Risk of Rain 2 artifacts toggle friendly fire, random spawns, and item choice. Official copy confirms the system; individual names still need item logs.
Risk of Rain 2 artifacts are run-wide rule toggles, not a normal drop. Official copy: learn the secrets of the Artifacts to switch modifiers such as friendly fire, random survivor spawns, and item selection. After random stages, enemies, and items, Artifacts are how official copy promises no two runs feel the same.
The source does not give a full English name list, unlock locations, or banned combos. This page will not invent community names for individual Artifacts. Those stay unverified until a sourced log appears.
Three effects official copy already names
- Friendly fire. That changes four-player spacing. It is not the same as Infernal Mark from unreleased Hallowed Concepts, which is a showcase Hallowed item that makes enemies shoot each other.
- Random survivor spawns. A Huntress-only plan can fail. That is why unlock pages and Artifacts get searched together.
- Item selection. That rewrites drops, which is why the items cheat sheet has to mention Artifacts.
Whether more Artifacts exist, and whether a stage puzzle unlocks them, stays unverified.
Not the same as trials
Prismatic Trials are seeded races with a global leaderboard. Official copy lists them next to Artifacts as another mode, not as the same system. Hallowed Concepts trials of N'kuhana are an unreleased timed pocket entered with a Gong, rewarding N'tormat pages and temporary Ethereal items. Do not file those as current Artifacts.