Magic Sense and auras

Magic Sense (key N) lends you the sight of one of Tensura's sensing skills. A violet veil falls over the world, magicule currents drift with your gaze, and every living being is wrapped in an aura that hugs its silhouette, like a Super Saiyan's or Haki: its size tells its existence value, its density the magicules it has left, its colour its alignment. At a glance you know who is a threat and who is not.

Turning the sense on

• "Magic Sense" key, N by default, in the Great Sage category of Controls. Press again to turn it off.
• Or by voice: "magic sense", "magicule sense", "detect magic". See Voice command list.
• You need one of Tensura's sensing skills: Magic Sense (魔力感知), Universal Perception (万能感知) or All Seeing Eye (全能者の眼). Without one, the Sage answers 告 未取得: "Notice. You have no sensing skill (Magic Sense, Universal Perception...)."
• The key does not need the Great Sage: only the sensing skill matters. The voice command, like every voice command, does need the Sage.
• If you lose the skill while the sense is on, it switches itself off.
• When it turns on, the Sage says "Magic Sense: activated." and a ripple runs across the screen.

What the sense shows

Entity auras

The aura is a flame that hugs the being's shape (the body itself stays almost bare), tapering above the head, split into rising tongues, with a bright rim and sparks.

Colour: alignment

Size: existence value

Size follows EP on a logarithmic scale: every order of magnitude shows, from a goblin to a demon lord.

Past one million the aura keeps growing (about × 2.8 per order of magnitude): colossal power never looks like a merely tough opponent.

Density: magicules left

The brightness and thickness of the flame follow the being's current magicules over its maximum: a being running dry only keeps a pale aura, however powerful it is.

Range and visibility

• Auras are drawn up to auraRange (40 blocks by default). The most massive ones can be seen from further away, up to twice that range (past twenty-odd million EP). Above roughly 2.5 million EP, an aura keeps 65% of its brightness at a distance, against 25% for the others: you should see it coming.
• An aura fades out from 40% of its visibility distance.
• Through walls (auraThroughWalls, on by default): a hidden being keeps a paler aura (45% brightness), drawn over the terrain, but only up to 24 blocks (or your range if it is shorter).
• At most auraMaxEntities auras at once (24), closest first: lower it if a crowded base or a mob farm slows the game down while the sense is on.
• Invisible beings have no aura. Your own shows in third person view.

Settings

All of these are client settings (greatsage-client.toml), and all of them can be changed on the Settings page of the menu, without leaving the game.

See also Configuration.