Risk of Rain 2 Artifact Codes: Sky Meadow Terminal Guide and Full Effect List

Artifacts in Risk of Rain 2 rewrite the rules of a run. Some flip friendly fire on, others turn every spawn into an elite, and a few crank your damage to absurd numbers while leaving you with a sliver of health. Learn the codes, find the terminal, beat the boss, and your next run looks nothing like the last.

This guide covers where the terminal is, how the input grid works, what you need to fight the Reliquary, and every code with its effect.

Finding the Artifact Terminal in the Sky Meadow

The terminal lives in the Sky Meadow, which is always stage five of any run. Near the start of the level you will see a large pit in the floor. Drop into it. Hostile enemies sometimes block the descent, so either fight through them or sprint past.

At the bottom you'll find a 3x3 grid of nodes. Each cell cycles through floating shapes (circle, square, triangle, diamond) when you interact with it. Once the grid matches a valid code, walk to the laptop in front of the layout and use it. A portal opens at the teleporter behind you.

Fighting the Artifact Reliquary

Step into the portal and you'll land in a hidden arena to face the Artifact Reliquary. The boss itself isn't really the puzzle. The trick is collecting four Artifact Keys, which drop from regular monsters spawning around the arena. Once you have all four, finish off the Reliquary and grab the artifact it leaves behind. That activates the effect for the rest of the run.

Every Artifact Code and What It Does

The list below covers all current artifact codes through the Devotion Update. Read each row top to bottom, three shapes per row, three rows total.

Artifact of Chaos

• Effect: Friendly fire on for survivors and monsters alike.
• Code: Circle-Triangle-Circle / Circle-Triangle-Circle / Circle-Triangle-Circle

Artifact of Command

• Effect: Items drop as Command Essences. Interact with them to pick exactly the item you want (locked items still can't be selected).
• Code: Square-Square-Square / Square-Square-Square / Triangle-Triangle-Triangle

Artifact of Death

• Effect: If one player dies, the whole team wipes. Best for groups that trust each other, or want a quick lesson in why they shouldn't.
• Code: Circle-Circle-Circle / Square-Triangle-Square / Circle-Triangle-Circle

Artifact of Delusion

• Effect: After each Teleporter event you have to remember which items you actually picked up. Guess right, keep them. Guess wrong, lose them.
• Code: Square-Circle-Square / Circle-Circle-Circle / Square-Triangle-Square

Artifact of Devotion

• Effect: Broken drones turn into Lemurian Eggs. Feed each one an item to hatch a follower that inherits the item's effect.
• Code: Triangle-Diamond-Triangle / Square-Diamond-Square / Diamond-Triangle-Diamond

Artifact of Dissonance

• Effect: Monsters can spawn on stages they normally never appear on.
• Code: Circle-Square-Square / Square-Square-Square / Square-Square-Circle

Artifact of Enigma

• Effect: You spawn with a random equipment, and it rerolls every time you activate it.
• Code: Diamond-Square-Square / Triangle-Square-Triangle / Circle-Diamond-Diamond

Artifact of Evolution

• Effect: Monsters gain items between stages, scaling alongside you.
• Code: Diamond-Diamond-Diamond / Square-Square-Square / Circle-Circle-Circle

Artifact of Frailty

• Effect: Fall damage doubles and any fall can kill you outright.
• Code: Circle-Circle-Circle / Triangle-Circle-Triangle / Triangle-Triangle-Triangle

Artifact of Glass

• Effect: Allies deal 500% damage but only have 10% health. Glass cannon, literal version.
• Code: Diamond-Diamond-Diamond / Diamond-Diamond-Diamond / Diamond-Diamond-Diamond

Artifact of Honor

• Effect: Every monster spawns as an elite variant.
• Code: Square-Square-Square / Square-Triangle-Square / Square-Square-Square

Artifact of Kin

• Effect: Only one monster type per stage.
• Code: Circle-Triangle-Triangle / Diamond-Circle-Triangle / Diamond-Diamond-Circle

Artifact of Metamorphosis

• Effect: Players spawn as a random survivor every time.
• Code: Diamond-Square-Circle / Diamond-Square-Circle / Diamond-Square-Circle

Artifact of Sacrifice

• Effect: Monsters drop items on death, but Chests stop spawning.
• Code: Triangle-Triangle-Triangle / Triangle-Triangle-Triangle / Triangle-Diamond-Triangle

Artifact of Soul

• Effect: Defeated monsters leave wisps that chase the team.
• Code: Circle-Square-Circle / Circle-Diamond-Circle / Square-Diamond-Square

Artifact of Spite

• Effect: Enemies explode into multiple bombs on death.
• Code: Triangle-Circle-Triangle / Circle-Circle-Circle / Triangle-Circle-Triangle

Artifact of Swarms

• Effect: Twice as many monster spawns, but each has half the max health.
• Code: Circle-Circle-Triangle / Triangle-Diamond-Triangle / Triangle-Circle-Circle

Artifact of Vengeance

• Effect: Your doppelganger invades every 10 minutes and tries to end the run.
• Code: Diamond-Square-Square / Diamond-Circle-Square / Diamond-Square-Square

Stacking Artifacts for Wilder Runs

Once unlocked, multiple artifacts can run together. Stacking is where things get strange. Glass plus Swarms means flimsy allies trying to outpace twice as many enemies. Honor plus Kin guarantees every monster on the stage is an elite of the same type. Pick combos that match the run you want, not the run you barely survived last time.

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