Artifacts

Artifact of Chaos

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All Current Artifact Codes

Artifacts are Game Modifiers that are found in the world in-game.

Unlocking

To unlock Artifacts you need to use the correct Artifact Code in Sky Meadow, using the Compound Generator below the map, then interacting with the laptop. A Portal to the trial for that Artifact in Bulwark's Ambry will spawn.

The Compound Generator will cycle in the order: square, circle, triangle, diamond (■ ● ▲ ♦)

In Bulwark's Ambry, the Artifact whose trial is being attempted will be active and an Artifact KeyA stone shard with immense power. will be on an elevated block in front of the Artifact Reliquary. The player must give the Artifact Key to the Artifact Reliquary, which will cause monsters to start spawning, with more Artifact Keys randomly dropping from killed monsters. Using an Artifact Key will remove them from all player inventories.

Upon destroying the Artifact Reliquary, the Artifact can be taken and a portal to a First Stage will appear.

Artifacts

Artifact	Description	Code
Artifact of Chaos	Friendly fire is enabled for both survivors and monsters alike.	● ▲ ● ● ▲ ● ● ▲ ●
Artifact of Command	Choose your items.	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ▲ ▲ ▲
Artifact of Death	When one player dies, everyone dies. Enable only if you want to truly put your teamwork and individual skill to the ultimate test.	● ● ● ■ ▲ ■ ● ▲ ●
Artifact of Dissonance	Monsters can appear outside their usual environments.	● ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ●
Artifact of Enigma	Spawn with a random equipment that changes every time it's activated.	♦ ■ ■ ▲ ■ ▲ ● ♦ ♦
Artifact of Evolution	Monsters gain items between stages.	♦ ♦ ♦ ■ ■ ■ ● ● ●
Artifact of Frailty	Fall damage is doubled and lethal.	● ● ● ▲ ● ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
Artifact of Glass	Allies deal 500% damage, but have 10% health.	♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Artifact of Honor	Enemies can only spawn as elites.	■ ■ ■ ■ ▲ ■ ■ ■ ■
Artifact of Kin	Monsters will be of only one type per stage.	● ▲ ▲ ♦ ● ▲ ♦ ♦ ●
Artifact of Metamorphosis	Players always spawn as a random survivor.	♦ ■ ● ♦ ■ ● ♦ ■ ●
Artifact of Sacrifice	Monsters drop items on death, but Chests no longer spawn.	▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ♦ ▲
Artifact of Soul	Wisps emerge from defeated monsters.	● ■ ● ● ♦ ● ■ ♦ ■
Artifact of Spite	Enemies drop multiple exploding bombs on death.	▲ ● ▲ ● ● ● ▲ ● ▲
Artifact of Swarms	Monster spawns are doubled, but monster maximum health is halved.	● ● ▲ ▲ ♦ ▲ ▲ ● ●
Artifact of Vengeance	Your relentless doppelganger will invade every 10 minutes.	♦ ■ ■ ♦ ● ■ ♦ ■ ■

Toggle Codes

Chaos

• You are susceptible to your own explosions caused by items, such as Brilliant BehemothAll your attacks explode!
  All your attacks explode in a 4m (+1.5m per stack) radius for a bonus 60% TOTAL damage to nearby enemies., Runald's BandHigh damage hits also blasts enemies with runic ice. Recharges over time.
  Hits that deal more than 400% damage also blasts enemies with a runic ice blast, slowing them by 80% for 3s (+3s per stack) and dealing 250% (+250% per stack) TOTAL damage. Recharges every 10 seconds., Will-o'-the-wispDetonate enemies on kill.
  On killing an enemy, spawn a lava pillar in a 12m (+2.4m per stack) radius for 350% (+280% per stack) base damage., Sticky BombChance on hit to attach a bomb to enemies.
  5% (+5% per stack) chance on hit to attach a bomb to an enemy, detonating for 180% TOTAL damage. etc. If any of your attacks activate these items, it can damage and potentially kill you if you are near enough. Try to avoid these items with this artifact active, especially if you're playing a melee survivor.
  • In addition, Will-o'-the-wispDetonate enemies on kill.
    On killing an enemy, spawn a lava pillar in a 12m (+2.4m per stack) radius for 350% (+280% per stack) base damage. explosions cannot be blocked by items such as Tougher TimesChance to block incoming damage.
    15% (+15% per stack) chance to block incoming damage. Unaffected by luck..

Command

"Command" redirects here. For the playable survivor, see Commando.

• All items will drop as an unknown item. When interacted with, a menu will appear allowing the player to select an available item. You cannot select items you have not unlocked.
• You can only choose an item of the same tier/type as the source drop.
• Red drops do not include Defensive MicrobotsShoot down nearby projectiles. Recharge rate scales with attack speed.
  Shoot down 1 (+1 per stack) projectiles within 20m every 0.5 seconds. Recharge rate scales with attack speed..
• Boss drops do not include Halcyon SeedSummon Aurelionite during the Teleporter event.
  Summon Aurelionite during the teleporter event. It has 100% (+50% per stack) damage and 100% (+100% per stack) health., PearlIncrease your maximum health.
  Increases maximum health by 10% (+10% per stack). or Irradiant PearlIncrease ALL of your stats.
  Increases ALL stats by 10% (+10% per stack)..
• Only one player can interact with an item at a time.
• You are still vulnerable to damage while selecting an item.
• Being pushed away from the item will automatically cancel interacting with it.
• Artifact KeyA stone shard with immense power., Halcyon SeedSummon Aurelionite during the Teleporter event.
  Summon Aurelionite during the teleporter event. It has 100% (+50% per stack) damage and 100% (+100% per stack) health. and the individual Elite Equipment items are considered their own tier/type; you cannot choose an Essence other than the one pertaining to the Elite enemy that dropped it.
• Please note that Elite Equipment spawns as Orange Command Essence (The same as regular Equipment) while this artifact is active.
• Multishop Terminals, 3D Printers, Cleansing Pools, and Scrappers do not spawn with this Artifact.

Death

"Death" redirects here. For the game mechanic, see Health.

• If the player who dies has an available Dio's Best FriendCheat death. Consumed on use.
  Upon death, this item will be consumed and you will return to life with 3 seconds of invulnerability., the team will not die.

Dissonance

• The number of each Monster type chosen will always be 3 Basic Monsters, 2 Minibosses and 3 Champions.
• Special Boss Monsters, including the Scavenger, are unaffected by this Artifact.
• The Trial for this Artifact in Bulwark's Ambry currently does not work properly, with all Monsters still being the same.

Enigma

• Does not give Milky Chrysalis60sGain temporary flight.
  Sprout wings and fly for 15 seconds. Gain +20% movement speed for the duration., The CrowdfunderToggle to fire. Costs gold per bullet.
  Fires a continuous barrage that deals 100% damage per bullet. Costs $1 per bullet. Cost increases over time., or Effigy of Grief45sDrop a permanent effigy that cripples ALL characters inside. Can place up to 5.
  ALL characters within are slowed by 50% and have their armor reduced by 20. Can place up to 5..
• Can give Lunar Equipment.
• Losing your equipment somehow, such as giving it to an Equipment Drone or Cleansing Pool (in the case of Lunar Equipment), will not grant you a new equipment afterward.
  • Starting a new stage will give you a new equipment.
• Equipment Drones equipment is also effected by the Enigma.
• The new equipment will be put on the cooldown of the activated equipment.
  • The CrowdfunderToggle to fire. Costs gold per bullet.
    Fires a continuous barrage that deals 100% damage per bullet. Costs $1 per bullet. Cost increases over time. gives 5s but does not give a new equipment itself, the 5s would apply to equipment that is picked up after The Crowdfunder is used.
• Preon Accumulator140sFire a ball of energy that electrocutes nearby enemies before detonating.
  Fires preon tendrils, zapping enemies within 35m for up to 600% damage/second. On contact, detonate in an enormous 20m explosion for 4000% damage. will fire, but will not show the charge up animation (unless it gives another Preon).
  • New equipment cannot be used while Preon Acculumulator is charging (with Fuel CellHold an additional equipment charge. Reduce equipment cooldown.
    Hold an additional equipment charge (+1 per stack). Reduce equipment cooldown by 15% (+15% per stack).).
• Milky Chrysalis60sGain temporary flight.
  Sprout wings and fly for 15 seconds. Gain +20% movement speed for the duration. Grants infinite hover until activation of the teleporter.
• The CrowdfunderToggle to fire. Costs gold per bullet.
  Fires a continuous barrage that deals 100% damage per bullet. Costs $1 per bullet. Cost increases over time. is not affected by this Artifact.
• Gnarled Woodsprite15sHeal over time. Activate to send to an ally.
  Gain a Woodsprite follower that heals for 1.5% of your maximum health/second. Can be sent to an ally to heal them for 10% of their maximum health. will heal the target but not attach to it.

Evolution

• Monsters will obtain items in the order of Common, Common, Uncommon, Uncommon, Legendary. This order repeats every loop.
• Monsters cannot gain blacklisted items.
• Monsters cannot gain any Lunar items, Boss items, or Equipments.

Frailty

• Loader is unaffected by this Artifact due to her passive.

Glass

"Glass" redirects here. For the item, see Shaped GlassDouble your damage... BUT halve your health.
Increase base damage by 100% (+100% per stack). Reduce maximum health by 50% (+50% per stack)..

• One-shot protection is disabled while Artifact of Glass is enabled.
• Infusion'sKilling an enemy permanently increases your health, up to 100.
  Killing an enemy increases your health permanently by 1 (+1 per stack), up to a maximum of 100 (+100 per stack) health. health gain to kill ratio is changed from 1:1 to 1:10.

Honor

• The Old GuillotineInstantly kill low health Elite monsters.
  Instantly kill Elite monsters below 13% (+13% per stack) health. can be helpful when all enemies are Elite, though stacking many items with similar effects is generally inefficient.
• BrainstalksSkills have NO cooldowns for a short period after killing an elite.
  Upon killing an elite monster, enter a frenzy for 4s (+4s per stack) where skills have 0.5s cooldowns. is also really helpful as killing any enemy will make you have no cooldowns on your skills.

Kin

• In the Void Fields, no additional Monsters are added past the first cell event.
  • It is possible for no Monster to be chosen in the Void Fields during the first cell event, resulting in no monsters spawning in the Void Fields at all.
• The Trial for this Artifact in Bulwark's Ambry currently does not work properly, with all Monsters still being able to spawn.

Metamorphosis

• Upon entering the Trial for this Artifact in Bulwark's Ambry, each player will be given a random survivor and will be stuck as this survivor for the rest of the run (unless this Trial is entered again).
• Skill-unlocking challenges are reset when a new survivor is chosen, even if they were in progress before the Trial.

Sacrifice

• Drop rates for item rarity are:
  • 63% Common
  • 27% Uncommon
  • 0.9% Legendary
  • 9% Equipment
• Drop chance is not affected by 57 Leaf CloverLuck is on your side.
  All random effects are rolled +1 (+1 per stack) times for a favorable outcome. or PurityReduce your skill cooldowns by 2 seconds. You are unlucky.
  All skill cooldowns are reduced by 2 (+1 per stack) seconds. All random effects are rolled +1 (+1 per stack) times for an unfavorable outcome..
• Predetermined chests, such as the Legendary Chest on Abyssal Depths, the Chests on Gilded Coast, and the Legendary Chests on Sundered Grove, do still spawn with this Artifact active.

Drop Chance

The drop chance is equal to 0.05 * Log2(Max(1, Floor(creditCost * rewardMultiplier)) + 1).

• Or if Artifact of Swarms is enabled 0.05 * Log2(Max(1, Ceil(Floor(creditCost * rewardMultiplier) / 2)) + 1).
• See: creditCost, (elite's credit multiplier) and rewardMultiplier for more details on these values.

Notes

• Drop rates are changed when monsters spawn under certain conditions:
  • Pre-spawned: lowered by up to 8%
  • TP charging: lowered by up to 4.3% (Does not apply to TP Boss)
  • TP Boss: lowered by up to 16.6%
  • Artifact of Swarms: lowered by up to 5%, in addition to any other change
• The drop chance can not be less than 5%.

Normal Spawn

Monsters	Normal	Tier 1 Elite	Tier 2 Elite
Beetle	5.0%	16.6%	29.3%
Lesser Wisp	5.0%	17.3%	30.1%
Jellyfish	7.9%	18.5%	30.9%
Lemurian	7.9%	19.0%	31.6%
Hermit Crab	12.9%	24.8%	37.5%
Alloy Vulture, Imp	12.9%	25.4%	38.3%
Beetle Guard, Bighorn Bison, Mini Mushrum, Stone Golem	15.8%	28.1%	40.9%
Brass Contraption, Solus Probe	18.5%	30.9%	43.8%
Parent	22.0%	34.6%	47.5%
Elder Lemurian	22.9%	35.6%	48.5%
Clay Templar	23.5%	36.2%	49.1%
Greater Wisp	26.8%	39.6%	52.5%
Void Reaver	29.7%	42.5%	55.4%
Beetle Queen, Clay Dunestrider, Stone Titan, Wandering Vagrant	34.6%	47.5%	60.4%
Grovetender, Imp Overlord, Solus Control Unit	36.7%	49.5%	62.5%
Magma Worm	36.7%	-	-
Scavenger	43.2%	56.1%	69.1%
Overloading Worm	48.2%	-	-
Gilded Coast Changes
Stone Golem	14.0%	26.0%	38.8%
Elder Lemurian	27.8%	40.6%	53.5%
Stone Titan	33.3%	46.2%	59.1%

• Alloy Worship Unit, Artifact Reliquary, Aurelionite, Twisted Scavenger ^{[citation needed]} and Umbras from Artifact of Vengeance have a drop chance of 0%.
• Drop chance is logged to the Console when a monster is killed.

The reductions scale down the lower the base chance is, here is a table showing a few examples of the difference in base chance for a normal monster:

Monster	Normal	Swarms	Difference
Lemurian	7.9%	5%	-2.9%
Imp	12.9%	10%	-2.9%
Beetle Guard	15.8%	11.6%	-4.2%
Elder Lemurian	22.9%	18.5%	-4.4%
Beetle Queen	34.6%	29.7%	-4.9%

• There is a known bug where sometimes Sacrifice may fail to enable before a run even when it is selected (encountered on PC on Steam, needs to be verified on other platforms) closing out of Risk of Rain 2 and reopening it will fix this bug.

Soul

• The Wisps are bright blue and do not give Gold or exp.
• If Huntress's Laser Glaive kills a monster, it will immediately jump to the wisp spawned by the monster's death, consuming a bounce.
• They do not drop items if Artifact of Sacrifice is enabled.

Spite

• Bombs have a Proc Coefficient of 0.75.
• A single monster can spawn up to 30 bombs.
• The bombs will bounce twice then detonate on the third bounce.

Swarms

• Each Monster also gives half of the usual Gold and exp.
• Also doubles boss spawns, including Mithrix and the Twisted Scavengers.
• Also doubles the number of Beetle Guards that spawn from Queen's GlandRecruit a Beetle Guard.
  Every 30 seconds, summon a Beetle Guard with bonus 300% damage and 100% health. Can have up to 1 (+1 per stack) Guards at a time..

Vengeance

• Doppelgangers spawn with the same items and equipment as the player they're copying, including hidden items such as the drizzle bonus armor. They're named `Umbra of X`, where X is a name of a survivor they're copying.
• For the Trial for this Artifact in Bulwark's Ambry, a doppelganger for each player is spawned every time the Artifact Reliquary is interacted with, except the last interaction.
  • They will also be spawned with the same behavior while doing a Trial for all other Artifacts if Vengeance is active.
• Umbrae are considered bosses, their healthbar is displayed at the top of the screen and they are susceptible to damage boost from Armor-Piercing RoundsDeal extra damage to bosses.
  Deal an additional 20% damage (+20% per stack) to bosses..
• Screen has a deep purple tint while at least one Umbra is alive.
• Upon death, the Umbra drops one random item from their inventory, be it copied from a player or received from Artifact of Evolution.
• If Artifact of Swarms is also enabled, two doppelgangers will spawn with half the max health each.
  • Each doppelganger will drop an item.
• Umbrae are given a special item which reduces their damage but increases their maximum health. This item is also responsible for their appearance, the accommodating particle effects and the purple screen filter.
  • Due to their increased maximum health any %HP healing is very potent on umbrae. Particularly Engineer Turrets with Bustling FungusHeal all nearby allies after standing still for 2 seconds.
    After standing still for 2 seconds, create a zone that heals for 4.5% (+2.25% per stack) of your health every second to all allies within 3m (+1.5m per stack). can become incredibly durable.
    • Extreme care should be taken when the player has N'kuhana's OpinionFire haunting skulls when healed.
      Store 100% (+100% per stack) of healing as Soul Energy. After your Soul Energy reaches 10% of your maximum health, fire a skull that deals 250% of your Soul Energy as damage. as the items damage is equal to 25% of the holders maximum health. An engineer turret with sufficient Fungus and N'kuhana's can easily wipe an entire team of players.
  • Beetle Guards spawned by Queen's GlandRecruit a Beetle Guard.
    Every 30 seconds, summon a Beetle Guard with bonus 300% damage and 100% health. Can have up to 1 (+1 per stack) Guards at a time. do not receive this item, meaning they will deal full damage and can easily kill the player. (beetle guards spawned by Queen's Gland deal 4 times the damage of a normal beetleguard)
• Umbrae are considered allied with the monsters. Therefore, items like Bustling FungusHeal all nearby allies after standing still for 2 seconds.
  After standing still for 2 seconds, create a zone that heals for 4.5% (+2.25% per stack) of your health every second to all allies within 3m (+1.5m per stack). are capable of healing any monsters that enter its radius.
• Killing the Captain's Doppelganger is the only way to obtain an additional stack or the logbook entry of Defensive MicrobotsShoot down nearby projectiles. Recharge rate scales with attack speed.
  Shoot down 1 (+1 per stack) projectiles within 20m every 0.5 seconds. Recharge rate scales with attack speed.. Since killing the doppelganger drops one random item held by the survivor it is advised to pick the captain, wait for it to spawn and kill it without taking any items in the process. it is quite useful to clear the teleporter and the boss before the doppelganger spawns to make this method easier.

Code Locations

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  Distant Roost
  On the high ground

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  Titanic Plains (alternative)
  Code is on the right most pillar

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  Wetland Aspect
  Near the Altar to N'Kuhana

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  Abandoned Aqueduct (1/2)
  Top piece found near Ancient Gate area

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  Abandoned Aqueduct (2/2)
  Bottom piece found in Ancient Gate boss room

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  Rallypoint Delta
  Found on the far island

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  Scorched Acres
  Found on the island higher up, formed with objects on the ground (one circular mask is off to the side)

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  Abyssal Depths
  The Tablet has fallen on its side, so the actual code is rotated 90° counterclockwise

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  Siren's Call
  (The other half is on Void Fields)

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  Sky Meadow
  Next to the Compound Generator used to enter the codes

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  A Moment, Fractured
  Located behind The Obelisk

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  A Moment, Whole
  The code is tattooed on the Twisted Scavenger's body

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  Bazaar Between Time
  Found in reflection behind merchant

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  Bulwark's Ambry
  Code Located behind the largest cube

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  Gilded Coast
  Found under a pool of water

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  Void Fields
  Top left part found next to a few dead Void Reavers
  (The other half is on Siren's Call)

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  A Moment, Fractured Environmental Log
  On the underside of the diorama

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  Settings Screen
  Screenshot taken mid animation, otherwise the code is half hidden (the code can also be seen clearly by setting the "LOD Bias" setting to "Off")

Notes

Artifact design in the credits

• In the credits there is a whiteboard design of an Artifact. It has no use but possibly could in the future.