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Runeworking

Attuning rune material at the Wise Old Enby's Resonance Rig on Hilltop Workshop, Stillreach — the Beginner Echo Seeker, how a run works, when the Rig opens, and hunting Resonance Echoes with Seekers.

Runeworking is attuning rune material into something useful. It is its own skill with its own level, starting at 1, and it happens at the Resonance Rig: the Wise Old Enby's own machine at Hilltop Workshop on Stillreach. The Rig sits below the Wise Old Enby themselves, and using it never means talking to them first.

The Rig opens once you have finished Not From Around Here and stays yours from then on, whatever you do with Seeker? I Hardly Know Her!. Before that there is nothing to use there.

What you can attune

A Beginner Echo Seeker is attuned to detect hidden disturbances in RuneSpace. Use one from your Inventory to hunt for a Resonance Echo (below).

The Rig has two modes: Attune, where you start and watch a run, and Recipes, a list of every Runeworking recipe you know. A recipe stays listed in both even when you are not carrying what it needs, and in Attune, Sources beside its ingredient shows where to get more.

  • Beginner Echo Seeker — 1 Rune Fragment. 20.4 seconds, 25 Runeworking XP, Runeworking 1. It always succeeds. It weighs 200g, the same as the Fragment it was made from, and stacks five to a slot.

Runs

Choose how many to make with − and +, or Max to keep going until the next one cannot start. Each one is checked when it starts: that you still have the Rune Fragment, and that the finished Seeker will fit once the Fragment is gone — a part-full Seeker stack is topped up first. Max stops as soon as one of those runs out, however many that turns out to be.

A started attunement is committed. Its Rune Fragment stays in your Inventory until it finishes, set aside for it, and you cannot walk away from the Rig until it is done. Only the attunement on the Rig sets anything aside; the Fragments for later ones are still yours until each one starts.

When an attunement finishes, the Fragment is used up and the Seeker lands in your Inventory at the same moment, with its XP. There is no cancel: Stop After This Attunement lets the one on the Rig finish and ends the run there. Closing the game or losing your connection changes nothing; the Rig keeps going, and when you come back it is exactly where it would have been.

Hunting Resonance Echoes

Select a Beginner Echo Seeker in your Inventory and choose Use. You stand still for 4.8 seconds while it listens, and one Seeker is used up, whatever it finds. First Resonance Echo is the Wise Old Enby's lesson in it, but any Seeker you hold works, however you came by it.

A Seeker searches the planet you are standing on. Skatboll and Stillreach each hide their own Echo, and each keeps its own search: your last reading there stays put while you are away. On Skatboll the Echo is somewhere among its ordinary places, never in Deep Jag; on Stillreach, anywhere on its map.

If the Echo is not where you stand, the reading says which way it lies from that spot: east or west, and north or south, or due north (say) when you are already lined up. A wrong reading pays no XP. The Seeker's details show the planet you are searching and your last reading there, and whether the spot you are standing on now has been ruled out by it. Not ruled out does not mean the Echo is there.

Finding the Echo pays 50 Runeworking XP and gives up one item, and your next reading on that planet starts a new search. Your very first reading on a planet can find it right where you are.

Leave room before you look. The item is checked against your Inventory after the Seeker is used up, so the Seeker's own slot and weight count; if it still does not fit, it slips back into RuneSpace and is gone, though you keep the XP.

What an Echo can give

Exactly one item per Echo, rolled from the planet you found it on:

  • Skatboll: Rune Fragment 30.2%, Uncut Quartz 24%, Uncut Topaz 16%, Refined Ferrite 12%, Uncut Sapphire 10%, Galvanic Stock 5%, intact Runestone 2.8%.
  • Stillreach: Rune Fragment 30.2%, Uncut Quartz 26%, Uncut Topaz 20%, Uncut Sapphire 10%, Empty Small Fuel Canister 10%, intact Runestone 3.8%.