Feral Bite

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Feral Bite
Statistics
Type	Debuff
Effects	Increases damage, but decreases life regeneration and randomly inflicts other debuffs
Tooltip	Increased damage, Decreased life regen, Causes status effects
Internal IDs
Buff ID	148
Internal name	Rabies

Feral Bite is a debuff that may be inflicted when a player is hit by a bat (10% chance) or Duke Fishron (33% chance) in Expert Mode. It increases player damage by 20%, but lowers player health regeneration and may randomly inflict the Darkness, Cursed, Confused, Slow, Weak, or Silenced debuffs.

Causes

From enemy

From		Duration	Chance
	Cave Bat	30-90 seconds	10*1/10 (10%)
	Jungle Bat	30-90 seconds	10*1/10 (10%)
	Giant Bat	30-90 seconds	10*1/10 (10%)
	Giant Flying Fox	30-90 seconds	10*1/10 (10%)
	Duke Fishron	3-10 seconds	33.33*1/3 (33.33%)

Debuffs

When the player is afflicted with Feral Bite, there is a 1/1200 chance per frame for one of six debuffs to inflict the player. When the game is running at the target 60 frames per second, the effective chance is 1/20 every second (approximately 1-20 seconds).

Debuff		Duration	Chance
	Darkness	1.8-3 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Cursed	0.45-0.75 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Confused	0.9-1.5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Slow	2.1-3.5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Weak	3-5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Silenced	0.6-1 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)

Tips

• While at the first look seeming like a rather weak debuff, the randomly occurring debuffs can cause major damage to a player. The Confused and Cursed debuffs can easily catch players on the wrong foot, especially when they are not aware of being under the influence of Feral Bite.
• Prior to the 1.4.0.1 update, the odds of getting debuffs was relatively low, however the chance of getting one and the time they last are now significantly increased. The exact value is unknown, but it is often a death sentence if one is mining near lava where the bats happen to spawn most often.
• Having an Ankh Charm or Ankh Shield eliminates all the debuffs (which technically makes this a pseudo buff like the Tipsy effect).

Trivia

• Internally, Feral Bite is named "Rabies", a real disease which affects animals and humans.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now more likely to cause debuffs.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.