Lennart Novak, Software Developer with a focus on design
Rune Loss Tracker
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2026Development
- C++
- Dear ImGui
- Direct3D 12
The question
In Elden Ring, dying drops all your runes as a bloodstain. Die again before you pick it up, and they are gone for good. Playing in co-op with a friend, we kept wondering how many runes we had lost that way. No mod could tell us, so I wrote one.
Two panels in the HUD
The mod adds two small panels above the rune counter: the runes lost for good and the number of deaths. They follow the style of the game's own HUD, so they look like they were always there.
The numbers are kept per character, so every playthrough has its own count.
Under the hood
Rune Loss Tracker is a DLL that EldenModLoader loads into the game. It reads the runes and deaths straight from the game's memory and draws the overlay with Dear ImGui, hooked into the Direct3D 12 rendering of the game. It also works with Seamless Co-op, where every player sees their own count.
Over 200 players have downloaded it from Nexus Mods.
