Post by danky on Nov 3, 2023 12:19:13 GMT
Welcome to another DankMods™ guide, this time for the newest server mod, socketed jewelry! This guide will help you understand some of the more fairly complicated aspects of using these jewelry pieces, as well as how to get the most out of them.
The guide will be broken down into two parts: The Gems, and The Jewelry
The Gems
Using your gemstones is a fairly simple task. All gemstones start out in a state known as ‘unidentified’ to ensure compatibility with all sources that give you gemstones. To identify a gem, you simply need to right-click and identify it, this will show you the ‘cut’ of the gem (Which is random but heavily weighted to low cuts)
An identified gemstone can be used straight away in a jewelry piece with a socket in it (see below under jewelry), but there is a way to improve your gem so it gives more powerful effects!
Introducing the gemcutter! This simple device is made from a rift crystal and a few planks. You can use it cut your gemstones to more powerful cuts, giving you stronger, longer lasting effects when socketed. But be warned, cutting a gemstone is a delicate process, as such the skills required make the process fairly difficult.
The process of cutting gems uses four different skills on a curved system:
The curve ensures you don't need to be at 99 in each skill to have a decent chance, but higher is better! The chance to cut a gemstone will never be at 100%, so the incentive to skill up to lower the risk is there. Your 4 skills are the only influence on success, so quality of anything does not come into play.
Anyways, to actually cut your gem simply have your gemcutter placed on the ground, activate the identified gem you wish to cut and right-click the cutter. The action to cut the gemstone will show you the % chance of success. (If this is too low for your liking, consider asking another player!)
A successful cut will raise the cut of the gemstone by 1 stage, shown below. Higher cuts are also more difficult to succeed with!
There is no cut above brilliant, it is the best possible gem you could have. On the flipside, failure to cut a gem comes with a few penalties:
- Failure will always knock a few points of quality off the gem.
- If your failure was big enough to knock a lot of quality off the gem, it will lose a cut stage as well.
- And, if your failure was really bad (or you failed an uncut gem, or brought the quality below 1) you can shatter the gemstone into some fine dust. Gemstone dust doesn't yet have a use, but don't go and throw it away yet.
The Jewelry
The mod implements several pieces of jewelry from the rift set. (and maybe a bit more, who knows!) Unlike how the mod name suggests, they're not all socketed, but the major ones are!
Socketed Jewelry comes in three flavors:
If you're curious what each gem does in each piece, you can examine them in game, or just open this spoiler here:
When you want to insert a gemstone into one of these, simply activate it and use it on the jewelry. The action will tell you what bonus it will give and for how long.
Most jewelry uses a timed effect for their buffs, meaning you will have the effect counting down as long as you wear it. Don't worry, there's no penalty for taking it off! The necklace of wisdom is a little different, in that it will only consume charges when you gain skill in one of those skill groups, allowing you to wear it all the time.
In addition to the socketed jewelry, we have a few pieces that work without the need for inserting a gemstone, and are fairly self-explanatory:
I'm probably forgetting more, and in the case I am don't hesitate to ask questions.
The guide will be broken down into two parts: The Gems, and The Jewelry
The Gems
Using your gemstones is a fairly simple task. All gemstones start out in a state known as ‘unidentified’ to ensure compatibility with all sources that give you gemstones. To identify a gem, you simply need to right-click and identify it, this will show you the ‘cut’ of the gem (Which is random but heavily weighted to low cuts)
An identified gemstone can be used straight away in a jewelry piece with a socket in it (see below under jewelry), but there is a way to improve your gem so it gives more powerful effects!
Introducing the gemcutter! This simple device is made from a rift crystal and a few planks. You can use it cut your gemstones to more powerful cuts, giving you stronger, longer lasting effects when socketed. But be warned, cutting a gemstone is a delicate process, as such the skills required make the process fairly difficult.
The process of cutting gems uses four different skills on a curved system:
- Jewelry Smithing
- Stone Cutting
- Body Control
- Soul Depth
The curve ensures you don't need to be at 99 in each skill to have a decent chance, but higher is better! The chance to cut a gemstone will never be at 100%, so the incentive to skill up to lower the risk is there. Your 4 skills are the only influence on success, so quality of anything does not come into play.
Anyways, to actually cut your gem simply have your gemcutter placed on the ground, activate the identified gem you wish to cut and right-click the cutter. The action to cut the gemstone will show you the % chance of success. (If this is too low for your liking, consider asking another player!)
A successful cut will raise the cut of the gemstone by 1 stage, shown below. Higher cuts are also more difficult to succeed with!
- Uncut
- Square cut
- Oval cut
- Tear cut
- Heart cut
- Brilliant cut
There is no cut above brilliant, it is the best possible gem you could have. On the flipside, failure to cut a gem comes with a few penalties:
- Failure will always knock a few points of quality off the gem.
- If your failure was big enough to knock a lot of quality off the gem, it will lose a cut stage as well.
- And, if your failure was really bad (or you failed an uncut gem, or brought the quality below 1) you can shatter the gemstone into some fine dust. Gemstone dust doesn't yet have a use, but don't go and throw it away yet.
The Jewelry
The mod implements several pieces of jewelry from the rift set. (and maybe a bit more, who knows!) Unlike how the mod name suggests, they're not all socketed, but the major ones are!
Socketed Jewelry comes in three flavors:
- The Necklace of Wisdom - Increases skillgain for a select set of skills.
- The Ring of Courage - Various effects, mostly centered on combat.
- The Ring of Power - Increases weapon damage for certain types.
If you're curious what each gem does in each piece, you can examine them in game, or just open this spoiler here:
Emerald:
Ruby:
Opal:
Diamond:
Sapphire:
- Wisdom - Digging, Archaeology, Nature & their subskills
- Courage - Reduced stamina usage
- Power - Reduced archery penalty for med/heavy armors
Ruby:
- Wisdom - Alchemy, Milling, Cooking & their subskills
- Courage - Increased combat rating
- Power - Increased enchantment damage
Opal:
- Wisdom - Mining, Paving, Pottery, Masonry & subskills
- Courage - Increased focus chance
- Power - Increased piercing damage
Diamond:
- Wisdom - Smithing & subskills
- Courage - increased natural healing
- Power - Increased crush damage
Sapphire:
- Wisdom - Carpentry, Religion & their subskills
- Courage - Increased dodge chance
- Power - Increased slashing damage
The duration and power of their effects scale with a few factors, ordered from largest impact to smallest:
- Gem cut stage
- Gem rarity
- Gem quality
- Jewelry quality
- Jewelry rarity
Star gems have no difference from regular gems, so feel free to use both types equally.
When you want to insert a gemstone into one of these, simply activate it and use it on the jewelry. The action will tell you what bonus it will give and for how long.
Most jewelry uses a timed effect for their buffs, meaning you will have the effect counting down as long as you wear it. Don't worry, there's no penalty for taking it off! The necklace of wisdom is a little different, in that it will only consume charges when you gain skill in one of those skill groups, allowing you to wear it all the time.
In addition to the socketed jewelry, we have a few pieces that work without the need for inserting a gemstone, and are fairly self-explanatory:
- The Necklace of Plenty - Reduces the drain of your food, water and CCFP bars.
- Artisan's Ring - Increases quality improvement when improving (effect of the vanilla ‘Artisan necklace’)
At some point your jewelry piece will run out of charges, at which point one of two things happen:
- If the jewelry piece didn't have a gemstone (the ones above) it is immediately depleted and now useless.
- If the jewelry piece did have a gemstone inserted, it loses quality depending on how powerful the effect was. If the quality hits 1, it is permanently depleted.
This will let you use a socketed jewelry piece over and over again, whether or not the gemstone was powerful, so don't hesitate to use those weaker gems sometimes!
Some quick Q&A if you don't want to read the whole guide:
Q: Does this work with existing gems?
A: Yes. Just right-click and identify the gem.
Q: What jewelry does this work on?
A: Only the ones listed above.
Q: How can I get/make the jewelry?
A: You cannot make them, right now you can only find them in loot chests.
Q: My jewelry piece depleted. Can I do anything with it?
A: No, it's now essentially a decorative item for now.
Q: How strong are the effects?
A: It scales very fast with the gem cut, you could expect a brilliant gem to give effects roughly 10 times as strong as an uncut gem. This will be subject to balance changes in the future if needed though.
