Damage

Damage is a reduction of an entity's health points. It affects much of the core gameplay mechanics. Almost every entity, object, or structure utilizes this system in some way.

Damage types

• Physical
  • Blunt
  • Pierce
  • Slash
• Elemental
  • Fire
  • Frost
  • Poison
  • Spirit
  • Lightning
• Terrain
  • Chop (Woodcutting)
  • Pickaxe (Mining)
• Pure

Resistances and weaknesses (tenacity)

Each damage type is distinguished between levels of Resistances and Weaknesses for anything that takes damage. In combat, different creatures have different resistances and weaknesses so using the right weapon can make a big difference. Players can also acquire resistances and weaknesses against some damage types. See Resistance page for more information about the mechanics.

Below is a table for disambiguation. The tenacity tiers can be used as short hand to refer to these, if consistent wording or spacing is preferred. At the bottom of this page is a chart of creature Weaknesses, Resistances and Immunities.

Resist / Weak tiers	Damage %	Damage x	Tenacity Tier
Very Weak	200%	x2	Tenacity 0
Weak	150%	x1.5	Tenacity 1
Neutral	100%	x1	Tenacity 2
Resistant	50%	x0.5	Tenacity 3
Very Resistant	25%	x0.25	Tenacity 4
Immune	0%	x0	Immune

Weak points

Certain enemies have weak points: areas of their body on which attacks deal different (and usually increased) damage. The mechanics behind this are simple: Each weak point has its own set of resistances defined, and any attacks which hit a weak point use that weak point's own set of resistances in place of the creature's base resistance values for damage calculations.

Physical

Physical damage can be blocked and is reduced by armor. Physical damage also causes staggering.

Blunt

	Player	Black Forest	Swamp	Mountains	Plains	Mistlands	Ashlands	Bosses
Weak		Skeleton Rancid remains	Blob Oozer		Growth	Seeker Soldier (tail)	Lava Blob	Bonemass
Resistant	Bonemass Power	Troll (body) Ghost	Abomination Wraith	Bat	Lox	Seeker Seeker Soldier Seeker Brood	Morgen

Damage sources

• From player: Clubs, Fists, Ooze bomb, Staff of embers
• From creatures: Abomination, Asksvin, Boar, Bonemass, Fuling (Club), Fuling (Torch), Fuling Berserker, Fuling shaman, Gjall, Greydwarf, Growth, Lox, Root, Seeker, Seeker Soldier, Surtling, Stone Golem, The Elder, Troll, Yagluth, Zil & Thungr

Pierce

	Player	Black Forest	Swamp	Mountains	Plains	Mistlands	Ashlands	Bosses
Very Weak		Troll (head)				Gjall (eggs)
Weak		Troll				Tick Seeker Soldier (tail)
Resistant	Root harnesk Bonemass Power Serpent scale shield	Skeleton Rancid remains Ghost	Blob Oozer Wraith	Bat Stone Golem	Growth	Seeker Seeker Soldier Seeker Brood	Charred Warrior Charred Twitcher Charred Warlock Charred Marksman Morgen Skugg Lava Blob Lord Reto	The Queen Fader
Very Resistant			Abomination					Bonemass Yagluth

Damage sources

• From player: Arrows, Bows, Crossbows, Knives, Pickaxes, Polearms, Porcupine, Spears, Stagbreaker
• From creatures: Deathsquito, Draugr (Bow), Eikthyr, Fuling (Spear), Leech, Moder, Seeker, Seeker Brood, Skeleton (Bow), Stone Golem (Spike), The Elder, The Queen, Tick

Slash

	Player	Black Forest	Swamp	Mountains	Plains	Mistlands	Ashlands	Bosses
Weak						Seeker Soldier (tail)
Resistant	Bonemass Power	Ghost	Blob Oozer Wraith	Bat Stone Golem	Lox Growth	Seeker Seeker Soldier Seeker Brood	Morgen	Bonemass

Damage sources

• From player: Axes, Flesh rippers, Knives, Swords
• From creatures: Asksvin, Brenna, Cultist, Bat, Draugr (Axe), Draugr elite, Geirrhafa, Fenring, Fuling (Sword), Greyling, Greydwarf, Greydwarf brute, Greydwarf shaman, Ghost, Lox, Moder, Neck, Seeker Soldier, Serpent, Skeleton (Sword), The Queen, Ulv, Wolf, Wraith

Elemental

Fire

Fire damage applies a Burning debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff lasts 5 seconds and ticks every second. Fire damage stacks by adding the new damage to the remaining debuff damage, and then recalculating the tick damage.

Fire damage from physical attacks can be blocked. Fire damage is also reduced by armor. Fire damage that gets reduced to less than 1 won't cause Burning.

	Player	Meadows	Black Forest	Swamp	Mountains	Plains	Mistlands	Ashlands	Bosses	Other
Very Weak	Tarred	Greyling	Greydwarf Greydwarf brute Greydwarf shaman						The Elder
Weak	Root Set	Neck	Skeleton Rancid remains	Abomination Wraith	Drake Bat Fenring	Lox Growth	Seeker Soldier (tail)		Root Moder
Resistant	Fenris Set Effect Barley Wine Yagluth Power Freezing & Wet			Draugr Draugr elite Blob Oozer			Dvergr mage Gjall (body)	Fallen Valkyrie
Very Resistant				Surtling	Ulv			Charred Twitcher Charred Warrior Charred Warlock Charred Marksman Morgen Asksvin Skugg Lord Reto	Bonemass
Immune				Leech	Cultist Stone Golem			Lava Blob Bonemaw	Fader	Serpent

Damage sources

• From buildings: Bonfire, Campfire, Hearth
• From player: Fire arrow, Staff of embers, Torch, Staff of Fracturing, Dyrnwyn
• From creatures: Bonemaw, Brenna, Charred Warlock, Cultist, Dvergr mage, Fader, Fallen Valkyrie, Fuling (Torch), Fuling shaman, Gjall, Lava Blob, Surtling, Yagluth, Zil & Thungr

Poison

Poison damage applies a Poison debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff duration depends on the damage and ticks every second.

Note: Because of a rounding error, poison may tick one more time than intended.

Poison damage doesn't stack. The previous debuff is replaced if its remaining damage is less than the new damage.

Poison damage from physical attacks can be blocked. Poison damage is also reduced by armor.

	Player	Meadows	Black Forest	Swamp	Mountains	Plains	Ashlands	Bosses	Other
Weak					Cultist Ulv
Resistant	Root mask	Greyling Neck	Greydwarf Greydwarf brute Greydwarf shaman	Leech	Fenring				Serpent
Very resistant	Poison resistance mead						Bonemaw Asksvin
Immune			Skeleton Rancid remains Ghost	Draugr Draugr elite Blob Oozer Wraith Abomination Surtling	Bat Stone Golem	Growth	Fallen Valkyrie Volture Charred Warrior Charred Twitcher Charred Warlock Charred Marksman Skugg Lava Blob Lord Reto	The Elder Root Bonemass Yagluth

Damage sources

• From dropped items: Refined eitr
• From buildings: Eitr refinery
• From player: Draugr Fang, Jotun Bane, Ooze bomb, Poison arrow, Staff of the Wild
• From creatures: Blob, Bonemass, Greydwarf shaman, Growth, Leech, Oozer, Rancid remains, The Queen, Fallen Valkyrie, Bonemaw

Spirit

Spirit damage applies a Spirit debuff instead of causing instant damage. The debuff lasts 3 seconds and ticks every 0.5 seconds.

Note: Because of a rounding error, a single source of Spirit ticks 7 times instead of 6.

Spirit damage stacks by adding the new damage to the remaining debuff damage, and then recalculating the tick damage.

• Weak (1.5x): Bat, Ghost, Wraith, Fallen Valkyrie, Charred Warrior, Charred Twitcher, Charred Warlock, Charred Marksman, Lord Reto
• Neutral (1x): Blob, Bonemass, Cultist, Draugr, Draugr elite, Eikthyr, Fenring, Growth, Oozer, Rancid remains, Root, Skeleton, Ulv, Yagluth, Morgen, Volture, Lava Blob
• Immune: Players and all other creatures

Damage sources

• From player: Frostner, Crystal battleaxe, Mistwalker, Silver arrow, Silver knife, Silver sword, Spinesnap, Ash Fang
• From creatures: Fader and Hive

Frost

Frost damage causes instant damage which can be blocked and is reduced by armor.

Frost damage also applies the Frost Effect debuff, reducing movement and turn speed.

• Weak (1.5x): creatures with Wet , Blob, Bonemass, Oozer, Seeker Soldier (abdomen), Serpent, Surtling, Bonemaw, Lava Blob, Volture
• Resistant (0.5x): Growth, Dvergr mage, Lox, Rancid remains, Root, Skeleton, Charred Warlock, Lord Reto
• Immune: Abomination, Bat, Drake, Moder, Stone Golem, Wraith
• Player sources of Weak (1.5x): Players with Wet
• Player sources of Resistant (0.5x): Feather cape, Fenris coat, Frost resistance mead, Lox cape, Wolf armor chest, Wolf fur cape, Yagluth Power

Damage sources

• From player: Frostner, Frost arrow, Mistwalker, Staff of Frost
• From creatures: Drake, Dvergr mage, Geirrhafa, Moder

Lightning

Lightning damage causes direct damage which can be blocked and is reduced by armor.

Lightning damage also causes staggering and a lingering visual effect, but it doesn't deal any damage over time.

• Weak (1.5x): creatures with Wet, Blob, Oozer, Seeker Soldier (abdomen) (? Serpent, Leech ?), Morgen
• Player sources of Weak (1.5x): Players with Wet
• Player sources of Resistant (0.5x): Players with Yagluth Power

Damage sources

• From dropped items: Refined eitr
• From buildings: Obliterator, Eitr refinery
• From player: Himminafl & any Ashland weapon upgraded with Iolite
• From creatures: Eikthyr, Yagluth

Terrain damage

Terrain damage includes Chop and Pickaxe damage. Terrain damage is caused by bosses and bigger enemies. Players and most creatures are immune to terrain damage. Additionally terrain damage ignores armor.

Some trees and ore deposits require a minimum tool tier for them to take damage.

Chop

Chop damage is used effectively against trees and wood structures. Players and all creatures are immune to this damage type. Listed below are all the sources of chop damage, and their tiers.

Chop Tiers

	Sources
	Player Tools	Creatures	Bosses
Tier 0	Stone axe	Asksvin Draugr (Axe) Lox Stone Golem	Eikthyr The Elder (Root) Bonemass
Tier 1	Flint axe
Tier 2	Bronze axe	Abomination Fuling Berserker Troll (Melee)	Yagluth (Nova)
Tier 3	Iron axe Battleaxe Crystal battleaxe	Morgen	Moder (Melee) The Queen
Tier 4	Black metal axe Jotun Bane	Asksvin Seeker Soldier
Tier 5
Tier 6	Berserkir axes

Ancient Trees, Birch, and Oak require a tool tier of 2, Yggdrasil shoots require a tool of tier 4. Other trees don't have a requirement.

Pickaxe

Pickaxe damage is used effectively against Rocks, Stone Deposits, Ore Deposits, and Stone Structures. Players and all creatures, with the exception of the Stone Golem, are immune to this damage type. Sources and tiers are listed in the table below.

• Very Weak (2x): Stone Golem
• Resistant (0.5x): Skugg

Pickaxe Tiers

	Sources
	Player Tools	Creatures	Bosses
Tier 0	Antler pickaxe	Asksvin Lox Stone Golem	Eikthyr The Elder (Root) Bonemass
Tier 1	Bronze pickaxe
Tier 2	Iron pickaxe	Abomination Fuling Berserker Troll (Melee)	Yagluth (Nova)
Tier 3	Black metal pickaxe	Morgen	Moder (Melee)
Tier 4		Asksvin Seeker Soldier	The Queen
Tier 5	Battering ram

Obsidian deposits and Silver veins require a tool tier of 2; Black marble, Giant remains and Flametal ore veins require a tool tier of 3. Other deposits don't have a requirement.

Pure

Pure damage ignores all defenses and can't be mitigated in any way.

Tick damage

Caused by Burning, Poison and Spirit effects. The value of the tick damage is calculated when the source is applied. (Blocking can stop tick damage from occurring in the first place, but it cannot reduce the amount of tick damage)

• Against players, once a DoT effect is received, it is too late to mitigate it by drinking a resistance mead.
• Against enemies, tick damage will always show as white, even if they are weak or resistant to the damage.

Per second

• Drowning: 5% of max health per second (rounded up).
• Smoke: 2 damage per second.
• Water: Vulnerable creatures (Surtlings) take 10 damage per second while standing in water.

Fall damage

Falling further than 4 meters, you take 6.25 Pure damage per meter; capped at 100 damage. For example; bearing in mind a wall is 2 meters high:

• Falling from a height on top of 2 walls deals no damage. After that each wall-height causes 12.5 damage.
• With a player's starting health of 25, falling from the top of 4 wall-heights (8 meters) can be fatal.
  • The actual damage taken varies on the exact height fallen, i.e; falling exactly 7.9 meters would deal 24 points of damage, and not be fatal.

Other

• Bonfire, Campfire, Hearth: 10 self-damage when dealing damage.
• Falling out of the map: 99999 damage.

Creature resistance overview

This table shows the damage multiplier for each damage type for each creature.

The default ordering of creatures is roughly in the intended biome progression and can be resorted back to this using the first column.

	Creature	Blunt	Pierce	Slash	Frost	Lightning	Fire DoT	Poison DoT	Spirit DoT	Pickaxe
1	Neck	1	1	1	1	1	1.5	0.5	0
2	Boar	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
3	Deer	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
4	Greyling	1	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
5	Eikthyr	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6	Greydwarf	1	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
7	Greydwarf brute	1	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
8	Greydwarf shaman	1	1	1	1	1	2	0.5	0
9	Skeleton	1.5	0.5	1	0.5	1	1.5	0	1
10	Rancid remains	1.5	0.5	1	0.5	1	1.5	0	1
11	Ghost	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1	1	0	1.5
12	Troll	0.5	1.5	1	1	1	1	1	0
13	Troll (head)	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
14	The Elder	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	0
15	Root (creature)	1	1	1	0.5	1	1.5	0	1
16	Brenna	1.5	0.5	1	1.5	1	0	0	1
17	Serpent	1	1	1	1.5	1	0	0.5	0
18	Abomination	0.5	0.25	1	0	1	1.5	0	0
19	Blob	1.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	0.5	0	1
20	Oozer	1.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	0.5	0	1
21	Draugr	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	0	1
22	Draugr elite	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	0	1
23	Leech	1	1	1	1	1	0	0.5	0
24	Surtling	1	1	1	1.5	1	0	0	0
25	Wraith	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	1	1.5	0	1.5
26	Bonemass	1.5	0.25	0.5	1.5	1	0.25	0	1
27	Wolf	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
28	Fenring	1	1	1	1	1	1.5	1	1
29	Drake	1	1	1	0	1	1.5	1	0
30	Stone Golem	1	0.5	0.5	0	1	0	0	0	2
31	Bat	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	1	1.5	0	1.5
32	Ulv	1	1	1	1	1	0.25	1.5	1
33	Cultist	1	1	1	1	1	0	1.5	1
34	Moder	1	1	1	0	1	1.5	1	0
35	Geirrhafa	1	1	1	0	1	1.5	1	1
36	Deathsquito	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
37	Lox	0.5	1	0.5	0.5	1	1.5	1	0
38	Fuling	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
39	Fuling Berserker	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
40	Fuling shaman	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
41	Growth	1.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1.5	0	1
42	Yagluth	1	0.25	1	1	1	0.5	0	1
43	Zil & Thungr	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
44	Hare	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
45	Tick	1	1.5	1	1	1	1	1	0
46	Seeker Brood	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1	1	1	0
47	Seeker	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1	1	1	0
48	Seeker Soldier	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1	1	1	0
	Seeker Soldier (abdomen)	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1	0
49	Gjall	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	1	0
	Gjall (eggs)	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
50	Dvergr rogue	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
51	Dvergr mage	1	1	1	0.5	1	0.5	1	0
52	The Queen	1	0.5	1	1	1	1	1	0
53	Asksvin	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	0.5	0
54	Bonemaw	1	1	1	1.5	1	0	0.5	0
55	Charred Warrior	1	0.5	1	1	1	0.25	0	1.5
	Summoned	1	0.5	1	1	1	0	0	1.5
56	Charred Marksman	1	0.5	1	1	1	0.25	0	1.5
	Summoned	1	0.5	1	1	1	0	0	1.5
57	Charred Warlock	1	0.5	1	0.5	1	0.25	0	1.5
58	Charred Twitcher	1	0.5	1	1	1	0.25	0	1.5
	Summoned	1	0.5	1	1	1	0.25	0	1.5
59	Fallen Valkyrie	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	0	1.5
60	Lava Blob	1.5	0.5	1	1.5	1.5	0	0.5	1
61	Morgen	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1.5	0.5	1	1
62	Skugg	1	0.5	1	1	0.5	0.5	0	1	0.5
63	Volture	1	1	1	1.5	1	1	0	1
64	Fader	1	0.5	1	1	1	0	1	0
65	Lord Reto	1	0.5	1	0.5	1	0.5	0	1.5