Rustborn

Created with Kchem, who tbh did almost all the important stuff! Best read in a Markdown viewer (duplicated to the ReadMe on github). Video Showcase: https://youtu.be/pDXfpV1TJI8

Currently, the mod's focal point is the rustborn skeletons, of which there are multiple variants and one particular unique gameplay feature. There are also a handful of new items and a new instanced portal that offers a significant late-game challenge! Everything is survival-friendly and can be experienced without the need for creative mode, but it is Late-game content by nature and balanced accordingly.

They Never Stop

Rustborn are resilient, having survived the wastes long past when their metal bodies should have disintegrated. Their artificial souls echo throughout time, hunting you.

Rustborn Skeletons will spawn new broken-down variants, such as crawlers and floating heads. After being defeated, you'll need to destroy these scrap heaps as well!

Entities

Rustborn Skeletons

Standard skeletal enemies that spawn in large clusters in the zone 4 Wastes and The Rustborn Wastes

• Rustborn Archer
• Rustborn Knight
• Rustborn Soldier
• Rustborn Lancer
• Rustborn Gunner

Rustborn Scrap Heaps

Scrap Heaps are the still-fighting remains of the Rustborn, they spawn after a Rustborn or higher-tier Scrap Heap has been defeated.

• Rustborn Crawler
• Rustborn Head

Soulless Rustborns

Soulless Rustborns have been brought back from the beyond, without an artificial soul, they lack the tenacity to keep fighting as Scrap Heaps, but are far more amicable to cooperation.

• Risen Rustborn Knight

Items

• Rustborn Heart Rarely dropped from Rustborn Skeletons, used in various crafts and rituals.
• Grimoire: Echoes of the Machine Crafted at the Arcane Bench with a Rustborn Heart, Fire Essence, and a Grimoire: Rekindle Embers, allows you to summon Soulless Rustborns to your aid. Hold your Grimoire(s) while looking at one or multiple Rustborn Hearts. Once charged, release to summon your Rustborn(s). They will attack enemies that you attack.
• Scrap Gun Crafted at the anvil with a Rusty Blunderbuss, now obtainable from Rustborn Gunners drops, a Rustborn Heart, and Fire Essence, this modified Blunderbuss can be wielded by players to fight back with both power and range.
• Fragment Orbis: Mechanical Echoes Crafted at the Arcane Bench from Rustborn Hearts and Fire Essence, it allows you to open the Arcane Portal to the Rustborn Wastes for a limited amount of time.

Locations

• Zone 4 Gangs of Rustborn Skeletons can now be found in Zone 4.
• Rustborn Wastes Accessible via an Arcane Portal with minimal memory requirements once a Mechanical Echoes fragment has been crafted, this time-limited instanced zone is a wide-open battlefield filled with Rustborns, who are not happy that you're disturbing their resting place. Survive as long as you can to be rewarded with plenty of Rustborn loot!