Shrine of the Mountain

The Shrine of the Mountain is one of the Shrines in Risk of Rain 2. Upon activation, the difficulty of the Teleporter Event will be increased by spawning additional bosses, turning bosses into Elites, and/or spawning more difficult bosses. Upon defeating all the bosses, the players will be rewarded with an additional copy of each item dropped by the Teleporter.

Activating multiple Shrines of the Mountain will increase the boss difficulty even further but will also reward the players with even more items. The number of items dropped by the Teleporter is equal to number of players ⋅ (1 + number of activated shrines).

All the items rewarded are the same. However, if a boss can drop boss items, the random chance to replace a reward with a boss item is rolled for each extra item dropped as well. This makes tackling the challenge of the Mountain an excellent way to obtain boss items.

Notes

• Technically speaking, the Shrine of the Mountain gives the Teleporter Boss director 100% more credits per activation. This is why a Teleporter Boss consisting of multiple bosses may be replaced with a few Elites or even higher-tier bosses, since the director can now afford those more expensive options.
  • For instance, if the director originally only had exactly enough credits to spawn one Imp OverlordImp Overlord
    Lord of the Red PlaneHP: 2800 (+840 per level)
    Damage: 16 (+3.2 per level)
    Class: Melee / Ranged
    Speed: 13 m/s
    Armor: 20 (800 credits), but the player has activated 5 Shrines of the Mountain (giving the director a total of 4800 credits), it might spawn a single Overloading WormOverloading Worm
    The ReminderHP: 12000 (+3600 per level)
    Damage: 50 (+10 per level)
    Class: Melee
    Speed: 20 m/s
    Armor: 15 as the Teleporter Boss instead of 6 Imp Overlords, or it might spawn a single tier 1 Elite Imp Overlord instead.
• Shrines of the Mountain never spawn on the third stage of a loop, i.e. Rallypoint DeltaRallypoint Delta (Stage 3)
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  You dream of quiet snowfall.
  
  Rallypoint Delta is the remains of a makeshift camp constructed by a group of scattered crew members from the UES Contact Light, somewhere in the frigid tundra of Petrichor V., Scorched AcresScorched Acres (Stage 3)
  Wisp Installation
  You dream of wind, blowing through trees.
  
  Large, circular platforms make up the majority of the stage, and embers float through the air., or Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
  Sulfur Pools is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
  Click for more info. Sulfur PoolsSurvivors of the Void - DLC Content
  This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
  Click for more info.Sulfur Pools (Stage 3)
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  You dream of brimstone.
  
  Tiered lakes of shallow sulfur pools. Arcing bridges and underground caves connect the map together..
• The inspiration of the shrine of the mountain comes from when Paul Morse was walking his dog up a hill and his dog "Ran all the way up like I was holding a treat at the top" and as it came back down an almost identical dog followed and Paul had the though "What if you go to the boss expecting one and get two?" although this feature was later changed from originally being a random chance to a shrine.

Version History

Early Access 'Skills 2.0' Content Update

• QOL
  • 🌧︎ Shrine of the Mountain now become unavailable once the Teleporter starts charging