Plague Island

*This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

* Single
* Co-op
 **Single**

 **Co-op**

**Plague Island** is a challenge where Monarchs riding a warhorse will try to avoid the plague and survive a certain number of days.

## Developers' description

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This land has been overrun and on the brink of succumbing to the Greed… FOREVER! And now a fearsome pandemic is transforming citizens into Greed. The only thing you can do is try to survive as long as possible until your Kingdom is nothing but Greed.Raw Fury
## Island layout

 Merchant

About ten vagrants wander by the unlit campfire when the Monarch arrives, allowing the recruitment of a good number of subjects on the first day. However, the initial coins is not enough for paying tools and/or weapons to them all.

The stone and iron technologies are available to be unlocked through their respective mines.

There are no gems, hermits, or statues. There is no boat either.

On the island horizon there is a volcano with a purple root or tentacle coming out of it.

### Greed

The Greed on this island are stronger and faster than the faction found in the campaign. Breeders start to spawn in Blood Moons after day fifteen, but there are no floaters. Crown stealers can spawn during Blood Moons when the first winter arrives (arround day L).

Blood Moons take place with the standard frequency expected on all Challenge Islands.

### Plague

All sources of damage on this island (including monsters, thrown back boulders, cliff portals tentacles, and, during winter, the boar) have the potential to infect any Kingdom subject they touch, instantly transforming them into greed-citizens.

When a citizen gets infected, any coin or tools they have are immediately destroyed during the conversion, and a strange sound can be heard, regardless of the distance between the Monarch and the infected subject.
The sound is similar to the one that plays on the loading screen of the challenge.

If more than one citizen gets infected in a short length of time, the sound only plays once.
Monarchs on the other side of the land, for example, will know that something bad is happening, but they will never know *how bad* it is, until they go check with their own eyes.
It can be the infection of a couple, of a dozen, or the collapse of an entire side of the Kingdom.

Monarchs that lose the Crown are immediately infected, and transformed into a greed Monarch.
As usual, if the Crown is stolen by a greedling or a crown stealer, after a couple of seconds the challenge is over.
However if the Crown is retrieved, the Monarch is healed, reverting to their original human form.

## Greed-citizen

### Damage

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Although greed-citizens have a distinct appearance, they behave as regular greedlings:

* bumping the walls (albeit more quickly and in a swarm)
* attacking and infecting other townspeople
* stealing the Crown
* fleeing at daylight.

However:

* they do not steal tools or weapons
* they move slower than regular greedlings
* they deal more damage per hit
* hitting them does not make them vanish,
but turns them back to their vagrant state instead.

The harm to the Kingdom is then incomparably more devastating if the infected people flee at the daylight, as they are a workforce/armed force forever lost.
Archer towers (of any tier) placed outside of the Kingdom's borders may help in landing that last critical hit required to heal them on their way back to the portal.

The plague can quickly snowball out of control if one of the outer walls is breached.

If the Monarch recruits a citizen at a vagrant camp that's a bit far away from the outer wall, the new villager may become infected on their way to town, and then healed by the archers' arrows. In that case, there will be a vagrant waiting for a(nother) coin right next to the outer wall.

However, if the camp is too far, and the villager gets infected just after leaving the camp, it may happen that the slow moving greed-citizen won't reach the outer wall before dawn.
In that case, the very coin given to that vagrant becomes their passport into the Greed dimension.

### Portals

There are no small portals on this island.

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Cliff portals are preceded by a small stone pyramid with a purple tentacle that behaves like a living portal, but cannot be destroyed.

### Warhorse

There are no alternative mounts on this island.

The warhorse the Monarch rides from the beginning, has an odd purple skin, but behaves as usual, with extremely poor stamina, and the ability to buff the townspeople with protection.

The buff protection has been significantly nerfed though.
On Plague Island, the buff from the warhorse can only protect the subjects against infection.
If they have the buff when hit by a greed, they won't get contaminated.
The buff however cannot prevent folks from losing their coins and tools, being thrown on the ground, and lying for a few seconds before resuming their normal activity.

The buff also doesn't prevent infection if subjects are hit with a boulder thrown by a breeder.

## Cursed crown

 **Single player**
*Only resolute rulers will find this crown!*
To get the cursed crown in Plague Island in single player mode, the Monarch has to survive sixty nights.
More precisely the Monarch has to keep the Crown safe until a few seconds before the midnight between days LIX and LX, that's when the Ghost should appear to grant the cursed crown.
However, as some players have shared that they didn't get the cursed crown at this moment, there might be a second requirement to be fulfilled.
Some believe that this could be related to a certain number of citizens to be infected with the plague, and then healed/rescued from the Greed.

 **Cooperative**
*Only for resolute and innoxious rulers!*
To get the cursed crown in Plague Island in cooperation mode, both Monarchs must survive eighty nights, and each upgrade six to eight walls to iron.
The number of walls lacks precision because some players said six, but without counting the free innermost walls, but it's definitely no less than six, and no more than eight.
Like in solo mode, there might be another requirement, that some players also believe to be related to the infected citizens.

## Video tutorials

Plague IslandA general overview of the challenge, looking at its mechanics and some tips for getting the gold crown.Plague Island - Cursed CrownA guide covering how to unlock the cursed crown in the challenge, and a few tips to help you get it.

## History

*For patch notes related to all Challenge Islands, see: Challenge Islands – History.*

## References

1. ↑ Extract from the 1978 zombie horror film by George Romero, *Dawn of the Dead* (transcript, scene).
2. ↑ Challenge Islands are here! 29 August 2019.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Users can discuss the greed damage here{{{2}}} before editing.
4. ↑ As shown in this video by One Dragon. Timestamp: 2m 35s. *Youtube*. 11 February 2021.
5. ↑ Same video. Timestamp: 5m 14s.
6. ↑ Same video. Timestamp: 2m 44s.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 As seen in this video. *Youtube*. 27 October 2019.
8. ↑ This is an approximate value, calculated by counting hits in game. It is close to the correct number, but not exact.
9. ↑ One Dragon's video. Timestamp: 2m 53s.
10. ↑ Raw Fury community manager Fiona on *Steam*. 20 June 2022.
11. ↑ As shared on this post. *Reddit*. 9 November 2020.
12. ↑ As seen in video on
Dec-20,
Apr-21 (1 &
2),
Feb-22,
Dec-22, and
Jan-23. *Youtube*.
13. ↑ As seen in video on
May 2021, and
December 2021 (links are timestamped). *Youtube*.
14. ↑ As shared by the co-op speedrunner Kissmypixels on *Reddit* (3 May 2021), by other players on a *Steam* thread, and by the player Slavstic on his *Steam* guide.
15. ↑ Workers entering a death loop on asian plague island. *Reddit*. 5 January 2022. Linked video. *Youtube*. 2 January 2022.
16. ↑ Workers cannot cut trees near plague walls. *Steam*. 31 May 2021.
17. ↑ Any idea why my builders are doing this? Post with video on *Reddit*. 7 September 2021.
18. ↑ **“***It's only on the right side, because the tentacle is closer than on the left side. It is also fixed in the next update.***”**—developer Alan. *Reddit*. 7 September 2021.
19. ↑ My builder keeps running back and forth between this marked tree and the pyramid that doesn't want to die. Post with screenshot on *Reddit*. 30 October 2021.
20. ↑ **“***Challenge too easy for ya, huh? Let's continue this discussion after the next patch.***”**—dev. Angelica. *Reddit*. 2 October 2020. → She said this exactly one month before the release of update 1.1.5, which introduced the cursed crowns.
21. ↑ "No only one or two breeders make it to my walls by the time day breaks. So it actually gets easier, until the point it becomes trivial." *Reddit*. 29 September 2020.
22. ↑ As seen in this video. Timestamp: 1h 29m 21s. *Youtube*. → A day XXXVIII Blood Moon wave with no breeders.
23. ↑ "Breeder will reach the wall after the morning bell" (*Steam*, 30 August 2019), and
"Breeders start showing up late" (*Steam*, 10 September 2019); both before patch 1.0.5.1.
24. ↑ **“***We are aware of the issue and will try to have a fix for it in a future patch.***”**—Angelica. *Steam*. 27 November 2019