SPOILER How Corruption Affects People

Something I've been wondering for a while... How does corruption affect people? Like if you're attacked by a corupted mob, such as a zombie will you become corrupted? Or will you just, simply die (assuming it's lethal)...

I only wonder, cause I see entities such as "Undead Miners" in areas of the jungle, or at least I remember seeing them... how did the miners become undead? I'm assuming it's referring to miners that came through the portal...

Still, how did they become undead? Are they corrupted? And what corrupted them if so? And why don't mobs corrupt people if the miners somehow got corrupted... Overall, what level of corruption causes it to spread to a living being?

Current Definition:

Corruption affects all things, eventually taking them over. It affects humans slower, slowly leading from anger to insanity, to total corruption. Once dead, corruption is able to easily take control of the corpse as long as it is relatively intact. The player never becomes corrupted because when they die they go to deaths realm and are always able to defeat the creature they were killed by. It also seems that the exposure to the corruption has to be continuous or it will reset. This may be false and is based on the effects of the corruption spike in the corrupted village immediately diminishing after its exploded.

What I’m still wondering is, how do entities like Bakal come to be, that have significant powers or are tied to the corruption. Like powers granted by it like Garoths, Bakals, etc.

 

I'm pretty sure the lore states that anyone who fights the corrupted in turn slowly become corrupted themselves; which is what happend to Skiens's soldier which attacked him with Locrian. Also this applies to us, which means that even though we're supposed to be this grand heroes that save the world, we are slowly becoming corrupt due to exposure to corruption.

 

basically The Walking Dead

 

So exposure over time to corruption leads to becoming corrupt. Being instantly killed by corruption doesn’t. What about exposure to corruption over time as a corpse

 

This. Basically if you die and most of your body is intact, you become undead/corrupted.

 

It kinda depends. For example, on that one discovery with Bak’al, he kills a farmer and the farmer becomes undead. Other times like in VIP town it doesn’t show the townsfolk becoming undead instantly. So it’s more of a probability, and the longer something is expose to corruption, the more likely it’s going to become corrupt.

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That’s the best answer I could figure; I wouldn’t expect Grian or anyone that actually wrote the lore to answer your question.

 

but what happens when you die? Let's say you were in the nether for 4 days and that has a "large chance" of corrupting you, when you die does that reset?

 

Honestly who knows

 

If the wound is fatal and causes a quick death, the affected person dies and is resurrected as an undead corrupted. However, if the wound causes death over an extended period of time (like a stab to the stomach or severing of an arm), the person becomes a corrupted. If a person enters the nether without proper protection, they also become a corrupted. The difference between becoming corrupted via contact with other corrupteds and corruption via entering the nether is that when becoming corrupted via contact with others will make you unintelligible and mindless, but those who get corrupted from entering the nether retain intelligence but are influenced to destroy others. Undead corrupteds obviously lose their intelligence after becoming resurrected. Examples of corrupteds would be Bak’al and Theorick, who both retained their intelligence after entering the nether and coming out corrupted, but changed their alignment (good -> evil). Corrupteds would be something like the mobs in the nether or those things around corruption spikes around Wynn. Undead corrupteds are stuff like zombies, skeletons and such. The only intelligent undead corrupted known at this point is Witherhead, but it is currently not established whether she was resurrected due to corruption or due to another source. It is currently not known whether CoW and Charon are corrupteds or undead corrupteds, while CoW is probably the former, Charon may be something else entirely. If someone is not affected by corruption directly through a wound or by entering the nether, their communicative and cognitive skills begin to drop. It also causes the people in the surrounding vicinity of the source of corruption to be agitated more easily. This can be seen in the corrupted village, where (most likely) due to problems with communication, there is lots of anger in the village. This is all caused by the corruption spike near the village.




@SPYROHAWK how fucked up was that
very I presume

 

Corruption can't be predicted. How it affects random things is absolutely chaotic and strange. It'll affect a villager one way and affect a human another.

Like one guy said "Light and Darkness should never mix. The result of them doing this is chaos. Pure, virulent chaos."

 

I think its like radiation. It can only be noticed after symptoms starts developing

 

If we're going by what the lore tells us, as soon as you enter the nether you become FULLY corrupted.

 

Why don't you go get corrupted then tell us? That way we don't have to assume by lore

 

If I could I would

 

The player?

When the player enters they enter a state of unstoppable rage.

I don't know how they manage to keep themselves from being corrupted fully, but.

Anyways, in lore the player doesn't even step inside of the Nether. Never

 

Holy crap, can you just hit the stupid return key? Thanks.

(the following applies to players, or in other words, humans)
Anyway, once something dies (or at least a person), don't they go to death's realm and are given the chance to beat up the thing they died to? As for what happens if they don't succeed, maybe that's when they MIGHT become corrupted. Of course, they won't retain their intelligence because they're dead.

However, the player always beats whatever it was that killed them, hence why the player always is resurrected.

By the way, it's pretty funny how you could walk into the Orange Wybel's room and die at level 1, but still be resurrected by beating the Wybel in the "afterlife".

Also, it doesn't really matter whether or not you were slowly killed by a level 1 Weak Zombie or killed in one second by the Corrupter of Worlds, you get the same result.

Who needs lore and speculation when we have IN GAME MECHANICS, right? :D

As for nerds like Theorick, they probably were never killed, just exposed to corruption. Notice how all the HUMANS (witherhead might be a villager, who knows) we know for SURE that are corrupted and intelligent walked through the portal. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

So, exposure to corruption overtime leads to becoming corrupt. If you’re killed by a corrupt being instantly you go to deaths realm. If you beat it there you come back, if not you’re dead. If you’re killed by something and your god you is still in tact you become corrupted... although what about that huge pit in Wynn that houses the bodies of the people who were killed by corrupteds.

Why didn’t they come back?

Edit: I just checked it said the miners who discovered the portal that weren’t immediately killed were executed so to the insanity brought by the corruption

 

Witherhead wasn’t a villager, she was Bob’s mom, meaning she is a Dernic Human.

 

Bobs mom was completely human. His father was unknown. There’s no proof witherhead is bobs mom

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According to the poisoning the pest quest, even if a dead body is exposed to corruption it will come back as long as it’s in tact.

 

actually there is, like so much proof.
1. nobody (except you) went back into the decrepit sewers after the first ragni invasion, which was before the villagers arrived.
2. there’s a discovery literally next to the decrepit sewers, so basically there’s this tomb in the sewers which says “May the woman who died here in tonight’s raid Rest In Peace. Though we do not know her name, her legacy will live on through her Son.” This means that Bob’s mom was buried in the sewers. Behind the Grave there is a trail of black bones, which clearly means that Bob’s mom is Witherhead.