Wire's Forge of Potential Rework

Reworks the Forge of Potential while keeping Valheim's normal item stat and quality formulas and all three Forge outcome types.

• The first Potential attempt has a 90% parent win chance.
• Potential +1 is 95%, then success falls by 5 percentage points per existing Potential level.
• Success chance never drops below Valheim's reported 65% Forge success rate.
• Potential +7 is the first 65% tier.
• Potential +8 is the second consecutive 65% tier (the attempt to reach Potential +9); item-break risk starts there.
• Through Potential +5, a failed parent roll is an Ignore: no quality loss and 35% of ordinary attempted materials are returned.
• At Potential +6 and +7, a failed parent roll is a Loss: exactly 1 Potential level is lost and 15% of ordinary attempted materials are returned.
• From Potential +8 onward, the 35% failure branch splits evenly: 50% Loss and 50% vanilla Break.
• Loss always removes exactly 1 Potential level; there is no multi-level loss chain.
• Break uses Valheim's real item-destruction branch and its normal break-return behavior.
• Failed refinements still play the Forge lightning-strike feedback; its damaging projectile/AOE behaviour remains disabled.
• On a win: 80% gives +1; 20% enters the jackpot chain, capped at +5 from one attempt.
• The Forge resource/idol is always consumed.
• Existing Potential-upgraded items remain ordinary vanilla quality items.
• The Forge UI shows the live success/failure chance and, once break risk is active, the 50/50 failure split.

Changelog

1.1.1

• Removed the extra Potential stage/title line from the Forge UI.

• Reworked the Forge warning copy to be shorter, vaguer and closer to Valheim's own tone.

• The four warning stages now read:

  • The item can withstand further forging.
  • Further forging may weaken the item.
  • Further forging may greatly weaken the item.
  • Further forging may destroy the item.

• No mechanics changed from 1.1.0. Reworked Forge progression around the item's extra quality above its natural maximum.

• Success chance starts at 90% and falls by 5 percentage points per extra quality until the vanilla 65% floor.

• Early failures consume the upgrader resource but do not damage the item.

• Potential loss begins later, multi-level loss begins later still, and destruction returns only at the high-risk stage.

• At the 65% floor the overall split is 65% success / 25% loss / 10% destruction.

• Multi-level loss is uncapped down to the item's natural maximum quality.

• Removed custom ordinary-material refunds; Forge attempts only consume the upgrader resource, matching Valheim.

• Destruction uses Valheim's real break branch and native break-material return calculation.

• Jackpot remains hidden and now also plays Valheim's positive craft-bonus effect.

• Removed exact success/failure/jackpot percentages from the Forge UI.