Defiled Rune

"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.
 * Affected vanilla rare items are given an additional drop rate.
 * Increases the amount of money that drops from enemies by 50%.
 * 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.

While active, the Defiled Rune icon will be shown on the bottom-left side of the Difficulty Indicator.

Affected Drops
The following items' drop rates are increased to while the Defiled Rune is active. If it is a vanilla item dropped by a vanilla enemy, it gets a increased drop chance instead.

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.

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%.