Loot Tweaks For Artifacts: The Utility Datapack That Fixes Prominence II Loot Tables
If you have spent any time in the sprawling world of Prominence II: RPG, you already know that the Artifacts mod injects a delightful layer of treasure hunting into your adventure. Powerful trinkets and mysterious relics hide in chests across the overworld, nether, and end, rewarding exploration with unique passive abilities. But what happens when a specific artifact becomes more of a headache than a prize? That is exactly where the Loot Tweaks For Artifacts datapack steps in, offering server owners and map makers a clean, configurable way to reshape how these items spawn—or, in one notorious case, stop spawning altogether.
What Is the Artifacts Mod and Why Does It Need Tweaking?
For those unfamiliar, the Artifacts mod (available on CurseForge) scatters wearable items like the Cross Necklace, Lucky Horseshoe, and Feral Claws across vanilla loot tables. Each artifact grants a permanent passive effect, making them highly sought after in any survival or RPG playthrough. The mod itself is brilliant, but its default loot injection can sometimes clash with a pack’s intended balance. In Prominence II, the developers already made adjustments to suit their RPG progression, yet one stubborn issue remained: the Feral Claws were hard-coded to be disabled, but they still appeared in buried treasure chests and village toolsmith inventories. Players would spot the claws, only to have them vanish on pickup, leading to confusion and frustration. This datapack addresses that exact pain point.
The Problem With Feral Claws
Imagine diving into a sunken ship, battling drowned guardians, and finally cracking open a buried treasure chest. Among the gold and diamonds, you spot a pair of Feral Claws—an artifact that boosts attack speed. You grab them, but the item disappears instantly. No message, no error, just an empty slot where your prize should be. This happened because the claws were flagged as disabled in the modpack’s configuration, yet the loot table entries were never properly cleaned up. Players would waste time chasing phantom loot, and server admins had no easy way to scrub the claws from existence without digging into complex mod files. The Loot Tweaks For Artifacts datapack solves this by completely removing Feral Claws from every injected loot table, making the item truly nonexistent in the world. No more ghost artifacts haunting your treasure runs.
How the Datapack Works
On its own, this datapack does nothing. It requires the Artifacts mod to be present, and it functions by overriding the loot table injections that the mod creates. The clever part is that it is fully configurable—you are not limited to just removing Feral Claws. Through simple JSON adjustments, you can tweak the spawn chance of any artifact across any chest type. Want to make the Lucky Horseshoe twice as rare in desert temples? You can. Need to disable the Vampiric Glove from end city loot because it trivializes your custom boss fights? That is also possible. The datapack essentially gives you granular control over every artifact’s appearance rate, all without needing to touch the mod’s own configs or write a single line of Java.
Key Features at a Glance
- Removes Feral Claws from all loot tables to eliminate the vanishing item bug.
- Allows you to modify spawn chances for any artifact in any vanilla or modded chest.
- Works seamlessly with Lootr, ensuring that instanced loot chests in multiplayer also respect your changes.
- Lightweight and purely data-driven, so it places zero strain on server performance.
Installation and Configuration
Adding this datapack to your world is straightforward. Drop the downloaded ZIP file into your world’s datapacks folder, reload the world, and the default tweaks take effect immediately. If you want to customize artifact rates, open the datapack’s data folder and locate the loot table JSON files. Each artifact entry has a weight value that controls its relative rarity; increasing the weight makes it more common, while setting it to zero effectively removes it. A quick edit, a world reload, and your changes are live. Managing mods and datapacks can be a breeze with a modern launcher; for instance, you can easily install this datapack via the foxygame.net launcher, which offers a convenient menu for downloading mods and datapacks directly without ever leaving the application. This flexibility makes it simple to keep your Prominence II setup exactly the way you like it.
Compatibility With Lootr and Prominence II
Prominence II: RPG relies heavily on the Lootr mod to give each player their own unique loot chests, preventing the all-too-common multiplayer problem of racing to grab chests first. The datapack was built with Lootr compatibility in mind from the start. During testing, contributors like Blankie, oKaylf, and malice7332 helped verify that artifact loot tables remained properly instanced and that the Feral Claws removal did not break chest generation. A special thanks goes out to fichteee for guiding the datapack’s author through the intricacies of loot table manipulation. The result is a tool that slots perfectly into the Prominence II ecosystem, preserving the pack’s intended RPG balance while fixing an irritating oversight.
Why You Should Use It
Even if the Feral Claws bug does not bother you, the configurability alone makes this datapack worth adding. Server owners running custom RPG campaigns can fine-tune artifact rarity to match their progression curve, ensuring that overpowered trinkets do not flood the early game or that essential utility artifacts remain accessible. Map makers can craft bespoke loot experiences without writing a single mod. And for players, it simply means a cleaner, more predictable treasure hunt where what you see is what you get.
Conclusion
Loot Tweaks For Artifacts is a small but mighty utility datapack that punches well above its weight. It fixes a specific, frustrating bug in Prominence II, opens the door to full loot table customization, and does so with zero performance overhead. Whether you are a server admin tired of fielding questions about disappearing claws or a player who wants a more tailored artifact hunt, this datapack delivers. Drop it into your world, tweak the numbers to your heart’s content, and enjoy a loot system that finally behaves exactly as intended.