Core mechanic

Aura rewards a layout that can still move.

The official game description confirms that Aura affects adjacent items. This guide keeps the rule practical and avoids inventing exact ranges, values, or item tables.

What we can confirm

Lootbound lets players place and rotate items in inventory space. Aura is a placement mechanic that affects items in adjacent cells. In play, moving a single item can therefore change which neighbours it touches.

How to inspect an Aura layout

  • Put the relevant items next to one another and look at the game’s own feedback.
  • Rotate first when a shape seems hard to fit; a different orientation can open an adjacent cell.
  • Keep one flexible gap where possible so a later item does not force a full rebuild.

What this page will not claim

There is no public complete table here for Aura values, all item shapes, or damage outcomes. A reliable calculator needs those inputs. Until they are openly verified, use the game interface as the final authority.

Practical rule: adjacency is worth checking; exact optimization is not yet a public-data problem.