Nightmare mode

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Nightmare

For a more challenging experience.
Unlock this mode by beating the game.

Nightmare mode is an extra difficulty that is unlocked upon completing the game. It is designed as a built-in mod to the vanilla game in which enemies deal double damage, are more aggressive, and some biome changes apply.

Notable changes

Some of the notable changes are:

  • You start the game with 3 random early game wands, three random perks, and the Tinker with Wands Everywhere perk. These perks do not disappear when one of the perks is selected.
  • You take extra damage:
    • 3x damage from melee and poison
    • 2x damage from projectiles, explosions, electricity, fire, drill, slice, toxic and ice (single fire Immunity is not sufficient).
  • The list of materials for 'magical' potion spawns has been modified:
  • Enemies have more HP and attack faster, by an increasing amount per biome. See the table below for exact values. Kolmisilmä is not affected by this buff.
  • Enemies will drop only 1/4 of the gold that they would normally drop for the amount of maximum HP they have.
  • Enemies have a 1 in 15 chance to spawn with a perk.
  • Enemies have a low chance to spawn with a wand.
  • The map layout is different and often randomized.
  • Terrain in the Coal Pits is covered with diamonds.
  • Orbs of Knowledge will be visually replaced by a corrupted variant, but will not do any damage.
    • If you have already acquired it, you will receive the health increase as normal, but if you are in non-nightmare mode and have not acquired it, it will drop the bug spell and will not allow you to unlock spells. Common Issues and Fixes
  • The Invisibility perk is removed.
  • The game recognizes this mode as an (internal) mod.

Enemy scaling

Biome HP multiplier Attack speed multiplier
Mines/Collapsed Mines 3x 2x
Coal Pits/Snowy Depths 2x 2x
Hiisi Base 3.5x 2x
Fungal Caverns 7x 2x
Pyramid 7x 2.5x
snowcave_tunnel

(Not spawn anywhere)

7.5x 2x
Underground Jungle 9x 2x
Sandcave 10x 2.5x
The Vault 12.5x 2x
Desert/Cloudscape 15x 2x
forest

(Not spawn anywhere)

15x 2x
Temple of the Art 15x 3.33x
Magical Temple 16x 2x
Frozen Vault 16x 4x
The Work (Hell)/The Work (Sky) 50x 10x

Wand scaling

Depth (in chunks) Wand Tier
~8 2
9~12 3
13~16 4
17~20 5
21~32 6
33~ 10

See also