vinestweaks

VinesTweaks

Adds configurable artifacts and gameplay tweaks for Risk of Rain 2.

Version 0.5.0 has been human playtested and includes the current item, artifact, and challenging-tweak balance pass.

G-Chicken Booster

This is a white-tier damage item.

• Gain 8% critical strike chance by default, plus 5% per additional stack.
• Critical strikes deal 6% more damage by default, plus 5% per additional stack.
• Crit damage is added to the crit multiplier, so one stack makes normal 200% crits deal 206% damage.
• Flavor text: "Clinically untested. Emotionally convincing."
• VinesTweaks items can be enabled or disabled through Risk of Options.
• All G-Chicken Booster values are configurable through Risk of Options.

Note: changing the global item toggle during a run disables item effects immediately, but fully adding or removing VinesTweaks items from item drop pools requires a game restart.

Deflective Yolk

This is a green-tier utility item.

• Gain 14% critical strike chance by default, plus 5% per additional stack.
• Critical hits grant temporary barrier equal to 3% of maximum health by default, plus 3% per additional stack.
• Barrier grants have a 0.25 second per-player cooldown by default to prevent rapid multi-hit crits from creating excessive barrier.
• All Deflective Yolk values are configurable through Risk of Options.

Reach Wax

This is a white-tier utility item.

• Primary attacks reach 30% farther by default, plus 20% per additional stack.
• Melee primary hitboxes gain twice the range bonus by default.
• Projectile and bullet primaries get longer reach where the underlying attack exposes a range or lifetime value.
• All Reach Wax values are configurable through Risk of Options.

Broadleaf Grip

This is a green-tier utility item.

• Primary attacks gain 25% range by default.
• Primary attacks gain 10 degrees of coverage by default, plus 5 degrees per additional stack.
• Melee primary hitboxes gain twice the coverage bonus by default.
• Bullet and projectile primaries gain conservative coverage support where the underlying attack exposes radius, collision, scale, or blast-radius behavior.
• All Broadleaf Grip values are configurable through Risk of Options.

Sanguine Bargains

This is a direct Blood Shrine tweak, not an artifact. It can be enabled or disabled through Risk of Options.

When this tweak is enabled:

• Blood Shrines track the actual health sacrificed by each player.
• Every 50% cumulative max health sacrificed earns a Blood Tithe reward roll by default.
• Blood Tithe rewards drop a white item by default, with configurable green and red upgrade chances.
• If a Blood Shrine leaves the player at or below 55% combined health, Blood Insurance grants a temporary barrier by default.
• Reward chance, threshold, green/red chances, barrier threshold, barrier amount, and visual feedback are configurable.
• A per-use reward cap prevents extreme config values from creating item bursts.

Artifact of Rewarding Vines

When this artifact is enabled:

• Normal monsters drop a weighted random item at 0.3% by default.
• Elite monsters drop a weighted random item at 1% by default.
• Boss/champion monsters drop an extra weighted random item at 10% by default.
• The first 5 player team level-ups grant white-tier item reward rolls at 100% by default.
• Each time the player team reaches a new 25-level milestone above 0, it rolls a red-tier item at 100% by default.

Artifact of Recalibration

When this artifact is enabled:

• Direct player hits cannot remove more than a configurable fraction of a monster's max combined health.
• Common monsters default to 50% max health per direct hit.
• Elite monsters default to 15% max health per direct hit.
• Boss/champion monsters default to 3% max health per direct hit.
• Passive proc-chain damage is dampened by default to 15% of its original damage and capped at 2% of the monster's max combined health.
• Rapid direct hits on the same target share a short 0.10 second damage budget window by default.

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