Material Components in D&D 3E

This was originally posted in 1997, when I was playing AD&D regularly.

1st Level
Affect Normal Fires	VS
Alarm	VSM	Tiny bell, piece of very fine silver wire
Armor	VSM	Piece of finely cured leather blessed by a cleric
Audible Glamer	VSM	Bit of wool or small lump of wax
Burning Hands	VS
Change Self	VS
Charm Person	VS
Chill Touch	VS
Color Spray	VSM	pinch each of powder or sand that is colored red, yellow and blue
Comprehend Languages	VSM	Pinch of soot, few grains of salt
Dancing Lights	VSM	Bit of phosphorus or wychwood, or a glowworm
Detect Magic	VS
Detect Undead	VSM	Bit of earth from a grave
Enlarge	VSM	Pinch of powdered iron
Erase	VS
Feather Fall	V
Find Familiar	VSM	Brazier of charcoal, 1000 gp worth of incense and herbs
Friends	VSM	chalk or white flour, lampblack or soot, vermilion
Gaze Reflection	VS
Grease	VSM	Bit of pork rind or butter
Hold Portal	V
Hypnotism	VS
Identify	VSM	Pearl (at least 100 gp), owl feather steeped in wine, optional powdered luckstone
Jump	VSM	Grasshopper’s hind leg (expended)
Light	VM	firefly or piece of phosphorescent moss
Magic Missile	VS
Mending	VSM	two small magnets of any type or two burrs
Message	VSM	short piece of copper drawn fine
Mount	VSM	bit of hair from the type of animal to be conjured
Nystul’s Magical Aura	VSM	small square of silk
Phantasmal Force	VSM	Bit of fleece
Protection from Evil	VSM	Powdered silver
Read Magic	VSM	Clear cystal or mineral prism
Shield	VS
Shocking Grasp	VS
Sleep	VSM	pinch of fine sand, rose petals or a live cricket
Spider Climb	VSM	Drop of bitumen, live spider
Spook	VS
Taunt	VSM	Slug
Tenser’s Floating Disc	VSM	Drop of mercury
Unseen Servant	VSM	Piece of string, bit of wood
Ventriloquism	VM	Parchment rolled into a small cone
Wall of fog	VSM	Pinch of split, dried peas
Wizard Mark	VSM	Pinch of diamond dust (100 gp worth) and a pigment or pigments for the coloration of the mark, optional stylus (for invisible mark)
2nd Level
Alter Self	VS
Bind	VSM	Rope
Blindness	V
Blur	VS
Continual Light	VS
Darkness, 15’ Radius	VSM	Bit of bat fur, drop of pitch or piece of coal
Deafness	VSM	beeswax
Deeppockets	VSM	garment affected, tiny golden needle, strip of fine cloth given a half-twist and fastened at the ends.
Detect Invisibility	VSM	pinch of talc, small sprinkling of powdered silver
ESP	VSM	a copper piece
Flaming sphere	VSM	bit of tallow, pinch of sulphur, dusting of powdered iron
Fog Cloud	VS
Fools’ Gold	VSM	powdered gem
Forget	VS
Glitterdust	VSM	Ground mica
Hypnotic Pattern	SM	glowing stick of incense or a crystal rod filled with phosphorescent material
Improved Phantasmal Force	VSM	bit of fleece
Invisibility	VSM	eyelash and bit of gum arabic
Irritation	VSM	leaf from poison ivy, oak or sumac
Knock	V
Know Alignment	VS
Leomund’s Trap	VSM	Piece of iron pyrite, 200 gp of dust
Levitate	VSM	small leather loop or piece of golden wire bent into a cup shape
Locate Object	VSM	Forked twig
Magic Mouth	VSM	Small bit of honeycomb
Melf’s Acid Arrow	VSM	dart, powdered rhubarb leaf, adder’s stomach
Mirror Image	VS
Misdirection	VS
Protection from Cantrips	VS
Pyrotechnics	VSM	Existing fire
Ray of Enfeeblement	VS
Rope Trick	VSM	Powdered corn extract, twisted loop of parchment
Scare	VSM	Bit of bone from undead skeleton, zombie, ghoul, ghast, mummy
Shatter	VSM	Chip of mica
Spectral Hand	VS
Stinking Cloud	VSM	Rotten egg or several skunk cabbage leaves
Strength	VSM	A few hairs or pinch of dung from a strong animal (ape, bear, ox, etc.)
Summon Swarm	VSM	Square of Red Cloth
Tasha’s Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter	VSM	Small feather, minute tarts
Web	VSM	Bit of spider web
Whispering Wind	VS
Wizard Lock	VS
3rd Level
Blink	VS
Clairaudience	VSM	small horn of at least 100 gp value
Clairvoyance	VSM	Pinch of powered pineal gland
Delude	VS
Dispel Magic	VS
Explosive Runes	VS
Feign Death	VS
Fireball	VSM	tiny ball of bat guano, sulphur
Flame Arrow	VSM	drop of oil, small piece of flint
Fly	VSM	Wing feather of any bird
Gust of Wind	VSM	Legume seed
Haste	VSM	Shaving of licorice root
Hold Person	VSM	Small, straignt piece of iron
Hold Undead	VSM	Pinch of sulphur, powdered garlic
Illusionary Script	VSM	Special lead-based ink
Infravision	VSM	Pinch of dried carrot or an agate
Invisibility, 10’ Radius	VSM	eyelash and bit of gum arabic
Item	VSM	Item to "itemize"
Leomund’s Tiny Hut	VSM	Small crystal bead (expendable)
Lightning Bolt	VSM	Bit of fur and amber, crystal or glass rod.
Melf’s Minute Meteors	VSM	Nitre and sulphur plus pine tar. Small hollow tube fashioned from gold
Monster Summoning I	VSM	Tiny bag, small candle
Non-Detection	VSM	Pinch of diamond dust
Phantom Steed	VS
Protection from Evil, 10’ Radius	VSM	Powdered iron
Protection from Normal Missiles	VSM	Piece of tortoise or turtle shell
Secret Page	VSM	Powdered herring scales and either will o’ wisp or boggart essence
Sepia Snake Sigil	VSM	100 gp worth of powdered amber, a scale from any snake, and a pinch of mushroom spores
Slow	VSM	Drop of molasses
Spectral Force	VS
Suggestion	VM	Snake’s tongue, either a bit of honeycomb or a drop of sweet oil
Tongues	VM	Small clay model of a ziggurat (expended)
Vampiric Touch	VS
Water Breathing	VSM	Short reed or piece of straw
Wind Wall	VSM	Tiny fan and a feather of exotic origin
Wraithform	SM	Bit of gauze and a wisp of smoke
4th Level
Charm Monster	VS
Confusion	VSM	3 nut shells
Contagion	VS
Detect Scrying	VSM	Small piece of mirror and miniature brass hearing trumpet
Dig	VSM	Miniature shovel and tiny bucket (expended)
Dimension Door	V
Emotion	VS
Enchanted Weapon	VSM	Powdered lime and carbon
Enervation	VS
Evard’s Black Tentacles	VSM	Piece of tentacle from giant octopus or giant squid
Extension I	V
Fear	VSM	Heart of a hen or a white feather
Fire Charm	VSM	Smal piece of multi-colored silk of exceptional thinness (expended)
Fire Shield	VSM	Live firefly or glow worm or the tail portions of 4 dead ones
Fire Trap	VSM	Sulphur or saltpeter
Fumble	VSM	A dab of solidified milk fat
Hallucinatory Terrain	VSM	A stone, a twig and a bit of green plant - leaf or grass blade
Ice Storm	VSM	Pinch of dust and a few drops of water
Illusionary Wall	VSM	Rare dust that costs at least 400 gp
Improved Invisibility	VS
Leomund’s Secure Shelter	VSM	Square chip of stone, crushed lime, a few grains of sand, a sprinkling of water and several splinters of wood, optionally a string and silver wire and small bell)
Magic Mirror	VSM	Finely wrought and highly polished silver of a minimum cost of 1000 gp (not expended) and the eye of a hawk, an eagle or even a roc, and nitric acid, copper and zinc (expended)
Massmorph	VSM	Handful of bark chips from the type of tree the creatures are to become
Minor Creation	VSM	Tiny piece of matter of the same type of item he plans to create by menas of the spell
Minor Globe of Invulnerability	VSM	Glass or Crystal Bead (expended)
Monster Summoning II	VSM	Tiny bag, small candle
Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere	VSM	Hemispherical piece of diamond or similar hard, clear gem material) and a matching hemispherical piece of gum arabic
Phantasmal Killer	VS
Plant Growth	VS
Polymorph Other	VSM	Caterpillar cocoon
Polymorph Self	V
Rainbow Pattern	SM	Crystal prism and a piece of phosphor
Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer	VSM	Piece of string, an ivory plaque of at least of 100 gp value, ink consisting of squid secretion with either black dragon’s blood or giant slug digestive juice (expneded)
Remove Curse	VS
Shadow Monsters	VS
Shout	VM	Drop of honey, drop of citric acid, small cone made from a bull or ram horn
Solid Fog	VSM	Pinch of dried, powdered peas combined with powdered animal hoof
Stoneskin	VSM	Granite and diamond dust
Vacancy	VSM	Square of the finest black silk
Wall of Fire	VSM	Phosphorus
Wall of Ice	VSM	Small piece of quartz or similar rock crystal
Wizard Eye	VSM	Bit of bat fur
5th Level
Advanced Illusion	VSM	Bit of fleece, several grains of sand
Airy Water	VSM	Small handful of alkaline or bromine salts
Animal Growth	VSM	Pinch of powdered bone
Animate Dead	VSM	Drop of blood and pinch of bone powder or a bone shard
Avoidance	VSM	Magnetized needle
Bigby’s Interposing Hand	VSM	Soft glove
Chaos	VSM	Small disc of bronze and a small rod of iron
Cloudkill	VS
Cone of Cold	VSM	Crystal or glass cone of very small size
Conjure Elemental	VSM	Burning incense (air), soft clay (earth), sulphur and phosphorus (fire) or water and sand (water)
Contact Other Plane	V
Demi-Shadow Monsters	VS
Dismissal	VSM	Item that is distasteful to the creature being dismissed
Distance Distortion	VSM	Small lump of soft clay
Domination	VS
Dream	VS
Extension II	V
Fabricate	VSM	The ingredients for the item being fabricated
False Vision	VSM	Ground dust of an emerald worth at least 500 gp
Feeblemind	VSM	Handful of clay, crystal, glass or mineral spheres (expended)
Hold Monster	VSM	One hard metal bar or rod for each monster to be held
Leomund’s Lamentable Belaborment	V
Leomund’s Secret Chest	VSM	Pair of chests, one small, one large
Magic Jar	VSM	???
Major Creation	VSM	At least a tiny piece of matter of the same type as the item he plans to create
Monster Summoning III	VSM	Tiny bag, small candle
Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound	VSM	Tiny silver whistle, piece of bone, a thread
Passwall	VSM	Pinch of sesame seeds
Seeming	VS
Sending	VSM	Two cylinders, each with one open end, connected by a short piece of fine copper wire
Shadow Door	S
Shadow Magic	VS
Stone Shape	VSM	Soft clay
Summon Shadow	VSM	Smoky quartz
Telekinesis	VS
Teleport	V
Transmute Rock to Mud	VSM	clay and water (or sand, lime, and water to reverse)
Wall of Force	VSM	Pinch of powdered diamond worth 5000 gp
Wall of Iron	VSM	Small piece of sheet iron
Wall of Stone	VSM	Small block of granite
6th Level
Anti-Magic Shell	VS
Bigby’s Forceful Hand	VSM	A glove
Chain Lightning	VSM	Bit of fur, piece of amber, glass or crystal rod, and one silver pin for each experience level of the caster
Conjure Animals	VS
Contingency	VSM	Components of companion spell plus 100 gp worth of quicksilver and an eyelash of an ogre mage, ki-rin or similar spell-using creature, plus a statuette of the wizard carved from elephant ivory which must be carried during the duration of the spell
Control Weather	VSM	Burning incense and bits of earth and wood mixed in water
Death Fog	VSM	Pinch of dried and powdered peas, powdered animal hoof and strong acid of any sort (including highly distilled vinegar or acid crystals)
Death Spell	VSM	Crushed black pearl with minimum value of 1000 gp
Demi-Shadow Magic	VS
Disintegrate	VSM	Lodestone and a pinch of dust
Enchant an Item	VSM	Vary according to the item being enchanted
Ensnarement	VSM	???
Extension III	V
Eyebite	VS
Geas	V
Glassee	VSM	Small piece of crystal or glass
Globe of Invulnerability	VSM	Glass or crystal bead (expended)
Guards and Wards	VSM	Burning incense, a small measure of sulphur and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk blood and a small silver rod
Invisible Stalker	VSM	Burning incense and a piece of horn carved into a crescent shape
Legend Lore	VSM	Incense, strips of ivory formed into a rectangle, and some item of value to the spellcaster must be sacrificed
Lower Water	VSM	Small vial of water
Mass Suggestion	VM	Snakes tongue and either a bit of honeycomb or a drop of sweet oil
Mirage Arcana	VS (M)	Material component optional
Mislead	S
Monster Summoning IV	VSM	Tiny bag and a small candle
Mordenkainen’s Lucubration	VS
Move Earth	VSM	Mixture of soils in a small bag and an iron blade
Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere	VSM	1000 gp diamond
Part Water	VSM	Two small sheets of crystal or glass
Permanent Illusion	VSM	Bit of fleece
Programmed Illusion	VSM	Bit of fleece
Project Image	VSM	Small replica of the wizard
Reincarnation	VSM	Small drum and a drop of blood
Repulsion	VSM	Pair of small magnetized iron bars attached to two small canine statuettes, one ivory and one ebony
Shades	VS
Stone to Flesh	VSM	Lime, water, earth
Tenser’s Transformation	VSM	Potion of Heroism or superheroism (expended)
Transmute Water to Dust	VSM	Diamond Dust of at least 500 gp value and a bit of seashell
Veil	VS
7th Level
Banishment	VSM	Substances harmful, hateful or opposed to the nature of the subject of the spell.
Bigby’s Grasping Hand	VSM	Leather glove
Charm Plants	VSM	Pinch of humus, a drop of water and a twig or leaf
Control Undead	VSM	Small piece each of bone and raw meat
Delayed Blast Fireball	VSM	tiny ball of bat guano, sulphur
Drawmij’s Instant Summons	VSM	Gem worth at least 5000 gp (expended)
Duo-Dimension	VSM	Flat ivory likeness of the spellcaster (costing 500-1000 gp), strip of parchment (both expended)
Finger of Death	VS
Forcecage	VS+ special	1000 gp worth of powdered diamond (used during spell memorization)
Limited Wish	V
Mass Invisibility	VSM	eyelash and bit of gum arabic
Monster Summoning V	VSM	Tiny bag, small candle
Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion	VSM	Miniature portal carved from ivory, small piece of polished marble, tiny silver spoon (expended)
Mordenkainen’s Sword	VSM	Miniature platinum sword with grip and pommel of copper and zinc, minimum 500 gp cost (expended)
Phase Door	V
Power Word, Stun	V
Prismatic Spray	VS
Reverse Gravity	VSM	Lodestone, Iron filings
Sequester	VSM	Basilisk eyelash, gum arabic, dram of whitewash
Shadow Walk	VS
Simulacrum	VSM	Form of the duplicated individual made of ice, something that belongs to the duplicated individual, powdered ruby
Spell Turning	VSM	Small silver mirror
Statue	VSM	Lime, sand, drop of water stirred by an iron bar (such as a nail or spike)
Teleport Without Error	V
Vanish	V
Vision	VSM	Sacrifice of something valued by the spellcaster or by the power supplicated
8th Level
Antipathy-Sympathy	VSM	Lump of alum soaked in vinegar (antipathy) or 1000 gp worth of crushed pearls and a drop of honey (sympathy)
Bigby’s Clenched Fist	VSM	Leather glove, small device consisting of 4 rings joined so as to form a slightly curved line with an "I" upon which the bottoms of the rings rest, the whole fashioned of an alloy of copper and zinc
Binding	VSM	???
Clone	VSM	Small piece of the flesh from the person to be duplicated
Demand	VSM	Pair of cylinders, each open at one end, connected by a thin piece of copper wire and some small part of the subject creature, a hair, bit of nail, etc.
Glassteel	VSM	Small piece of glass, small piece of steel
Incendiary Cloud	VSM	Fire source, scrapings from beneath a dung pile, pinch of dust
Mass Charm	V
Maze	VS
Mind Blank	VS
Monster Summoning VI	VSM	Tiny bag, small candle
Otiluke’s Telekinetic Sphere	VSM	Hemispherical piece of diamond, matching piece of gum arabic, pair of small bar magnets
Otto’s Irresistible Dance	V
Permanency	VSM	???
Polymorph Any Object	VSM	Mercury, gum arabic, smoke
Power Word, Blind	V
Prismatic Wall	VS
Screen	VS
Serten’s Spell Immunity	VSM	Diamond of at least 500 gp value (expended), each subject carries a diamond of at least 1 carat
Sink	VS
Symbol	VSM	Powdered black opal and diamond dust, worth not less than 5000 gp each
Trap the Soul	VSM	Gem of at least 1000 gp value per hit die of the creature to be trapped
9th Level
Astral Spell	VS
Bigby’s Crushing Hand	VSM	Glove of snake-skin and the shell of an egg
Crystalbrittle	VS
Energy Drain	VSM	Essence of a specter or vampire dust
Foresight	VSM	Hummingbird’s feather
Gate	VS
Imprisonment	VS
Meteor Swarm	VS
Monster Summoning VII	VSM	Bag, small candle
Mordenkainen’s Disjunction	V
Power Word, Kill	V
Prismatic Sphere	V
Shape Change	VSM	Jade circlet worth no less than 5000 gp (expended)
Succor	VSM	Gemstones totalling not less than 5000 gp (can only be enchanted once a month)
Temporal Stasis	VSM	Powder of diamond, emerald, ruby and sapphire dust, each crushed stone of at least 100 gp value
Time Stop	V
Weird	VS
Wish	V