0.10.4

Everything since 0.10.3.

This release is mostly repair. Several settings did nothing, one of them blocked casting entirely whenever it was switched on, and the HUD had been drawing text with no chip behind it for anyone who had not hand-edited their config. Those are fixed. There is also the beginning of proper support for playing in a language other than English.

Fixed

Combat only blocked every cast. Turning it on stopped voice casting completely — even while something was hitting you — and it said nothing when it did, so it looked like a dead microphone. It was reading a value the client is never given. It now works from damage you have actually taken and from hostiles actually near you, so opening a fight with a spell works.

Blocked casts are no longer silent. Combat-only, AFK and sneak-to-cast all used to reject without a word. If a gate stops a cast, the HUD now says which one.

The cast queue could not hold more than one spell. A queued spell's short life was counted from the moment you said it rather than from when the spell in front of it finished, so naming a second spell during a long cast always lost it. Queue sizes above 1 do something now.

Pause when AFK did not pause anything — the microphone stayed open and kept listening. It now releases the device. It also treated standing still as being away, so mining, fishing or holding a position in a farm counted as AFK; looking around, swinging and using items now count as activity.

Hands-free confirm's "yes" did nothing. It now accepts the "did you mean…?" alias suggestion, which is what its description always claimed.

The config screen crashed the game on Forge 1.20.1. Opening it was fatal. It has been unopenable on that loader for as long as the current UI has existed.

Selecting a different speech model did nothing for anyone who had installed the mod before the model list existed — you were kept on English no matter what you chose. Relatedly, pointing modelPath at an empty folder downloaded the English model into it rather than the one you wanted.

Voice-cast advancements could not be earned, because cast totals were never saved. Streak milestones were also taken on trust from the client; the server counts them itself now.

Assorted: text that ran off the edge of panels in a dozen places, the device picker eating the words "System default", the Voice Codex drawing its last row outside its own frame, and a leaked network connection on every failed model download.

Playing in another language

If you load a non-English speech model today, nothing happens at all — no error, no warning. That is not a broken model: spell phrases are English words, and the recogniser silently discards any phrase containing a word its model does not know. Against a Russian model, that is every phrase.

The mod now tells you instead of failing in silence. It counts the phrases the loaded model cannot pronounce, warns in the log, and puts a line in chat when you join a world. /voicespells vocab lists the specifics.

Translating the spell list is still what makes it work, and there are now two head starts in the repository:

• Spanish — 293 of 294 phrases, contributed by NeoTargetStudios (Spidercat0926), including 188 spells from addon mods that ship no translations in any language.
• Russian — 106 phrases filled in automatically from Iron's Spells' own Russian translation, leaving the addon spells for a contributor.

Neither is bundled in the jar yet; both live in contrib/ and can be copied into config/voicespells/phrasebook.json by hand. A tool for generating the same head start for any language Iron's Spells translates is in tools/.

Spell names now appear in your own language on every screen and on the HUD.

Removed

Voice hotbar select. It added nine phrases to the recogniser's vocabulary, and every extra phrase is another thing a spell name can be misheard as — a real accuracy cost for a feature that only changed a selection. It could not work at all on a non-English model, and its own settings description told you to say "slot one" while the code was listening for "spell one".

Interface

The screens are built from Minecraft's own widgets and textures now rather than hand-drawn imitations, so a GUI resource pack reaches them.

• HUD chips have a background. The queue chip, miss toast, last-heard chip and alias prompt have all been bare text lying on the world unless you had hand-edited your colours.
• The cooldown indicator is out of the middle of the screen. It used to sit under the crosshair; it is now a chip in the HUD corner you chose, with an on/off switch and a vertical offset on the HUD tab.
• New Credits screen, with the libraries the mod uses and their licences.
• Tabs, scrollbars, list rows and buttons are vanilla; text no longer overflows its panels.

Known limitations

Said plainly so nobody has to discover them:

• French and Russian are unproven. Iron's Spells translates most of its spell names into both, but nobody has yet spoken them into a matching speech model with this mod.
• German cannot work yet. Iron's Spells ships no German translation, so there are no German spell names to work from. It needs a hand-written phrase pack, not a different model.
• Addon spells have no translations in any language, so on a modpack a non-English player depends on a hand-written phrasebook.
• Pause when AFK still works from movement and input, not presence. Sitting still and silent past the timeout will still pause it.
• Sneak to cast gives no feedback beyond the miss toast, and holding sneak while mounted dismounts you — that is vanilla behaviour, not something the mod can change.

0.10.4

Everything since 0.10.3.

This release is mostly repair. Several settings did nothing, one of them blocked casting entirely whenever it was switched on, and the HUD had been drawing text with no chip behind it for anyone who had not hand-edited their config. Those are fixed. There is also the beginning of proper support for playing in a language other than English.

Fixed

Combat only blocked every cast. Turning it on stopped voice casting completely — even while something was hitting you — and it said nothing when it did, so it looked like a dead microphone. It was reading a value the client is never given. It now works from damage you have actually taken and from hostiles actually near you, so opening a fight with a spell works.

Blocked casts are no longer silent. Combat-only, AFK and sneak-to-cast all used to reject without a word. If a gate stops a cast, the HUD now says which one.

The cast queue could not hold more than one spell. A queued spell's short life was counted from the moment you said it rather than from when the spell in front of it finished, so naming a second spell during a long cast always lost it. Queue sizes above 1 do something now.

Pause when AFK did not pause anything — the microphone stayed open and kept listening. It now releases the device. It also treated standing still as being away, so mining, fishing or holding a position in a farm counted as AFK; looking around, swinging and using items now count as activity.

Hands-free confirm's "yes" did nothing. It now accepts the "did you mean…?" alias suggestion, which is what its description always claimed.

The config screen crashed the game on Forge 1.20.1. Opening it was fatal. It has been unopenable on that loader for as long as the current UI has existed.

Selecting a different speech model did nothing for anyone who had installed the mod before the model list existed — you were kept on English no matter what you chose. Relatedly, pointing modelPath at an empty folder downloaded the English model into it rather than the one you wanted.

Voice-cast advancements could not be earned, because cast totals were never saved. Streak milestones were also taken on trust from the client; the server counts them itself now.

Assorted: text that ran off the edge of panels in a dozen places, the device picker eating the words "System default", the Voice Codex drawing its last row outside its own frame, and a leaked network connection on every failed model download.

Playing in another language

If you load a non-English speech model today, nothing happens at all — no error, no warning. That is not a broken model: spell phrases are English words, and the recogniser silently discards any phrase containing a word its model does not know. Against a Russian model, that is every phrase.

The mod now tells you instead of failing in silence. It counts the phrases the loaded model cannot pronounce, warns in the log, and puts a line in chat when you join a world. /voicespells vocab lists the specifics.

Translating the spell list is still what makes it work, and there are now two head starts in the repository:

• Spanish — 293 of 294 phrases, contributed by NeoTargetStudios (Spidercat0926), including 188 spells from addon mods that ship no translations in any language.
• Russian — 106 phrases filled in automatically from Iron's Spells' own Russian translation, leaving the addon spells for a contributor.

Neither is bundled in the jar yet; both live in contrib/ and can be copied into config/voicespells/phrasebook.json by hand. A tool for generating the same head start for any language Iron's Spells translates is in tools/.

Spell names now appear in your own language on every screen and on the HUD.

Removed

Voice hotbar select. It added nine phrases to the recogniser's vocabulary, and every extra phrase is another thing a spell name can be misheard as — a real accuracy cost for a feature that only changed a selection. It could not work at all on a non-English model, and its own settings description told you to say "slot one" while the code was listening for "spell one".

Interface

The screens are built from Minecraft's own widgets and textures now rather than hand-drawn imitations, so a GUI resource pack reaches them.

• HUD chips have a background. The queue chip, miss toast, last-heard chip and alias prompt have all been bare text lying on the world unless you had hand-edited your colours.
• The cooldown indicator is out of the middle of the screen. It used to sit under the crosshair; it is now a chip in the HUD corner you chose, with an on/off switch and a vertical offset on the HUD tab.
• New Credits screen, with the libraries the mod uses and their licences.
• Tabs, scrollbars, list rows and buttons are vanilla; text no longer overflows its panels.

Known limitations

Said plainly so nobody has to discover them:

• French and Russian are unproven. Iron's Spells translates most of its spell names into both, but nobody has yet spoken them into a matching speech model with this mod.
• German cannot work yet. Iron's Spells ships no German translation, so there are no German spell names to work from. It needs a hand-written phrase pack, not a different model.
• Addon spells have no translations in any language, so on a modpack a non-English player depends on a hand-written phrasebook.
• Pause when AFK still works from movement and input, not presence. Sitting still and silent past the timeout will still pause it.
• Sneak to cast gives no feedback beyond the miss toast, and holding sneak while mounted dismounts you — that is vanilla behaviour, not something the mod can change.

Incantation 0.10.3 — the things that were quietly not working

A long bug-hunting pass over the whole mod. Most of what follows was silently broken: no crash, no error, nothing in the log — features that simply did nothing while looking like they worked.

If you are on 1.21.1, the first item alone is worth updating for.

Your settings actually save now (1.21.1)

On NeoForge, nothing the config screen wrote ever reached the disk. Not the HUD corner, the offsets, the opacity, the theme, the recognition tuning — and not aliases you added, profiles you imported, or noise-gate calibration either.

It behaved perfectly all session, which is why it went unnoticed for so long. Everything came back to defaults on the next launch.

Forge 1.20.1 was never affected.

Trigger words no longer switch casting off

If you set a trigger word — say, cast, so only "cast fireball" fires — voice casting stopped working entirely. Not for that word: for everything.

The recogniser can only hear words it has been given, and the trigger word was never added to its vocabulary, so the check for it could never pass. No log line, no "miss" on the HUD. It just went quiet, and the only way back was clearing the setting.

Trigger words that are also part of a spell's name now work too, which matters because the config file's own example suggests summon — and that used to break every Summon spell.

Your stats are no longer at risk

A single unreadable read of stats.dat — an antivirus lock, a cloud-sync hiccup — used to be enough to wipe your lifetime totals, unlocked themes and codex history. The failure was logged and then the next save wrote zeros over the real file.

Stats are now written to a temporary file and moved into place, so an interrupted save cannot leave a half-written file behind, and a file that cannot be read is preserved rather than overwritten.

Scrolls are consumed when you voice-cast them

A balance fix, and it is a nerf. Voice-casting from a scroll was not using it up, so a single-use item could be cast from indefinitely. Right-clicking always consumed it correctly; only voice casting was wrong.

Casting now respects what you are holding

Spells could be voice-cast from a spellbook, imbued weapon or scroll sitting anywhere in your hotbar, including in the strictest cast mode. It now requires the item in your main hand or off hand, which is what the settings describe and what right-clicking has always required.

Things that had never worked once

• The cooldown indicator under the crosshair. It had never drawn, on any version.
• The Test Arena, the Live Monitor, the first-run mic check and auto-calibrate all opened your microphone and then threw away every frame. Auto-calibrate would tell you it heard nothing after five seconds of talking — and then overwrite your noise-gate setting with a worse one.
• The HUD in the top-right or bottom-right corner. The whole thing rendered off the edge of the screen.
• /voicespells diag reported "No voice casts logged this session" on any default server, while casts were plainly happening.
• Diagnostics reported Vosk model — FAIL on a perfectly healthy install, because it was looking in the wrong directory.

Forge 1.20.1: casting on servers without the mod

Forge clients could not voice-cast on a server that has Iron's Spells but not Incantation. The fallback path that NeoForge used was assumed impossible on 1.20.1; it was not. Spells were being silently dropped.

Also fixed

• A long chat message with the rank tag enabled could exceed the chat limit and disconnect you.
• A failed speech-model load spawned loader threads about ten times a second, forever.
• An interrupted model download left a half-extracted folder that looked valid, so it never retried and recognition stayed dead across restarts.
• Turning Only owned spells off left the recogniser still restricted to whatever you had equipped when you turned it on.
• Loadouts skipped their remaining spells if the first one was not equipped, and could drop out of the recogniser's vocabulary entirely.
• The leaderboard behind /voicespells top no longer trusts a number sent by the client.
• Cancelling the config screen no longer leaves a previewed theme applied.
• The Diagnostics list no longer appears frozen when scrolling back up.
• [hud] opacity now affects the cast toast, which it never did.
• Removed /voicespells rank, which printed no rank, and the server-side /voicespells reload, which reloaded nothing and shadowed the client command that does.

Incantation 0.10.3 — the things that were quietly not working

A long bug-hunting pass over the whole mod. Most of what follows was silently broken: no crash, no error, nothing in the log — features that simply did nothing while looking like they worked.

If you are on 1.21.1, the first item alone is worth updating for.

Your settings actually save now (1.21.1)

On NeoForge, nothing the config screen wrote ever reached the disk. Not the HUD corner, the offsets, the opacity, the theme, the recognition tuning — and not aliases you added, profiles you imported, or noise-gate calibration either.

It behaved perfectly all session, which is why it went unnoticed for so long. Everything came back to defaults on the next launch.

Forge 1.20.1 was never affected.

Trigger words no longer switch casting off

If you set a trigger word — say, cast, so only "cast fireball" fires — voice casting stopped working entirely. Not for that word: for everything.

The recogniser can only hear words it has been given, and the trigger word was never added to its vocabulary, so the check for it could never pass. No log line, no "miss" on the HUD. It just went quiet, and the only way back was clearing the setting.

Trigger words that are also part of a spell's name now work too, which matters because the config file's own example suggests summon — and that used to break every Summon spell.

Your stats are no longer at risk

A single unreadable read of stats.dat — an antivirus lock, a cloud-sync hiccup — used to be enough to wipe your lifetime totals, unlocked themes and codex history. The failure was logged and then the next save wrote zeros over the real file.

Stats are now written to a temporary file and moved into place, so an interrupted save cannot leave a half-written file behind, and a file that cannot be read is preserved rather than overwritten.

Scrolls are consumed when you voice-cast them

A balance fix, and it is a nerf. Voice-casting from a scroll was not using it up, so a single-use item could be cast from indefinitely. Right-clicking always consumed it correctly; only voice casting was wrong.

Casting now respects what you are holding

Spells could be voice-cast from a spellbook, imbued weapon or scroll sitting anywhere in your hotbar, including in the strictest cast mode. It now requires the item in your main hand or off hand, which is what the settings describe and what right-clicking has always required.

Things that had never worked once

• The cooldown indicator under the crosshair. It had never drawn, on any version.
• The Test Arena, the Live Monitor, the first-run mic check and auto-calibrate all opened your microphone and then threw away every frame. Auto-calibrate would tell you it heard nothing after five seconds of talking — and then overwrite your noise-gate setting with a worse one.
• The HUD in the top-right or bottom-right corner. The whole thing rendered off the edge of the screen.
• /voicespells diag reported "No voice casts logged this session" on any default server, while casts were plainly happening.
• Diagnostics reported Vosk model — FAIL on a perfectly healthy install, because it was looking in the wrong directory.

Forge 1.20.1: casting on servers without the mod

Forge clients could not voice-cast on a server that has Iron's Spells but not Incantation. The fallback path that NeoForge used was assumed impossible on 1.20.1; it was not. Spells were being silently dropped.

Also fixed

• A long chat message with the rank tag enabled could exceed the chat limit and disconnect you.
• A failed speech-model load spawned loader threads about ten times a second, forever.
• An interrupted model download left a half-extracted folder that looked valid, so it never retried and recognition stayed dead across restarts.
• Turning Only owned spells off left the recogniser still restricted to whatever you had equipped when you turned it on.
• Loadouts skipped their remaining spells if the first one was not equipped, and could drop out of the recogniser's vocabulary entirely.
• The leaderboard behind /voicespells top no longer trusts a number sent by the client.
• Cancelling the config screen no longer leaves a previewed theme applied.
• The Diagnostics list no longer appears frozen when scrolling back up.
• [hud] opacity now affects the cast toast, which it never did.
• Removed /voicespells rank, which printed no rank, and the server-side /voicespells reload, which reloaded nothing and shadowed the client command that does.

Servers stop turning players away

Mostly server-side fixes, and two of them matter whether or not you noticed anything was wrong.

Your server no longer requires the mod on clients

A server running Incantation was rejecting every player who did not also have it installed — an "Incompatible" screen on NeoForge, a bare "Connection closed - mismatched mod channel list" on Forge. It also advertised itself as incompatible in the multiplayer list, so people saw a red X before they even tried.

Nothing this mod sends is client-bound, so that requirement bought a server nothing.

Players with Incantation voice-cast exactly as before. Players without it now join and play normally — they simply cannot voice-cast.

Server config controls were being ignored on NeoForge

serverBlockedSpells, the allowlist, maxCastsPerSecond and castMode had no effect on voice casts on NeoForge. An operator could ban a spell, see it listed as banned in the config, and have it voice-cast anyway. Voice-cast advancements, the admin log and /voicespells follow were skipped on the same path.

Voice casts took Iron's Spells' own packet, so this mod's server side never saw them. Forge was unaffected. If you run a NeoForge server and set any of those options, they start working in this release.

Fixed

• The first-run mic check could never see your microphone. The wizard runs at the title screen, and a 0.10.0 fix that stopped the mic opening there also stopped it opening for the check itself.
• A modified client could disconnect itself with an "Internal Exception" and a stack trace in the server log, by sending a malformed spell id. NeoForge only.
• Cooldown and "is casting" hints never worked — they resolved against an Iron's Spells class that does not exist.
• Server-side state was never released. In single-player, one world's cast history and leaderboard leaked into the next.
• pack_format on 1.21.1 was a version that does not exist.

Changed

• The casting screen edges are off by default. Those accent bars never actually rendered in any released version — the reflection behind them was broken from the start. Fixing that switched them on for the first time, so they are now castVignette in the client config, default off.

Requirements

Unchanged: Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge 21.1.x) or 1.20.1 (Forge 47.x), Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Curios API, and a microphone. No voice-chat mod.

Servers stop turning players away

Mostly server-side fixes, and two of them matter whether or not you noticed anything was wrong.

Your server no longer requires the mod on clients

A server running Incantation was rejecting every player who did not also have it installed — an "Incompatible" screen on NeoForge, a bare "Connection closed - mismatched mod channel list" on Forge. It also advertised itself as incompatible in the multiplayer list, so people saw a red X before they even tried.

Nothing this mod sends is client-bound, so that requirement bought a server nothing.

Players with Incantation voice-cast exactly as before. Players without it now join and play normally — they simply cannot voice-cast.

Server config controls were being ignored on NeoForge

serverBlockedSpells, the allowlist, maxCastsPerSecond and castMode had no effect on voice casts on NeoForge. An operator could ban a spell, see it listed as banned in the config, and have it voice-cast anyway. Voice-cast advancements, the admin log and /voicespells follow were skipped on the same path.

Voice casts took Iron's Spells' own packet, so this mod's server side never saw them. Forge was unaffected. If you run a NeoForge server and set any of those options, they start working in this release.

Fixed

• The first-run mic check could never see your microphone. The wizard runs at the title screen, and a 0.10.0 fix that stopped the mic opening there also stopped it opening for the check itself.
• A modified client could disconnect itself with an "Internal Exception" and a stack trace in the server log, by sending a malformed spell id. NeoForge only.
• Cooldown and "is casting" hints never worked — they resolved against an Iron's Spells class that does not exist.
• Server-side state was never released. In single-player, one world's cast history and leaderboard leaked into the next.
• pack_format on 1.21.1 was a version that does not exist.

Changed

• The casting screen edges are off by default. Those accent bars never actually rendered in any released version — the reflection behind them was broken from the start. Fixing that switched them on for the first time, so they are now castVignette in the client config, default off.

Requirements

Unchanged: Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge 21.1.x) or 1.20.1 (Forge 47.x), Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Curios API, and a microphone. No voice-chat mod.

Forge names the conflicting mod

A small release with one fix, and it only affects Forge 1.20.1 players. On NeoForge 1.21.1 this is behaviourally identical to 0.10.0 — there is no reason to update.

Fixed

Forge now tells you which mod broke a cast.

When another mod hooks Iron's Spells' cast path and throws, Incantation performs its casts through reflection, so the exception arrives wrapped. The player saw only:

Cast error: InvocationTargetException

which names nothing useful and looks like an Incantation bug. It isn't — it's a conflict in the other mod — but there was no way to tell that from the message. One reported case took weeks to trace.

NeoForge started naming the responsible mod in 0.9.5. The Forge build was left out of that change, so 1.20.1 players kept getting the useless message. They now get the same thing NeoForge players already had:

Cast blocked by Iron's Restrictions (irons_restrictions) - mod conflict, see the log

with the full stack trace and an explanation in the log. This doesn't fix the underlying conflict — that isn't Incantation's to fix — but it turns a week of guesswork into a one-line answer.

Requirements

Unchanged from 0.10.0: Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Curios API, and a microphone. No voice-chat mod.

Forge names the conflicting mod

A small release with one fix, and it only affects Forge 1.20.1 players. On NeoForge 1.21.1 this is behaviourally identical to 0.10.0 — no reason to update.

Fixed

Forge now tells you which mod broke a cast.

When another mod hooks Iron's Spells' cast path and throws, Incantation performs its casts through reflection, so the exception arrives wrapped. The player saw only:

Cast error: InvocationTargetException

which names nothing useful and looks like an Incantation bug. It isn't — it's a conflict in the other mod — but there was no way to tell that from the message. One reported case took weeks to trace.

NeoForge started naming the responsible mod in 0.9.5. The Forge build was left out of that change, so 1.20.1 players kept getting the useless message. They now get the same thing NeoForge players already had:

Cast blocked by Iron's Restrictions (irons_restrictions) - mod conflict, see the log

with the full stack trace and an explanation in the log. This doesn't fix the underlying conflict — that isn't Incantation's to fix — but it turns a week of guesswork into a one-line answer.

Requirements

Unchanged from 0.10.0: Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Curios API, and a microphone. No voice-chat mod.