You pull wisps of shadow material from the Shadowfell to create a nonliving object of vegetable matter within range: soft goods, rope, wood, or something similar. You can also use this spell to create mineral objects such as stone, crystal, or metal. The object created must be no larger than a 5-foot cube, and the object must be of a form and material that you have seen before.
The duration depends on the object's material. If the object is composed of multiple materials, use the shortest duration.
Material | Duration |
---|---|
Vegetable matter | 1 day |
Stone or crystal | 12 hours |
Precious metals | 1 hour |
Gems | 10 minutes |
Adamantine or mithral | 1 minute |
Using any material created by this spell as another spell's material component causes that spell to fail.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the cube increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 5th.
* - (a tiny piece of matter of the same type of the item you plan to create)
Sure, some of the deadliest poisons on earth are plant or fungus in origin. Death cap mushroom, nightshade, monkshood, destroying angel mushroom.
A forge cleric can use it to:
First cast gentle repose.
Then cast this spell and create a big diamond.
And cast revivify.
So you don't need the 300gp diamond anymore.
No, you can't use things created with this spell as spell components
Can you just create food that can be digested within a day?
Because your just temporarily making more of the same material. So it would just turn into more led. I would suggest 1 platinum piece for a platinum block.
Platinum weighs more than gold and is worth more in 5e
Because conjuration is permanent.
This would be up to your DM; but the fact that the spell is classed as an illusion, and the created material is temporary could be taken to mean that it would provide you with no sustenance (i.e- digesting it might just turn it back into shadow matter) or that the sustenance would disappear when the duration (of the material) expires.
I tend to assume that creation creates something as it should be for the duration; so anything that transforms the material into something else (like digesting it would need to) would cause some or all of it to revert to shadow matter and break the illusion. This keeps it reasonably sane while still being a super useful spell (that you can still use to drop a 6,000 lb cube of gold onto someone with). And you can still use it to create weapons or armour etc., because dents/scratches etc. aren't fundamentally transforming the material (just distorting the shape).
If you need to create food, there is a spell specifically for that.
Could you create a black hole with this, rules as written?
Can this spell create animal matter and non-precious metals? Because plate armor without the leather straps that hold it together and secure it to your body is just a pile of fancy scrap.
Besides leather, other useful animal matter that would be handy to be able to
conjureillusion up: vellum, wax, fur, wool, bone, horn, venom, etc.Create a pit trap using this spell, then dispell it.
It has some interesting results (aka burying someone alive.)
Reading through some of the ideas of how to use this spell in combat, with a casting time of 1 minute, how could you manage to pull some of these off while actually in combat, such as creating the cube of gold to crush your enemy?
Can someone give me an example of vegetable matter I'm really struggling coming up with ideas for that material
Vegetable matter = food, wood, fabric (cotton, etc.,) vines/rope, paper, hay (for bedding,) sawdust, oil/grease, bait (for fishing/hunting,) inks/paint, odorous substances, alcohol/disinfectant, crude saddlebags, and so on.
If you've seen a black hole, which might be impossible considering light can't escape them.
Everybody suggesting combat usage needs to pay attention to the casting time. Most encounters don't last one minute, much less have an enemy that stands still for one minute. Even using it on a sleeping enemy is casting yourself on the DM's mercy, if they're important to the story they're definitely going to get up to use the restroom, or be woken up by you chanting for a minute in their bedroom.
Since you have to have seen the material and form to create it and no one can actually see the singularity (the black part of a black hole isn't actually anything), probably not.
If the campaign you're in has simple firearms, then "a 5ft cube of black powder in a steel canister and a long fuse" should be a valid request for this spell right? Now the only question is how long until your DM kicks you out for solving every planned encounter with giant explosions...
That would actually be a quite good use for this spell (provided that you have seen black powder), especially since you can instead create several explosive barrels and place them as you see fit before detonating them. It would still be very situational as you need to prepare/acquire this spell beforehand, concentrate for one minute, set the thing on fire then get out as fast as you can (possibly using Dimensional Door). It would be good to destroy a building or level part of a mountain, but you have to make sure you aren't interrupted and no one innocent is in the area.
Conjure 8 tons of lye and go ooze hunting, or ruin that acid trap.