Golem Shaping

is a mechanic introduced in Chapter 3 of the Age of Sorcery in March, 2023.
==Learning Golem Shaping==
The first step to creating golems is to learn how to craft the Guardian Assembly Station and Golem Workbench, which require the Golem Constructor knowledge.
Golem Constructor is taught for free by Master Carver Huang, who can be found at Mek-kamoses's Spire in the Exiled Lands (TeleportPlayer -6113 84655 -4187), or the Camp of the Castaways on the Isle of Siptah.
Although the Golem Workbench can now be placed, the recipes to craft the golem components inside the Golem Workbench are learned normally through the player's Knowledge window.
The following knowledges can be unlocked under the Sorcery tab:
Knowledge 	Level	Points	Prerequisite
Stone Guardian Shaper 	1 	5 	Golem Constructor
Stone Guardian Tools 	1 	2 	Golem Constructor
Brimstone Guardian Coating 	1 	4 	Golem Constructor
Tar Guardian Coating 	1 	4 	Golem Constructor
Guardian Explosive Jar Head	1 	5 	Stone Guardian Shaper
Iron Guardian Shaper 	30 	10 	Stone Guardian Shaper
Iron Guardian Tools 	30 	2 	Stone Guardian Tools
Crystalline Guardian Tools 	45 	2 	Iron Guardian Tools
==Building Golems==
Golems need to be assembled at a Guardian Assembly Station.
A full golem is built using a head, one arm with a weapon, an empty arm, a torso, and two legs. They do not actually require a head or arms, but heads provide much of the golem's final health, and golem without any weapon will not be very helpful in combat.
Pieces can be inserted and removed from the station to see what effect they will have on the golem.
Once the player is satisfied with the selected components, the golem can be activated with a short ritual and will become their follower.
===Golem Components===
While most golem components can be crafted at a Guardian Assembly Station, all Crystalline components, as well as the , , and can only be acquired as random loot or purchased from Master Carver Huang.
However, upgrading Crystalline components is still done at the station once the base components have been collected.
 Golem Components
Name
Console ID	Part	Health	Armor	Inventory	Damage	Armor Pen	Bonus	Effect
==Autonomous Harvesting==
Golems can collect resources autonomously. Axe arms can cut down trees, maul arms can mine rocks, scythe arms can harvest plants, and sword arms can butcher corpses. Despite their appearances and what items they are individually constructed with, all golems utilize star metal tools while harvesting.
To assign a golem to a task, put the target resource into the slot below their inventory.
Golems will continue to collect resources as long as the server is online and any player is close enough to render the area.
The following are possible target resources for each weapon type:
 Axe Arm
 Maul Arm
 Scythe Arm
 Sword Arm
==Combat==
Golems cannot be healed. The health pool they get when created is all they have until they are destroyed.
To make up for their lack of healing, golems will get large health pools and also have the ability to "glance" damage.
===Damage Glancing===
As a counter to golems having finite heath pools, they get a "glancing" feature that allows them to completely negate damage from attacks. The odds of an attack glancing works slightly differently depending on if the golem is wild or player-owned.
For wild golems, a random number is rolled between 0 and their current health multiplied by 0.01. If the damage from an incoming attack is lower than the random number, the damage glances off them.
For player-owned golems, the current health multiplier is lower and is modified by the player's Authority perks:
Authority 	Health modifier
Base modifier 	0.002
Commanding PresenceHealthy Diet	+0.001
Attentive Care 	+0.0015
Well-Trained 	+0.002
So the golems' current health is multiplied by 0.002 if the player has none of the above perks, or up to a maximum of 0.0065 if the player has all of them.
Then the calculation is the same as for wild golems: A random number is rolled between 0 and their current health multiplied by the health modifier and, if the damage from an incoming attack is lower than the random number, the damage glances off them.
===Star Metal Vulnerability===
Golems have a vulnerability to star metal.
Star metal weapons gain an 8x damage multiplier over their base damage. Additionally, star metal weapons can never glance off golems.
The following is a complete list of all weapons that count as star metal against golems:
 List of items tagged as Star Metal
* Although some bows are considered star metal weapons, it is the arrows that inflict damage. So star metal arrows work with any bow, but a bow shooting any other type of arrow does not count.
==Media==
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