Debuffs

Debuffs are temporary, negative status effects, as opposed to buffs, which affect the player positively. Once a debuff has been inflicted, the debuff's icon will display to the upper left / upper right of the player's window, along with a count-down timer / icon shading, showing how much longer the debuff will be in effect. The counter will begin at one minute/second less than its listed duration and show zero during the final minute/second.

Most debuffs can only be inflicted by enemies, however it is also possible for traps to inflict some debuffs on players.

Players can inflict the following debuffs on most enemies: Confused, Cursed Inferno, Ichor, Betsy's Curse, Midas, Poisoned, Venom, On Fire!, Frostburn and Shadowflame.
Players can also inflict Bleeding on enemies via the Tizona . Players can inflict the Stunned debuff via the ammunition Heart Arrow. See below for a list of weapons that inflict debuffs on enemies.

In general, damaging debuffs will stack: If a player is both Poisoned and On Fire!, they will take damage from both debuffs. However, Poisoned and Venom do not stack, and Poisoned will take precedence over Venom. Death always cancels any active buffs or debuffs.

Unlike buffs, debuffs cannot be canceled by right-clicking their icons. The Nurse can cancel debuffs at a cost of 750*7 50 per active debuff. This does not apply to the Potion Sickness debuff, because when trying to cancel the Potion Sickness debuff, the Nurse will not charge for recovery of the debuff and the debuff will not be canceled, but the Potion Sickness icon will disappear.

From enemies[edit | edit source]

Name	Effect	Tooltip	Duration
Bleeding	Prevents the player from regenerating life naturally. Since enemies cannot regenerate life naturally, they will lose life instead when they have the debuff.	Cannot regenerate life	3-45 seconds / 6-90 seconds
Poisoned	Players turn green, slowly lose life over time, and cannot regenerate life.	Slowly losing life	3-10 seconds / 2-20 seconds
On Fire!	Players are engulfed with flames, lose life over time, and cannot regenerate life.	Slowly losing life	7-10 seconds / 14-20 seconds
Venom	Players turn purple, lose life over time, and cannot regenerate life.	Losing life	8 seconds / 16 seconds
Darkness	Players turn blue, and light brightness is lowered.	Decreased light vision	15 seconds / 5-30 seconds
Blackout	Severely lowers the brightness of light, making it nearly impossible to see.	Light vision severely reduced	3 seconds / 6 seconds
Silenced	Prevents the player from using anything that requires mana.	Cannot use items that require mana	7 seconds / 2.5-14 seconds
Cursed	Prevents the player from using anything.	Cannot use any items	4 seconds / 1.25-8 seconds
Confused	`◀ Left` and `▶ Right`'s effects are switched, and `▲ Up` and `▼ Down`'s effects are switched.	Movement is reversed	7 seconds / 2.5-14 seconds
Slow	Slows down the player's speed.	Movement speed is reduced	5-16 seconds / 0.5-32 seconds
Oozed	Player speed is severely reduced.	Movement is significantly reduced	14 seconds / 14 seconds
Weak	Causes the player's physical abilities to decrease. Werewolf buff negates this debuff.	Physical abilities are decreased	1-5 minutes / 18.75 seconds-10 minutes
Broken Armor	Causes the player's defense to go down to half of its normal defense.	Defense is cut in half	10 seconds-2 minutes / 16.25 seconds-4 minutes
Withered Armor	Causes the player's defense to go down to half of its normal defense.	Your armor is lowered!	5 seconds / 10 seconds
Withered Weapon	Reduces all player-inflicted damage by 50%.	Your attacks are weaker!	5 seconds-2 minutes
Horrified	Acts as a warning to prevent the player from attempting to escape the Underworld whilst fighting the Wall of Flesh. If you try to escape (i.e using a Magic Mirror) you are killed upon returning to your spawn point.	You have seen something nasty, there is no escape.	While fighting Wall of Flesh
The Tongue	Pulls the player, through tiles, directly in front of the Wall of Flesh.	You are being sucked into the mouth	While in contact with The Tongue
Cursed Inferno	Ignites the player with cursed flames that deal damage over time. Cursed flames can not be extinguished by water.	Losing life	7-8 seconds / 14-16 seconds
Ichor (debuff)	Causes the player to glow yellow along with the loss of 20 defense.	Reduced defense	15 seconds / 30 seconds
Chilled	Slows down the player's speed.	Your movement speed has been reduced	10-45 seconds / 20 seconds-90 seconds
Frozen	Prevents the player from moving or using anything.	You can't move!	1-1.5 second / 2-3 seconds
Wet	Player drips water. (visual)	You are dripping water	30 seconds
Webbed	Causes the player to be stuck in the spot where they were hit. Players are still allowed to use items while this effect is ongoing.	You are stuck	1 seconds
Stoned	Prevents the player from moving horizontally or using anything. The player will take increased fall damage, which will not be negated by Wings or Lucky Horseshoe.	You are completely petrified!	1-4 seconds
Distorted	Causes the player to float upwards and downwards based on their position.	Gravity around you is distorted	6-12 seconds / 5-9 seconds
Obstructed	Darkens the screen almost completely, except for a small area around the player.	You can't see!	While attacked by a Brain Suckler
Electrified	Causes the player to take significant damage when moving and a smaller amount of damage when not moving.	You cannot move	4-8 seconds
Feral Bite	Increases player damage but decreases health regeneration and applies other random debuffs.	Increased damage, Decreased life regen, Causes status effects	3 seconds-90 seconds
Moon Bite	Prevents the player from healing via Vampire Knives or Spectre Hood.	You are unable to absorb healing effects	14 seconds / 16 seconds

From items and environment[edit | edit source]

Name	Effect	Tooltip	Duration
Mana Sickness	Magic damage is reduced by 25%, the amount of damage reduced is reduced by 5% every second.	Magic damage reduced by 1-50%	5-10 seconds
Potion Sickness	Prevents the player from drinking healing potions and restoration potions.	Cannot consume anymore healing items	60 seconds (45 with a Philosopher's Stone/Charm of Myths)
Chaos State	Causes the player to lose 1/7th / 1/6th of their maximum health if they use the Rod of Discord again while the debuff is active.	Using the Rod of Discord will take life	6 seconds
Suffocation	Players lose life over time while buried in Sand, Slush, or Silt.	Losing life	While in contact with fallen Silt/Sand/Slush
Burning	Players burn, losing life, life regeneration speed, and movement speed.	Losing life and slowed movement	While in contact with Meteorite, Hellstone, or Hellstone Brick
Tipsy	-4 defense +2% critical hit on melee attacks +10% melee attack speed +10% melee damage	Increased melee abilities, lowered defense	2 minutes
Stinky	Green fumes appear around you. (Visual effect)	You smell terrible	30 seconds
Water Candle (debuff)	Increases the spawn rate and max number of enemies on screen.	Increased monster spawn rate	When near a placed Water Candle
Mighty Wind	Pushed based on wind direction.	The wind moves you around!	Infinite while in a Sandstorm
Creative Shock	Cannot build or break blocks.	You have lost the power of creation!	Infinite during the Old One's Army event

Other Debuffs[edit | edit source]

Name	Effect	Tooltip	Duration
Frostburn	Affected players or enemies lose life over time and cannot regenerate life.	It's either really hot or really cold. Either way it REALLY hurts	1-8 seconds
Midas	Causes affected enemies to drop more coins than usual on death.	Drop more money on death	15 minutes
Oiled	Fires are more effective.	Taking more damage from being on fire	4-9 seconds
Stunned	Completely immobilizes affected enemies.	Paralyzed by love	5-7 seconds
Slime (debuff)	Player drips blue goo and gains a blue tint. (visual)	You are slimy and sticky	30 seconds
Shadowflame	Deals 15 damage per second to the target.	Losing life	5-8 seconds
Betsy's Curse	Defense reduced by 40.	Defense is lowered	5 seconds
Penetrated	Causes affected enemies lasting damage for up to 15 seconds.	Bleeding Out	15 seconds
Daybroken	Causes affected enemies lasting damage for up to 15 seconds.	Incenerated by solar rays [sic]	15 seconds
Celled	Causes affected enemies lasting damage.	being eaten by cells	6-9 seconds
Dryad's Bane	Causes affected enemies lasting damage.	The power of nature compells you	While in Dryad's leaf shield.

Unobtainable Debuffs[edit | edit source]

Icon	Name	Effect	Tooltip	Duration
	Dazed	Move at one third speed horizontally. Reduced jump height.	Movement is greatly slowed	Unobtainable during normal gameplay
	Sugar Rush	unknown	n/a	Unobtainable during normal gameplay

Notes[edit | edit source]

Enemies that die from the Daybroken debuff inflict the debuff on other nearby enemies.
In Expert mode , the following debuffs have their duration doubled: Poisoned, Darkness, Cursed, On Fire!, Bleeding, Confused, Slow, Weak, Silenced, Broken Armor, Cursed Inferno, Frostburn, Chilled, Frozen, Ichor, Venom, and Blackout.
- Furthermore, players in Expert worlds are inflicted with the Chilled debuff when they enter water in a Snow biome. The Chilled debuff lasts for as long as the player is in the water and lasts for 5 seconds after getting out.
Although water and ice technically extinguish fire, the only way to do so in-game is to jump into a water pool.
The following weapons inflict debuffs on enemies:

Weapons inflicting debuffs

Weapon	Debuff
Betsy's Wrath Internal Item ID: 3870	Betsy's Curse
Tizona Internal Item ID: 5010	Bleeding
Bee Keeper Internal Item ID: 1123	Confused
Dao of Pow Internal Item ID: 389	Confused
Cursed Flames Internal Item ID: 519	Cursed Inferno
Daybreak Internal Item ID: 3543	Daybroken
Solar Eruption Internal Item ID: 3473	Daybroken
Amarok Internal Item ID: 3289	Frostburn
Flower of Frost Internal Item ID: 1264	Frostburn
Bladetongue Internal Item ID: 3211	Ichor
Golden Shower Internal Item ID: 1336	Ichor
Cascade Internal Item ID: 3282	On Fire!
Elf Melter Internal Item ID: 1910	On Fire!
Fiery Greatsword Internal Item ID: 121	On Fire!
Flamarang Internal Item ID: 119	On Fire!
Flameburst Cane Internal Item ID: 3819	On Fire!
Flameburst Rod Internal Item ID: 3818	On Fire!
Flameburst Staff Internal Item ID: 3820	On Fire!
Flamelash Internal Item ID: 218	On Fire!
Flamethrower Internal Item ID: 506	On Fire!
Flower of Fire Internal Item ID: 112	On Fire!
Hel-Fire Internal Item ID: 3290	On Fire!
Inferno Fork Internal Item ID: 1445	On Fire!
Molotov Cocktail Internal Item ID: 2590	On Fire!
Phantom Phoenix Internal Item ID: 3854	On Fire!
Sunfury Internal Item ID: 220	On Fire!
Wand of Sparking Internal Item ID: 3069	On Fire!
Bone Javelin Internal Item ID: 3378	Penetrated
Blade of Grass Internal Item ID: 190	Poisoned
Poison Staff Internal Item ID: 1308	Poisoned
Poisoned Knife Internal Item ID: 287	Poisoned
Thorn Chakram Internal Item ID: 191	Poisoned
Tonbogiri Internal Item ID: 5011	Poisoned
Toxikarp Internal Item ID: 3210	Poisoned
Shadowflame Hex Doll Internal Item ID: 3053	Shadowflame
Shadowflame Knife Internal Item ID: 3054	Shadowflame
Venom Staff Internal Item ID: 2188	Venom

History[edit | edit source]

Desktop version

Desktop 1.3.4: Betsy's Curse, Creative Shock, Withered Weapon, and Withered Armor introduced.

Desktop 1.3.3: Mighty Wind introduced.

Desktop 1.3.0.5: Fixed bug that caused Distorted to freeze players instead of changing their movement pattern.

Desktop 1.3.0.1: Stoned, Shadowflame, Distorted, and Feral Bite introduced.

Desktop 1.2.3.1: Mana Sickness introduced.

Desktop 1.2.1.2:
- Added Chaos State debuff.
- Fixed a bug that was causing monsters to only show one debuff on multiplayer.
- Monsters that transform now correctly keep their debuffs.