Defiled Rune

Defiled Rune

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Statistics

Type	Tool
Use time	44 Very Slow
Tooltip	Wings do nothing and enemies can critically hit you Increases most rare item drop chances and enemies drop 50% more cash. Using this while a boss is alive will instantly kill you and despawn the boss. Can only be used in revengeance and death mode Can be toggled on and off.
Rarity
Sell	No value

"Your soul is mine..."

The Defiled Rune is an item that can be activated and deactivated while in Revengeance Mode or Death Mode. When active, it has multiple effects on gameplay:

• Wings do not work.
• All damage sources have a 25% chance to critically strike the player, dealing 1.5x damage.
  • This applies to enemies, traps, lava, fall damage, and anything else that can hit the player to deal damage; however, it does not apply to debuffs, drowning, or any other form of continuous damage over time.
• Certain items in the Calamity Mod with drop rates below 5% are raised to 5%.
• Affected vanilla rare items are given an additional +5% drop rate.
• Doubles the amount of money that drops from enemies.
• Some enemies will drop items that they normally will only drop in certain biomes.

It is obtained from opening a Starter Bag or by crafting it at a Demon Altar or Crimson Altar.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Demon/Crimson Altar
Ingredient(s)		Amount
Result
	Defiled Rune	1

Affected Drops

The following items' drop rates are increased by 5% or more while the Defiled Rune is active.

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Unique Drops

While the Defiled Rune is active, some enemies will drop items anywhere that they normally will only drop in certain biomes or normally do not drop at all. The following items' drop rates are increased to 5%.

Enemy	Item
Armored Skeleton	Bone Sword
Cryon	Amarok
Hoplite	Bone Sword
Sun Bat	Hel-Fire
Skeleton Archer	Bone Sword

Notes

• If used while a boss is alive, it will instantly kill the player and despawn any active bosses.
  • The activation does not bypass revival effects from God Slayer armor, Silva armor and Auric Tesla armor, but it will still despawn the boss.
• The effect of this item tends to cause some bosses to spawn twice at the same time.
• All drop rates of rare variant items are not affected by the defiled rune boost.
• Although it disables wings, using the Rocket Boots or any of its upgrades up to Celestial Tracers will allow for brief flight.

Trivia

• This item is a reference to the Defiled Chalice from the game Bloodborne, and it had some similar functions to it previously.
• In previous versions of the mod, this item used to halve a player's max HP and increase enemy damage resistance by 50%.