Pillar Shard Items

Crystalline fragments for soul pillar construction in Pillar Creation realm.

Interface

export interface PillarShardItem extends ItemBase {
  kind: 'pillar_shard';
  tooltip: string;              // Functional description
  maxInstances?: number;        // Maximum allowed in pillar

  variants?: PillarShardVariant[];  // Customizable options

  // Network connectivity
  inputs?: {
    left?: number;
    right?: number;
    bottom?: number;
    top?: number;
  };
  output?: {
    mode: 'flat' | 'multiply' | 'add';
    left: number;
    top: number;
    right: number;
    bottom: number;
  };
}

export interface PillarShardVariant {
  title: string;
  icon: string;
  physicalStats?: Partial<Record<PhysicalStatistic, number>>;
  socialStats?: Partial<Record<SocialStatistic, number>>;
}

Key Properties

• tooltip: Describes shard functionality
• maxInstances: Prevents overuse in pillar construction
• variants: Multiple configurations for same shard base
• inputs/output: Network connectivity for energy flow

Examples

// Multi-variant combat shard with choices
export const attackGem: PillarShardItem = {
  kind: 'pillar_shard',
  tooltip: 'Grants either +15% Power, +5% Crit Chance, or +50% Crit Damage in combat. The stat affected can be chosen when it is placed.',
  inputs: { bottom: 5 },
  name: 'Expression of Destruction Gem',
  variants: [
    {
      title: 'Power',
      icon: powerIcon,
      combatBuffs: [{
        buff: {
          name: 'Expression of Destruction Gem',
          icon: powerIcon,
          canStack: false,
          stats: { power: { value: 0.15, stat: 'power' } },
          onTechniqueEffects: [],
          onRoundEffects: [],
          stacks: 1,
        },
        buffStacks: { value: 1, stat: undefined },
      }],
    },
    {
      title: 'Crit Chance',
      icon: critIcon,
      combatBuffs: [{
        buff: {
          name: 'Expression of Destruction Gem',
          icon: critIcon,
          canStack: false,
          stats: { critchance: { value: 5, stat: undefined } },
          onTechniqueEffects: [],
          onRoundEffects: [],
          stacks: 1,
        },
        buffStacks: { value: 1, stat: undefined },
      }],
    }
  ],
  stability: -10,
  maxInstances: 1,
  description: 'The Jade Forest has long stood as one of the centers of cultivation in the world.',
  icon: powerIcon,
  stacks: 1,
  rarity: 'resplendent',
  realm: 'pillarCreation',
};

// Simple enhancement shard
export const enhancer: PillarShardItem = {
  kind: 'pillar_shard',
  tooltip: 'Strengthens the qither beam by 1.',
  inputs: { bottom: 1 },
  output: {
    mode: 'add',
    left: 0,
    top: 1,
    right: 0,
    bottom: 0,
  },
  maxInstances: 5,
  name: 'Tigao Shard',
  description: 'What qitheric energy is, and how it interacts with the world, is still a mystery to many.',
  icon: icon,
  stacks: 1,
  rarity: 'transcendent',
  realm: 'pillarCreation',
};

// Splitting/routing shard
export const tSplitter: PillarShardItem = {
  kind: 'pillar_shard',
  tooltip: 'Splits the qither beam in two.',
  inputs: { bottom: 2 },
  output: {
    mode: 'multiply',
    left: 0.5,
    top: 0,
    right: 0.5,
    bottom: 0,
  },
  name: 'Fenli Shard (Front)',
  description: 'A cultivator\'s soul pillar is formed of three things. Qi, to energise and swell its form. Qither, provided by a primordial source, to give it life. And shards, to absorb the qitheric energy and give the eventual world its shape.',
  icon: icon,
  stacks: 1,
  rarity: 'empowered',
  realm: 'pillarCreation',
};

// Source shard with unique output
export const originFragment: PillarShardItem = {
  kind: 'pillar_shard',
  tooltip: 'Emits 9 Qither. Additionally emits 1 Qither in opposing directions.',
  output: {
    mode: 'flat',
    left: 1,
    top: 9,
    right: 1,
    bottom: 0,
  },
  maxInstances: 1,
  name: 'Origin Fragment',
  description: 'A fragment of something truly fundamental, retrieved from the depths of the Yinying Mine. It feels strangely familiar to the touch, as if you both originated from the same primordial source.',
  icon: icon,
  stacks: 1,
  rarity: 'transcendent',
  realm: 'pillarCreation',
  valueTier: 0,
};