Standalone Bell Tower

The Bell Tower from Forgotten Relics as its own mod. It was disabled in Forgotten Relics 1.1.6 and later removed.

A stationary champion that rings in Brass Contraptions, launches barrages of spiked brass balls and stomps anything that gets too close.

Abilities

• Brass Barrage: raises spiked balls above the tower and above each of its bells. Each ball hovers, tracks the nearest enemy, then launches.
• Stomp: a slow wind-up slam that stuns and knocks back nearby enemies.
• Toll: summons inert Brass Contraptions next to the tower. They act as extra launch points for the barrage.
• Call to Arms: calls in small monsters from the current stage's spawn pool.

Configuration

Phreel.StandaloneBellTower.cfg lets you set:

• which stages the Bell Tower spawns on (internal stage names, modded stages work too)
• its spawn weight, director cost and minimum stage
• the caps on bells and summoned monsters
• whether it summons monsters at all

Default stages: Abandoned Aqueduct, Aphelian Sanctuary, Scorched Acres, Sky Meadow.

Changes from the original

Performance:

• Summoned monsters are capped. Before, it could call in 2 more every 20 seconds with no limit.
• Removed per-instance material controllers that cloned materials and updated around 50 shader properties every frame. Removed a shader swapper that ran Resources.Load every time a projectile ghost spawned.
• The bell chain was simulated by 11 overlapping DynamicBones; now it uses one.
• The tower's point light no longer casts soft shadows.
• Animated colliders get kinematic rigidbodies, so PhysX no longer treats them as static colliders that move every frame.
• Projectiles retarget 4 times a second instead of scanning every hurtbox each physics tick. Their overlap checks run at 20 Hz instead of 60.
• Death debris now cleans itself up.
• The asset bundle shrank from 196 MB (all of Forgotten Relics) to about 5 MB.

Fixes:

• Stomp no longer hits the tower itself.
• Projectile hits no longer log errors from an unregistered impact effect.
• Summon beams are now visible to clients, not just the host.
• The release sound for the balls plays for everyone.
• Bells die with their tower.
• The death effect actually shows the tower falling apart. Its mesh was never assigned.
• The "Call to Arms" skill is now properly registered.
• The logbook entry is now titled "Bell Tower" instead of "Sanctum Wisp".
• Fixed an oversized Overloading elite display.
• Works on the current game version (Wwise components, shaders and assets updated).

Can be installed alongside Forgotten Relics.

Credits

• PlasmaCore: original Bell Tower code and design, as part of Forgotten Relics
• dotflare: Bell Tower model
• Groove_Salad: Forgotten Relics spawn director work
• Nuxlar / Goorakh: mod template