No More Grinding Revived

A mod made mostly for me, but also for players like me. I like to be capable of equipping whatever weapons or spells I want, and upgrade them all. A while back a user called syyyke made the NO MORE GRINDING mod that did everything I wanted. The version I preferred gave 10x Runes, 500 Discovery, and smithing stone/glovewort free upgrades. The mod has sadly now been deleted, leaving me bereft.

So, I endeavored to re-create the mod from scratch, with a bit extra added on. Everything has been done in Yapped Rune Bear by a complete amateur, so nothing fancy and I am nowhere near experienced enough to do requests, but I will be doing my best to be sure this mod works with the DLC. Like with most mods you shouldn't use this when playing online.

With No More Grinding Revived you get:

10x Golden/Heroic/Lord/Numen Runes

500 discovery

Item free upgrades for weapons and spirit ashes (you still need to pay runes)

Installation Instructions

1. Backup your regulation.bin in your Elden Ring installation folder to someplace safe.

2. Disable EasyAntiCheat (deleting or renaming start_protected_game and then renaming the eldenring executable file to start_protected_game is the easiest way)

3. Download No More Grinding Revived

4. Unzip and place the contained regulation.bin in your Elden Ring Folder. Overwrite if necessary.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy! To uninstall just delete the modded regulation.bin and replace with your backup.

Playing with this mod installed gives a surprisingly balanced experience; at least, as long as you are spreading your stats for max equip variety. Difficulty scales pretty well if stat points are spread more or less evenly, and upgrading every weapon and summon to max takes a surprising amount of runes, so the 10x runes is less game-breaking than you might expect. You will need to clear out your inventory on occasion because the drop rate increase will get you LOTS of duplicate weapons and armor, but that is the only real annoyance I have found whilst playing. While you will not need to spend a bunch of time grinding runes, smithing stones or glovewort you will still need to explore to get more spell slots, golden seeds, and equipment. And, y'know, for fun! You will definitely be overpowered, but not quite as much as the raw numbers make it out to be.

A final note on Golden/Heroic/Lord/Numen runes: YOU MUST SELL THEM TO GET 10x THE VALUE. If you crush them you will get the same amount of runes as in un-modded Elden Ring. I have no idea how to alter the rune amount when you crush them, so just be careful.

As of 1. 1 Golden/Heroic/Lord/Numen Runes give 10x when crushed.

As of 1. 2 Runes added by the DLC sell for 10x, but you do have to sell them. Changing the crush value eludes