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Heroic upgrades

A Heroic upgrade is a one-shot power-up you apply to a single piece of gear — any armor piece or weapon, not tied to a set. It is the high-roller item: a small success chance, consumed whether it works or not, but a permanent boost when it lands.

On success a heroic upgrade:

  • adds a percent damage bonus (for weapons),
  • adds a percent damage reduction (for armor),
  • adds a durability save chance (a chance to cancel item damage), and
  • can optionally upgrade the material (e.g. diamond → netherite).

On failure the gear is unharmed — only the upgrade item is consumed.

How heroic damage stacks​

Heroic damage is an ordinary additive contribution: a heroic weapon's percent damage joins the same additive outgoing bucket as any enchant, set, or crystal bonus, and a heroic armour piece's percent reduction joins the additive reduction bucket. It carries no separate multiplier stage — it sums with every other percent source and dilutes additively alongside them, just like a diamond-tier gear bonus. (Heroic armour also grants real diamond-equivalent armour points and durability through the vanilla stat system.)

:::tip Tune the risk The success chance is drawn from a [success-min, success-max] range in the heroic item config (defaults: 5–15%). Raise it for a more forgiving server, lower it for a true gamble. :::

  • Armor sets — heroic is independent of sets; you can heroic-upgrade set pieces too.
  • The heroic item — minting and giving heroic upgrades.

For the upgrade item's full config, see Items.