📖1.21.5 Runecrafting Expansion

📖Runecrafting Expansion: Research Overview

Hello researchers! Thanks for joining today's research expeditions. We've discovered so much already, but this is just the beginning! I'm here to give you a quick summary of what was discovered, and how research and enchant discoveries will work throughout this event.

📝Event Summary

• Together, we discovered two new rune locales:

  • 🌆Val, the Ancient Capital, home of the Rune of Echoes, representing sound and repetition.

  • 🌩️Enelysios, the Deadly Current, home of the Rune of Sparks, representing electricity and inspiration.

• Upon discovering Enelysios, the nascent locale surged with energy, spawning an apex enemy.

• The apex enemy dropped Boundary Fragments, which we used to uncover information about 8 new enchants.

🔬Research Mechanics

• ⬆️The Arcanum has been upgraded, but at a cost:

  • Discovering new enchants now requires perfectly accurate recipes - runes must be submitted in perfect order.

  • The Arcanum now salvages 2 runes from failed runecrafts. If you nearly discover an active research project by using its correct runes in the wrong order, The Arcanum detects this, notifies you, and salvages 4 runes.

• 🔋A random locale surges with energy 4 times daily, at 10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, and 10:00 PM CDT:

  • The surging locale spawns a boundary-touched apex boss and starts overcharging, accelerated by player deaths and slowed by damaging the apex.

  • The apex periodically spawns damageable runic tears and releases diffusion waves from them and itself, dealing damage which bypasses most enchants.

  • If slain, the apex drops 1 Boundary Fragment. If the locale fully overcharges, the surge ends unsuccessfully.

• 📑Active projects roll a new research quest daily at the start of the hour of their discovery.

  • Research quests use shared progress - once anyone completes it, that project's quest is done for the day. Work together to complete each quest daily!

  • Projects can be viewed using /lexicon project <project number>.

• 🧭A quest board has been set up on the back wall of /warp ArcanumResearchLab:

  • Active projects have a board entry that can be interacted with to progress their quest (if applicable) or submit a Boundary Fragment to it.

  • Completing a project's quest grants it +10% Research Progress. Submitting a Boundary Fragment directly to a project grants it +50% Research Progress.

  • When a project hits 100% progress, new information about it is discovered, up to 4 times per project.

  • Alternatively, a Boundary Fragment can be submitted directly to the Arcanum to scry for new enchants - this will randomly either uncover information about a new enchantment, beginning its research project, or add 50% progress to an ongoing project.

• 🧑‍🎓Once an enchant is discovered, its top researcher (whoever contributed the most research progress to it) will be contributed as an additional discoverer!

Thanks everyone for your help today. There are over 50 new enchants to discover. Feel free to ask any questions in ⁠📖arcanum-expansion. Good luck and happy researching!