StandaloneAncientScepter

v1.1.37·Updated 2025-12-15

1.1.37 - A full port of ThinkInvisible's Ancient Scepter, complete with a custom model, item displays, and no extra dependencies.

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About this mod Author’s original text

Standalone Ancient Scepter

  • Adds the Ancient Scepter from Risk of Rain 1 as a standalone mod
  • Code is almost entirely by ThinkInvisible, this is merely a port of that, without the TILER2 dependency and with a custom model

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Upgrades

| Icon | Skill |

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| | Commando: Suppressive Fire > Death Blossom

2x shots, fire rate, and accuracy. 2x autoaim range, hold primary fire to fire normally |

| | Grenade > Carpet Bomb

0.5x damage, throw a spread of 8 at once |

| | Huntress: Arrow Rain > Burning Rain

1.5x duration and radius, burns |

| | Ballista > Rabauld

5 extra weaker projectiles per shot, for 2.5x TOTAL damage |

| | Bandit: Lights Out > Assassinate

2x bullets |

| | Desperado > Renegade

25% (+0.35% per token) chance to ricochet to another enemy on hit up to 8 times within 30m. -10% distance & damage per bounce. Unaffected by luck. |

| | MUL-T: Transport Mode > Breach Mode

0.5x incoming damage, 2x duration; after stopping, retaliate with a stunning explosion for 100% of unmodified damage taken |

| | Engineer: TR12 Gauss Auto-Turret > TR12-C Gauss Compact

+1 stock, +1 placed turret cap |

| | TR58 Carbonizer Turret > TR58-C Carbonizer Mini

+2 stock, +2 placed turret cap |

| | Artificer: Flamethrower > Dragon's Breath

hits leave lingering fire clouds |

| | Ion Surge > Antimatter Surge

2x damage, 4x radius |

| | Mercenary: Eviscerate > Massacre

2x duration, kills refresh duration [hold special to leave early] |

| | Slicing Winds > Gale-Force

4x stock and recharge speed, fires all charges at once |

| | REX: Tangling Growth > Chaotic Growth

2x radius, pulses additional random debuffs |

| | DIRECTIVE: Harvest > COMMAND: Reap

Spawns extra fruit that gives random buffs |

| | Loader: Charged Gauntlet > Megaton Gauntlet

2x damage and lunge speed, 7x knockback |

| | Thunder Gauntlet > Thundercrash

3x lightning bolts fired, cone AoE becomes sphere |

| | Acrid: Epidemic > Plague

victims become walking sources of Plague, chains infinitely |

| | Captain: Orbital Probe > 21-Probe Salute

1/3 damage, 7x shots, hold primary to fire continuously |

| | OGM-72 'DIABLO' Strike > PHN-8300 'Lilith' Strike

30s, 2x blast radius, 100,000% damage, blights everyone in line of sight |

| | Heretic: Nevermore (Special) > Perish Song

After 30 seconds, deals 5000% fatal damage to you and nearby enemies. |

| | Railgunner: Supercharge (Special) > Hypercharge

-20 armor on hit, +0.5 proc coefficient |

| | Cryocharge > Permafrosted Cryocharge

Explodes on contact with a frost blast, dealing 200% damage to all enemies within 6m. Slows on hit by 80% for 20 seconds. |

| | Void Fiend: Crush/Corrupted Crush -> Reclaimed Crush/Forfeited Crush

Also affects nearby enemies or allies within 25m. Corrupted Supress has +2 charges. |

| | Seeker: Meditate > Ascend

Tranquility cap increased to 13. |

| | Palm Blast > Tranquility Blast

Tranquility cap increased to 13. |

| | CHEF: Glaze > Lacquer

2x oil globs, 1.5x debuff duration + armor debuff from oil glob debuff stacks. |

| | Yes, CHEF! > Heard, CHEF!

Boosts the next 2 skill uses. 2x damage and radius of initial burst. |

| | Drifter: Salvage > Recover

Spawn 2 additional temporary items. |

| | Tinker > Reconstruct

Do 3 random debuffs to enemies. Break items into 3 temporary copies and 1 scrap. Reroll interactables 3 times. |

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  • Alloy Vulture: Windblade > Repeated Windblade (50% chance to fire twice)
  • Aurelionite: Eye Laser > Piercing Eye Laser (Additional 35% of damage dealt pierces walls)

Implemented ModCompat

This refers to compatibility that's included just with this mod, and will not be an exhaustive list of every mod that implements this.

  • BetterUI ⚡

To-Do/Issues

  • Scepter skills for False Son, Operator
  • Mithrix Scepter
  • CaptainBustedAirstrike support:
  • Currently it uses the reduced cooldown from the standard alt airstrike.
  • Further improvements to scepters(?)
  • Transformation Notification shows before the pickup notification for the subsequent Scepter

For Devs

  • Adding a ScepterReplacer

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. 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.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. 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.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

bbepis-BepInExPackRiskofThunder-R2API_ContentManagementRiskofThunder-R2API_CoreRiskofThunder-R2API_DamageTypeRiskofThunder-R2API_ItemsRiskofThunder-R2API_LanguageRiskofThunder-R2API_OrbRiskofThunder-R2API_Prefab

File & checksum

Filename
StandaloneAncientScepter-1.1.37.zip
File size
11.7 MiB