EgoPools
Ensures a Cleansing Pool appears on stages when someone has Egocentrism, with config for chance, minimum lunars, disabling natural pools, max forced pools, minimum stage, delayed chat announcement (✦)
About this mod Author’s original text
Ego Pools (v1.3.1)
Risk of Rain 2 mod that ensures a Cleansing Pool can appear on stages when a player has Egocentrism (DLC1 – Lunar Sun), with sensible rules and rich configuration. Includes a clean chat notice (✦) and an objective entry when the pool is spawned by this mod.
- ✦ Chat message appears after spawn-protection ends so you actually see it.
- Objective entry shows only when the pool was mod-spawned (avoids clutter).
- Respectful of vanilla behavior unless you tell it otherwise.
Features
- Egocentrism-gated spawning: The mod only forces spawns when someone currently has Egocentrism.
- Natural pool awareness: If a stage already has a natural Cleansing Pool, the mod doesn’t spawn another.
- Announcement (chat): Shows a single cyan message (✦) whenever a pool exists this stage (see config for exact rules).
- Objective entry: Appears only when the pool was spawned by the mod (not for natural pools).
- Bazaar exclusion: The mod never acts in Bazaar Between Time.
- No cost/behavior edits: Pools remain vanilla — 1 Lunar Coin, must sacrifice a lunar item.
Configuration (BepInEx / r2modman)
All options show up in the Config tab (r2modman) or in
BepInEx/config/com.yourname.egopools.cfg.
| Setting | Type | Default | What it does |
|------------------------|--------|---------|--------------|
| SpawnChance | float | 1.0 | Chance (0.0–1.0) the mod will force-spawn a pool when conditions are met. |
| MinLunarsRequired | int | 0 | Requires at least this total number of lunar items across all players before the mod will spawn pools. |
| DisableNaturalPools | bool | false | If true, removes natural Cleansing Pools each stage. Only mod-controlled spawns remain. |
| MaxForcedPerStage | int | 1 | Caps how many pools the mod will attempt to spawn per stage. |
| MinStageNumber | int | 1 | Don’t spawn before this stage number (1 = first stage). |
| AlwaysShowMessage | bool | false | If true, the chat notice (✦) appears whenever a pool exists this stage — even without Egocentrism. (Objective remains mod-spawn only.) |
Announcement logic (chat):
- If a natural pool exists at stage start and either someone has Egocentrism or AlwaysShowMessage = true, the mod posts the ✦ message (delayed until spawn protection ends).
- If no natural pool exists and the mod successfully spawns one, it posts the same ✦ message (delayed) and also shows an objective for that stage.
Installation
r2modman Mod Manager
- Click Install with Mod Manager page, or import the zip.
- Enable BepInExPack (required).
- Select your profile and launch.
- Optional: tweak settings in Config → Ego Pools.
Manual
- Install BepInEx for Risk of Rain 2.
- Place the built EgoPools.dll into:
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: