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When a player or mob is attacked or exposed to an environmental hazard, it takes a series of calculations to determine how much Damage it takes, i.e. how much Health it loses.

For information on how much damage player/mob can do by attacking, check out Attack.

Please note: In DST, except for the more systematic mechanism of physical damage and planar damage, other damage exists in a chaotic and unorchestrated way, so this page will focus on physical and planar damage.

Damage

Physical Damage

Physical Damage is the most common type of damage in the game, and its main feature is that it is absorbed by Armor's #Protection and #Planar Entity Protection.

Planar Damage

Planar Damage is a type of damage in Don't Starve Together, and its main feature is that it is absorbed by Armor's #Planar Defense.

Creatures with Planar Damage

Mobs	Physical Damage	Planar Damage	Mobs	Physical Damage	Planar Damage
Grazer	50	10	Deadly Brightshade	65 (100 When attacked)	10 (30 When attacked)
Fused Shadeling	40 (50 )	10 (20 )	Shriek	25	30
Jitters	35	20	Rasp	20	20
Armored Bearger	87	30	Crystal Deerclops	75	30
Possessed Varg	50 20 (coldfire)	20	Bright-Eyed Frog	10	5

Weapons with Planar Damage

Weapons	Physical Damage	Planar Damage	Weapons	Physical Damage	Planar Damage
Brightshade Sword	38	30	Brightshade Bomb	None	200
Brightshade Staff	None	10	Brightshade Smasher	32,5	10
Brightshade Shoevel	17,2	10	Shadow Reaper	38-41,8	18-23
Howlitzer	34	34

Armor

Armors Alliance Damage Reduction

See also: Armor

Protection

Example: Attack damage of a Spider Queen (80 physical + 0 planar) to a character equipped with a and a will be distributed as follows:

• 60% ＜ 80%
• 80 × 80% = 64 physical damage is absorbed by two armor
  • 64 * 60%/(80%+60%) ≈ 28 is absorbed by
  • 64 * 80%/(80%+60%) ≈ 37 is absorbed by
• 0+0 = 0 planar damage is absorbed by two armor
  • 0 planar damage is absorbed by
  • 0 planar damage is absorbed by
• (80 − 64) + (0 - 0) = 16 damage is take by the character's (This is not the final health change, but multiplied by the damage reduction.)

If it's caused by a Mobs or Characters, it's affected by the all kind of Damage Modifiers they have.

Physical Damage also can be reduced by Damage Reduction like all kind of damage.

Planar Defense

Example: Attack damage of a Rasp (20 physical + 20 planar) to a character equipped with a and a will be distributed as follows:

• 80% ＜ 85%
• 20 × 85% = 17 physical damage is absorbed by two armor.
  • 17 * 80%/(85%+80%) ≈ 8.24 is absorbed by
  • 17 * 85%/(85%+80%) ≈ 8.75 is absorbed by
• 10+5 = 15 planar damage is absorbed by two armor.
  • 10 planar damage is absorbed by
  • 5 planar damage is absorbed by
• (20 − 17) + (20 - 15) = 8 damage is take by the character's (This is not the final health change, but multiplied by the damage reduction.)

Damage Taken Multiplier

Physical Damage Taken Modifiers

See also: Abigail

See also: Year of the Bunnyman

Damage Taken Modifiers

See also: Grazer

See also: Lunar Aligned

See also: Shadow Aligned

This is a Damage Modifier that takes effect based on the Tags opponent mobs or characters has, and works on both Physical Damage and Planar Damage, currently it is only used in Shadow and Lunar Aligned.

Planar Entity Protection

Main article: Planar Entity Protection

Trivia

• The Knockback mechanic was first introduced in The Forge, and was introduced in several events such as Year Of The Pig King, Year of the Bunnyman, and eventually the base game in the Wilson Character Refresh Update.