Runic anvil

>runic

The Runic Anvil shapes a tool's modifiers. Each rune acts on them in one specific way: add one, remove one, change one, reroll their values, raise one by a bracket, lock one, or choose one. The tool's quality sets how many it carries and up to which bracket they can climb.

Command: >runic
Runes: 7
Modifiers: 0 → 4
Brackets: 10 per stat
Cap: bracket 2 → 8
Stats: 7

What sets it apart

One rune, one action

No rune is a random draw over the whole tool. Each does one precise thing, and refuses with a reason when it cannot: no free slot, locked modifier, bracket already at the cap.

7 runes, 7 actions

The lock protects

A bound modifier escapes Removal, Shifting, Calibration and Focus. Only Ascension still touches it, since it can only improve it.

Binding = lock

Wider low brackets

Each stat has 10 value brackets. They follow a 1.5 curve: the first cover a large share of the range, the last a small one. The tool's quality caps the bracket a draw can reach.

1 − (1 − b/10)^1.5

Live anvil

a Iron Pickaxe, click a modifier then a rune

Quality

Iron Pickaxe #4821

Epic, 3 / 3 modifiers, max bracket 6

1 on the whole tool +55.66%bracket 3 / 6

2 on cobalt +28.63%bracket 5 / 6

3 on miner +7.8%bracket 2 / 6

Focus on

>runic 4821

+55.66%

, bracket 3 (46.25 to 65.08%)

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At epic, capped at bracket 6: at best 113.32% of 150%.

Target a modifier, then cast a rune.

The seven runes

what they do, what stops them, and how rare they are as drops

Rune	Effect	Refuses when	Weight	Chance
Addition	Adds a modifier drawn at random among the stats not yet present.	No free slot.	100	29.9%
Removal	Removes an unlocked modifier, chosen at random.	All modifiers are locked, or the tool has none.	100	29.9%
Shifting	Replaces the targeted modifier with another stat drawn at random, new bracket and new value.	Locked modifier.	50	14.9%
Calibration	Rerolls the bracket and value of all unlocked modifiers. The stats stay.	No unlocked modifier.	40	11.9%
Binding	Locks the targeted modifier, or unlocks it if it was locked.	No modifier to target.	20	6.0%
Focus	Adds the chosen stat. On a full tool, replaces the targeted modifier with it.	Stat already present, or targeted modifier locked.	20	6.0%
Ascension	Raises the targeted modifier by one bracket and rerolls its value within that bracket, even if it is locked.	Bracket already at the quality's cap.	5	1.5%

Value brackets

bounds of each stat

Minimum	Maximum	Applies to
5%	150%	the whole tool
2%	25%	the whole tool
10%	77%	the whole tool
5%	45%	a resource, a zone or the tool's job
2%	19%	a resource, a zone or the tool's job
5%	18%	a resource, a zone or the tool's job
5%	18%	a resource, a zone or the tool's job