Game Mechanics

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HUD Icons

Icon	Description
	Your main health bar. Taking damage will reduce your health, but it can be restored with potions, events, and other methods.
	Your soul hearts. Taking damage will remove a soul heart, and it cannot be healed except by obtaining more. Soul hearts have priority over your main health.
	Your suppression hearts. Adds additional hearts that are only appear on your health bar during boss fights. Suppression hearts have priority over soul hearts and normal hearts.
	Your shield points. Taking any kind of damage (sometimes enemies can hit for more than a heart) will always reduce your Shield by one point. Shield points have priority over soul hearts and your main health. Shields can be restored by blacksmiths, items, and equipment effects.
	Your block indicator. Certain traits or equipment will grant you the ability to block one attack. It is shown as depleted upon blocking and refreshes after each floor. Block has priority over armor, soul hearts and normal hearts.
	Your evade indicator. Certain traits or equipment will grant you the ability to avoid one attack. It is shown as depleted upon evading and can be replenished every 5 combat rooms. Evade has priority over block, armor, soul hearts and main health.
	Your mana indicator. By default each point of mana grants 10% increased damage to your mana-draining weapons. While using mana-draining weapons, mana stars will spawn randomly in the room granting Mana FluxMana Flux is a mana star buff that grants 25% more attack speed and 25% mana drain refund and lasts 4 seconds.. Effects of mana can be increased with each point of IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats.. You gain +0.25 base mana regenerated per second per maximum mana above 2.
	Your mana burnout indicator. Starts when you drain your Mana below 0 and your mana turns red. You can still attack, but you will not receive the bonuses from mana until it recharges. Collecting a mana star immediately stops mana burnout.
	Your current stamina. Allows you to dash forward and iframe through attacks from enemies. This means that there is a short period of time you are invulnerable to any attack while you dash (there are buffs and equipment that can increase this duration). It regenerates as you fight and can be reused often.
	Your remaining health flasks. Each one can be used anywhere; however, it has a stationary cast time, so you need to find the best time to use it (it can be cancelled mid-cast to avoid an attack). Flasks can be refilled throughout your run, such as from certain dungeon rooms.
	Your resurrection indicator. Certain traits or equipment will allow you to revive with some hearts upon death. When a revive is used, the indicator is shown as depleted and cannot be reused again except with certain items.
	Your defy death indicator. Certain traits or equipment will allow you to survive an additional hit of damage before dying. It is shown as depleted upon defying death and refreshes every floor.
	The skull is a health indicator to show if you're close to dying on a run and it starts blinking when you are one hit away from death. This takes into consideration revives and defying death.
	Your current coins collected. These can be used in shops and the arcade.
	Your current bombs collected. Bombs deal a fixed damage and has a large radius. They can be used to blow up entrances to Secret Rooms, blocked doors, shrines, arcade machines (not broken), entrances with thorns (Cinder modifier), or kill enemies. Bombs do NOT hurt you!
	Your current keys collected. Keys are used to open entrances that are blocked off with a locked door. They can also be used to open locked chests and hatches to Secret Rooms.
	Your current Souls collected. Souls are a secondary in-run currency; they can be spent at bonfires to refill health or gain extra base stats. Some Events or class passives require sacrificing/saving Souls for rewards/increased damage. Sometimes there might be a shop that requires Souls rather than coins; this includes the current alignment shops (Law, Evil, Good).

Alignment

Alignment is a stat that determines your end path, costs of items from vendors in the tavern, and bonuses from equipment such as Hero Cape. It is divided into two categories, Morality (Evil /Good) and Integrity (Lawful/Chaotic). Some classes start with Evil or Good alignment.

Shops for each alignment (excluding Chaotic) are unlocked as you progress in World Tier. Defeating the Gate Guardian of each path (Shadow Planes, Burning Hells, High Heavens) will unlock their respective alignment shops that can appear after a boss battle. These shops are the primary ways of obtaining alignment to pass the worthiness check at the Gates.

• The mastery perk Throne Quest reduces alignment requirements for Floor 12 Gates by 1.
• Having the opposite alignment when buying from Tavern NPCs can increase the price of what they're selling. For example, "Gun Dealer NPC (15/30/45)" means that at the correct alignment with the character, the price will be 15 gold, whilst at the opposite alignment, it will be 45 gold.
• Current alignment can be seen in the character stats under the general tab.

Morality

Positive values indicate an increase in Good whilst negative values indicate an increase in Evil .

Interaction Alignment Gained Sources Buying from Evil shops -1 Buying Illegal Gun Parts from Gun Dealer NPC in Tavern -1 (once per run) Buying or Selling items in the Black Market -1 (once per run) Accepting the Captured Goat Devil's deal -1 (once per run) Opening up one of the Evil Urns -1 (once per run) Wearing Devil Horns -1 (while equipped) Buying from Good shops +1 Buying Green Blossom from the Dryad NPC in Tavern +1 (once per run) Buying Purging Stone from the Cleric NPC in Tavern +1 (once per run) Kissing the Frog Princess +1 (once per run) Wearing Angelic Hood +1 (while equipped)

Interaction Alignment Required Usage Worthiness for the gate in the Burning Hells Pure Evil (-4/-3*) Cheaper Illegal Gun Parts from Gun Dealer NPC in Tavern (15/30/45) Leaning Evil (-2) Cheaper Mead from Barbarian NPC in Tavern (5/10/20) Leaning Evil (-2) Activating effects of Amon's Grasp and Archdevil Armor Evil (-3) Increasing effects of Devil Charm, Devil Boots, Devil Cloak, Emblem of Tiamat, Dark Wizard Staff, Imp Dagger Evil Alignment (Effect Scaling) Worthiness for the gate in the High Heavens Pure Good (+4/+3*) Cheaper Green Blossom from the Dryad NPC in Tavern (5/10/20) Leaning Good (+2) Cheaper Purging Stone from the Cleric NPC in Tavern (5/10/20) Leaning Good (+2) Cheaper Fairy Tale Branch from the Princess NPC in Tavern (30/45/60) Leaning Good (+2) Cheaper Repair Powder from the Dwarf NPC in Tavern (5/10/15) Leaning Good (+2) Activating effects of Eden's Touch and Archangel Armor Good (+3) Increasing effects of Angel Charm, Angel Boots, Emblem of Bahamut, Hero Cape Good Alignment (Effect Scaling)

Integrity

Positive values indicate an increase in Lawful whilst negative values indicate an increase in Chaotic.

Note: Chaotic alignment currently is being worked on and will have more uses in the next major update.

Interaction Alignment Gained Sources Buying from Lawful shops +1 Buying Dice from Farmer NPC in Tavern +1 Buying Storm In A Bottle from Wizard NPC in Tavern -1 Taking the Abyssal Charm in the event -1

Interaction Alignment Required Usage Worthiness for the gate in the Shadow Planes Pure Lawful (+4/+3*) Increased effect of Order Charm Lawful Alignment (Effect Scaling) Increased effect of Chaos Charm (Currently Unobtainable) Chaotic Alignment (Effect Scaling)

Bomb Loot

Some room rewards, such as chests, shrines and arcades can be bombed to offer an alternate loot pool. This is useful when you cannot open a chest due to lacking keys, or preferring the alternate loot to the regular one. Note that Giant Treasure Chests have the same bomb loot as the normal chests. Health Fountains also do not give anything on being bombed.

This loot can be doubled via the mastery perk Smash and Grab.

Object	Loot
Chest	4-5 Gold 1 Key 1 Soul Heart
Blood Chest	1 -flaskFlasks take 2 seconds to drink and recover 1 heart . To use a flask hold V. Charge
Blood Altar	1 -flaskFlasks take 2 seconds to drink and recover 1 heart . To use a flask hold V. Charge
Shrine	1 Power Shard
Arcade	Assortment of Dice

Weapon Elements

Weapons that have a certain element can cause status effects by crits. There are some weapons that can inflict those without requiring crits. For example, Firebomb Codex can inflict Burn with every attack because of its written Effect, while Firestorm Scroll only has Fire element and requires crits to inflict burns.

Weapon Scaling

Attunement

Some equipment need to be "attuned" in order for their effects to work. This is a mechanic to prevent too much equipment micromanagement during fights (such as swapping between 2 body armors during a fight).

To attune an equipment, you must equip it and complete combat rooms. Each room increases your equipped item's attunement by 1. Equipments can have an attunement value of 1 (1 room) to 3 (3 rooms) and will reset if you enter a new room with it unequipped (i.e in your inventory).

Two ways of instantly attuning your equipment are: using the Attunement Blessing received from a shrine, or attuning at a campfire before an endgame boss.

Equipment Rarity

Equipments have their own rarity, beginning with Common up to Legendary. Typically the higher the rarity, the more powerful the item is.

Rarity
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary
Set

Food

Picking up food grants +1 EXP as well as a bonus to one of your stats. Normal food items can be found throughout the dungeon as room rewards, in shops and as rewards from certain gear. They give a bonus to one or more of your three main stats: StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats., DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats. and IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats..

Stats Gained
Beef +1 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats.	Sausage +1 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats., -1 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats.	Burger +1 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats., +1 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats.	Meat Shank +3 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats.
Pear +1 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats.	Salad+1 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats., -1 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats.	Cake +1 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats., +1 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats.	Broccoli +3 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats.
Candy +1 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats.	Chocolate +1 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats., -1 DexterityDexterity increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off dexterity. Additionally dexterity grants attack speed, movement speed and potentially other stats.	Fish N Chips+1 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats., +1 StrengthStrength increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off strength. Additionally strength grants more damage dealt, equip load capacity and potentially other stats.	Lollipop +3 IntelligenceIntelligence increases damage dealt by weapons that scale off intelligence. Additionally intelligence grants critical hit❗ chance, mana ✯ regeneration and potentially other stats.

Golden Food

Golden food are a special type of food: most of them can only appear as room rewards on floors 11/12. Each golden food gives a unique stat bonus and +1 EXP. Ambrosia is the only golden food currently that can also appear as rewards from Blood Altars and in Secret Rooms in addition to appearing on floors 11/12.

Food	Effect
Golden Steak	10% increased damage with non crits
Golden Candy	+2.5% Critical Hit The damage from critical hits is multiplied with your critical hit multiplier. chance
Golden Pear	+2.5% increased attack speed
Golden Meat Shank	+15 equip load capacity
Golden Broccoli	+15% Critical Hit The damage from critical hits is multiplied with your critical hit multiplier. multiplier
Golden Lollipop	+2.5% mana drain refund
Ambrosia	+1 to highest attribute
Golden Croissant	+10% increased Companion damage
Golden Cherries	+10% increased triggerTrigger damage is all damage that comes from effects that explicitly use the trigger keyword. E.g.: On lucky hit, trigger...Trigger damage scales with each point of EXP, up to 7x damage at level 6. damage
Golden Clover	+2.5% Lucky Hit Lucky Hits have x2.00 chance for Hit Effects to happen. chance