Runeforged

ᛁ Install

ᚱ The Path

In the order you'll play it.

1. The Guide Book

   Craft a book with an iron ingot. It covers everything on this page, in game. Needs Patchouli.

2. Runesmith Rune

   

   Every key item starts here. A blank rune ringed by iron ingots, with an iron sword, axe, hoe and shovel in the corners. It also aligns gear to the Runesmith school.

3. Runic Hammer

   

   Your tool for every strike. Iron blocks on each side, the Runesmith Rune on top, two sticks down the middle.

   The hammer gains mastery as you forge. Its tier caps the quality you can reach (see Mastery).

4. Runic Anvil

   

   An upgrade of Overgeared's Tier B smithing anvil: the anvil on top, the Runesmith Rune below, three iron blocks at the base.

   Work your way up Overgeared's anvils first. Tier B comes from upgrading in the world, not from a recipe.

   Configurable: every recipe on this page (datapack).

5. Your First Forge

   1. Open the anvil. Put in a sword (or any forgeable item) and a blank rune.
   2. Hold the hammer and right-click the anvil.
   3. Play the minigame.
   4. Right-click the anvil to collect the item floating above it.

   The item is now runeforged, but it has no school yet.

6. The Forging Minigame

   The camera moves beside the anvil and a rune board appears. The server judges every hit: Perfect, Great, Okay or Miss. Your accuracy sets the quality. You get one of three modes:

   Rune Forging

   Hit each seal as its ring closes. Hold sliders along their track.

   See it

   

   Catch the Rune

   Move the bar to catch falling runes. Center catches score higher.

   See it

   

   Runic Lanes

   Four lanes, notes slide to the line. Hold the long notes. Ghost presses cost accuracy.

   See it

   

   Configurable: songs, charts, modes and grade thresholds (forgemaps, built with the Pack Editor); forge camera and upscroll (client config); every key (Controls).

7. Align to a School

   Put the forged item and a school rune (fire, ice and so on) in the anvil, then strike. The item gets school damage and colours, and your mana bar takes the school colour while you hold it.

   

   Occult Rune (with Ace's Spell Utils): a blank rune ringed by candles, with a blood vial in each corner.
   Add-on schools (Eldritch, Cosmic, Radiance, Shadow) use their own mod's rune.

8. Quality and Refine

   Grade	Start	Cap
   Uncommon	+1	+1
   Rare	+1	+3
   Epic	+3	+5
   Legendary	+6	+9
   Myth	+10	+10

   • Refine: strike again with the matching school rune (a protection rune for armour and shields). +1 each time, up to the cap.
   • Promote: at the cap, an arcane rune raises the item one grade.

   Configurable: damage and resistance gained per refine, for each hammer tier (server config).

9. Hammer Mastery

   Tier	Points	Best grade
   Novice	0	Uncommon
   Adept	100	Rare
   Expert	300	Epic
   Master	700	Legendary
   Grandmaster	1500	Myth

   A perfect forge gives about 100 points. When one school reaches Grandmaster, the hammer specializes in that school.

   Configurable: tier point thresholds and points per forge (server config).

10. Runic Manuscripts

    

    Very rare loot in dungeon and structure chests, from any mod. Each one carries a single attribute.

    Put a forged item and the manuscript in the anvil, then strike. You get 1 slot per 2 refine, so Myth +10 gives 5 slots. Manuscripts add to your gear's own stats and never replace them.

    Configurable: loot chance (datapack, default 2%); slots per refine (server config); each attribute's value and growth per refine (iss_runeforged-manuscripts.toml).

11. Spell Slots and Curios

    • Spell slots: an aligned item, its school rune and the matching upgrade orb, then strike. +1 slot each time, up to the item's refine.
    • Curios: forged rings, necklaces and charms give school spell power while worn, and more with each refine.

    Configurable: curio spell power per refine (server config).

12. Runic Awakening

    

    A Runesmith spell. Scribe it at the Scroll Forge with Legendary ink and a blank rune; you don't need to learn it first.

    Casting it wakes all your forged gear at once. Weapons react on hit, shields on block, armour when you're hit. Keep a matching rune in your off hand.

    Abracadabra, an enchantment for armour and shields, casts one of the stored spells when you're hit.

    Configurable: what each school's awakening does, its cost and duration (datapack); Abracadabra cooldown (server config).

13. Ego Awakening

    

    A hidden spell. Craft an Ego Manuscript (four runic manuscripts around a Runesmith Rune) and use it to learn the spell, then scribe it.

    Cast it while holding an aligned Myth weapon. The weapon's spirit forms, takes your weapon and matching armour, and fights beside you. You can have up to 3 spirits.

    Configurable: mana cost, awakening time, cooldown, recast window, max spirits, chase and return range (server config).

14. The Black Lotus

    

    A TACZ pistol that fires mana instead of ammo, from the Runeforged: Blue Lotus Armory addon (the gun pack is built in). Each shot casts a rune seal that locks on to your target. Spell Slinger mode fires your selected spell instead; every pull opens its own seal, so several spells can be in the air at once. Seals never open inside blocks.

    It uses TACZ's own controls: fire, aim, reload, and the fire-mode key to cycle Semi, Charged and Spell Slinger (SS).

    The draw

    

    Seal shots

    

    Spell Slinger

    
    Combat: strafing with seals, Ender, Ice and Lightning spells

    

    Configurable: mana per shot, flat or % of max mana, per rarity or per gun (iss_runeforged-gun-mana.toml); seal timings, sizes, damage, sound and Spell Slinger rules per fire mode (data/runeforged/gun_fx/black_lotus.json, in the Armory jar).

ᚲ Controls

These are only defaults. Rebind any of them in Options › Controls › Key Binds › Runeforged. The minigame keys only work in the minigame, so they don't conflict with movement.

ᛞ Pack Editor

ᛃ Servers

ᛟ Coming Next

The Dwarven City

A blacksmith city where Runeforged lives. Its smiths will teach forging above today's highest level.

Planned. Not in the current version.

ᛚ Changelog