Discover altars older than times long forgotten and suffer ancient curses for lucrative rewards. Acquire gems and socket them into your new amulet and gear to fight back against the curses!

Cursed Altar: These altars spawn in the wild; right-click them to receive their curse, but beware that some curses are much deadlier. Completing a curse's rite will spawn a portal back to the altar, allowing you to reap rewards from a configurable loot table. Each altar also gives one gem of Broken, Polished, or Perfect quality, with a rare chance of tougher altars giving you an Ancient Gem with game-changing and quality-of-life effects.

If you complete a Cursed Altar's rite...

Interact with the altar, and its cursed energy manifests into loot, everyone's favorite. The altar then becomes dormant, and you may use its mysterious energies to fuse lesser gems into more powerful ones, place 3 like gems into the altar, interact with it, and watch as the altar fuses them. 3 broken gems become a polished gem, and 3 polished gems become a perfect gem.

Ancient gems can only be obtained by completing the highest tier of trial from a cursed altar.

Lapidary Table: A Lapidary table is one used by jewelers. This workbench will let you modify the existing gems inside your armor and amulet.

Golden Amulet: Crafted with 3 string, two gold nuggets, and a golden ingot, this item can be used in the Lapidary table to slot gems into for boosts to health, attack, armor/armor toughness, luck, and magic amplification

Embedding Gems in Armor: Embedding a diamond onto your armor in an anvil will add a socket to your armor. These sockets can house gems in a Lapidary Table and function similarly to an Amulet, sans the special effects of Major Gems.

Magical Amplification: This new stat makes beneficial potion effects last longer and sometimes makes them more potent!

Minor Gems (Slottable in only the Minor outer slots, give minor stat increases):

Broken Amethyst - Increases Health by 2 points or 1 heart
Broken Diamond - Increases Armor by 1 point
Broken Emerald - Increases Luck by 0.25 points
Broken Ruby - Increases Attack Damage by 0.5 points
Broken Sapphire - Increases Magical Amplification by 10%
Broken Topaz - Increases movement and attack speed by 7.5%

Gems (Slottable anywhere, gives decent stat increases and bonus stats when slotted into the main gem slot. Minor Slot bonus/Main Slot Bonus):
Polished Amethyst - Increases Health by 4/8 points or 2/4 hearts
Polished Diamond - Increases Armor by 2/4 points and Armor Toughness by 0.5/1 point(s)
Polished Emerald - Increases Luck by 0.5/1 point(s)
Polished Ruby - Increases Attack Damage by 1/2 point(s)
Polished Sapphire - Increases Magical Amplification by 20/40%
Polished Topaz - Increases movement and attack speed by 12.5/25%

Major Gems (Slottable anywhere, gives major stat increases and bonus stats when slotted into the main gem slot. Minor Slot bonus/Main Slot Bonus. Each major gem has a special effect when slotted into the Main Gem slot):
Perfect Amethyst - Increases Health by 8/12 points or 4/6 hearts
Lifebloom. When you are below half health, you gradually regenerate health over time (similar to Regeneration, but slower and persistent until you fully heal)
Perfect Diamond - Increases Armor by 4/8 points and Armor Toughness by 1/2 point(s)
Hardening. When hit or blocking an attack with a shield, you have a 20% chance to negate all damage for 3 seconds
Perfect Emerald - Increases Luck by 1/2 point(s)
Fortune’s Favor. When mining ores or killing mobs, you have a chance to double the loot or items dropped
Perfect Ruby - Increases Attack Damage by 2/4 points
Critical Fury. When you deal critical damage, your attack damage increases by 25% for 5 seconds. This effect refreshes with each critical hit but does not stack.
Perfect Sapphire - Increases Magical Amplification by 33/67%
Arcane Amplification. All enchantments applied to your equipment are randomly increased by 1 or 2 levels, even beyond the natural maximum
Perfect Topaz - Increases movement and attack speed by 33/67%
Frenzied Blows. Each successful melee attack increases your attack speed and movement speed by 5% for 3 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. The buff is refreshed on each hit

Ancient Gems (Only slottable in the Main Gem Slot, give major stat increases ,and each has a special effect):
Ancient Alexandrite -
Twilight's Edge. During the night, gain Night Vision, 10% Increased Attack Speed, and your attacks deal bonus damage to undead mobs. Additionally, you have a chance to dodge attacks from hostile mobs
Dawn's Light. During the day, gain 25% Increased Attack Damage. Additionally, you benefit from Solar Nourishment, which gradually restores hunger when standing in direct sunlight, and Sunlit Recovery, where standing still in the sun gradually heals health over time.
Ancient Bismuth-
Elemental Convergence. Every 10 seconds, you unleash a magical pulse, granting Regeneration II, Strength II, or Speed II for 5 seconds, along with a random elemental aura—Fire Aura burns nearby enemies, Lightning Aura strikes a random foe with lightning, or Ice Aura slows and weakens enemies. After each pulse, an Elemental Burst deals 5 magic damage to nearby enemies, pushing them back and briefly levitating them
Ancient Chrysoberyl- Increases movement and attack speed by 50% and Luck by 3 points
Electric Skies. Allows creative flight

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