Anemone’s Better (And More!) CoM Trinkets

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Anemone’s Better (And More!) Color of Madness Trinkets is a work-in-progress mod that makes CoM provide proper endgame content. It modifies all CoM rewards, with more content coming.

Full details: https://pastebin.com/e5kx09df

This mod overhauls how trinkets work in Color of Madness. All base game trinkets have been reworked greatly, new trinkets have been added, and a trinket system was developed to make Color of Madness trinkets act as proper double-edged sword character upgrades. These trinkets modify and enhance heroes, but come with a greater difficulty of use, complex downsides, and other consequences.

All Crystalline class trinkets now can be empowered by Conduit type trinkets, which provide essential stats when used with class trinkets, and a hidden buff to one skill on every vanilla hero when using both a Conduit and class trinket. The first Conduit you will likely find is the Minor Conduit. This will seed future conduit gain, and is a wise investment. Conduits feed off of any available source of energy, with some more specialized to certain sources.

However, the effects of the conduit may spread into the user, starting an evolving quirk chain with many options including greater Conduits, and a powerful capstone quirk if you have obtained all the trinkets. These will be triggered by semi-obvious item consumption.

These greater Conduits are basically overpowered, but with complex and resource-draining downsides. The Abyssal Conduit gives you immense Eldritch strength, at the cost of Stress, food, and light. The Celestial Conduit will overwhelm you with light or shards, but will take them back in equal measure. The Progenitor Conduit will consume your Flesh, but after consuming enough enemies, you may become immortal.

Info:

Sky Taint -> Host – Gestating
50 rounds
Host – Gestating -> Host – Gleaming
150 rounds
Host – Gleaming -> Host – Husked
After producing the Celestial Conduit, the Gleaming will quickly burn out and become hollow.
Host – Husked:
Consume Shard Dust to instantly die in combat. The Progenitor Conduit will spawn as combat loot.
Consume the Blood to gain Crystalline Blood. Become a horrible, stimulant-fueled monster, perfect in mind and body.
Crystalline Blood:
Consume Shard Dust to gain +66% DMG Reflection.
Consume the Blood to gain stress and dmg equal to using Blood in Bloodlust.
Consume the Cure to revert to Host – Husked. A weakness?
Consume Holy Water for Blight.
Shard Mercenary:
Made into a size 3 disease, given +15% DMG and -15% Stress vs Husk.
Consume Irradiant Solution to become Host – Husked

Irradiant Solution:
Provision that is purchasable with shards like Shard Dust
Cost: 4
Purchase: 6 / stack: 3
Performer: Cures Sky Taint and Host quirks, -25 Torch
Enemy Party: Blight (140%) 3 pts/rd for 3rds

Shard Dust:
Purchase: 12 / stack: 6

Other Info:
The Celestial Conduit prevents the torch from burning. When used in a party with the Abyssal Conduit as well, it will equal out to normal torch burn.

All art modified by me, Anemone, from basegame art, assets, etc.

I do most of my photo editing using free apps, including Photopea
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Coding done by me, with thanks to the Moonlit Dungeon Discord, their guides, resources, and support. References for mechanics drawn from guides and existing mods, so thanks to the Darkest Dungeon modding community.
https://discord.gg/VkXB87M
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095670238

Special thanks to O’Nightmare, Clair de Lune, and Vulu in the MLD discord for helping with code at a several points.
Thanks to playtesters Komrade Karma and from the ShuffleFM Discord.

This mod is not an official Red Hook Studios product or product modification, and Red Hook Studios Inc. is not responsible in any way for changes or damages that may result from using the mod. Furthermore, “Darkest Dungeon” and the Darkest Dungeon logo are trademarks of Red Hook Studios Inc. All content in the game is Copyright Red Hook Studios Inc. All rights reserved.

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