RUNIC: Enchants

Runic overhauls gear progression around exploration and upgrading. Find runes in structures and from mobs, enchant etchings for early game upgrades, and build your gear over time. Explore synergies, mythics and relics and make your gear the strongest it can be!

Below are the core systems and how they work:

Enhancement Slots:
Gear pieces contain enhancement slots. Runes and Etchings are applied into these slots. Stronger gear has more slots.

Runes:
Runes replace enchanted books. Each rune holds a single enhancement and can stack in your inventory. Runes come in rarity tiers and are found in structures and mobs. Rarity increases with difficulty, encouraging exploration over farming. Mythic rarity adds powerful enhancements at the cost of heavy corruption.

Etchings:
Etchings are weaker, craftable versions of runes. They allow players to upgrade early and mid-game gear.

Artisan Workbench:
This workstation applies runes, etchings, inscriptions and relics onto gear.

Stat Enhancements:
Stat enhancements roll a random % buff on a gear piece. Their values can be rerolled using a reroll inscription.

Effect Enhancements:
Effect enhancements work like vanilla enchants, but only have 2 levels per enchant: Level 1 obtained from Etchings and Level 2 from Runes. Level 1 and Level 2 effect behavior has been fixed.

Inscriptions:
Inscriptions are modifier items which add attributes to gear.

Enhancement Categories:
Enhancements are divided into categories: Offensive, Defensive, Elemental, Utility, Forbidden, and Synergy. Categories are used by Synergies, Wild Inscriptions, and future systems.

Synergies:
Some runes, when combined on an item, have a chance to create a synergy. Synergy Potential increases the chance for synergies to form from the base chance of 20%, up to +60%. Resonance Inscription increases Synergy Potential but adds Fractured and corruption. Synergy enchants include Shatter, Bloodfire, Corrosion, Executioner’s Fury, Juggernaut, Tempest, Reaper, Soulburn, Frostbite, Venom Burst, Berserk, and Ice Prison.

Relics:
Items may have one relic socket applied with a Relic Socket Inscription. Relics have a set bonus and a base bonus. Relics include Dragon Heart, Elder Guardian’s Eye, Wither Charge, and Warden’s Soul.

Mythic Enhancements:
Mythic rarity offers extremely powerful enhancements at the cost of heavy corruption.

Corruption & Exhaustion:
Forging adds corruption. Items become Exhausted at 100% corruption and can no longer be modified. Powerful upgrades increase corruption, making high-risk forging more rewarding but less repeatable.

Attributes:
Items gain attributes such as Sealed, Cursed, Unstable, or Negative. These do not occupy enhancement slots. Instead, they stack and permanently shape the attributes of the item. Sealed only affects removal and extraction. Other attributes include Exhausted, Fractured, Brittle, Overforged, Chaotic, Reinforced, Tempered, Ancient, and Harmonized.

JEI Support:
Every enhancement can be viewed, searched, and documented directly in JEI.

Configs:

• Synergy Potential scaling
• rune corruption values
• synergy chance
• etching corruption
• synergy success and failure corruption
• inscription corruption values
• durability penalties
• relic corruption
• relic durability usage
• rune, relic, and mythic loot weights
• relic set bonuses
• mythic rune behavior
• corruption attribute rolls
• removed etching loot

SUPPORTED MODS:

Supported mods include:

• create
• aqua culture
• simply swords
• the aether
• twilight forest
• deeper and darker
• enders cataclysm
• mystical agriculture
• Aura: skills and abilities