Runecraft: The Barrows Brothers
Story
The Barrows Brothers were a legendary group of six Saradominist warriors who ventured into Morytania during the God Wars, leading the Morytania Campaign. Their fate is revealed in an ancient tome. They made a deal with a mysterious stranger for power, and after their deaths, the Stranger came to "collect" them. The brothers were buried in six burial mounds, or Barrows, in eastern Morytania, which gave them their collective name. Even after death, they remain as ghosts. Their names reflect their age: the first alphabetically is the oldest (Ahrim), and the last is the youngest (Verac). The brothers are very powerful ghosts, and their name comes from their final resting place, now known as the Barrows.
Mod Content
The mod adds the six Barrows brothers as minibosses (with boss health bar) and various rewards for defeating them. Includes 6 armor sets, 6 unique weapons, and a Barrows Book that shows the kill count for each brother and the total number of completed Barrows runs. The mod tracks completed Barrows runs and kills. There is a drop table with 4 categories: Barrows-related items, food, common materials (coal, iron ore, gold ore), and epic drops (nether star, netherite items, emeralds, diamonds). There is also a rare drop (Amulet of the Damned) that can be combined with each Barrows armor piece to create their "Damned" versions. The Damned versions are slightly stronger and more durable than the originals.
How to Find the Barrows?
To fight the Barrows brothers, you need to craft an Ancient Sigil and build a portal from Deepslate Bricks. Use the sigil on the portal to open it. When you enter the portal, the Barrows will automatically generate at the portal's spawn point.
Ancient Sigil Recipe:
How to Defeat the Bosses and Prepare?
The Barrows bricks are extremely strong and resistant. First, you need to get into the chambers where the brothers' sarcophagi are located. You will need a shovel because the Barrows are covered with dirt, and you need to find the entrance to their chambers on the tops of small hills. Blocks cannot be broken without netherite tools. There are blocked and locked doors. Blocked doors cannot be broken without netherite items, while locked doors can only be unlocked with Strange Old Lockpicks, which drop from crypt creatures with a 25% chance per kill. Each lockpick can be used 15 times before breaking, so plan your Barrows runs wisely, otherwise you will get stuck.
Defeating each boss requires the best gear (netherite is ideal, but diamond is the minimum; enchanted gear is optional, but bring many potions).
Other Enemies / Filliman Tarlock
Ghasts and Deadly Swamp Ghasts are regular enemies from which players can obtain Fine Cloth. Ghasts have a 25% chance to drop Fine Cloth, while Deadly Swamp Ghasts have a 35% chance but are harder to kill.
Filliman Tarlock (can be found in his Grotto in Swamps) can give you an Iron Sickle in exchange for a Cake. Sickles deal bonus damage to Ghasts and Deadly Swamp Ghasts:
- Iron Sickle: +2 heart damage
- Silver Sickle: +4 heart damage
- Golden Sickle: +6 heart damage
Filliman can also upgrade your sickles. To upgrade iron to silver, bring him your UNDAMAGED sickle and a ghast tear; to upgrade to gold, bring your silver sickle and a gold ingot.
Special Armors
There are 2 types of special armors in the mod that can be crafted and will make things easier for players.
1. Splitbark Armor Set effect: If the full set is worn, it deals extra damage to all brothers calculated from your experience level by dividing it by 2. This means that with 50 XP, you can deal 12.5 heart + (weapon damage) to any of the Barrows brothers.
Crafting: To craft Splitbark Armor, you need Bark, which can be obtained by chopping Hollowed Trees in Morytania Swamp biomes. Combine 8 bark with 1 iron ingot in the center to get 1 Splitbark Plaque; you also need Fine Cloth for crafting. Then use Splitbark Plaques and Fine Cloth to craft Splitbark armor pieces.
2. Morytania Initiate Armor This is an upgraded version of the regular Splitbark Armor. You can upgrade Splitbark Armor pieces on an anvil by combining them with Barrows Cloth items.
Set effect: Almost the same as Splitbark Armor, except it does not divide your XP level by 2, so you deal full-scale damage to the brothers. This means that with 50 XP, you deal 25 heart + (weapon damage) to any of the Barrows brothers.
Other set effects: They provide the same damage bonuses against Ghasts and Deadly Swamp Ghasts.
