Developer Curses

**Developer Curses** is a mechanic added by The Abandoned Star Mod. It provides several buffs to the player, but also gives one or more debuff(s). Buffs and debuffs are based on the curse the player selected. The curses can be enabled through mod configuration, but when 1.0.3.0 releases, there will be special button in player's inventory that will open a selection menu.

Types
There are **6** developer curses:
* Umbramantic
* Atomic Blood
* Bloodletters Thirst
* Oculus of Vehemence
* Shattered Glass
* Bloody Rose

Umbramantic

*All who succumb to the influence of the shadows will be forced to experience the consequences. No one can return the soul sold to the darkness in exchange for power.*
Chooses one buff and one debuff from 4 variants randomly on player's spawn/respawn. List of possible buffs and debuffs:
**Buffs**
1. The player inflicts Shadowflame on enemies hit.
2. The player can steal life from enemies.
3. The player has auto-reuse on every item.
4. Player's immunity frames are increased by 40 ticks (2/3 second).

**Debuffs**
1. The player is always inflicted by Shadowflame.
2. Screen has a purple fog.
3. The player cannot auto-reuse an item.
4. Player's life is capped at 50% of their maximum life.

Curse of **This is Many**

Atomic Blood
*Your heart beats faster but you die little by little.*
Player's movement speed, melee speed and damage is increased, but you are constantly burning. In hardmode, burning debuff does much more damage.
Curse of **Bloodflare**

Bloodletters Thirst

*A thirst for bloodletting cannot be satiated without losing a part of the soul. The cursed cannot regain themselves, so they desperately try and find oneselves in the pain of others.*
Player's health is capped at 33% of total health and you cannot regenerate life and use healing potions. Player heals for 10% of the damage they deal to enemies, capped at 25 life per hit.
Curse of **IlluminatiJoe**

Oculus of Vehemence
*The passionate gaze of one's dedication grasps your mind, demanding proof of focus and willpower in turn.*
Provides several effects to all damage classes:
- Melee damage and weapon size is increased by 30%, but attack speed and projectile speed is decreased by 25%.
- Increases ranged damage and velocity by 30%, but reduces attack speed by 25%.
- Magic damage and attack speed is increased by 50%, but mana cost is doubled.
- Increases summon damage and size by 50%, but minions take two times their normal minion slots.
Curse of **Soro Nexelus**

Shattered Glass
*No description*
Increased immunity frames by one second and provides 10% damage reduction, but your screen has a cracked effect, making it difficult to see.
Curse of **Hollowed in a Hat (Decoy Banana)**

Bloody Rose
*The cost of power can take many things, but rarely do you find something so beautiful as a rose, to be so cruel.*
Most of player's stats are greatly improved, but prevents use of any potions.
Curse of **Tha Possum**

Tips* You can die and respawn to reset **Umbramantic** effects to choose another buff/debuff.

Trivia* Curses are the alt to developer sets in vanilla.
* Not each developer gets a curse, but only those who have made noticeable contribution to the mod.
* **Umbramantic** had a predecessor named **Burning Heart**, which doubles player's max life, but the player is burning and taking damage. But the developer of this curse has chosen another curse due to its simplicity.
* **Shattered Glass** is the only curse that has a debuff that does not affect any of player's stats (excluding the Umbramantic's fog debuff). Also it was the first curse made.

History* **1.0**: Introduced.