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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.

Damage

Physical Damage

Physical Damage is the most common type of damage in the game. Every mob, before enabling Rifts, only deals physical damage that can be absorbed by Armor's Protection or reduced by mobs' Planar Entity Protection. Almost every Weapon deals physical damage, more or less. It is recommended for players to get a Ham Bat or Dark Sword for their high damage. These weapons, however, will not be as efficient against Rift mobs with Planar Entity Protection.

Physical Damage can be affected by damage multipliers, such as:

• Wes, Wendy: deal x0.75 less damage.
• Wigfrid: deal x1.25 more damage.
• Wolfgang: deal x0.75 - x2 damage, based his mightiness.
• Wanda: based on her age and weapon she uses.
• Warly's Volt Goat Chaud-Froid: grants a x1.5 damage boost (x2.5 when target is wet) for 5 minutes.
• Dishes with Chili Flakes: deal x1.2 more damage for 4 minutes.
• W.A.R.B.I.S. Head Gear: gives x1.05 - x1.2 physical damage boost.

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Electric Damage

Electric damage is a special type of physical damage. Its features include:

• Electric attacks deal 50% more damage against dry targets and 150% more damage against Wet targets than their physical counterparts. There might be inconsistencies with some weapons.
  • For example, an Electric Dart has 60 base damage (as shown in the Scrapbook) that gets increased to 90 by the electric modifier when attacking a dry target.
  • However, Wigfrid's Elding Spear and Charged Elding Spear work differently. They'll only deal electric damage when the target is wet and the bonus damage is only 50%, rather than 150%.
• Electric attacks Shock their targets (with some exceptions). A shocked creature will play a short animation, during which it will be unable to move or attack.
  • Plant based creatures will be set on fire after getting shocked.

Shock

Shock is a special effect. It most often appears when applied with Electric Damage. A shocked creature will be stun for 0.8 seconds, during which it will be unable to move or attack. The Shock effect can happened again randomly after 2-4 seconds.^{[Need Clarification]}

Shock has a chance to chain nearby creatures. The effect can be synced across all parts of the Great Depths Worm or Deadly Brightshade and its Tunneling Vines, however, it doesn't chain to tamed followers. Shock won't start chain reaction when any entities hit the T.I.N.G.L.E. Nodes field.

Plant-Based Mobs

Any Plant-Based Mobs will only be shocked for 0.4 seconds and will be set on Fire afterwards (but won't if the Electrical attack killed the mob instantly), except for Saladmander, which only get shocked. This includes Wormwood.

The T.I.N.G.L.E. Nodes field won't set them on Fire, but can still shocked them.

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  Lureplant
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  Briar Wolf
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  Treeguard
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  Lumpy Treeguard
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  Poison Birchnut Tree
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  Birchnutter
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  Grass Gator
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  Grass Gekko
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  Sea Weed
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  Lord of the Fruit Flies
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  Fruit Fly
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  Friendly Fruit Fly
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  Mandrake
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  Mush Gnome
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  Carrat
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  Bulbous Lightbug
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  Deadly Brightshade
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  Wormwood

Mobs Immune to Shock

These mobs can't get Shocked but may still receive additional damage from Electric attacks.

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  Shadow Bishop
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  Shadow Knight
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  Shadow Rook
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  Crawling Horror
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  Terrorbeak
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  Terrorclaw
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  Lurking Nightmare
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  Resting Horror
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  Parasitic Shadeling
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  Lurking Nightmare (Rift)
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  Resting Horror (Rift)
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  Fused Shadeling
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  Shriek
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  Rasp
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  Jitters
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  Rictus
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  Shadow Merm
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  Shadow Merm Guard
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  Reanimated Skeleton
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  Reanimated Skeleton
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  Ancient Fuelweaver
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  Celestial Champion
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  Grazer
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  Inimical Gestalt
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  Ghost
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  Abigail

Objects with Electric damage

Objects	Base Damage	Damage against dry targets	Damage against wet targets	Notes
Morning Star	28.9	43.4	72.3
Electrification Circuit	20	30	50
Electric Dart	60	90	150
Volt Goat Chaud-Froid	x1	x1.5	x2.5	Volt Goat Chaud-Froid makes all attacks deal Electric Damage upon consumption.
Elding Spear	59.5	*59.5	*89.25	The Elding Spear only deals Electric Damage when its target is wet. The Lightning Strike ability can shock dry targets.
Charged Elding Spear	59.5 + 20	*59.5 + 20	*89.25 + 20	The Charged Elding Spear only deals Electric Damage when its target is wet. The Lightning Strike ability can shock dry targets. Planar damage isn't affected by the electrical modifier.
Shockscrap Shot	39.1	*46.9	*74.4	+20% against dry targets; +90% against wet targets[Need Clarification]
Charged Volt Goat	25	37.5	62.5
Lightning	10	15	25

Mobs Immune to Electricity Damage and Shock

These mobs cannot be shocked and won't take increased damage from Electric attacks. They'll only take the base damage of the weapon (an Electric Dart will only deal 60 damage to them, regardless of the their wetness). It can be indicated by the ring effect and sound triggers from it. This also includes WX-78, Winona's Catapults and all types of walls.

Survivors can wear electrical insulating clothes (like a Rain Coat, Rain Hat or Eyebrella) or electrical insulating armor (W.A.R.B.I.S. Head Gear or W.A.R.B.I.S. Armor) to avoid being Shocked by Electrocution.

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  Rock Lobster
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  Charged Volt Goat
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  Lavae
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  Retinazor
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  Spazmatism
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  Ancient Sentrypede
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  Ornery Chest
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  Enlightened W.A.R.B.O.T.
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  Terramite
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  Warbler
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  Mega Blight
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  Geothermite (when shielded)
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  Clay Varg
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  Clay Hound
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  Gingerbread Pig

Mobs Immune to Electricity Damage, but can be Shocked.

These mobs don't receive additional damage from Electric attacks, but can still be Shocked.

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  Gingerbread Varg

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Planar Damage

Planar Damage is a new type of damage introduced in From Beyond, and it does not get affected by the damage multipliers mentioned above. Unlike Physical Damage, Planar Damage cannot be blocked by Armor's Protection or reduced by Planar Entity Protection. It is only affected by Armor's Planar Defense or Damage Reduction.

Creatures with Planar Damage

Mobs	Physical Damage	Planar Damage	Mobs	Physical Damage	Planar Damage
Fused Shadeling	40 (50 )	10 (20 )	Shriek	25	30
Jitters	35	20	Rasp	20	20
Icker	20	20	Lurking Nightmare	50	25
Rictus	Bite: 35 Leap: 15	Bite: 20 Leap: 10	Ornery Chest	30	20
Grazer	50	10	Deadly Brightshade	65 (100 When attacked)	10 (30 When attacked)
Armored Bearger	87	30	Crystal Deerclops	75	30
Possessed Varg	50 20 (coldfire)	20	Bright-Eyed Frog	10	5
Celestial Revenant	(player) / (mob) 125 / 166.66 (Roll) (93.75 ) 50 / 66.66 (AoE) (37.5 )	30	Enlightened W.A.R.B.O.T.	?	?
Celestial Scion	191.25 (players) 255 (mobs)	35	Inimical Gestalt	165	15

Weapons with Planar Damage

Weapons	Physical Damage	Planar Damage	Weapons	Physical Damage	Planar Damage
Brightshade Sword	38 (41.8 )	30 (35 )	Brightshade Bomb	0	200
Brightshade Staff	0	10	Brightshade Smasher	32.5 (25.75 )	10 (15 )
Brightshade Shoevel	17.2 (17.92 )	10 (15 )	Shadow Reaper	38 (41.8 )	18 (23 - 47 )
Howlitzer	34	34	Charged Elding Spear	74.37 (111.5 ) ()	20
Shadow Maul	38 (41.8 )	10 (15 - 39 )	Gloomerang	5 - 27.2 (5.5 - 29.92 )	5 - 27.2 (10 - 32.2 )

Lunar Burning Damage

The Lunar Burning Damage is from Enlightened W.A.R.B.O.T. and Celestial Scion only. It is continuous damage similar to Fire damage, is affected by Planar Defense and the Damage Taken Modifiers for Lunar Aligned players and mobs. Will trigger the panic behavior of mobs. The damage of lunar burning is determined with this formula:

DPS = 40 × ∏ Damage Taken Modifiers for Lunar Aligned - Planar Defense / 2

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Other Damage

• Damage that cannot be reduced in any way: spending Health for crafting (such as crafting a Meat Effigy).
• Damage that cannot be blocked by armor, but can be reduced by Damage Reduction:
  • Starving
  • Food
  • Freezing
  • Overheating
  • Fire
  • Acid Rain
  • Wetness (only)
  • Lightning: including charged Volt Goat, hammering Moose/Goose Egg, and Moongleams.
• Walter takes a fixed 10 damage from all Bee kinds.

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Additional Damage Multiplier

Here are some additional damage multipliers that affect both Physical Damage and Planar Damage.

• Characters with a Skill Tree can choose their respective Affinity to aligned with:
  • Lunar Affinity: +10% protection from Lunar Aligned mobs and +10% damage to Shadow Aligned mobs.
  • Shadow Affinity: +10% protection from Shadow Aligned mobs and +10% damage to Lunar Aligned mobs.
• deals 10% more total damage to Shadow Aligned mobs.
• buff damage by 10% and make bounce 6 times instead 4 times.
• deals 10% more total damage to Lunar Aligned mobs.
• makes deals more Physical and Planar damage and make have an extra throw.

Armor

See also: Armor for a list of armors.

Armor is a type of item that the player can wear to reduce the damage taken from threats. Armor generally has two stats called Protection and Planar Defense, which are used to block Physical Damage and Planar Damage respectively.

Some mobs like Pigs and Bunnymen can also wear head slot armor to get benefits from the protection.

Protection

Physical Damage Taken = Physical Damage * (1 - Highest Protection)

1. Armor absorbs Physical Damage from hits equal proportion to their Protection value.
2. If wearing more than one piece of armor, only the highest protection is taken into account.
3. Damage is split among all of the worn armors, weighed by their Protection value.
4. Unabsorbed physical damage is then subtracted from the character's or mob's , subject to further damage reduction like from Garlic Powder or Wigfrid's natural defense.

Planar Defense

Attention: Planar Defense is not Planar Entity Protection!

Planar Damage Taken = Planar Damage - Sum of all Planar Defense

1. Armor absorbs Planar Damage from hits equal quantity to their Planar Defense value.
2. Damage is evenly distributed to each armor until it reaches the Planar Defense they have.
3. Unabsorbed planar damage is then subtracted from the character's or mob's , subject to further damage reduction like from Garlic Powder or Wigfrid's natural defense.

For mobs that deal a low amount of planar damage, such as the Grazer, the amount of planar damage dealt can be reduced into the negatives with this formula. A negative amount of total planar damage received simply means the target takes no planar damage.

Examples

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.)

Another 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 Calculation

Besides Armors, there are multiple ways to reduce damage taken.

Damage Taken Modifiers

This is a Damage Modifier that takes effect based on the Tags that opposing mobs or characters have, and works on both Physical Damage and Planar Damage. Currently it is only used for affinity with Lunar aligned mobs and Shadow aligned mobs.

• Some armors have Damage Taken Modifiers against Lunar or Shadow aligned mobs. This applies before armors' defense against physical and planar damage.
  • : each +10% against Lunar aligned mobs, +5% extra for set bonus.
  • : each +10% extra against Shadow aligned mobs.
  • : each +10% against Shadow aligned mobs, +5% extra for set bonus.

• Characters with a Skill Tree can choose Lunar Affinity or Shadow Affinity.
  • Lunar Affinity: +10% protection from Lunar Aligned mobs and +10% damage to Shadow Aligned mobs.
  • Shadow Affinity: +10% protection from Shadow Aligned mobs and +10% damage to Lunar Aligned mobs.

Physical Damage Taken Modifiers

• Scrappy Werepig ignores 20% physical damage.
• Cozy Bunnyman ignores 99% physical damage.

Planar Entity Protection

Main article: Planar Entity Protection

Planar Entity Protection is a unique type of damage reduction that applies to planar mobs introduced in From Beyond. This formula calculates how much hit damage will be taken by a mob with planar entity protection:

Damage Taken = 8 * √(Physical Damage + 16) - 32 + Planar Damage

Given that it only reduces Physical Damage and not Planar Damage, weapons with Planar Damage can deal much higher damage to mobs with Planar Entity Protection than weapons without Planar Damage.

Damage Reduction

This reduction applies to physical damage, planar damage, fire damage, freezing damage, overheating damage, and every other kind of damage.

• Wigfrid has 25% damage reduction.
• Wooodie's Weremoose has 90% damage reduction. With the Weremoose Mastery skill unlocked, he gains 15 Planar Defense.
• Eating dishes with Garlic Powder gives 33% damage reduction for 4 minutes.
• Toadstool with 1 or more Sporecaps. Its damage reduction increases with the number of Sporecaps.
• Enraged Klaus has 64% damage reduction.
• Rock Lobster, Slurtle and Snurtle can retreat into their shells and gain 95% Damage Reduction.
• Celestial Champion Phase 1 can shields itself and gain 80% Damage Reduction.