v1.6.0: The Riftforge

22 October 2026

The Riftforge: Armour Mods

A new smithy floats east of the Spire camp, across a bridge lit by fire braziers. Meet Brann Ashforge, the Riftsmith.

Riftforge your armour. Bring a diamond or netherite helmet, chestplate, leggings or boots (exotics too). For 50 Cinders and 10 Rift Shards it keeps its enchantments and gains three mod slots: one Stat slot and two Perk slots.
Mods are items. They drop from Spire bosses and the Cinder Colossus, and you can trade them or sell them in chest shops. Slotting a mod uses it up, and replacing or removing a slotted mod destroys it, so choose well.
Energy. Every mod costs Energy. A freshly forged piece has 3. Masterwork it with Rift Shards, boss cores and Ascendant Alloy to raise it, up to 10. A Masterwork 10 piece also gets +0.5 armour toughness.
Talk to Brann, or right-click a smithing table in the smithy, with the piece in your main hand.

Stat mods (any piece): Vitality (health), Plating (armour), Tempered (toughness), Might (attack damage) and Swift (speed), in tiers I to III. They stack across your armour up to a cap (for example, at most +2 hearts from mods).
Perk mods: helmet (Night Eye, Gills, Long Reach, Foresight), chestplate (Bulwark, Second Wind, Fire Ward, Blast Ward), leggings (Sure Footing, Stride, Swimmer, Low Profile), boots (Featherfall, Spring), and general perks for any piece (Riftbane, Siphon, Prospector’s Haste, Lucky, Scavenger). Perks count once.
Where mods come from: your first clear of a Spire floor always drops one of that boss’s mods; after that each boss has a 20% chance once a day. The Colossus drops Siphon or Scavenger. Brann sells the tier I stat mods for 40 Cinders and breaks spare mods down into Rift Shards.
Materials: Rift Shards from every Spire floor (5x on a first clear, up to 100 a day), one core per boss per day, and Ascendant Alloy from floor 10 (once a day) and for the weekly Spire Champion. Type /forge to see yours, and /help forge for a summary.
Mods count in duels, and they only work on this server (not Anarchy).

Two new boards stand at the Spire camp: FASTEST CLIMB THIS WEEK (full climbs from floor 1, Monday to Sunday) and HIGHEST FLOOR (best floor ever; ties go to the faster climb). They update every minute.
Every Monday the player with the previous week’s fastest full climb becomes the Spire Champion: a gold [Spire Champion] title for the week, an announcement, and 3 Ascendant Alloy. No full climb that week means no champion.

/help now shows a short guide by topic: start, travel, inventory, bosses, quests, economy, claims, social, forge. Type /help <topic>.
/report <player> <what happened> sends a report to the staff with where you were standing. One report a minute.
After you create or resize a claim you see how many claim blocks you have left, and how to get more.