Perks

Description

Perks are a large assortment of passive abilities that the player obtains as they descend deeper into the mountain, augmenting the player and their abilities in many ways.

A set of three perks are offered at the end of each Holy Mountain that the player visits. Upon selecting one, the other two perks disappear.

List of Perks

Icon	Name	Message	Notes
	Critical Hit +	Increased critical hit chance.	Affects all of the player's spells.
	Breathless	You won't drown when submerged.	Immunity to suffocating in liquids, gasses, and even being buried in powders, like snow and coal. You will still be damaged by acid and lava. If you are polymorphed into a small worm or similar and transform back while inside of a wall, you will not suffocate in the wall.
	Greed	You gain 2x gold per nugget.
	Trick Greed	4x instead of 2x gold is dropped when death is an accident.	Extra gold spawns on the condition that the enemy dies via physics kills, chemistry kills, and infighting kills.
	Strong Levitation	You can fly 100% longer.	Your levitation bar is doubled. Because it is a direct extension, to recharge your flight to max capacity, you must also wait on the ground for twice as long.
	Faster Movement	Your movement speed is increased.	You move about ~40% faster.
	Low Gravity	Your movement is floatier and you jump and fly higher.	Greatly reduces the player's gravity, making it far easier to remain airborne, yet reduces your falling speed.
	Faster Swimming	You are an expert swimmer!
	Never Skip Leg Day	Your kicks deal extra damage and knockback.
	Repelling Cape	Stains drop at a fast rate (when moving).	Stains go away much faster while you are moving. This also applies to potions, making the effects they grant much harder to maintain. Synergizes well with perks that require a clean cape, such as Invisibility or Stainless Armor.
	Exploding Corpses	Enemies explode upon death.	Explosions often scatter gold, set off traps, and start fires. By destroying at least most of the corpse, this perk may lessen the amount of blood and overall clutter.
	Saving Grace	If you would die and have more than 1 HP, your HP is set to 1 instead.	Prevents death from a single high-power attack, but is ineffective against rapid damage.
	Invisibility	You're invisible. Stains, casting spells, kicking and taking damage removes the effect temporarily.	Grants the player an infinite Invisiblium effect. Synergizes well with Repelling Cape.
	More Blood	Blood blood blood.	All creatures (including the player) bleed more. This includes non-standard blood, such as creatures who bleed slime or lava when hurt.
	All Seeing Eye	You can now see everywhere.	Removes all darkness from the world, revealing the entire screen without needing to see an area first.
	Vampirism	You regain health from drinking blood, but lose one third of your max health.	Press down in red blood to consume it and gain health. Max Health removed is calculated from your current total Max Health.
	Extra HP	50% extra max health.	Bonus calculated from player's current maximum Health.
	Extra Maximum HP from Hearts	Hearts give double the maximum HP.	Increases from +25 to +50 for large HP up, and from +10 to +20 for small HP up.
	Glass Cannon	Your spells deal 5x damage and have larger blast ranges, but your maximum health is capped to 50.	Explosions and blasts caused by the player are 5x larger. Health reduction can stack with Vampirism and Destruction.
	Extra Life	Upon death you respawn with 100 health.	Upon dying, you do not actually 'respawn' somewhere safe - you are still in the same predicament. This perk merely sets your health to 100 if you lose all of it, and only once.
	Worm Attractor	Worms of the world come to you.
	Worm Detractor	Worms of the world run from you.
	Fire Immunity	You take no damage from fire.	You can no longer be set on fire. Does not prevent damage from lava, fiery explosions, and direct fire attacks, like those from a Stendari.
	Toxic Sludge Immunity	You take no damage from toxic sludge.	Prevents the toxic sludge stain, causing toxic sludge to remove stains instead. Does not prevent damage from acid, frozen acid, frozen toxic sludge, toxic rock, toxic gas, poison liquid, and poison stains.
	Explosion Immunity	You take no direct damage from explosions.	Player is still affected by harmful material generated by certain explosions, including fire, toxic sludge, acid, electricity, and freezing vapour.
	Melee Immunity	You take no damage from close-range enemy attacks.	Can cause many enemies to become completely harmless to the player.
	Electricity Immunity	You take no damage from electric shocks.	This perk may be preferable over the Electricity perk, due to the latter being capable of activating traps.
	Teleportitis	Damage is reduced by 20%. Every time you take damage, you teleport away.	Any amount of damage (including damage-over-time effects like fire or toxic sludge) will make player randomly teleport to a random off-screen location. Can teleport into harmful material, such as lava or acid. Blocked damage will still trigger the teleport effect.
	Stainless Armour	You take 50% less damage as long as you have no active stain status effect.	Synergizes well with Repelling Cape.
	Edit Wands Everywhere	Divine blessing allows you to edit wands everywhere.	Enables the editing of wands outside of Holy Mountains. Allows you to strip away the spells from any wand you find, as well as replace spells with depleted charges with fresh counterparts on a whim.
	Bombs Materialized	Bomb-like spells can be placed in the ITEMS space in inventory and thrown without a wand.	Applies to TNT, Bombs, and Holy Bombs.
	Homing Shots	All your spells home towards enemies very slightly.	Static projectiles such as Death Cross and Slime Mist will reliably follow targets, while fast projectiles like Magic Arrow will only shift slightly.
	Boomerang Spells	Almost all your spells arc towards you; you have higher projectile resistance.	Be wary of using explosives with this perk. Long-lasting spells, such as Dormant Crystal, can follow you around indefinitely. Conversely, high-velocity spells like Spark Bolt may curve up or down in an odd manner due to their attraction to you. This quirk can throw off your aim, so this perk is not recommended for novice players.
	Freeze Field	Freezes liquids around you.	Extinguishes fires, and will not freeze liquids that do not have a frozen material counterpart (like oil or magic potions). Frozen toxic sludge will still damage the player with Toxic Sludge Immunity.
	Dissolve Powders	Sand and other soft, powdery materials dissolve quickly in your presence.	The player's touch will instantly destroy things like Coal, Gunpowder, Sand, solid terrain Snow, Bone Dust, and more. See the Materials page for more details.
	Slime Blood	You bleed slime.	Hidden stat of 50% projectile resistance. Slime does not slow you.
	Oil Blood	You bleed fast-burning oil.	Hidden stat of 40% explosion resistance.
	Permanent Shield	You gain a small, permanent shield.	A small shield will make smaller projectiles bounce off and break after a certain amount of damage. The shield will reappear shortly after breaking. Stacks with other shield spells for increased protection. Damaging projectiles bounce off of shields, potentially hitting enemies or explosives. Due to its smallness, the shield may not always protect you from very high-velocity or large-hitbox projectiles.
	Revenge Explosion	Often when you take damage, you release a magical explosion that hurts enemies.	The perk will trigger on any amount of damage. Your explosion can activate other explosives and create fires.
	Revenge Tentacle	You call a monstrous tentacle against those who harm you.
	Lukki Mutation	You grow curious additional limbs that fight for you.
	Plague Rats	Enemies that die near you spawn hungry rats to serve your bidding.	Rats no longer attempt to harm you.
	Electricity	You're immune to electric damage but metal and liquids electrify around you constantly. Look out!	Electrified metals and liquids can cause combustion and activation of explosive boxes. It also makes collecting flasks in liquids much harder.
	Attract Physical Items	Physical items such as gold nuggets gravitate towards you.
	Extra Enemy Knockback	Your spells knock enemies back more.	This perk is likely to cause any enemy to flinch, at the expense of flinging them far away. Useful for fighting melee enemies. When using weak, but fast spells like Bouncing Burst, you may find yourself disadvantaged by the fact that your aim is thrown off by the enemy's recoiling.
	Concentrated Spells	Your spells have lower spread but they push you back more.	In addition to the direct benefit of more accurate spells, the added recoil can be used as a crude jetpack or jump extender by firing opposite of where you wish to go. Might slow digging operations, as you will be pushed back from whatever you're digging without careful spell arrangement.
	Bouncing Spells	Almost all your spells bounce around.	This perk will cause spells like Energy Orb and Magic Missile to no longer immediately detonate on impact with terrain. As a result, their digging potential becomes greatly hampered.
	Extra Perk	Every temple from now on spawns an additional perk to choose from.
	Perk Lottery	When you pick a perk, there's a 50% chance the others won't disappear.	Can also trigger when Perk Lottery itself is first picked.
	More Hatred	Creatures in the world are more aggressive towards each other.	Causes enemies not of the same group (e.g. Hurtta and Haulikkohiisi) to attack each other on sight. May cause a loss of gold from off-screen deaths.
	More Love	Creatures in the world are more friendly to each other.	Reduces infighting, such as making most enemies passive to Rats.

Essences

Essences are special perks that are not in the normal perk rotation, and instead only spawn in specific locations on the map. Having 4 or more essences in hand allows the player to break open the Moon.

Icon	Name	Message	Notes
	Essence of Fire	Your entire being is fluctuating!	Found in the center of the island at the Lake, under the wooden statue. Explodes few tiles around player, blocks invisibility, and may set the player on fire if player isn't wet or immune to fire.
	Essence of Water	The earth flows around your being!	Found in ??? to the left of The Work (Hell). Regularly shoots a "touch"-type projectile from the player in a random direction from the player, which turns a small radius around whatever material it hits into lava.
	Essence of Air	Your being controls the air around you!	Found in ??? in the center of the Cloudscape. Regularly shoots air blast projectiles in a circle around the player, pushing away powders, enemies, and objects.
	Essence of Earth	Your being releases damaging light!	Found in ??? along the map's east wall. Every few seconds it fire 8 evenly-spaced explosive projectiles from the player that destroys terrain. The explosions can damage the player unless the player has Explosion Immunity.
	Essence of Spirits	That was not the best of ideas	Found in ??? at the bottom of the Lake. Adds an alcohol trail to all your projectiles (may result in major lag with very fast wands), and makes the player permanently afflicted with the drunk status.