I have this weird combination with my character. He travels from town to town and offers his treats, all he needs is fresh water, cups and wooden spoons. First he fills water into the cups, then he puts the spoons in, ideally straight. Then comes the trick:
Prestidigitation to flavor the water (strawberries, exotic spices whatever)
Shape Water to color the water in bright and fancy colors
Instant delicious ice-on-a-stick. The people generally like the trick. Of course it is not really scalable, but for a single trick, it's quite fancy. A seasonal variant that you can pull off with just Prestidigitation is to make fizzy bubbly, cold, flavored drinks to sell. You don't even need Shape Water for that.
Mold earth along with create bonfire for a convenient fire pit, or minor illusion some regular terrain over the pit to make a trap. Mending for everything you can think of. Break an object, stash something inside, mend it.
I like to use Mold Earth to make a "Roman marching camp". It's kinda combat focused as it allows the party to build fortifications out in the wilds.
To make an 8x8 open area for the party to rest in. It takes 36 casting to make a 5 foot deep and 5 foot wide trench around this encampment and piling the dirt on the outside of the 8x8 area. Then it wold take 44 casting to expand the perimiter on the outside of this trench. This makes a 10 foot wide (minumum Str 11 to jump) and 5 foot deep trench.
I'd say another 36 casting to turn the spoil into an actual dirt wall on the inside of the encampment. This should give the party a 3-4' dirt wall for cover with a 5 foot trench. Anything that wants to attack the party has to make it over a 10 foot deep pit with a 3-4' wall. If they fail they fall 5' and then have to climb 8-9 foot dirt wall while dealing with the party. While the party is prone (sleeping) they have full cover from the wall.
All in all this is 116 castings, at 10 castings per minute that's 13 minutes to set up basic fortifications.
If someone in the party has carpentry and you keep a wagon you can line the perimiter of the internal area with steaks to deter jumping.
Prestigitation is just a useful, all around cantrip for doing pretty much anything and everything. Need fire? Playing tricks on people? I have so much fun just using this with everything and everyone.
Minor Illusion and Dancing Lights are also fun as a bard. This lets you go crazy with special effects while you perform. Once used Lights to "create" a dancing partner as my bard rocked out.
I use minor illusion all the time to create umbrellas... The top of the umbrella looks like the ground I'm walking over effectively making me camouflaged from above as well as keeping me in the shade.
Minor illusion an additional chair at the table your sitting at... always have a glyph on the chair so your party members catch on or not I don't know their intelligence scores... invite anyone you want thrown off balance to have a seat.
Do the same with ale.
Throw calatrops minor illusion additional squares of calatrops, throw calatrops and minor illusion daisies over them, throw marbles, throw marbles minor illusion a nice grassy patch over them, repeat a few times and you will have gaslighted whomever is following you into having to examine everything before proceeding. Even more fun with unseen servant placing and moving the calatrops and marbles.
Prestidigitation is akin to "minor wish" with a bit of creativity for instance.
"hairy" (makes a thing hairy or hairier) + "tangle" (instant dreadlocks) + "fire finger" (zip-po!) = one very unhappy bugbear (from second edition cantrips from the original unearthed arcana might be a bit beyond the 5th edition spell but still damn fun)
more gaslighting fun and games such as snuffing candles, making things filthy then clean, adding habanero powder to ale, and lighting torches in someone's bag.
I use mending a lot. When the DM wants to annoy us, he'll say that the rope breaks. I just cast mending and it's all good again. basically, none of our equipment ever wears away.
Prestidigitation is very useful I found on keeping my characters clean, as often I have played that character that dislikes getting dirty. The fact I can use to clean clothes is very interesting. In a pathfinder game I used Ray of Frost to make ice for drinks the party was having. Don't have shape water or else would do that. Been trying to think combination of cantrips or spells but tend to be rather straight forward. Now that I have a hat of disquise though things may get interesting. Mending will sure be my next cantrip.
I have this weird combination with my character. He travels from town to town and offers his treats, all he needs is fresh water, cups and wooden spoons. First he fills water into the cups, then he puts the spoons in, ideally straight. Then comes the trick:
Instant delicious ice-on-a-stick. The people generally like the trick. Of course it is not really scalable, but for a single trick, it's quite fancy. A seasonal variant that you can pull off with just Prestidigitation is to make fizzy bubbly, cold, flavored drinks to sell. You don't even need Shape Water for that.
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Mold earth along with create bonfire for a convenient fire pit, or minor illusion some regular terrain over the pit to make a trap. Mending for everything you can think of. Break an object, stash something inside, mend it.
That's also very smart! I dig the mending trick lol.
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I like to use Mold Earth to make a "Roman marching camp". It's kinda combat focused as it allows the party to build fortifications out in the wilds.
To make an 8x8 open area for the party to rest in.
It takes 36 casting to make a 5 foot deep and 5 foot wide trench around this encampment and piling the dirt on the outside of the 8x8 area.
Then it wold take 44 casting to expand the perimiter on the outside of this trench. This makes a 10 foot wide (minumum Str 11 to jump) and 5 foot deep trench.
I'd say another 36 casting to turn the spoil into an actual dirt wall on the inside of the encampment. This should give the party a 3-4' dirt wall for cover with a 5 foot trench. Anything that wants to attack the party has to make it over a 10 foot deep pit with a 3-4' wall. If they fail they fall 5' and then have to climb 8-9 foot dirt wall while dealing with the party.
While the party is prone (sleeping) they have full cover from the wall.
All in all this is 116 castings, at 10 castings per minute that's 13 minutes to set up basic fortifications.
If someone in the party has carpentry and you keep a wagon you can line the perimiter of the internal area with steaks to deter jumping.
that said "loose earth" isn't well clarified so not every DM agrees this should work. J.C. has clarified it was meant to be not stone.
https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/05/18/whats-loose-earth-for-the-mold-earth-cantrip/
https://www.sageadvice.eu/2018/01/23/how-deep-a-hole-can-you-actually-dig-with-mold-earth/
Prestigitation is just a useful, all around cantrip for doing pretty much anything and everything. Need fire? Playing tricks on people? I have so much fun just using this with everything and everyone.
Minor Illusion and Dancing Lights are also fun as a bard. This lets you go crazy with special effects while you perform. Once used Lights to "create" a dancing partner as my bard rocked out.
Prestidigitation and Minor illusion.
I use minor illusion all the time to create umbrellas... The top of the umbrella looks like the ground I'm walking over effectively making me camouflaged from above as well as keeping me in the shade.
Minor illusion an additional chair at the table your sitting at... always have a glyph on the chair so your party members catch on or not I don't know their intelligence scores... invite anyone you want thrown off balance to have a seat.
Do the same with ale.
Throw calatrops minor illusion additional squares of calatrops, throw calatrops and minor illusion daisies over them, throw marbles, throw marbles minor illusion a nice grassy patch over them, repeat a few times and you will have gaslighted whomever is following you into having to examine everything before proceeding. Even more fun with unseen servant placing and moving the calatrops and marbles.
Prestidigitation is akin to "minor wish" with a bit of creativity for instance.
"hairy" (makes a thing hairy or hairier) + "tangle" (instant dreadlocks) + "fire finger" (zip-po!) = one very unhappy bugbear
(from second edition cantrips from the original unearthed arcana might be a bit beyond the 5th edition spell but still damn fun)
more gaslighting fun and games such as snuffing candles, making things filthy then clean, adding habanero powder to ale, and lighting torches in someone's bag.
I use mending a lot. When the DM wants to annoy us, he'll say that the rope breaks. I just cast mending and it's all good again. basically, none of our equipment ever wears away.
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Prestidigitation is very useful I found on keeping my characters clean, as often I have played that character that dislikes getting dirty. The fact I can use to clean clothes is very interesting. In a pathfinder game I used Ray of Frost to make ice for drinks the party was having. Don't have shape water or else would do that. Been trying to think combination of cantrips or spells but tend to be rather straight forward. Now that I have a hat of disquise though things may get interesting. Mending will sure be my next cantrip.