Blood

For the obsolete item, see potion of blood

Blood is a liquid present within most natural creatures.

What has blood

Most player species have blood. The player species who don't are: Undead species (Ghoul, Mummy, Bloodless Vampire), Gargoyle, and Djinn. Players may turn into a nonliving or undead transformation (ex. Ice Form, Statue Form, Storm Form, Necromutation), which removes their blood.

Draconians are cold-blooded.

Most monsters that are natural, and that are not insects, arachnids, jellies, or eyeballs, have blood. They are defined by the warm-blooded or cold-blooded tags.

Useful Info

While blood seems cosmetic, creating blood splatters all over the Dungeon floor, it is used for a few mechanics within the game:

• Skyshark's Bloodzerk attack flavour checks if the target has blood. If the skyshark deals damage to a target with blood, it will gain might, and then berserk for a short time.
• The player demonspawn mutation, Ignite Blood will create flame clouds whenever blood would splatter.

Blood temperature

Creatures with blood can either be cold-blooded or warm-blooded:

• Cold-blooded creatures have a 50% chance of being slowed when they are damaged by any of the following cold sources:
  • Freezing-branded melee attacks
  • Freeze
  • Frozen Ramparts
  • Ozocubu's Refrigeration
  • Freezing Cloud

In addition, cold-blooded monsters are slowed twice as long by Metabolic Englaciation.

• Warm-blooded creatures have no specific vulnerabilities (other than having blood in the first place).

History

• Prior to 0.24, Vampires would drink potions of blood in place of nutrition.
• Prior to 0.17, creatures with blood were vulnerable to bleeding.