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Plaguehearts are a bonus item introduced with the Season 03: Plaguefall update. For every 6 Plaguehearts collected 1 ScripScrip can be claimed at the Season Terminal on the Space Rig, up to a maximum of 15 ScripScrip, so long as seasons 3 or 4 were active when collected. When deposited, they will give 300 Performance Points (Performance Points) to the team upon mission completion (85 Performance Points if the mission is failed) regardless of which season is active, also rewarded with 250 Experience Points per heart, which is multiplied by the Hazard Bonus.

If a mission is failed, as long as the Plaguehearts were deposited, players will still be able to claim their Scrip progression, as well as some of the experience and credits they grant.

Events

Three types of events can randomly happen during missions: Meteor Impacts, Rockpox Corruptors and Meteor Showers. The game rolls for them in two ways. It will roll once for a meteor impact or a corruptor with 25% to 33% chance depending on missions length. If successful, it will choose one or the other with a 50% chance. It will also try for a meteor shower with 25% to 33% chance depending on missions length, making those possible in conjunction with the other events.[1]

Impacts can open Dreadnought eggs during Elimination, or damage the Drilldozer during Escort Duty.

Meteor Impact

Heads up, team! A meteor is about to impact your area! Clear the impact zone, immediately!
— Mission Control


Impact of a Lithophage meteorite

The Meteor Impact event can randomly happen once to twice in any mission, barring those with the Lithophage Outbreak warning. It will kill anything in the impact zone with diminished damage to the dwarves the further of the center and turn the surface around it into hot rock.

After the crash, two Rock Cracker pods can be called down and connected to the meteorite. Once started, the machines will deplete the meteorite's integrity (shown as a bar along the top of the screen) and will need maintenance and protection as they attract waves of creatures. Note that it is slightly more efficient to fix the pods before they fall to 0% "health" than to fix them up from a broken state[2].

Upon completion, the meteor explodes, revealing 3 to 4 Plaguehearts inside. Mission Control will give a response when all Plaguehearts from the meteorite are deposited.

Meteor Impact Event (Large Meteor)
Impact Damage Death Explosion
  • Area Damage: 2250 Melee
  • Damage Radius: 22m
  • Max Damage Radius: 7m
  • Minimum Damage: 10%
  • Friendly Fire: 10%
  • Area Damage: 2500 Explosive
  • Damage Radius: 30m
  • Max Damage Radius: 30m
  • Friendly Fire: 0%

 •  The objective is to crack the Lithophage meteorite.

Meteor Shower

Lithophage meteorite fragments are about to impact in your vicinity! Stay alert!
— Mission Control


Impact of Lithophage meteorite fragments

The Meteor Shower event can randomly happen once to twice in any mission. 4 to 7 fragments will arrive, killing everything in the impact zone and turning the surface around them into hot rock.

After the crash, they can be cracked open with 5 pickaxe hits. One of the fragments is guaranteed to have 1 Plagueheart inside; the rest of them have a 2% chance of having one[3].

Unlike the larger impact event, meteor showers can happen in missions with the Lithophage Outbreak warning.

Meteor Fragment
Impact Damage
  • Area Damage: 1500 Kinetic
  • Damage Radius: 8m
  • Max Damage Radius: 2m
  • Minimum Damage: 15%
  • Friendly Fire: 15%

 •  The objective is to crack the Lithophage meteorite fragments.

Rockpox Corruptor

Cleansing Pod is on-site! Direct all of your focus to the Lithophage Corruptor, Team!
— Dwarf Shout


A Rockpox Corruptor being cleansed

The Rockpox Corruptor has a 50% chance to replace a Meteor Impact whenever one happens[4][5]. It's a hostile roaming creature that slowly wanders around leaving a trail of Rockpox infested terrain, which is capable of spawning Rockpox Larvae.

When located, a Cleansing Pod can be called by interacting with it. Similar to the Lithophage Outbreak mutator, it is necessary to apply foam on the creature's yellow Rockpox boils and then vacuum. When repeated, this process destroys plates of heavy armor, allowing players to start dealing damage. When first hit with the cleansing tools, its boss healthbar appears, and it begins to occasionally attack players. Its initial attack is a telegraphed AoE slam. Eventually it adds a second attack where it sends out a sequence of three damaging Rockpox tendrils that travel along the ground toward players.

Beneath each heavy armor plate is a blue x5 weakpoint that has 160 base health. When broken, each weakpoint deals additional damage to the Corruptor, sufficient to kill it if all three weakpoints are destroyed.

When eliminated, it drops multiple Plaguehearts for collection.

 •  The objective is to eliminate the Rockpox Corruptor.

Rockpox Corruptor
Effective

Health Scaling

Hazard Level
Normal Mission Icons Difficulty ToughEnemies.png


1 2 3 4 5 TE 1

TE 2

Player Count Dwarfcount1.png 3240 4680 5760 7200 8640 12960 15120
Dwarfcount2.png 3960 5400 6480 7200 8640 12960 15120
Dwarfcount3.png 5040 6480 7200 8640 10080 15120 17640
Dwarfcount4.png 6120 7200 7920 9360 10800 16200 18900

The Rockpox Corruptor has 50% Kinetic resistance, 50% Explosive resistance, and 70% Electric resistance.

Slam
AoE Attack
Area Damage Hazard Level
Normal Mission Icons Difficulty PlayerVulnerability.png DD EDD
1 2 3 4 5 PV 1 PV 2 3 3.5 4.5 5 5.5
Player Count Dwarfcount1.png 17.5 24.5 42 70 98 147 196 42 52.5 80.5 98 105
Dwarfcount2.png 17.5 28 45.5 75.25 105 157.5 210 45.5 56 85.75 105 112
Dwarfcount3.png 17.5 31.5 49 80.5 112 168 224 49 59.5 91 112 119
Dwarfcount4.png 17.5 35 52.5 87.5 119 178.5 238 52.5 63 98 119 126
Details
Damage Type Melee
Dwarf for scale (1.5 m)

Radius: 5 m
Maximum Damage Radius: 3 m
Minimum Area Damage: 40 %

Subterranean Tendrils
AoE Attack
Area Damage Hazard Level
Normal Mission Icons Difficulty PlayerVulnerability.png DD EDD
1 2 3 4 5 PV 1 PV 2 3 3.5 4.5 5 5.5
Player Count Dwarfcount1.png 9 12.6 21.6 36 50.4 75.6 100.8 21.6 27 41.4 50.4 54
Dwarfcount2.png 9 14.4 23.4 38.7 54 81 108 23.4 28.8 44.1 54 57.6
Dwarfcount3.png 9 16.2 25.2 41.4 57.6 86.4 115.2 25.2 30.6 46.8 57.6 61.2
Dwarfcount4.png 9 18 27 45 61.2 91.8 122.4 27 32.4 50.4 61.2 64.8
Details
Damage Type Melee
Dwarf for scale (1.5 m)

Radius: 1.2 m
Maximum Damage Radius: 0.7 m
Minimum Area Damage: 50 %

Status Effect +28% Rockpox Infection Progress every 0.8s for 0.7s


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