Status effects

Some effects cause damage over time. Others change your healing, health or movement, or protect you after spawning.

How it works

Spawn protection

Every spawn protects you from damage and ordinary hit knockback. A Landmine blast can still push you. Zombies, turrets and the Reaper ignore you while protected.

Protection ends early once your damage to players, structures, zombies or the Reaper exceeds 1, including damage from your structures. Gathering resources, damage over time and dismantling friendly structures do not count. Effects that cause damage over time can still affect you during protection, and their remaining damage can hurt you after it ends.

Duration after spawning	300 s
Damage and ordinary hit knockback	Blocked

Vampire

Buy Vampire at the Market for 50,000 gold. Melee hits against enemy players, zombies and the Reaper heal you according to the damage dealt. They also apply Bleeding to surviving targets. Hits on structures and resources give no lifesteal, and reflected hits do not trigger Vampire. Repeated purchases add more lifesteal and Bleeding, with separate durations. Burning and the Reaper’s Bleeding reduce lifesteal healing too.

Duration per purchase	900 s
Melee damage returned as healing	25 %

Leader

The top living player on the in-game leaderboard receives Leader when standings refresh. It increases your maximum health and adds the same amount to your health immediately. Losing the lead removes the bonus and limits your remaining health to the reduced maximum. Keeping the lead does not add more bonuses.

Maximum health bonus	20
Standings refresh	3 s
Duration	Until leadership changes or you die

Burning

TNT blasts apply Burning. More blasts add separate burns, increasing damage and further reducing healing. Burning damage is lower farther from the blast.

Source	Duration	Healing received
Placed TNT	3 s	50 %
Thrown TNT	3 s	50 %

Dismantling friendly structures also applies Burning to the structure for 2 seconds. This prevents repairs without adding Burning damage.

Bleeding

The Reaper’s melee attacks and Scythe projectiles cause Bleeding. Vampire melee hits also cause Bleeding. Damage depends on the target’s maximum health when the hit lands. Repeated hits add more Bleeding, each with its own duration. Extra Reaper bleeds further reduce healing.

Source	Damage over the effect	Duration	Healing received
The Reaper	5 damage plus 5 % of maximum health	6 s	20 %
Vampire	1.5 % of maximum health	5 s	100 %

Speed Boost

Gifts and Market purchases apply Speed Boost. Their bonuses add together, including repeat purchases, and each bonus ends after its own duration. The bonuses apply to the movement speed of your held item.

Source	Speed bonus	Duration	Cost
Gift	5 %–20 %	20–80 s	Gift reward
Market	10 %	120 s	12,500 gold
Market	20 %	60 s	12,500 gold

Daggers give extra movement speed while held, with a stronger bonus briefly after a kill. Switching away from the daggers ends the kill bonus.

Slowed

Hits with spears apply Slowed to surviving enemies. Hostile Honeycomb slows players and zombies on contact, but does not affect the Reaper. Spear hits add separate slows, including repeated hits from the same weapon. A Honeycomb slow ends when you leave that Honeycomb. Overlapping Honeycombs do not stack, but Honeycomb and spear slows work together. Speed Boost offsets these slowdowns. Boosts and slows apply to the movement speed of your held item.

Source	Slowdown	Duration
Hit with a spear	20 %	2.5 s per hit
Honeycomb contact	95 %	Until you leave that Honeycomb

Dark lifesteal

Killing the Reaper grants Dark lifesteal. Switching weapons keeps it, and further Reaper kills add more lifesteal for the rest of that life. It also stacks with Vampire. Only melee hits on enemy players, zombies and the Reaper provide healing.

Melee damage returned as healing per Reaper kill	12 %
Duration	Rest of the life