Runemark

Runemark

A Diablo-style loot system for Valheim.

Creatures and chests drop equipment with a rarity and randomly rolled bonuses. Magic items on the ground are marked with a pillar of light and a star on your map. Gear you do not want can be broken down at a Runestone and the materials worked into gear you do.

> This is early and the numbers will change. Drop rates, prices and payouts have not been > balanced against much real play yet. Items you already have are not affected by those changes, > and every number is in a config file you can edit.

Finding Gear

Creatures and chests get a chance to drop equipment, and everything they drop is rolled.

There are five rarities. Higher ones roll more bonuses, and roll them higher within each bonus's range.

| Rarity | Bonuses | |---|---| | Marked | 1 | | Runed | 1-2 | | Hallowed | 2-3 | | Jarl's | 3-4 | | Storied | 4-5 |

Each rarity has its own colour and frame in the inventory grid. On the ground, magic items stand in a pillar of light in their rarity colour, and a chime plays when one lands nearby. Each rarity has its own sound.

The beam can be hidden behind hills or under trees, so magic items also show as a star on your map and minimap in the same colour. The star disappears when you pick the item up.

There are seventy bonuses. Most change a stat you already know: damage, armour, carry weight, stamina regeneration, resistances. Elemental damage also makes a weapon give off matching sparks that other players can see.

Some do more than raise a number:

| Bonus | What it does | |---|---| | Draugrbane, Beastbane, Jotunbane | Extra damage to the undead, to beasts, or to bosses | | Thirsting | Heals you a little with every hit you land | | Bristling | Attackers take a share of the damage back | | Oilskin | Rain no longer makes you Wet | | Emberproof | Ashlands heat builds more slowly | | Wisptouched | Pushes back the Mistlands mist, leaving your utility slot free | | Hewing, Delving | Axes fell trees faster, pickaxes break rock faster | | Enduring | The item wears out more slowly | | Sparing | A hammer sometimes builds a piece for free |

Use runemark_affixes in the console to see all seventy with their ranges.

Gear is sorted into eight tiers, from the Meadows to the Deep North, and a creature drops loot suited to the biome it lives in. Starred creatures drop magic gear more often.

The Runestone

A standing stone you build for 20 Stone and 10 Wood. You learn it the first time you pick up anything Runemark made. Press Use to open it.

It has three ranks. Raising it is paid for in runes, using the Upgrade button under the rank in the panel. The materials come from using the stone, so there is nothing to go and mine for it.

| Work | Rank | What it does | |---|---|---| | Break | I | Magic gear into runes of its own rarity, and ochre. Trophies into ochre. Asks twice | | Fuse | I | Four runes of one tier into one of the next | | Recarve | II | Swap one bonus for a different one | | Deepen | II | Reroll a bonus's value, keeping the bonus. Costs more each time | | Inscribe | III | Cut fresh bonuses into anything. Costs more each time on the same item | | Name | III | Give your finest gear a name of your own |

Runecrafting

Working at a Runestone raises a skill called Runecrafting, which improves what Inscribe rolls. At 100, a Storied result goes from about one throw in 167 to one in 50. Inscribing teaches the most and breaking the least. The odds on the Inscribe tab are your own, so they climb as the skill does.

Runes and Ochre

Two currencies, and breaking gear down gives you both. Runes pay for Recarve, Deepen and upgrades. Ochre pays for Inscribe, and also comes from trophies.

Breaking pays fewer runes as the rarity rises, so common gear stays worth collecting. The ochre runs the other way, so your best finds are worth breaking too.

| Standing | Runes | Ochre | |---|---|---| | Marked | 100 Fehu | 15 | | Runed | 60 Uruz | 30 | | Hallowed | 40 Ansuz | 50 | | Jarl's | 25 Tiwaz | 100 | | Storied | 10 Sowilo | 250 |

Four runes of one standing fuse into one of the next.

Inscribe

50 Ochre, plus 1 for every throw that item has already had. The stone rolls the standing and reveals it on a spinning reel.

It works on gear that already has bonuses, replacing them, so a poor result can be rerolled. Because the price climbs, working one item all evening costs more than starting fresh with another. A newly crafted item is back to 50. The price and the odds are shown before you commit.

Names

At a rank III stone, Jarl's and Storied gear can be given a name of your own, up to 32 characters. It replaces the rolled name everywhere: the tooltip, your inventory, and the hover text when it is lying on the ground.

The name travels with the item, so anyone who picks it up or finds it in a chest reads the same thing.

One name per item, and it is permanent. Naming is free, but a name cannot be changed or removed once it is cut, so the button asks twice before it commits.

Locks

Every row in the panel has a padlock, and locked items say so in their normal tooltip. Nothing Runemark does will consume a locked item, including runes sitting in a chest.

Nearby Chests

The stone can draw runes and ochre from chests near it, so you do not have to carry your whole stock. The range is a slider in the panel.

Several kinds of chest are never touched: one behind someone else's ward, one set to private, one in use at the time, and one ticked Not For Crafting if you use Andvari. A locked item inside a chest is safe too, the same as one in your pocket.

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