These runes, as well as others, will become important later.Īn emerald plus 5000LP results in an Apprentice Blood Orb, which can fill the player’s network up to 25,000LP. The efficiency rune lowers the progress that is lost when there is no Life Essence left in the Altar by 20% (multiplicative). For instance, the 4 edge runes may be replaced with other runes such as the Speed Rune, which increases the speed of all processes by 20% (additive). This multiblock unlocks several transmutation recipes, and other advantages such as further customization of the Altar. By creating 8 blood runes and placing them in a 3×3 pattern below the altar, the altar gets upgraded to its 2nd tier. The Blood Altar is meant to be upgraded in a very fluid and progressive way. When the orb is being filled in the Altar, light-red particles will be emitted from the Altar to indicate that it is working. You can also automate this procedure to an extent by throwing a bound Blood Orb into the Blood Altar – it will also take the same amount of health for the given LP, but will work while not on your person. Once you get the weak blood orb and bind it to your character, you can either right click with it to syphon a heart from the player, filling up the player’s network with 200 LP, up to a maximum of 5000 for the weak orb. To create this item, you will need to place a single diamond into the Blood Altar and fill the altar with 2000LP. The first item of any real value is a Blood Orb, whose main purpose is to charge the player’s Soul Network. It sucks as a weapon otherwise, so don’t bother bringing it out to a gun fight! Right-clicking the air with this knife will nick your finger slightly, draining a heart of health and, if an altar is close enough to you, fill the altar with 200LP. Re-filling the Altar will continue this progress. However, if the particles turn gray it means that the Altar no longer has any Life Essence in its reserves and the item will slowly loose progress that it has built up. When the Altar is working on transmuting an item, it will emit dark red spirals to indicate it is working. To fill the tank with Life Essence initially, though, you will need to make a “Sacrificial Knife.” It is a GUI-less machine with a single internal slot and a tank to hold “Life Essence.” By inserting a correct item into the machine by clicking the altar with it and filling it with the needed Life Essence, the machine will start to transmute the item into another form. The “Blood Altar” is the answer to these arcane prayers. The only way to utilize the player’s Soul Network is to create your very first item, and that will require a bit of sacrifice. This bond between the player and all of its items is referred to as the “Soul Network.” Fear not, though, because if the player has no Essence to drain from it will instead sap it directly from the user’s health (painful for the more powerful items). Because of this special bond, every single item that has a player’s signature will drain their toll from that player on use. There is also one more caveat that must be explored, and that is in the nature of “Blood Pacts.” A Pact is formed when you first use an item, and it bonds the item to the player forever. However, even though the magic does use this “Life Essence,” it does not mean that every action used with it is inherently evil.Every “Item of Power,” in this case those that have a special function and do not just sit in your inventory and look good, consumes Life Essence, whose unit of measurement is “LP.” Generally, 100LP equals half a heart of the player, so it is a good thing to keep in mind when looking at an item. Because of this utilization of the spark of life found in all living creatures, it is considered evil and has been cast out of normal use. The more arcane magics use the life force of objects and creatures.