Status effects

Potions and bandages give the short restorative buffs, Healing Over Time from health potions and Mana Over Time from mana potions for 10 seconds each, and Bandaged from bandages. Flasks and scrolls last 30 or 45 minutes and usually aim at one enemy faction or one situation. The Mysterious Flask grants the Elixir Buff for extra damage against the Fell, the Sacred Vukah Scroll grants Vuk'ahrrrrr for more damage against Scavengers and resistance to their poison, and the Drak Soulward Flask lets the drinker read Drakian writing and hit Drak harder. Skills supply Blood Rage for melee damage, Tower and Warden against physical and magical damage, and the Earth and Water auras, while gem buffs such as Swiftness and Meteoric Impact arm first and fire on the next hit or on landing. Sleeping in a bed gives Healthy Nap, and pets such as Ikko give Paw's Touch, +25 Health for 30 minutes.

Among creatures, the Scavenger Pyreblade inflicts Ablaze, the Scrapgun Burning and the Tyrant both, and Fell and Shroud creatures such as the Fell Cyclops inflict Shroud Fire. Bats, Hollow Mages and Whitewing Vultures cause Frost Slow, and Spiders, Scorpions, Pink and Yellow Stingers, Vicious Vines and Scavenger Matrons poison. Poisoned is cured by an Antidote, a Greater Antidote or an Improved Bandage, and the Greater Antidote leaves 30 minutes of Poison Protection. Four debuffs outlast both the fight and death: Wet cuts Stamina and Stamina Regeneration by 30% for 15 minutes, and the game tells the player to dry off by a fire; Tremor takes 30 Health and 5 Health Regeneration for 30 minutes; Shroud Fatigue takes 5 minutes off Time in the Shroud for 2 hours after Shroud magic is used; and Elixir Crazed follows a Mysterious Flask. The poisoned arrows, ice spells and gems shown beside some debuffs belong to the player and put Poisoned, Frost Slow, Bleeding or Soaked on the target, never on the one using them.

The two curses are long-term debuffs that survive death and never wear off on their own. Fell Curse comes from being cursed by the Fell and cuts Time in the Shroud significantly. Hemotoxin builds up after repeated exposure to poison from creatures such as Spiders, Vicious Vines and Scavenger Matrons, and it halts Health regeneration completely. Each has a single cure, the Fell Curse Cleansing Tonic or the Hemotoxin Antidote, and both leave 60 minutes of immunity to the curse they removed. The Alchemist teaches them through A Cure For The Fell Curse and A Cure For Hemotoxin. On servers, the Curse Chance setting runs from x0 on Easy, which turns curses off, through x1 by default to x2 on Hard.

Every food belongs to a food type, and eating it applies that type's effect with numbers set by the individual food. Meat, Fish, Herb and Liquid foods raise a maximum: Meat gives 40 to 280 Health, Fish 30 to 120 Health (plus Maximum Oxygen on 19 of its 21 foods), Herbs 20 to 140 Mana and Liquids 5 to 60 Stamina. Grain Products, Mushrooms and Vegetables give 3% to 21% more melee, magic, or ranged and dagger damage respectively. Fruit and Sweet foods raise regeneration, Sweet foods with the biggest Stamina Regeneration numbers (20 to 85) but none lasting longer than 9 minutes. Night Plants add Time in the Shroud, and the Ectoplasm Soups apply Invigorated, which costs 50 to 200 Health in exchange for 10% to 18% more damage and a life leech chance against the Hollow. Raw ingredients such as Raw Fatty Meat or Chanterelle give Food Poisoning, lowering maximum Health and Stamina for 3 minutes.

Ground effects come from the surface underfoot, and all six slow movement. Tar gives Tarred, and sinking to 90% submerged turns it into Asphyxiated. Toxic Slime leaves a player Slimy, which adds damage over time to the slowdown, while Deep Mud and Shroud Mud only slow and Wading applies when partly submerged. Snapjaw Bile comes from the Snapjaw rather than the ground and lasts under a second. Snow brings Frost Slow. Road blocks, stone and limestone give On the Road, which lowers the stamina cost of sprinting.