Status Effects

In Beasts of Bermuda, your creature can get a Status Effect, which can be viewed by opening the character tab (default key “O”), and hovering your mouse over the square icons that are shown above your creature. Each Status Effect has its own unique icon for easy identification. Status Effects are buffs and/or debuffs that affect your creature based on environmental factors.

Below is a list of all in-game Status Effects and their descriptions, directly quoted from the game.

Adrenaline

• You have recently been in a thrilling fight. Enemyships do not apply additional, negative comfort for this time.

Alarm Call

• You have been spotted by a nearby herd. They are very aware of your presence.

Beached

• You are beached! Head back to the water before you die.

• You are very slow and vulnerable on the beach, and your comfort has significantly dropped.

Bleeding

• You are bleeding. Until bleed is healed, you cannot recover comfort or health.

• Bleed heals more rapidly if sitting or resting.

• While moving, bleed will slowly worsen. Stand still to recover from bleed.

Claustrophobia

• Being in this underground place stresses you greatly.

• This cramped place makes it hard to hunt. You deal less damage than normal.

Dehydrated

• You are dehydrated, and are dying of thirst.

• Find some freshwater to drink. The Ocean is not drinkable.

Enhanced Growth

• Due to incliment weather, you grow quite a bit faster.

• Given the direness of the weather, you feel less stressed from other, nearby creatures.

Food Poisoning

• A recent meal had spoiled, and you are suffering from food poisoning.

• To sniff out spoiled meat, use your scent. Red smelling carcasses are fresh. Yellow and green ones have gone rancid.

• Some nearby herbs may help with enduring this condition. They are edible to carnivores and herbivores.

Full Group

• Your group size exceeds that of this server’s limits, causing a severe comfort drop.

Grabbed

• You are grabbed. You cannot move, but you can struggle by attacking.

Healthy Herbs

• You have been eating quite healthy! The herbs you have eaten recently have boosted your comfort.

• This improves the rate at which you heal, gain ability power, gain stamina, recover from injury, gain points, and grow.

• This effect decays over time, but can become quite powerful if you continue eating more herbs.

High Water Pressure

• The pressure from heading too deep is causing you stress.

• Head to shallower water to alleviate this stress.

• Larger creatures are capable of going deeper in the water. Growing a bit will also help.

Injured

• You have been injured! Your movement is slower than usual.

• To more rapidly recover from injury, sit or lie down.

• Injury is dealt from fall damage or from heavy hits from other creatures.

Intimidated

• The presence of nearby, potentially hostile creatures stresses you out.

• If exposed to this stress for a prolonged period of time, you will die.

• Carnivores not in your group will stress you out. Larger ones are more stressful than tiny ones.

• To alleviate this stress, move away from carnivorous players.

Intimidating Roar

• You have been intimidated by a terrifying roar. It has reduced your damage output.

Near Children

• Being near your hatchlings makes you happy. You grow more quickly than normal.

Near Friends

• The presence of nearby, friendly creatures allows you to relax, improving your comfort.

• This improvement in comfort increases how rapidly your stamina, ability power, and HP recover.

Necrophobia

• Nearby Corpses are stressing you out, dropping your comfort.

• Distance yourself from nearby carcasses to remove this effect.

On Fire

• Coming into contact with fires will apply this debuff for 10 seconds. While on fire, you take periodic damage.

• Entering water alleviates this condition.

Out Of Air

• You are out of air. Return to the surface and press the Use key to breathe!

• While out of air, you cannot sprint, attack, or do anything that requires ability or stamina.

Out Of Map Bounds

• You are out of bounds! While out of bounds, you take significant damage.

Overpopulation

• There are too many creatures of your type on the map.

• While there are too many creatures of your type, your growth rate is substantially reduced.

• To remove this debuff, other players of your creature type must die, log off, or there must be more players of other types online.

Pregnant

• You are carrying eggs.

• Until you lay your eggs, your food and water levels drop more rapidly.

• Your comfort is reduced as well. More eggs increase these effects.

Sand Attack

• You have sand in your eyes. It is very hard to see, run, and jump.

Satiated

• You have eaten well recently, and are enjoying a full belly.

Scenic

• Something about this particular area makes you happy. Your comfort is higher here.

Spiky Shield

• You reflect most incoming damage back at your attacker.

Stale Air

• You are too far from a burrow exit, and the air is getting stale.

• The stale air makes this place very uncomfortable.

Starving

• You are starving. Find some food or you will wither away.

• If an herbivore, plants can be eaten looking at them and holding the use keybind.

• If a piscivore, both carcasses and fish can be eaten.

• If a carnivore, only carcasses will suffice. Use your scent to sniff for any nearby carcasses.

Stressful Scene

• Something about the scene stresses you. Moving away will alleviate this condition.

Strong Bond

• You and your mate are close to one another.

• You receive a large boost to your Health, Stamina, and Ability Power.

Suffocation

• Being close to very significant amounts of fire, smoke, and ash will apply this debuff.

• This debuff starts your breath bar timer, as if you were drowning.

• Moving away will alleviate this condition.

Thalassophobic

• The deep ocean stresses you out.

• In order to alleviate the stress, head to shore!

The Elements

• The wind, rain, and elements are stressing you.

• Find shelter in a cave or underground area to take refuge from the weather.

Thin Air

• The air up here is very thin, making it hard to breathe.

• Up this high, you take damage and incur a substantial comfort drop.

Well Fed

• You are well fed, and have gained some weight!

• You move slower and lose stamina faster.

• You are less comfortable.

• You have more HP and heal faster!