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beholderface
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Hexarang

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A hex that mimics the functionality of the Pickarang from Quark. Requires Hexal.
Fires a projectile wisp which either breaks the block it hit or produces a safe explosion at the feet of the entity it hit, and then summons a cyclic wisp which returns to you and disappears. If the initial projectile hit a block, the cyclic wisp will drag any items it dropped along with it on its way back to you.
While it has very long range when returning single itemstacks, the wisp will of course consume media proportional to how many itemstacks it must carry, such that breaking a full chest only has an effective range of several blocks before the wisp will disappear and release its items. This can be mitigated by summoning the initial projectile wisp with more media, but I've chosen not to increase the number beyond 50 dust since this is already an impractically expensive vanity hex in most situations.

Demonstration video.
Patterns
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//initial projectile wisp
{
    //check what the wisp hit
    Gemini Decomposition
    Classifier's Purification
    Vector Reflection Zero
    Classifier's Purification
    Equality Distillation
    //if it hits a block, break it and summon a cyclic wisp that drags the drop(s) back to the caster
    {
        Gemini Decomposition
        Gemini Decomposition
        Numerical Reflection: 2
        //item entities to not grab
        Zone Distillation: Item
        Jester's Gambit
        Break Block
        Jester's Gambit
        Numerical Reflection: 2
        //should include whatever items the block dropped
        Zone Distillation: Item
        //list of only the block's drops
        Exclusionary Distillation
        //cyclic wisp
        {
            //check if wisp is greater than one block from player. if so, navigate to player. if not, use large impulse on wisp to consume all media.
            Gemini Decomposition
            Compass' Purification
            Mind's Reflection
            Compass' Purification
            Subtractive Distillation
            Length Purification
            Numerical Reflection: 0.25
            Maximus Distillation
            {
                Mind's Reflection
                Compass' Purification
                Pathfinder's Gambit
            }
            {
                Vector Reflection +Y
                Numerical Reflection: 10
                Multiplicative Distillation
                Impulse
            }
            Augur's Exaltation
            Hermes' Gambit
            //thoth list to pull items to wisp
            {
                Gemini Decomposition 
                Compass' Purification
                Rotation Gambit
                Compass' Purification
                Jester's Gambit
                Subtractive Distillation
                Numerical Reflection: 6
                Division Distillation
                Impulse
            }
            {
                //placeholder iota to be replaced with the list of items to drag
                Bookkeeper's Gambit: -
            }
            Flock's Disintegration
            //get rid of any entity references that have become null
            Nullary Reflection
            Speaker's Distillation
            Uniqueness Purification
            Numerical Reflection: 0
            Excisor's Distillation
            Thoth's Gambit
            Bookkeeper's Gambit: v
        }
        Gemini Decomposition
        //insert the item list
        {
            Bookkeeper's Gambit: -
        }
        Flock's Disintegration
        Locator's Distillation
        Rotation Gambit
        Surgeon's Exaltation
        Jester's Gambit
        Compass' Purification
        Reservoir Reflection
        Numerical Reflection: 3
        Subtractive Distillation
        Summon Cyclic Wisp 
    }
    //if it hits a mob, do a safe-explode and summon a cyclic wisp that just returns to the player
    {
        Compass' Purification II
        Numerical Reflection: 5
        Gemini Gambit
        Break Block
        Create Water
        Numerical Reflection: 5
        Explosion
        Conjure Block
        Break Block
        //the cyclic wisp
        {
            //same conditional navigate-or-self-destruct code as in the block break one
            Gemini Decomposition
            Compass' Purification
            Mind's Reflection
            Compass' Purification
            Subtractive Distillation
            Length Purification
            Numerical Reflection: 0.25
            Maximus Distillation
            {
                Mind's Reflection
                Compass' Purification
                Pathfinder's Gambit
            }
            {
                Vector Reflection +Y
                Numerical Reflection: 10
                Multiplicative Distillation
                Impulse
            }
            Augur's Exaltation
            Hermes' Gambit
        }
        Jester's Gambit
        Compass' Purification
        Numerical Reflection: 10
        Summon Cyclic Wisp
    }
    Augur's Exaltation
    Hermes' Gambit
}
Mind's Reflection
Compass' Purification
Mind's Reflection
Alidade's Purification
Numerical Reflection: 3
Multiplicative Distillation
Numerical Reflection: 50
Summon Projectile Wisp
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Re: Hexarang

Post by beholderface »

Don't move *too* much while the wisp is coming back, or the wisp may end up releasing the item(s) before you actually pick them up.