Abilities:

Dash: A committed charge that runs straight into a cut.

Parry: He turns your attack aside and answers it.

Divine Fall: He calls down strikes of holy lightning, each marked in gold on the ground before it lands.

In camp: He lifts a curse off the item you hold. As a companion: He lifts every curse off it, once a day.

🛡️ Guilds

Every world has three guilds, each with its own name and banner. Whether they're allied, neutral, rivals or at war is decided by the world seed, and guilds at war fight each other to the death when they meet.

You have a standing with each guild. Trading and hiring raise it; killing members lowers it, and helping or hurting a guild is felt by its allies and enemies too. Adventurers treat you as hostile, wary, neutral, friendly or devoted depending on your standing. Grudges cool with time if you leave a guild alone.

Forsaken Adventurers

Not every adventurer answers to a guild. Those who don't live in a camp or tower are Forsaken: they have no guild, they attack on sight, and they wear a red and black aura so you can tell. Guild adventurers fight them too. Beat one, though, and you can still spare it and give it a second chance as your companion.

💬 Talking to Adventurers

Exchange: Barter for an adventurer's pack. Any item with a value can be offered, so the junk from your last dungeon becomes credit. Prices follow your standing, and gear is valued on what it's made of. An adventurer's pack never refills, so fresh faces mean fresh stock. Sometimes a pack holds a boss key.

Rumors: Ask what they've heard and they'll tell you of a nearby structure, boss or player, as a direction and a rough distance. Rumors can be wrong; the better your standing, the more you can trust them. Structures from many popular structure mods count. And if someone asks about you, you'll hear about it as gossip.

🏕️ Camps and Towers

Adventurer camps and repurposed outpost towers are living hubs, each flying its guild's banner. Residents come and go: leavers walk away, newcomers walk in from the edge, and every one of them brings a new pack and new services. Every player starts with a map to the nearest camp.

🤝 Companions

Spare a defeated adventurer, or hire one in camp, and it will travel with you. You can have one at a time.

• They don't die. Knocked down, they get back up after a while, straight away if you heal them, or when you help them up.
• Orders: follow, wait, or meet at a rendezvous point. They carry your gear in their storage and wear what you give them.
• They keep up: through portals, teleports and respawns, and by boat across water.
• Every type has its own specialty (see each adventurer above).

📖 Guild Journal

Press J to open the Guild Journal: every rumor and piece of gossip you've heard, where your companion is and what it's doing, your standing with each guild, and how the guilds feel about each other.

Bosses

Forsaken Magus

Requires Spell Engine.

The Forsaken Magus is much like the Fire Mage, but has a wider arsenal of attacks, buffs, and debuffs at his disposal. He can shoot projectiles of all three elements, while sending down explosive projectiles of both soul and lightning damage. He performs novas at close range, and whenever he performs stronger attacks, he gains a buff of the corresponding element, such as Arctic Armor, which retaliates against melee attackers with frost damage.

He jumps both forward and backward when pressured in melee, often jumping over or on top of walls, trees, or other obstacles. At low health, he has a particularly disorienting attack that will leave attackers in a state of disarray. This spell leaves a growing shadow orb at your location, making everything but the boss and the orb fade from your vision. The orb will damage you if you touch it, but the Magus is immune to this effect and often retreats into the orb while it is placed.

Backstory:

The man now known as the Forsaken Magus was once a boy from a distant past, where magic was a pure form of art appreciated by many. Over time, he established himself as a grand magician capable of miraculous deeds, and was sought out for his capabilities. Even though he prefers a more quiet life where he can practice magic alone, he had gathered the attention of many throughout the world. One day, while experimenting with dimensional magic, the man was whisked away to a seemingly deserted, strange frontier, a place - rather, time - he now knows to be our current time. Bewildered by how much magic has regressed, he is drawn to these strange adventurers who seem to carry relics of the past on themselves, the Lavos' horn.

In his absence due to his temporal banishment, a new, fake Magus would rise to the top, establishing a faction known as the Hexblades. Carrying on the original's work on dimensional magic, he creates a hollow simulacrum of a dimension known as the Glass Ocean, where he continues to sustain himself to this day with a strange form of immortality.

Gemini

Summon this boss using a Gemini Fragment. This mysterious duo performs dazzling lightning blasts in tandem to destroy opponents, raking the ground with beams and cone blasts. They take turns attacking from either the sky or the ground. In the sky, they shoot down meteors and lightning blasts while scattering damage over time effects on the ground. On the ground, they teleport around and try to blast you from different angles while attempting to send you into a state of disarray through illusory copies of themselves.

Backstory:

Not much is known about the ascended Djinn known as Gemini. It is known however that they atone for sins they have committed in the past as mortals by serving as trials themselves for mortals to achieve ascension. Upon being defeated, mortals can learn otherworldly feats and become partially ascended themselves.

Rewards

Killing adventurers rewards you with RPG Series loot, sometimes enchanted. Sparing them earns you a companion and the gratitude of their guild.

⚙️ Configuration

Nearly everything is configurable: prices, timers, spawn rates, rumor ranges, whether guilds can turn hostile, whether wanderers are Forsaken, and more.

The Guild Hideout is retired for 3.0 and is planned to return in 3.1 as a guild hall hub.