Grimoires (or spellbooks - not to be confused with developer spells) are Off-Hand items added in Version 0.1.10 of Juice Galaxy, and function primarily as an alternate class of weapon outside of the Melee or Ranged categories. They are randomly dropped by enemies like other items, and currently none have pre-determined spawn locations in the Wilderness or elsewhere.
Each Grimoire appears to be a magically-imbued book. Holding the use key will cause the effect of the Grimoire to be applied, draining energy for as long as the ability is in use. For some Grimoires, the full offensive effect of the tome will only be applied until after the use button is released, and for others the effect will only last so long as the button is held.
Like other items, Grimoires can have random modifiers applied to them.
Types[]
The following is a table of all currently implemented Grimoires in Juice Galaxy, with their effects, energy-drain, and appearance tabulated. When Grimoires are hovered over in the options menu, their name will display as "Grimoire : ", followed by the name of the effect the book provides.
| Name | Image | Effects/Abilites | Energy/Will Drain | Special Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinesis |  |
Telekinetically move and crush a foe that is weaker than you. Also attracts enemy corpses. | Telekinetically-held corpses can be sucked for health and energy. | |
| Meteor |  |
Materialize and throw an explosive flaming rock. Holding the use key will increase the meteor's size. Creates a powerful explosion on impact capable of launching the player backwards. | Released meteors are affected by gravity. Explosion knockback is determined by the velocity and scale of the meteor. As such, releasing the meteor while flying can create tremendous knockback at the origin of the blast. | |
| Tiny Sun |  |
Throw a rapidly expanding ball of plasma directly in front of the player that detonates upon collision. This plasma will set affected enemies on fire. Holding the use button will fire these projectiles rapidly. | Plasma bolts are not affected by gravity. Note that the plasma balls will automatically detonate after a specified amount of time, limiting their effective range. However, plasma that detonates in this manner will have the largest possible explosion radius/knockback. | |
| Gravity Sphere |  |
Create a hyper-dense pellet of juice that attracts and consumes enemies. This pellet can be summoned and held above and in front of wherever the player is facing when the use button is held, and will be thrown when the button is released. | Thrown pellets are affected by gravity. Hyper-dense Juice pellets will shrink quickly after being thrown, but they will continue to attract enemies, items, and other Juice pellets until they disappear. | |
| Copy Weapon |  |
Rapidly spawns clones of the weapon currently being wielded in the player's main hand from the weapon's position with added velocity. These weapons will rapidly shrink after being spawned. | Copied weapons are affected by gravity. The copied weapons will only have velocity if the spell is used while the player is swinging the weapon or otherwise moving. This allows the player to "throw" the copies at nearby enemies and damage them. Note that range is limited by the weapon's velocity and scale. | |
| Pet Rock |  |
Spawns small rock entities that follow the player and bounce towards any enemy entity. If too many are spawned in, some of the rocks will quickly shrink and disappear. | Pet rocks seem to have limited health, but even if they die, they can continue fighting. Humorously, attempting to spawn the rocks while looking straight down will cause them to spawn underground. | |
| Arc |  |
Summons bolts of lightning that deal a high burst of shock damage and connect to nearby enemies. | To make up for the high burst damage, this grimoire instantly drains a high amount of your energy when you use it (Usually in quarters, but this changes depending on your Energy Max and Energy Regen stats). | |
| Bubble Flurry | Summons a stream of bubbles that latch on to enemies, lifting them up and bursting to deal damage. Weaker creatures can be trapped in a bubble prison, which contracts and explodes. | The Bubble Flurry spell is unable to harm Bubblians. |
Trivia[]
- Fishlicka has hinted that using Grimoires may use a separate resource than energy, called "Will," in future versions of the game.
- Fishlicka has also proposed a spell-crafting system where joining random symbols would produce special effects, but has not greatly elaborated on it.
- The Gravity Sphere spell is said to be "a hyper-dense ball of juice," and during development it was called the Black Hole spell to reflect this.
- Initially, Grimoires were the only items that could be held and used in the Juiceling's off-hand. However, this was changed with the addition of the Grappling Plunger.