Damage Field

Damage Field is a projectile modifier spell that adds a small, purple, circular aura to projectiles it is cast with. Enemies within this area of effect are inflicted with 3.5  Projectile damage every game tick (typically 60 times a second). While this damage may seem modest, the effect from many overlapping fields quickly adds up, making this modifier extremely deadly when combined with large numbers of long-lived projectiles.

Tips

• The damage per game tick caused by Damage Field is fixed, and cannot be increased by other modifiers.
  • You can, however, stack Damage Field's effect by casting multiple copies of the spell.
  • The damage penalty of Divide By does not affect the per-tick area damage.
• This modifier synergizes very well with spells that produce multiple projectiles in one shot, e.g. Triplicate Bolt and Freezing Gaze, and/or with larger multicast modifiers that spread projectiles wide, such as Quadruple Scatter Spell.
• It is also best used with long-lived projectiles that have multiple chances to contact an enemy, e.g. Bouncing Burst, Mist spells, Note spells and others.
• Homing modifiers (especially Projectile Area Teleport) keep the projectiles near enough to enemies to cause a constant damage-over-time effect, which is enough to quickly kill most enemies in Noita by itself.
• If an enemy fires a wand that produces a Damage Field, the field will still damage them and not you. The Twitchy debuff, or a Piercing Shot modifier on a projectile that you cast will also not cause you harm from the Damage Field, but will from the projectile itself.
  • This is because Damage Field can only hurt entities considered to be valid homing targets (i.e. those with the tag homing_target). You can, however, still be damaged while Polymorphed.
• The field of Damage Field will stretch out depending on the speed of a projectile, making speed increasing modifiers quite helpful.
  • This also applies to Nolla, but since the projectile will die after two frames, it can't actually do damage.

Trivia

• When a Damage Field causes your death, the cause of death is noted as (involving) "cursed rock".

Gallery

Pollen is a great spell to use with Damage Field due to its long life and built-in homing - and unlike other modifiers, Damage Field doesn't make Pollen deadlier to you.

History

• Apr 8 2024: Changed the spawn probabilities on tier 2 from 0.5 to 0.4, and tier 6 from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Dec 19 2019:
  • Decreased damage per tick from 3.75 to 3.5.
  • Changed description from "Surrounds the projectile with a damaging energy field" to "Surrounds the projectile with an energy field that constantly deals 3.5 damage to nearby creatures".

• Oct 11 2019: Added to the game.

References

 

Spells

 

Projectile

 

Static

 

Passive

 

Utility

 

Modifier

 

Material

 

Multicast

 

Other

• Wand and Spell Tiers
• Spell Information Table
• Modding:Spell IDs
• Unlockable spells