In short. This mod used to be my personal magic that only one player in the server can use it, or only me. At the beginning, this magic is just a small command block system in a map, with healing and protection spells. As time passes, I added more spells, more functions and improved the design. From command blocks, now it's mod with many functions and become very complex. After some drama when play this mod in the real server, I decided to remake the mod again to support multiplayer and improved the systems.

Note : This history only write important events, I will skip some small details.

At the start, I just like to play the game with Electroblob's Wizardry mod. It's a magic mod that added magic wands and spell books, you can mix those books into your magic wand as you like. I really like earth and holy spells. My favorite spells is Healing Aura (Healing Magic Circle), Snare (Ground Trap) and summoning spells.

After that, when I start my new let's play series on YouTube. I has an idea about creating my own magic staff with spells that I like. I personally like to use command block and making a complex system, so I tried and got my own magic staff! (or that I called my personal weapon)

I used "Woodland Staff" from Dynamic Trees mod as a model, and hide the command blocks system near the world spawn (I used spawn chunks to always loaded my system). It's still a small magic system, with very basic healing and protection spells.

After time passed, I changed staff model to one of staff from Bow to Staves resource pack. Now my staff can have shoot function as it's now a bow. My magic slowly growing and not enough space for new spells, so I added category function. When I hold the staff, I will get 5 dyes. Each dyes representing the spell types, drop it to activate a spell.

One day, I decided to make my own staff model using "Lantern Staff" from Bow to Staves resource pack as a base. You can download it from my Lantern Staff resource pack.

Since I playing with my friend, I edited the system to make it can work in multiplayer, I mean prevent it from bugs when 2 players using the same system. So I set only a player named "Tanny" can use the magic.

After playing a lot, my magic has more functions and spells. Instead of using dyes, now I used flowers to activate spells. And now it also become part of my SKYWIZA command block system.

Without spells, it can also use magic arrow to summon a temporary protector (snowman) using mana, it will shoots monsters nearby, cannot be killed until the timer runs out.

After I spend enough time with MCreator (to make Tan's Huge Trees mod), I decided to remake my magic into mod version too on 1.16 I renamed it to "Lantern of The Woodlands", it's the name comes to my head in the first time when I thinking about new name.

Everything look hard since I only know about command block and redstone, and there's 1.16 new commands I need to learn. But not long after that, I can make the spells much complex than before!

Good that MCreator is not a blank paper where you need to write eveything by yourself, but like editable jigsaw. I don't need to learn code before make a mod, just need creativity to use their system. And very good that I can use commands with it too, like when I make a comand block system! My new laboratory!

I no longer use lantern staff model, but just a lantern instead. It can place on ground, hanging under a block and place with a stick (iron bars).

The spells now clearly separated into 2 parts, basic spells and advance spells. Basic spells will be small spells, can be cast and cancel any time. Advance spells will be bigger, it's basically one big spell, but also contain other smaller spells insde.

As I said, I can now make my spells more complex than before. Now it have book GUIs to modify functions of advance spells, not very detailed but enough to use.

You can see me playing this mod version in my Zombie Apocalypse series on YouTube, advance spells will be changed in every episodes or as I want.

Unfortunately, one day, I have decided to remake the mod again with command blocks like the version before. I said that "I just feel free when create a system using command blocks in the map, It's something I'm familiar with and good at."

I can't rememder much about why I do that. Maybe I see most GUI features in the mod is not support to multiplayer, it not work at all. So I move to command blocks again.

But in bad things, there're also good things. I have tried to re-create one of my spell in the mod version called "Autumn of Loss" with command blocks, I have an idea to make weapons controlable and head to where I'm looking at. With the distance function, I can shoot weapon and control direction like homing missile!

After about a month, I discontinued the command block again and back to continue the mod version. I just feel like command block system have a limit about spell functions, I think mod is already good, I just miss command blocks.

Updating all advance spells is very slow, with a lot new features. Unfortunately, after I finish rework 4 of 7 advance spells. Something happened and change everything again.

I just need to add more possibilities to my magic for more various. User's magic that similar to others will be less, and replace with user's preferences.

Write that "I like to imagine before sleep about myself use these magic to help people"

I can now imagine my imaginary world again, so I tried to remake my magic from ground up again for multiplayer. Good that not so long I can think of a good way to update this mod, using system like player UUID!

I still feel little bad when imagine someone using my lantern, that's my personal weapon, so I tried make magic that no need to use lantern. Or just make it more possibilities, yes, it's custom your own personal weapon!

This modern age of my magic is slowly growing up, many new features and functions was added. My imaginary world also changed for the better...

. . . Welcome Back To The Present . . .