Status Effects

Status Effects are timed buffs or debuffs that may last for a set duration, they can either affect zombies or humans. They have a wide variety of effects, some as simple as increasing damage done while others slow down movement and the like. Some status effects may be affected by skills or trinkets.

Human Status Effects

Debuffs

Human Debuffs are negative effects that tend to harm or disadvantage survivors. Debuffs can be received from a variety of sources, such as zombies, insanity effects, or even trinkets and skills.

Icon	Name	Description	Resist	Cleans
	Poison	Deals 3 damage every 2 seconds, reduce 3 poison stack after damage.
	Bleed	Deals 1 damage every 0.5 seconds, reduces 1 bleed stack per damage. Excessive Bleed causes the Wounds debuff.
	Enfeeble	Increases damage taken by 40% from all sources. Cancels out with the Defense buff.
	Dim Vision	Reduces how far the victim see.
	Slow	Reduces movement speed.
	Frost	Reduces Melee speed, and stamina regen delay speed by 25%.
	Tremor	Aim becomes shaky and recoil is increased.
	Pain	All accuracy bonuses are reduced and recoil is increased.
	Sickness	Decreases heal received by medical sources, stamina regeneration and Leech rate. Also causes to Regeneration to decay and prevents food items from being consumed.
	Knockdown	Prevents the user from moving and doing anything else.
	Exhausted	Stamina regeneration delay speed reduced by 25%.
	Gunk	Reduces reload and firing speed by 25% with Guns.
	Shattered	Explode on death, damaging nearby humans. Increases sigil teleportation time by 25%.
	Wounds	Overrides all healing received by medical sources, blood armor melee generation and Bloodlust.
	Waste	Reduces how far you can see, healing received, and accuracy. Also prevents eating.
	Corrupted Thorns	Phasing applies wounds.
	Boiling Blood	Reduces blood armor by 75%. Also explode on death, damaging everything nearby.
	Rending Thorns	Phasing applies wounds.
	Prey	Causes attackers to heal from damaging the victim, and buffs the attacker with Battlecry.
	Nightmare	Some UI elements do not show the actual value, it affects the Health Bar, Stamina, Sigil Indicator, Ammo Indicator, Fear-O-Meter.
	Anchor	Reduces jump power by 25% and self-knockback by 100%.
	Winter's Curse	Reduces max health. Decays overtime or when buffed with Warmth.
	Cripple	Reduces attack speed and reload speed by -3% per stack.
	Maim	Greatly slowed and prevented from jumping. Not affected by skill modifiers.
	Dread	Transform into a Dread Shadow upon death.

Buffs

Buffs are beneficial effects for humans. They are usually received from skills and weapons when certain conditions are met or can be applied at anytime by medical tools and food.

Icon	Name	Description	Stack
	Strength	Deal up to 25% bonus damage.
	Adrenaline	Causes you to move faster and ignore penalties to movement from health, Increases stamina regeneration.
	Speed	Move faster.
	Defense	Receive 30% less damage. Cancels out with the Enfeeble debuff.
	Perserverance	Receive 50% less damage.
	Shield	Blocks one instance of damage almost entirely before being consumed.
	Reaper	Increases damage by +7% per stack.
	Fervor	Increases attack speed by +8% and reload speed by +5% per stack.
	Renegade	Reduces zombie damage resistance by +10% and increases headshot damage by +8% per stack.
	Broadside	Increases weapon radius by +8% per stack and adds +1 bullet penetration per stack which does 10% bullet damage.
	Virtuoso	Increases rounds and attachment effects by +12% per stack and weapon buildup rate by +12% per stack.
	Volatile	Zombies you kill explode for +4% of their maximum health in damage per stack.
	Agility	Attack and reload +25% faster.
	Focus	Grants 30% smaller aim cone.
	Warm	Increases melee damage by +15% depending on weapon tier and quality. Reverses Winter's Curse.
	Jolly	Up to +15% damage with Christmas weapons. +30% healing received from Christmas foods. Reverses Winter's Curse.
	Last Stand	Increased melee damage and attack speed.
	Cleanse	Prevents one certain debuff from affecting you.
	Electro Boosts	Improves your next repair significantly
	Slipstream	No movement speed penalty from phasing.
	Camouflage	Makes you nearly invisible and no movement speed penalty from phasing.
	Regeneration	Heal slowly overtime.
	On Painkillers	Gain temporary health that decays over time. Removes pain debuff and low-health view-shake.
	Momentum	Consume no ammo or stamina.
	Phantom	Your health aura becomes invisible.
	Corruption Walker	Can teleport from corrupted sigils and prevents teleports from being interrupted.
	Leech	Rapidly grants blood armor.
	Blood Hunter	Gain bounty progress from dealing damage.
	Infernal	Deal fire damage with all weapons, but also become ignited.
	Elemental Pop	All weapons become infused with a random elemental effect.
	Counter	Next attack has increased impact speed and deals increased damage. Can only be gained from timed blocks.

Zombie Status Effects

Debuff

Icon	Name	Description
	Soften	Increases damage taken.
	Sap	Decreased damage dealt.
	Hinder	Take random bouts of mechanical movement slow.
	Fire	Take damage over time, scaling with maximum health of victim.
	Acid	Take damage over time and lose damage resistance.
	Serrate	Take damage over time, stacking up to 5 times.
	Shock	Take damage over time, and pulse slow.
	Spotted	Receive slightly more damage.
	ZE Fire	Take damage over time, Causes the victim move slower.

Buffs

Icon	Name	Description	DM
	Second Wind	Regenerates health that had lost recently, revive if the current class is Zombie or Skeleton.
	Marrow Hex	Prevents one debuff, Removes all harmful debuff when initially received.
	Status Resist	Generate a status resist every 3 seconds. Maximum of 3 stacks.
	Spawn Protection	Prevents any damage of affecting, prevents debuffs.
	Marrow Shield	Makes the attacker immune to damage for a short duration.
	Frenzy	Increases speed and attack speed.
	Unyielding Strength	Greatly reduces effectiveness of knockback and leg slows.	?
	Battle Cry	Increases attack speed.	?
	Blood Knitting	Slowly regenerate health.
	Marrow Protection	Greatly reduced damage, increased speed and regeneration.
	Liches' Zeal	Gained from spawning from a gravestone. Grants speed, damage and health.
	Dark Power	Grants +20% of increased attack speed, +15% damage dealt and +12% speed.
	Acid Claws	Barricade hits inflicts damage over time.
	Thunder Claws	Claws are empowered with lightning that arcs to nearby props and humans. Slows on hit.
	Wretched Might	Grants +20% of damage dealt.
	Patient Zero	Increases movement speed, damage and inflict debuff on human hits.
	Rally	Increased movement speed.	?
	Vampirism	100% of damage dealt towards humans and props is received as healing.	?
	Restitching	Rapidly gain health.
	Spittering	Shoot bloody projectiles every few seconds. Projectiles and claws apply Bleed on hit.
	Saturating	Nearby zombies are healed upon your death and whenever you attack with your claws. Claws also inflict the Prey debuff.
	Virulent	Shoot poison projectiles every few seconds. Projectiles and claws apply Poison on hit.
	Volatile Dead	Summon a large explosive orb on death that tracks nearby humans for a few seconds.
	Tarred	Shoot gunk projectiles every few seconds. Projectiles and claws apply Gunk on hit. Leave a tarpool on death.
	Frosty	Claws apply Frost on hits. Upon dying, summon both a large frost orb and a frost pool.
	Acid Nova	Summon a large acid orb upon death. Zombies are buffed by the orb while props receive acid damage and humans receive poison damage.
	Dark Nova	Summon a large dark orb upon death. Zombies are buffed by the orb while humans are damaged by it.
	Unstable	Apply Shattered on hit and deal minor area damage on death.
	Unstable Flesh	Apply Boiling Blood on hit and deal minor area damage on death.
	Phasing	Occasionally warp at high speeds, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. (BOT ONLY)
	Infested	Summon baby headcrabs every few seconds and upon death.
	Haunted	Shoot nightmare projectiles every few seconds. Projectiles and claws apply Nightmare on hit.
	Totem Bearer	Summon a totem upon death that buffs zombies and debuffs humans.