Ancient Curses

Immerse yourself in a world of ancient mysteries and powerful curses that conceal incredible rewards. This mod allows you to discover mysterious altars that bring curses, overcome their trials, and obtain precious gems to enhance your character.

Cursed Altars

Ancient cursed altars can be found throughout the world. Activating them will inflict a curse upon you, but be careful - some curses can be deadly. After completing the curse's trial, you'll gain access to a portal that returns you to the altar and allows you to claim rewards from a configurable loot table.

Each altar also provides one of three gem types: Broken, Polished, or Perfect. High-tier altars have a small chance to grant you an Ancient Gem with unique effects that will fundamentally change gameplay.

What Happens After the Trial

After successfully completing the trial, the altar's cursed energy materializes into valuable items. The altar enters a dormant state, but its magical power can be used to combine stones. Place three gems of the same quality into the altar - it will fuse them into one more powerful stone. Three Broken gems become one Polished gem, and three Polished gems turn into one Perfect gem.

Ancient gems can only be obtained after completing high-tier trials on cursed altars.

However, be extremely cautious - dying during the trial releases your soul, allowing the altars to absorb its energy, which may lead to unpredictable consequences...

Crafting Stations and Accessories

Lapidary Table

A special workbench that allows you to modify gems socketed in your equipment (work in progress) and the golden amulet.

Golden Amulet

Crafted from three pieces of string, two gold nuggets, and one gold ingot. This amulet can be used at the lapidary table to socket gems that provide various bonuses to health, attack, armor/armor toughness, luck, and magical amplification.

Magical Amplification

A new attribute that increases the duration of beneficial potions and sometimes makes them more powerful!

Gem Types

Minor Gems

Can only be socketed in outer slots, provide minor bonuses:

• Broken Amethyst: +2 health (1 heart)
• Broken Diamond: +1 armor
• Broken Emerald: +0.25 luck
• Broken Ruby: +0.5 attack damage
• Broken Sapphire: +10% magical amplification
• Broken Topaz: +7.5% movement and attack speed

Standard Gems

Can be socketed in any slot, provide good bonuses. Enhanced effects when placed in main slot.

Outer slot/Main slot bonus:

• Polished Amethyst: +4/8 health (2/4 hearts)
• Polished Diamond: +2/4 armor and +0.5/1 armor toughness
• Polished Emerald: +0.5/1 luck
• Polished Ruby: +1/2 attack damage
• Polished Sapphire: +20/40% magical amplification
• Polished Topaz: +12.5/25% movement and attack speed

Major Gems

Can be socketed in any slot, provide significant bonuses. Have unique effects when placed in main slot.

Outer slot/Main slot bonus:

• Perfect Amethyst: +8/12 health (4/6 hearts) Lifebloom: When below half health, you gradually regenerate health over time (slower than regeneration, but continues until fully healed)

• Perfect Diamond: +4/8 armor and +1/2 armor toughness Hardening: When hit or blocking an attack with shield, 20% chance to negate all damage for 3 seconds

• Perfect Emerald: +1/2 luck Fortune's Favor: When mining ores or killing mobs, chance to double the loot

• Perfect Ruby: +2/4 attack damage Critical Fury: When dealing critical damage, attack damage increases by 25% for 5 seconds (effect refreshes but doesn't stack)

• Perfect Sapphire: +33/67% magical amplification Arcane Amplification: All enchantments on your equipment are randomly increased by 1-2 levels, even beyond normal maximum

• Perfect Topaz: +33/67% movement and attack speed Frenzied Blows: Each successful melee attack increases attack speed and movement speed by 5% for 3 seconds (stacks up to 3 times, refreshes with each hit)

Ancient Gems

Can only be socketed in main slot, provide significant bonuses and unique effects

• Ancient Alexandrite Twilight's Edge: At night, grants night vision, +10% attack speed, bonus damage to undead mobs, and chance to dodge attacks from hostile mobs Dawn's Light: During day, grants +25% attack damage, gradually restores hunger when in direct sunlight, and heals health over time when standing still in sunlight

• Ancient Bismuth Elemental Convergence: Every 10 seconds releases magical pulse granting Regeneration II, Strength II, or Speed II for 5 seconds plus random elemental aura (Fire - burns nearby enemies, Lightning - strikes random enemy with lightning, Ice - slows and weakens enemies)

• Ancient Chrysoberyl: +50% movement and attack speed, +3 luck Electric Skies: Allows creative flight

This mod was created for the Curse Forge Modjam in September 2024