Plague

Plague
Statistics
Type	Debuff
Effects	No health regeneration -15 health per second and -10% damage. (if player) -50 health per second and -5% contact damage. (if enemy)
Tooltip	Rotting from the inside

If you were looking for something other than the Plague debuff, see Plague (disambiguation).

Plague is a debuff inflicted primarily by "plagued" enemies in the Jungle as well as weapons dropped by The Plaguebringer Goliath.

Effects

It provides the following effects while inflicted:

• To an enemy:
  • -50 HP/s
  • -5% contact damage
  • Upon dying, every enemy within a radius of 25 blocks will be inflicted with the Plague debuff for 5 seconds.
• To the player:
  • -15 HP/s
  • -10% damage
• To any target:
  • The target emits large green particles.

Additionally, the player can reduce, or become immune to, the effects of the Plague debuff by equipping one of these accessories:

Item	Effect
Alchemical Flask	Reduces the damage over time taken from the Plague debuff from -15 HP/s to -5 HP/s
Plaguebringer Carapace	Immunity to the Plague debuff
Plague Reaper Vest	Immunity to the Plague debuff

Causes

From player

From		Duration	Chance
	Alchemical Flask	0.5 seconds (Plague Bees)	100%
	Alpha Virus	2 seconds (Plague Cell) 3 seconds (Alpha Seeker)	100%
	Blight Spewer	7 seconds	100%
	Bubonic Round	1 second	100%
	Diseased Pike	5 seconds (Spear) 3 seconds (Seeker)	100%
	Epidemic Shredder	4 seconds (Boomerang) 3 seconds (Plague Seeker)	100%
	Fuel Cell Bundle	3 seconds	100%
	Infected Remote	3 seconds (Contact, Missile) 2 seconds (Baby Plaguebringer) 1 second (Plague Bee)	100%
	Malachite	2 seconds 4 seconds (Stealth strike hits)	100%
	Malevolence	2 seconds (Explosion)	100%
	Norfleet	5 seconds (Green Sphere)	100%
	Pandemic	4 seconds (Yoyo) 3 seconds (Seeker)	100%
	Pestilent Defiler	3 seconds (Main shot) 2 seconds (Split shots, Particle)	100%
	Plague Keeper	5 seconds (Contact) 3 seconds (Dust)	100%
	Plague Reaper armor	2 seconds (Plague Cinder)	100%
	Plague Staff	3 seconds	100%
	Plague Tainted SMG	1.25 seconds (Plague-Tainted Bullet)	100%
	Plague Turret	1 second (Plague Rocket)	100%
	Plaguebringer armor	5 seconds (Bees, Wasps) 2 seconds (On minion hits)	100%
	Plagued Fuel Pack	4 seconds (Cloud)	100%
	Plaguenade	3 seconds (Plague bees) 4 seconds (Plaguenade)	100%
	Soul Harvester	4 seconds (Contact) 3 seconds (Soul Scythe)	100%
	Tactical Plague Engine	3 seconds (Missile)	100%
	The Amalgam	5-8 seconds (When damaged)	100%
	The Hive	1.5 seconds (Rocket, Bees) 1 second (Nuke)	100%
	The Syringe	4 seconds (Syringe) 2 seconds (Glass and Cinders) 3 seconds (Bees)	100%
	Toxic Heart	7 seconds (Pulse)	100%
	Virulence	5 seconds (Contact) 2 seconds (Wave)	100%
	Wither Blossoms Staff	3 seconds	100%

From NPCs

From		Duration	Chance
	Melter	1.5 seconds	100%
	Pestilent Slime	1.5 seconds	100%
	Plague Charger	1.5 seconds (Large) 1 second (Normal)	100%
	Plague Homing Missile	2 seconds	100%
	Plague Mine	2.5 seconds	100%
	Plaguebringer	2 seconds (Charge, Plague Rocket) 1.5 seconds (Plague Stinger)	100%
	Plagueshell	1.5 seconds	100%
	The Plaguebringer Goliath	4 seconds (Contact) 2 seconds (Plague Missile) 1.5 seconds (Plague Stinger)	100%
	Viruling	1.5 seconds	100%

Immune NPCs

NPC Ceaseless Void Cosmic Guardian Cosmic Lantern Cosmic Mine Dark Energy Draedon Eidolist Emerald Jewel Lunatic Cultist Melter Pestilent Slime Phantom Plague Charger Plague Homing Missile Plague Mine Plaguebringer Plagueshell Polterghast Polterghast Hook Probe Ruby Jewel Sapphire Jewel Sepulcher Skeletron Spine of XB-∞ Hekate Body Spine of XB-∞ Hekate Head Spine of XB-∞ Hekate Tail The Destroyer The Devourer of Gods Body The Devourer of Gods Body The Devourer of Gods Head The Devourer of Gods Head The Devourer of Gods Tail The Devourer of Gods Tail THE LORDE The Plaguebringer Goliath Viruling XM-05 Thanatos XM-05 Thanatos Body XM-05 Thanatos Head XM-05 Thanatos Tail

Trivia

• The debuff's icon depicts a biohazard symbol (☣).
• According to the lore for The Plaguebringer Goliath, the Plague consists of infectious nano-machines.
• The Plague has a Draedon's Log entry dedicated to it that can be found in the Jungle Bio-center Lab.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.4.003:
  • Decreased its reduced player damage from 15% to 10%, and it no longer darkens vision.
  • Increased the range in which it spreads to enemies when a Plague-inflicted enemy dies, and improved the visuals used when it is spread.

• 2.0.4.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 2.0.3.005:
  • Increased damage against the player from 10 per second to 15.
  • Added new visual effects when inflicted.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • No longer reduces the player's movement speed.
  • Now decreases the player's damage by 15% instead of 10%.

• 2.0.1.002: Now spreads onto nearby NPCs on death for 5 seconds.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • No longer decreases defense.
  • Now decreases enemy contact damage by 5%, 7.5% if also inflicted with Irradiated.
  • Now decreases player damage by 10%.

• 1.4.4.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.106: Now reduces defense by 6 instead of 8.

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Death messages now have periods.
  • "Plague" is now capitalized in death message.

• 1.3.4.001: Fixed defense reduction effect on enemies not resetting.

• 1.2.2.005: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.7.941: Now produces more dust when inflicted on enemies.

• 1.1.7.805: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.7.61: Now lowers defense by 8 instead of 4, and reduces movement speed by 15% instead of 10%.

• 1.1.7.56: Increased life regeneration penalty from 10 to 20.

• 1.1.6: Buffed damage over time on enemies from 25 per second to 100.

• 1.1.4.44: Introduced.