Relicbound

Quickstart

1. Find a Relic Portal — explore near any village and look for a circular obsidian-and-stone-brick platform with a glowing portal block in the center. One spawns automatically near every village you discover.
2. Right-click the Relic Portal to be teleported into a dungeon instance.
3. You start in a protected Starter Room. Open the supply chest to grab your starting gear: three milk buckets, a Combustion Bow, and a full stack of Combustion Arrows.
4. When you're ready, press the stone button in the Starter Room to open the first doors and begin the run.
5. Fight through rooms, collect relics from Relic Shrines and chests, and push toward Level 13 for the ultimate rewards.
6. If you die, you respawn at the portal — your items stay inside so you can re-enter and reclaim them.

Creative Mode: Use the Relic Portal Spawner item on any surface to instantly place a portal platform anywhere.

Overview

Relicbound turns Minecraft into a dungeon-crawler roguelite. You enter instanced, procedurally-built dungeons through Relic Portals found near villages. Inside, you navigate a branching network of rooms across up to 13 levels, collecting powerful Relics that grant passive effects while held. Survivors who push to the final level earn top-tier Relicsteel armor and the legendary Sword Of The Old Gods.

What It Adds

How To Use

Entering a Dungeon

Right-click any Relic Portal to start a run. The dungeon spawns as an instanced space and you are teleported to the Starter Room. Your overworld spawn is automatically set near the village where the portal stands, so dying outside the dungeon respawns you safely nearby.

The Starter Room

The Starter Room is a protected area where no mobs can reach you. It contains:

• A supply chest stocked with three milk buckets, a Combustion Bow, and a full stack of Combustion Arrows.
• A stone button — pressing it opens the first dungeon doors and begins the run.

Navigating Rooms

Rooms are arranged as a branching node graph. Each room can connect to up to two onward paths, so you make route choices throughout the run. Your current level and room are displayed on screen. A room must be cleared before its exit doors open.

Room types you'll encounter:

Advancing Levels

After clearing the required rooms, a level-advance portal appears. Right-click it to move to the next level. At Level 13, the final reward chest contains the Relicsteel armor set and the Sword Of The Old Gods. Right-click the exit portal to return to the overworld.

Death and Recovery

If you die inside a dungeon, you respawn at the Relic Portal in the overworld. Your items remain exactly where they dropped inside the dungeon. You can re-enter the same portal and retrieve everything.

Abilities And Mechanics

Relics

Relics are held items — carry them in your inventory to activate their passive effects. Effects scale with stack count: holding multiple copies of the same relic increases its power. Relics drop from Relic Shrines, chests, elite kills, and shops inside dungeons.

Combustion Bow & Combustion Arrows

The Combustion Bow fires Combustion Arrows that detonate on impact with a creeper-sized explosion (power 2.8), spawning flame and explosion particles. The explosion does not break blocks. The bow always fires Combustion Arrows regardless of what ammunition is in your inventory. Both items are provided free in the Starter Room chest at the beginning of every run.

Crafting And Obtaining

Relicsteel Armor

Relicsteel armor is crafted at the crafting table using specific relics combined with Netherite armor pieces and diamond/emerald blocks. It is among the strongest armor in the game (42 durability multiplier, high protection values, toughness 4.5).

Relicsteel Helmet

Relicsteel Chestplate

Relicsteel Leggings

Relicsteel Boots

All four Relicsteel pieces require relics as crafting ingredients. Collect those relics during dungeon runs before attempting to craft.

Other Items

Progression And Strategy

Early run: Use the free Combustion Bow from the Starter Room to safely burst down enemies from range. Drink the milk buckets before entering Poison Bog or Cobweb rooms to cure any status effects.

Mid run: Prioritize Relic Shrines and elite kills — more relics mean stronger stacking passive effects. The Magnet Relic is strong early since it automatically pulls emeralds for shop purchases. Pick up multiple copies of a single relic to maximize its stacking power.

Shop strategy: Save emeralds as you go. Shops appear periodically in the dungeon and let you buy additional relics or useful items. The Emerald Engine Relic converts your emerald wealth into speed and regeneration, making a coin-focused build viable.

Defense vs. offense: Tanky builds center on Golem Plating, Mirror Image, and Obsidian Bulwark for stacking Resistance. Glass-cannon builds stack Glass Cannon Relic for enormous Strength at the cost of extra damage taken — pair it with Vampiric Touch to sustain through kills.

Level 13 push: The dungeon has a fixed maximum of 13 levels. The final reward chest always contains the Relicsteel armor set and the Sword Of The Old Gods — this is the primary long-term goal of every run. If you die before reaching it, your items remain in the dungeon and you can re-enter to continue from where you left off.