Hollow Trials

Solo boss challenge system with difficulty tiers, combat challenges, weekly modifiers, and its own currency. Unlike Boss Hunt, Hollow Trials are designed for solo play. <span class="since-badge">v3.0.0</span>

Tiers

Each trial boss has 3 difficulty tiers with escalating stats:

Players summon trial bosses by right-clicking a Void Rift Anchor block placed in the world by admins. Each anchor is assigned a boss during rotation.

Rotation

• RotationDays — default 60 in-game days between rotations
• ActiveTrialCount — default 3 trials active simultaneously
• Deterministic selection — Bosses sorted by trialKey and selected in order
• A new weekly modifier is randomly chosen at each rotation

Weekly Modifiers

One modifier is randomly selected at each rotation, affecting all active trial bosses:

Negative Modifiers (boss stronger)

Positive Modifiers (player benefit)

Combo Modifiers (negative + compensation)

Challenges

Optional conditions that grant bonus reputation, shards, and improve reward quality chances when completed:

Challenge Bonus Reputation

Progression

Reputation Ranks

Reputation never decreases. It determines tier access and shop unlocks.

Void Shards

Currency spent in the Trial Shop. Earned alongside reputation on boss kills:

• Base kill reward: 15 / 30 / 50 by tier
• First kill bonus: +30 shards
• Challenge bonuses
• Progressive difficulty bonus: +2 per 5 kills (max +20)
• Modifier multipliers (e.g. DoubleShards = ×2)

Progressive Difficulty

Every 5 kills of the same boss:

• +5% boss HP and damage (max +50% at 50 kills)
• +2 bonus shards (max +20)

Personal Best Tracking

The system tracks per player per boss/tier:

• Best kill time
• Total kill count
• Deathless kill count
• Best challenges completed in a single kill

Trial Shop

The Trial Warden NPC offers a shop using Void Shards as currency. Items can be fixed items or cases (virtual items that open into a random item from a pool with a quality roll).

{
  "itemCode": "case:tier2",
  "nameKey": "yourmod:trial-shop-case-tier2",
  "cost": 50,
  "requiredReputation": 100,
  "maxPurchases": 0,
  "caseTier": 2,
  "casePool": ["sword-shadow", "armor-void-chest", "ring-abyss"],
  "fixedQuality": 0
}

Quality System

Hollow Trials uses its own 4-tier quality system for rewards:

Chance Modifiers

• Tier 2: +5% Shimmering, +3% Radiant
• Tier 3: +10% Shimmering, +5% Radiant, +2% Abyssal
• 1 challenge completed: +5% Shimmering
• 2+ challenges completed: +10% Shimmering
• Deathless + Speedkill combo: +3% Abyssal

Combat Tracking

The system tracks in real-time during a fight:

• Damage dealt by each player (for solo enforcement)
• Player deaths
• Maximum armor tier worn (for lowgear challenge)
• Saturation changes (for nofood challenge)
• Potion usage (for nopotions challenge)
• Ability hits taken (for perfectdodge challenge)
• Maximum HP (for lowmaxhp challenge)

Soft Reset

If a boss receives no damage for SoftResetIdleHours (default 2 hours), it despawns and can be summoned again at full HP.

Configuration

Boss config in config/hollowtrials/*.json:

{
  "trialKey": "yourmod:trial:boss-name",
  "entityCode": "yourmod:boss-name",
  "respawnInGameHours": 168,
  "activationRange": 120,
  "softResetIdleHours": 2.0,
  "tiers": {
    "1": {
      "questId": "yourmod:trial-boss-name-t1",
      "maxHealth": 300,
      "damageMult": 1.0,
      "speedMult": 1.0,
      "enrageTimerSeconds": 240,
      "challenges": [
        { "type": "speedkill", "thresholdMinutes": 3.0 },
        { "type": "deathless" },
        { "type": "lowgear", "maxArmorTier": 2 }
      ]
    },
    "2": {
      "questId": "yourmod:trial-boss-name-t2",
      "maxHealth": 600,
      "damageMult": 1.3,
      "speedMult": 1.1,
      "enrageTimerSeconds": 200,
      "challenges": []
    },
    "3": {
      "questId": "yourmod:trial-boss-name-t3",
      "maxHealth": 1000,
      "damageMult": 1.6,
      "speedMult": 1.2,
      "enrageTimerSeconds": 160,
      "challenges": []
    }
  }
}

Boss Config Fields

Tier Data Fields

Challenge Definition Fields

Global config in alegacy-vsquest-config.json:

{
  "HollowTrials": {
    "Debug": false,
    "RotationDays": 60,
    "ActiveTrialCount": 3,
    "SoftResetIdleHours": 2.0,
    "DefaultActivationRange": 120,
    "DefaultRespawnHours": 168
  }
}

Quest Actions & Objectives

Commands