If they don't get The Blood by the next check, they will die.

If given The Blood in the wasting stage they will become passive. Everything in this stage is the same as craving, but the party member also gets +10% deathblow resistance. If the party member is not given The Blood for long enough during the craving phase, they will go into the wasting stage. After long enough, the Bloodlust will pass and the party member will become passive again. If The Blood is given to them in this stage, they will take massive stress damage (35-40) but gain +50% damage and +4 speed for 3 rounds. However, the party member will also do random actions that harm the party. If the infected party member is given The Blood during this phase, they will go to the Bloodlust phase.ĭuring the Bloodlust phase, the party member only gets buffs - specifically +25% damage, +4 speed, and +15% resistance to bleed, blight, and stun. They will also do random actions similar those of stress afflictions - like hurting allies, passing turns, causing stress to increase, etc. If you don't feed them The Blood, you'll move into the second stage of craving.ĭuring the craving phase, the effects of the debuffs/buffs are doubled. Giving the infected party member The Blood in this stage will increase their dodge by 7 and increase their speed by 3 for three rounds.ĭuring passive phase a prompt will sometimes come up, similar to the hunger prompt, that asks you to feed your party member The Blood. All this stage entails is a few debuffs and a +1 speed buff. The disease has four stages, and giving blood to the infected party member has different effects at different stages.įirst is the passive stage. The Crimson Curse essentially turns the infected party member into a vampire, which comes with downsides and upsides (but of course, in typical Darkest Dungeon fashion it's mostly downsides). The Blood is a lot more complicated than Laudanum, because it's tied to the new disease called the Crimson Curse. Laudanum is a supply, so it can be bought from the supply trader in addition to the random drops of it you'll get from dungeons. Stress will steadily increase every turn if horror is not treated with something like Laudanum. It acts a lot like bleeding, but with added stress.

Horror is a status ailment that's been in the game since before the expansion. Laudanum is probably the simplest of the new items. So in this short guide, we're going to go over both those items and what you need to be doing with them. This is especially true for Laudanum and The Blood. But some of those new items are giving players trouble, as their uses aren't entirely clear.

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