With artifacts, many fun, strange, and challenging gameplay modifiers are done to Risk of Rain 2. Follow this guide to unlock them all.
Risk of Rain 2 has some inbound cheats and challenges called Artifacts. You can customize your gameplay depending on your choice with Artifacts.
In the first game, the method used to unlock Artifacts differs significantly from the second – Risk of Rain 2. Although, it‘s not as hard as you may think if you follow the steps we have discussed here. We will look into all the Artifacts in the game, what they’re for, and how you can unlock them.
How To Unlock Artifacts
You can unlock Artifacts when you reach the fifth stage, the Sky Meadow. From this point, go through any circular openings on the bottom floor to reach underneath it. At this point, you will see the Compound Generator, where you will input different codes to open a portal to Bulwark’s Ambry.
The Artifacts have different codes; you must put their particular codes in the Compound Generator to unlock them. When an Artifact is unlocked, it opens a portal to the Hidden Realm. You have to enter the stage where a challenge will start. The rules of the challenge depend on the Artifacts Code that you selected.
You must gather Artifacts Key four times to complete the Bulwark’s Ambry challenge. On the stage, pick one of the items up and take it to the center Artifact Reliquary. At this place, interacting with the object will reduce its health by one-fourth.
You will pick the Artifacts key as they drop randomly from enemies. That means you should keep killing monsters until you have the number of keys required. You will pick the first key immediately after you enter the Hidden Realm.
1. Artifact of Chaos
This artifact will cause a teammate to do damage or kill each other, even the same to monsters. When you play solo and activate this Artifact, monsters will kill each other, but your weapon can cause you damage. When playing with friends, don’t equip this artifact.
2. Artifact of Command
Artifact Effect: Choose your items.
With this Artifact equipped, you can choose the item you obtain when you unlock a chest. The actual item won’t drop like others, Command Essence of the same rarity will replace it. Interact with it to open a selection menu where you will choose any item from the rarity tier. This Artifact can be instrumental when you want to create a specific build.
3. Artifact of Death
Artifact Effect: If any player is killed, every other player dies.
This Artifact will give your team one shared life; you can’t revive your teammates when you advance to the next stage.
4. Artifact of Dissonance
Artifact Effect: Monsters can appear where they shouldn’t appear.
This Artifact will cause the monster to appear where it should or shouldn’t. For instance, you can see monsters in Distant Roost when you apply this Artifact.
5. Artifact of Enigma
Artifact Effect: You will get random equipment that will change every time it‘s activated.
You will receive Equipment at the start of a run, which will change every time you use it. This Artifact is essential when starting at a run, but you can’t tell which weapon you will receive next.
6. Artifact of Evolution
Artifact Effect: Monsters gain items between stages.
The Artifacts give monsters a random item effect when you start the next stage. The effects given to monsters can make them dangerous after a few stages.
7. Artifact of Frailty
Artifact Effect: Fall damage is doubled and lethal.
This Artifact is deadly and can cause you to die when your character falls off the stage. This Artifact won’t affect the loader in the game due to the passive ability to be immune from fall damage.
8. Artifact of Glass
Artifact Effect: Allies deal 500% damage but have 10% health.
9. Artifact of Honor
Artifact Effect: Enemies can only spawn as elites.
When you apply this Artifact, all monsters will upgrade to elite, making them difficult to kill. At the upgraded level, you can receive more rare items like Old Guillotine and Brainstalks.
10. Artifact of Kin
Artifact Effect: Monsters will be of only one type per stage.
You will fight only one particular type of enemy when you activate this Artifact. When used with Artifact of Dissonance, any single type of enemy can spawn. There is a high risk involved in utilizing this Artifact as it can produce only Stone Golems spawning on stage one.
11. Artifact of Metamorphosis
Artifact Effect: Players will spawn as a random survivor.
At the beginning of each stage, you will be transformed into a random survivor, no matter the survivor you want to spawn as. When you’re unfamiliar with all the survivors, don’t apply this Artifact.
12. Artifact of Sacrifice
Artifact Effect: Monsters drop items on death, but chests no longer spawn.
Monsters will drop items when you kill them, and you won’t receive chest any longer. You can use this Artifact when playing in one stage, and it will make money almost entirely useless.
You should combine this Artifact with the Artifact of Command. You will gather many items when these two are combined.
13. Artifact of Soul
Artifact Effect: Wisps emerge from defeated monsters.
Wisps will spawn when you apply this Artifact when you kill a monster. You won’t receive items like money, experience, or item drops when used with Artifact of Sacrifice. The only thing this Artifact does is provide more challenge to you.
14. Artifact of Spite
Artifact Effect: Enemies drop multiple exploding bombs on death.
When you activate this Artifact, monsters will drop bombs when you kill. So, be ready to jump off their corpse when you eliminate any. Killed monsters are more dangerous to melee survivors like Mercenary.
15. Artifact of Swarms
Artifact Effect: Monster spawns are doubled, but the monster‘s maximum health is halved.
The monster‘s health will be split in half, but it will multiply in number. This Artifact can be useful when you use it with the Artifact of Sacrifice to get more items. But be informed that when monster spawn, even bosses spawn double, including Mithrix and Doppelgangers that are spawned from Artifact of Vengeance.
16. Artifact of Vengeance
Artifact Effect: Your relentless doppelganger will invade every 10 minutes.
When you apply this Artifact, a clone of your survivor will spawn every 10 minutes. The clone will appear with every item you have and drop any item you used when defeated.
Take note of these artifacts in Risk of Rain 2 and leverage them.
