Binding Lectern

By Rodanius · Version 0.1.3

Trade unwanted Hallowed Concepts pages at a stone lectern beside the lower Trial Gong in Newt's Bazaar. The lectern offers a visible, fixed page reward for two permanent page stacks.

How trading works

• Shredded Pages pay first; remaining costs are selected from normal and spent pages by stack count.
• One visible reward stays fixed for each Bazaar visit, and you can trade repeatedly.
• A shuffled bag avoids repeated outputs until all seven have appeared.
• Spent inputs yield a spent reward. Existing spent copies and Reincarnation's travel cooldown are respected.
• The server controls payment and delivery directly to the purchaser's inventory.

First Reincarnation boost

Before Reincarnation first appears, eligible random page rewards have a 50% chance to become Reincarnation. This is one shared rule for the run and also applies to the lectern's offer. It changes which usable page is rolled, not how often pages drop.

The boost ends when Reincarnation appears as a world pickup, available choice, visible shop/lectern offer, or inventory award—even if nobody picks it up. Later rolls return to normal. Stage changes and Bazaar visits do not reset it; a new run does. Guaranteed rewards, excluded/zero-weight rewards, player choices, Shredded Pages, spent pages, and recharge operations are preserved.

Optional ProperSave integration retains the used-boost flag in new checkpoints. Older saves lack that history. Mods bypassing native page drop tables need separate compatibility testing.

Installation

1. Close the game and install BindingLectern by Rodanius using r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager. Allow the manager to install the listed dependencies.
2. Disable older manually imported copies of this mod so only one copy loads.
3. Launch modded. For multiplayer, every player should use the same mod and dependency versions.

For a manual installation, merge the archive's BepInEx folder into your mod profile, keeping each DLL beside its supplied assets. Shared dependencies must be installed separately. Try experimental changes in a separate profile first.

Hallowed Concepts must be enabled. It is game content, not a bundled mod dependency. Look beside the existing lower Bazaar gong for the stone bookstand, floating page model, and price label.

Compatibility and status

The mod spawns its own lectern on supported existing ground; it does not replace the Bazaar map, gong, or portal route. Version 0.1.3 retains the expanded placement search and adds the run-wide first-Reincarnation boost.

Experimental. Offline payment, placement, reward simulations, and native API checks pass; Windows placement, page casting/recharge, host/client synchronization, late joining, and ProperSave still require playtesting. If no safe position is found, the lectern does not spawn and logs a warning. Report the package version and relevant BepInEx/LogOutput.log entries.

Credits

Created by Rodanius with AI-assisted development and art production. Risk of Rain 2 and its original characters belong to their respective owners. Cover illustrations are promotional artwork, not gameplay screenshots.