You choose a portion of dirt or stone that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You manipulate it in one of the following ways:

• If you target an area of loose earth, you can instantaneously excavate it, move it along the ground, and deposit it up to 5 feet away. This movement doesn’t have enough force to cause damage.

• You cause shapes, colors, or both to appear on the dirt or stone, spelling out words, creating images, or shaping patterns. The changes last for 1 hour.

• If the dirt or stone you target is on the ground, you cause it to become difficult terrain. Alternatively, you can cause the ground to become normal terrain if it is already difficult terrain. This change lasts for 1 hour.

• If you target a stone weighing 1 to 5 pounds that isn’t being worn or carried, you can launch it at a creature within 30 feet of the stone. If you target an area of loose earth, you can compact 5 pounds of it into a projectile which is launched instead. Make a ranged spell attack against the creature. On a hit, the creature takes 1d8 bludgeoning damage and the projectile is destroyed. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have no more than three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as a bonus action.