excellent for controlling space around you. Enemies cannot easily reach you while it’s active.

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Soaked

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Type
Harmful
Applied by water damage spells
Effect: Makes targets vulnerable to lightning and frost damage. Vulnerabilities (from EffectsConfig):
  • Lightning damage: +15%
  • Lightning critical chance: +10%
  • Frost damage: +15%
  • Frost critical damage: +30%
How to apply:
  • Hit enemies with water-based damage spells
  • Aqua Splash, Water Whip, and other offensive water spells
Synergies:
  • Combo with frost mages (if other mods installed)
  • Increases damage from storm/lightning effects
Soaked cannot be applied to entities with the tag more_rpg_classes:resistant_to_water_spells.

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Earth effects

Earth magic provides powerful defensive buffs and durability.

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Stone Flesh

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Type
Beneficial
Applied by Stone Flesh spell
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Color
#bd8b00
Gold/bronze particles
Effect: Hardens your skin like stone, granting armor and damage reduction. Attribute modifiers:
  • Armor: +1.0 (configurable via stone_flesh_armor_increase)
  • Armor Toughness: +0.5 (configurable via stone_flesh_armor_toughness_increase)
Special mechanics:
  • At full HP: 50% damage reduction (configurable via stone_flesh_full_hp_damage_reduction)
  • Stacks with existing armor
  • Visible to all players (synchronized)
How to apply:
  • Cast Stone Flesh spell (Tier 1 earth)
  • Duration: 16 seconds
Configuration values (EffectsConfig): 
tornado_fire_spell_vulnerability = 0.15F
Immunity:
  • Bosses (entities with tag #c:bosses) are immune to knockup effects
Tornado is one of the most powerful crowd control effects in the game. Use it wisely on high-value targets.

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Effect interactions

Understanding how effects synergize can dramatically improve your combat effectiveness.

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Cross-element combos

Water + Air:
  • Soaked + Tornado = No direct synergy, but control + vulnerability is powerful
  • Bubble Foam + Updraft = Control enemy positioning while protected
Earth + Water:
  • Stone Flesh + Cleansing Water = Maximum survivability
  • Tank builds benefit from this combination
Earth + Air:
  • Stone Flesh + Updraft = Defensive buff while setting up burst damage
  • Tornado + Stone Flesh = Survive while enemies are disabled

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Multi-element builds

The Elemental Staff enables multi-element combos:
  1. Balanced caster: Rotate between defensive (Stone Flesh) and offensive spells
  2. Crowd controller: Use Tornado and Bubble Foam to control battlefield
  3. Burst damage: Stack Updraft → Air Cutter for maximum damage

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Configuration

All status effects can be customized via the effects_v1.json config file located in .minecraft/config/elemental_wizards_rpg/. Configurable parameters: 
{
  "stone_flesh_armor_increase": 1.0,
  "stone_flesh_armor_toughness_increase": 0.5,
  "stone_flesh_full_hp_damage_reduction": 0.5,
  "updraft_attack_speed_reduction": -0.25,
  "updraft_air_damage_vulnerability": 0.1,
  "updraft_air_spell_crit_chance_vulnerability": 0.1,
  "updraft_air_spell_crit_damage_vulnerability": 0.35,
  "tornado_fire_spell_vulnerability": 0.15,
  "soaked_lightning_damage_vulnerability": 0.15,
  "soaked_lightning_critical_chance_vulnerability": 0.1,
  "soaked_frost_damage_vulnerability": 0.15,
  "soaked_frost_crit_damage_vulnerability": 0.3
}
See the configuration guide for details on editing these values.

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Quick reference

EffectTypeSchoolKey BenefitDuration
Cleansing WaterBeneficialWaterHealing over time4-8s
Bubble FoamBeneficialWaterEnemy repulsion4s+
SoakedHarmfulWater+15% lightning/frost damageVaries
Stone FleshBeneficialEarth+1 armor, 50% DR at full HP16s
UpdraftHarmfulAir+35% air crit damageVaries
TornadoHarmfulAir-99% movement speedVaries

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Next steps

Spell guides

Learn which spells apply which effects

Configuration

Customize effect values

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