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Block's Leveling Mod

Block's Leveling Mod adds a leveling mechanic to your weapons, allowing you to use them for longer if you diligently use them in order to level them up. At its core, this leveling system is based on the one from Example Mod, but with a comprehensive overhaul to execute the mechanic in a fully fleshed out, balanced, and polished manner.

To understand how this mod works and how to use its leveling system, please read the rest of this description (At least the Leveling Mechanics, Runes, and Final Notes sections).
I know it's long, but it will give you a comprehensive understanding. I find myself answering questions in comments that are already answered here too often...

• By default, weapons can't level up; the mechanic must be activated via. items called Runes (See their section below)
  
• Weapons that can gain XP will do so whenever they deal damage. In most cases XP gained is equal to damage dealt
  
• Bosses, events, and worms all have multipliers which reduce the XP granted when fighting them, to combat power-leveling
  
• The XP required to level up is calculated dynamically based on level; as a weapon level up, its XP requirements will steadily become greater
  
• Weapons will gain a damage boost as they level up. It starts very small, but will add up with each level
  
• By default, the max level is 100, at which point weapons receive x3 damage

• These are craftable items which activate a weapon's ability to gain XP and level up
  
• All Runes' crafting stems from the Dormant Experience Rune, craft one with 5 stone and a gem at a work bench to get started
  
• Hold an applicable weapon in your hotbar, not the cursor, and right click the Rune from your inventory to apply it to the weapon
  
• Different Runes apply different 'Base XP' values to weapons, determining how easy or hard it is to gain levels
  
• A weapon's Base XP is how much XP it needs to get from level 0 to level 1. This value is used to calculate all level thresholds
  
• A weapon's rarity will dictate what tiers of Rune can be applied to it, with higher rarities requiring higher tiers
  
• Higher tier Runes require materials from later in the game's progression, and apply higher Base XPs

Ethereal Runes

• These are an additional, special, easily-accessed counterpart that work on any weapon.
  
• Ethereal Runes are ideal for bypassing progression and other barriers to suit your own tastes for balancing
  
• Ethereal Runes are also useful for weapons with modded rarities, since they default to the highest Rune tier

These are special items that rarely drop from enemies and can be used to bolster your weapon's training by instantly granting a dynamically calculated amount of XP

• Hold an applicable weapon and right click the Experience Orb from your inventory to apply it to the weapon
  
• XP granted by an orb dependents on its type/size and the base XP of the weapon it's applied to
  
• There are 5 rarities of orb, with the rarer variants being stronger
  
• There is also a sixth, special type which instead grants a single level to a weapon
  
• Orbs drop in a dormant form, and must refined at a crafting station (the station depends on the type) to become usable
  
• All orbs can also be crafted into counterparts which deduct XP, if you ever find a need to do that...

An optional addition that allows your player to level up as well

• Players' ability to gain XP relies only on config settings
  
• Player level can also confer a (global) damage boost, though it is much smaller and is turned off by default
  
• Likewise, there is also an optional boost to damage reduction from player level, also disabled by default
  
• Both of the two above features are not recommended for balanced play

Want to take your player or weapons farther than otherwise allowed? With Prestige you can do just that;

• Buy Prestige Runes from the Travelling Merchant in order to Prestige a level 100 player or weapon
  
• Prestige will wipe the player/weapon's XP and reset it to level 0, but preserve the damage boost gained from the previous levels
  
• This allows you to keep gaining more damage from further levels!
  
• However, it is very difficult to level up Prestige players/weapons; weapons gain XP 20 times slower, and players gain XP 50 times slower!
  
• If your Prestige weapon reaches level 100 again, there is a config option that allows stacking Prestige; up to a max of 3 times!
  
• Stacking Prestige offers even more power, but also makes gaining XP exponentially harder.

Note that Prestige is rather overpowered in nature, so it isn't recommened to use unless you don't care if it's unbalanced and/or are just interested in power.

Another optional feature that allows enemies to gain extra HP and Defense as you progress

• When enabled (The feature is off by default), enemies gain up to x3 HP and x1.5 Defense based on downed vanilla bosses
  
• This feature will encourage you to spend time leveling up weapons in order to keep up with increasingly resilient foes
  
• To reduce the increased amount of grinding, XP gains are greatly increased when this feature is active
  
• Enemy stat scaling, and bonus XP can be customized via. config

• Sound and text feedback upon leveling up. Both feedbacks are togglable
  
• Tooltips detailing weapon XP, level, and power
  
• Vast amounts of configuration with (overly) informative descriptions to fine-tune balancing
  
• Cross-mod features and compatibility with one of my other mods; 'Weapon Augments'

• This mod is open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license. In short, you’re allowed to view and utilize code from the source if you’d like, but if you want to publish any work you did with it, that project will have to use the same license (GNU GPLv3). The mod's LICENSE file contains the full details of terms and conditions, etc.
  
• You can access the source-code using tML's extract function (Found in-game on the mod's More Info page in your Mods List).

This mod inherently supports the English language, though I am unable to provide any other languages since that's the only one I'm fluent in. However, localization contributions on GitHub are welcomed and appreciated. Below is a list of supported languages so far:

• English (Base)
  
• Simplified Chinese (Contributed by Urgiv)

If you desire to contribute localization, please make a PR in the GitHub repository for my mods' .tmod files[github.com].

• As with all upgrading/leveling mods, this mod is NOT very vanilla friendly in nature; keep this in mind if you like balanced play
  
• Furthermore, it is highly recommended to read the pinned discussion 'FAQ Thread: Compatibility, Known Issues/Bug Reports, Roadmap & More', as there are some other known issues to be wary of!

Originally posted by tModLoader BSWLmod:

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