History:Defense damage

Main article: Defense damage

• 2.0.3.008:
  • Can now make defense go below 0 and does not cap damage reduction damage in the For the worthy seed.
  • Fixed it always taking 10 frames to start recovering after being inflicted, allowing it to regenerate during immunity frames.

• 2.0.3.007:
  • Changed how it is calculated:
    • Defense damage taken is now 33% of damage mitigated instead of 10% of damage taken.
    • Damage reduction loss from defense damage is still based on the ratio of defense damage taken to total defense.
    • Increased the defense damage floor while a boss is alive in pre-Hardmode from 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 to 3 / 4 / 5 , in Hardmode from 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 to 8 / 10 / 12 , and in post-Moon Lord from 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 to 16 / 20 / 24 . Boss Rush now has a defense damage floor of 25.
  • Fixed it not being applied if contact damage that inflicts defense damage and a projectile that does not inflict defense damage hit the player on the same frame.

• 2.0.1.002: Now only occurs if damage taken is above zero, no longer occurring during dodges.

• 2.0.1.001: Decreased the global ratio from 15% to 10%.

• 2.0.0.003: Sound effects are now only played client side in multiplayer.

• 2.0.0.001: Now has a UI indicator.

• 1.5.0.003: Decreased recovery delay from 0.5 seconds to 0.17 and minimum total regeneration time from 1 second to 0.83.

• 1.5.0.002:
  • The following enemies can no longer inflict it:
    • All Armed Zombie variants, all Crimera variants, Devourers, all Eater of Souls variants, and Goblin Warriors.
    • Additionally, Antlions and Tomb Crawlers can no longer inflict Defense damage until after defeating Desert Scourge.
  • Reworked the formula:
    • The ratio of damage to defense damage is now always 15%, regardless of difficulty.
    • The player cannot take more than 25% of their maximum defense as defense damage.
    • Increased the defense damage regeneration delay timer from 0.25 seconds to 0.5.
    • Defense that is lost now regenerates back at a dynamic percentage every 3 frames once the regeneration delay timer has ended.
    • If the player takes defense damage and is not hit again, all defense will have been regenerated back in 1 second.
    • Consecutive hits after taking defense damage now slow the percentage of defense that is regenerated back every 3 frames. The total time for all of the player's defense to be regenerated back is capped at 15 seconds.
    • Defense damage can now only be applied to the player once every 0.25 seconds instead of every 0.083.

• 1.5.0.001: Introduced.