ScorchedVoxels

ScorchedVoxels

Space-Engineers-style destructible terrain for Risk of Rain 2. Every explosion

carves the world for real: at stage load the static terrain converts into voxel

density fields, and from then on craters and tunnels are real geometry, permanent

until the stage ends. Blasts throw up a rim of displaced rock, and blades cut:

a melee swing slices out the rock it sweeps through, and thrown blades like

Chef's cleaver carve along their flight. Dig wide, dig deep. Deep rock

materializes as you reach it. Works in multiplayer: the whole lobby sees the

same holes.

Current release: 0.20.72 "Blood Money".

What it costs

Real geometry is not free. Know the price before you install:

• RAM, a fair amount of it. Expect the game to use 5 to 8 GB with converted

terrain loaded, depending on the map. It was worse; 0.20.69 cut it roughly in

half.

• A second loading screen, every stage. The voxels are built when a level loads,

and on big maps that takes a while. This is the mod's real downside, and it's why

the loading screen grew player cards and then a whole arcade: something worth

looking at, and now something to play, while the terrain builds.

Destruction

• Craters are carved from the terrain itself, not drawn on top. The cost per

blast is constant: the 100th rocket deforms as cheaply as the first.

• Blades cut the ground. A melee swing carves out the slice its arc sweeps

through rock, for every survivor and monster with a sword, club or claw.

Thrown blades count too: Chef's cleaver slices along its whole flight.

• Materials have hardness. Metal and concrete resist, crystal and ice shatter

into slightly smaller craters, dirt and snow blow out wide. The hardness table is

built in, tuned against every stage's material list (base game plus DLC), and

identical on every machine.

• Debris is the rock you broke. What flies out of a crater matches the volume

removed, textured with the ground it broke from. Sword cuts drop a slab shaped

like the cut, and big chunks shatter into smaller pieces when they land. All of

it is visual-only and close to free.

• Colliders never cheat. Distant terrain renders at reduced detail to save

frames, but what you stand on and shoot is always exact.

Gore (experimental, off by default)

Kills are comic gore, in the same spirit as the terrain: the bodies really come

apart.

Gore is experimental and ships disabled. Flip the Gore switch in the options

menu (or GoreEnabled in the config) to opt in. It is stable in normal play;

performance in very large fights is still being tuned.

• Every death goes physical. Canned death animations are gone. Bodies ragdoll,

and the killing blow shapes the corpse: blades cut it in half along the actual

swing, explosions rip it into flying wedges, bullets drop it where it stands.

Corpses linger about two minutes and stay cuttable the whole time, and severed

pieces can be cut again in the air.

• Blood sticks to the world. Kill splatter, dribbling pieces, drifting

droplets and sword-swing sprays all land as decals on the terrain and soak into

carved rock. Hits on live enemies leave bleeding wounds, and every survivor's

primary marks its target: Huntress arrows stay planted where they land.

• Big hits tear chunks out of living enemies. A heavy enough blow rips a

piece off a body that keeps fighting: the hole bleeds, moves with the

animation, and stays through death. Rare on ordinary hits, roughly one in ten

on heavy ones. Cosmetic only; hitboxes never change, and players are exempt.

• Elements sign their kills. Fire chars the body, ice shatters it, acid eats

it down to a husk, lightning arcs across it, void collapses it with rising

sparks. Massive overkill stages a bigger show.

• Purely cosmetic. Corpse shapes are local to each machine and never affect

gameplay. Everything rides hard caps, so a messy fight cannot run away with

your frame rate. The Gore switch and the Blood Amount slider live in the

options menu; in multiplayer the host's blood amount ap