Lifestealer

Lifestealer
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	100 ♥×50
Attack damage	7
Armor	16
Speed	0.26
Follow range	30
Knockback resist.	0.9
Size	0.9 × 2.6 blocks
Fire immune	Yes
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:lifestealer

The Lifestealer is a hostile mob added by Born in Chaos that hunts players at night in dark places. It has two forms: a melee-only Lifestealer that transforms into a much tougher true form the first time it is damaged or the first time it hits a living entity. The true form drains health from players with a stacking Lifesteal effect and can hold them in place with Stranglehold. It is one of the mod's undead-type mobs, so it is affected by effects and items that target the undead entity type.

In Fear Nightfall, the Lifestealer is a night threat across most of the overworld, including the horror biomes, and it can appear in caves and underground areas where there is no sky light. The true form is never spawned naturally; it exists only as the transformation of the first form.

Spawning

The Lifestealer spawns naturally only in the overworld, in biomes tagged as overworld biomes or in the Terralith biome set, and not in Deep Dark or Mushroom Fields. Each spawn attempt also requires:

• world time of at least 228,400 ticks (nine full in-game days plus 12,400 ticks, so it starts appearing shortly after sunset on the tenth day and continues from then on);
• a light level of 4 or less where the sky is visible above the spawn position, or a light level of 0 where it is not, which means open-sky night and caves both qualify;
• the lifestealerSpawn gamerule set to true, which is the default.

Groups are always a single Lifestealer. The spawn weight and biome list are in the table above.

Behavior

Lifestealer (first form)

The first form is a melee-only mob with 100 health (50 hearts), 16 armor and 7 attack damage. It walks at a speed of 0.26, has a follow range of 30 blocks, and resists knockback almost completely (0.9). It attacks players within about 1.4 blocks, with line of sight required. It is immune to fire, falling, cactus, drowning, lightning, tridents, arrows and the Wither effect.

It transforms in two situations:

• When damaged. Once its health falls below its maximum, it is removed and a true form is summoned in its place, facing the same direction. The first form therefore does not survive being hit, and it drops no loot because it is discarded rather than killed.
• When it attacks. When it damages a living entity, it is removed in the same way, and the victim receives the Lifesteal effect for 260 ticks (13 seconds).

Lifestealer (true form)

The true form has 100 health, 15 armor, 7 attack damage, a speed of 0.28 and full knockback resistance. It has a melee reach of about 1.6 blocks. It gives 50 experience when killed. Its immunities match the first form.

Appearance. When the true form is summoned, it has Resistance V, the Block Break effect and Slowness VII for 35 ticks. Its appearance animation starts on its next tick, and those three effects are removed as it begins.

Attacking. Each successful hit on a player who is not blocking with a shield does two things:

• applies the Lifesteal effect for 260 ticks (13 seconds);
• if the target already has Lifesteal, applies Stranglehold for 360 ticks (18 seconds) instead;
• heals the true form by 5 health.

Blocking with a shield prevents the effects and the healing. In that case the shield loses 20 durability and the true form is given Slowness II for 15 ticks.

Dark Splash. When the true form is hit and its health is between 15 and 70 (that is, at most 30 below its maximum and above 15), it is given the Dark Splash effect and Slowness VII for 60 ticks each. It then performs its splash animation. This triggers once per hit that brings it into that range while it is not already in Block Break or Dark Splash.

Terrain. Both forms turn the water surface beneath them into Dark Ice when they stand over water, kelp or seagrass with air above it. This is the only terrain change they make.

Death. The true form is removed 20 ticks after death. The player who kills it is awarded a Born in Chaos advancement.

Drops

The first form drops nothing, because it transforms rather than dying. Loot comes from the true form:

Item	Amount	Conditions
Seed of Chaos	x3.0-5.0
Lifestealer Skull	x1.0-1.0
Piece of Dark Metal	x7.0-10.0 +looting bonus
Lifestealer Bone	x3.0-5.0 +looting bonus

Lifestealer Bones and Pieces of Dark Metal gain extra drops from looting, while Seeds of Chaos do not. The Lifestealer Skull drops once every time. Pieces of Dark Metal are the material described on Dark Metal.

Lifestealer

No item drops.

Lifestealer (true form)

Item	Amount	Conditions
Seed of Chaos	x3.0-5.0
Lifestealer Skull	x1.0-1.0
Piece of Dark Metal	x7.0-10.0 +looting bonus
Lifestealer Bone	x3.0-5.0 +looting bonus

Variants

Two mobs make up the Lifestealer. Their combined stats are listed below:

The first form is what spawns in the world. The true form is only created by a transformation, so its spawn egg is the only way to place one directly.

Related items

• Lifestealer Spawn Egg (Lifestealer Spawn Egg) spawns the first form.
• Lifestealer True Form Spawn Egg (Lifestealer Spawn Egg) spawns the true form directly.
• Lifestealer Bone (Lifestealer Bone) is a fire-resistant material used in two crafting recipes, including Dark Atrium. It is tagged as unusual loot.
• Lifestealer Skull (Lifestealer Skull) is a decorative skull block that emits light (light level 3). It is dropped by the true form.

Tips

• Expect the first hit to end the first form. Any damage it takes turns it into the true form, so plan for the true form fight from the first blow.
• Hold a shield up when the true form swings. Blocking stops the Lifesteal effect and its healing, and the Slowness it gets from a blocked hit is short.
• Lifesteal lasts 13 seconds and Stranglehold lasts 18 seconds. Staying out of reach while those timers run out is safer than trading hits.
• Watch its health bar. Between roughly 70 and 15 health it is preparing a Dark Splash, which is the attack most likely to catch you in the open.
• Because it spawns in darkness and caves, carry light when exploring at night. Its immunity to arrows means ranged attacks will not hurt it.