Corruption

Corruption is unavoidable in the Drakalor Chain for any PC who wants to make progress in the game. It is a background process that happens as a result of the chaos gate at the bottom of the Caverns of Chaos being open. Some locations remain free of corruption despite the gate being open, notably those near the surface of the Drakalor Chain. In order to get anything done, however, the PC must descend into corrupting areas. It is only a matter of time after that until the first corruption occurs. After ninety days of game time elapses, corruption rate doubles. After the gate is closed, background corruption ceases, which is nice if the PC wants to play tourist for a while. However, corruption can still be caused by artifacts that corrupt as well as corrupting hits from monsters.

Note that the possible corruptions occur in random order (not the order listed on this page) which is decided at the beginning of the game. However, if one or more corruptions are removed, the RNG is reseeded and the corruptions will reoccur in a new random order. As of 1.2.0p4, 18 corruptions from the below list are chosen at random when starting the game.