How to Manage the Starting Pandora Necklace and Curses

Handling Your Starter Jewelry

When you first join a world with Curse of Pandora Mod installed, you are immediately bestowed with a Pandora Necklace. Inspecting this necklace reveals that it comes pre-loaded with all seven curse charms. While these curses introduce the mod's core risk-and-reward mechanics, you are not forced to endure all of their penalties right away.

Balancing Curse Boosts and Limitations

Every one of the seven curse charms imposes significant limitations on your character, but each also provides boosts in other areas to compensate. To optimize your early game:

1. Check your inventory and inspect the equipped Pandora Necklace.

2. Evaluate the limitations against the boosts provided by each curse.

3. Remove any curse charms whose penalties are too severe for your current equipment or survival situation.

4. Keep curses equipped if their specific positive boosts complement your goals, or if you plan to activate special charms that require active curses.

Keep in mind that the Pandora Necklace has room for up to 18 charms in total. Unslotting harsh curses frees up capacity for beneficial attribute and regular charms you uncover during your adventures.