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Wruntag (quests, leveling up, special mechanics)

Wruntag, the Possesed Dwarf

A dwarf with damage mitigation and speed scaling with sanity, ten quests to complete and level up, a levelling up axe, his own magic, extra loot, and a shaveable beard, where he stuffs some of his food.

He is intended to be balanced for PvE. He has to balance his sanity in order to achieve his goal. He can be be either tanky, while insane and so slow it's impossible to kite many monsters, or sane and having a normal speed. Effectively, he can work as berserkers did - after munching some green hallucinogenic mushrooms, he can enter the fight and take a lot of punishment before either he or his foe goes down. But he can't just back off whenever he wants.

Stats:
- 300 hunger, 100 sanity, 100 health
- Gets hungry 25% faster
- Gets tankier and slower when insane - up to 80% damage mitigation at 0 sanity, and 50% speed reduction
- +20 sanity and +5 health for each completed quest, up to 300 sanity and 150 health
- Permanent beard gives a small insulation, but overheating damages him more
- He hates fish

Unique axe:
- Starts with Wruntaz - a battle axe imbued with magic, and a couple of green mushrooms
- Wruntaz is as strong as a normal axe by itself
- Wruntaz can be used to chop trees with normal speed
- Wruntag loses a tiny amount of sanity whenever he's not holding Wruntaz, and others always lose a considerable amount of sanity whenever holding Wruntaz
- Wruntag can get better at using Wruntaz by killing new types of enemies
- After killing 42 different types of enemies, Wruntaz is as strong as a Dark Sword in Wruntag's hands
- Never gets wet
- Can't be knocked out of hands too far by Bearger, Moose/Goose and other sources
- There is no way to craft Wruntaz, but it is indestructible, and non-Wruntag players drop it upon logout

Quests:
- Has a demonic friend that will sometimes whisper to him when his sanity drops below 50%, giving him a total of 10 quests to complete
- Each completed quest gives a useful reward
- Each completed quest unlocks one type of magic that requires Prehistilator or Ancient Pseudoscience Station to unlock, and works through crafting tab
- One of the hardest quests unlocks runic magic, which lets Wruntag forge one of 3 types of runes

Runes:
- Rune of Berserking - induces insanity like a Nightmare Amulet, gives 80% damage mitigation, and slows down to 50%, lasts 0.4 day
- Rune of Hammering - increases hitting range, and gives attacks a small AoE, lasts 0.2 day
- Rune of Wruntag - gives 100% damage mitigation (invunerability), lasts 0.1 day
- Runes can be used by anyone, and work by activating/deactivating them from the inventory
- Activating and deactivating runes costs 5 sanity each
- Rune of Wruntag cannot be used together with Rune of Berserking, and two same runes cannot be used at the same time

Extra loot:
- Has 20% change to get double loot from mining and killing creatures, and 30% from picking tumbleweeds

Beard:
- He puts some of the food he eats in his beard, and he can get it back by shaving

Detailed mechanics:
- Speed scales linearly with sanity:
* 0% sanity - 50% speed
* 25% sanity - 63% speed
* 50% sanity - 75% speed
* 75% sanity - 87% speed
* 100% sanity - 100% speed
- Effective health scales linearly with missing sanity:
* 0% sanity - 80% damage mitigation = 500 effective base health
* 25% sanity - 75% damage mitigation = 400 effective base health
* 50% sanity - 67% damage mitigation = 300 effective base health
* 75% sanity - 50% damage mitigation = 200 effective base health
* 100% sanity - 0% damage mitigation = 100 effective base health
- His innate insulation is like rabbit earmuffs, but overheating damages him 50% more
- Wruntaz strength scales linearily from Axe level to Dark Sword level
- Wruntaz strength is linked to Wruntag, not to the axe itself
- Double loot from mining and killing creatures works normally, while double loot from tumbleweeds works by doubling the amount of items (so, e.g., the chance to get an orange gem stays the same)
- 20% chance that eaten food will be stored in one of 7 slots in his beard
- Shaving after 3 days yields one food item, shaving after 10 days yields four food items

List of quests (spoilers):
1. Pick 1000 tumbleweeds
2. Equip a Krampus Sack full of gold (280 nuggets)
3. Use up a Lazy Forager
4. Get Iridescent Gem
5. Use up 10 Nightmare Amulets
6. Eat jellybeans
7. Kill an enraged Klaus during winter
8. Get a napsack
9. Carve statues of all four seasonal giants
10. Kill Ancient Guardian with Wruntaz, while wearing Bone Armor and Bone Helm

List of unlocked magic (same order, spoilers):
1. Summon a tumbleweed (40 sanity, 1 grass)
2. Create manure (10 sanity)
3. Summon a Lazy Forager (220 sanity, 20 gold)
4. Summon a Dwarf Star (150 sanity, 4 red gems), or a Polar Star (200 sanity, 4 blue gems)
5. Summon a flower (20 sanity, 3 grass), or an evil flower (30 sanity, 3 grass)
6. Summon a Meaty Stew (20 sanity, 4 morsels), a Honey Ham (30 sanity, 1 meat), or a Mandrake Soup (100 sanity, 4 flower petals)
7. Summon an ice cream (80 sanity, 1 ice)
8. Create a red mushroom (200 sanity, 1 red mushroom cap, 6 living logs), a green mushroom (200 sanity, 1 green mushroom cap, 6 living logs), or a blue mushroom (200 sanity, 1 blue mushroom cap, 6 living logs)
9. Summon a Rock Lobster (180 sanity, 40 rocks, 40 flint)
10. Forge Rune of Berserking (150 sanity, 12 gold, 3 purple gems), Rune of Hammering (200 sanity, 1 thulecite, 1 orange gem), or Rune of Wruntag (300 sanity, 1 thulecite, 1 Iridescent Gem)

Remarks:
It is my first mod. It took two weeks to make the art, and another week to program all features. I hope you'll enjoy it. I would appreciate some comments, especially about balancing of this character for PvE and PvP.

If you're a modder, feel free to use the code as you please, but ask me before using any of my art assets.

Donations:
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Known bugs/TODO:
* When logging out with the amulet active, the amulet switches off on login, but sanity is still 0.
* Incomplete dialogue, mostly descriptions.