All 98 Status Effects in Creatures of Sonaria: Stacking, Recovery, and Combat Rules

Status effects are the temporary buffs and debuffs that shape every fight and survival run in Creatures of Sonaria. Bleed stops your regen until you stand still, Fortify wipes most debuffs for a short immunity window, and blizzard hypothermia punishes anyone who stays out in the open. Each card here covers what an effect actually does, how its stacks behave, and the fastest way to shake it off. Creature resist tables and ability-application pages live elsewhere: this reference is about the ailments themselves.

How stacks and recovery actually work

Most ailments heal in stacks, not fixed real-time seconds. Dev tuning can change how fast a stack ticks down, so treat timing as stack-based rather than a guaranteed clock.

Your pose matters a lot. Sitting doubles ailment healing speed. Laying down quadruples it and also stops HP loss from hypothermia. A mud wallow speeds recovery further, and the Muddy buff doubles poison and bleed heal rate on top of a regen boost.

For combat DoTs, laying down also sets a safety floor: you stop losing HP from bleed, burn, or poison once you are down, even if stacks remain. That makes a full lay-down a valid panic button when you cannot reach shelter.

Fortify cleans most negative statuses and grants a brief immunity window. It does not touch hunger, thirst, plushie effects, or weather ailments. Divination charms strip two stacks each from major DoTs and control ailments on nearby packmates.

Combat debuffs: what to prioritize

Bleed, burn, and poison are the ailments players run into most. Bleed blocks HP regen and deals flat damage per stack; moving while bleeding blocks self-healing. Burn scales its regen penalty with stacks and can spawn Ashy Lungs. Poison drains a slice of max HP on a timer and pulls stamina per stack (ignore any misleading UI text about stamina regen).

Frostbite is a stacking survival tax: faster hunger drain, slower stamina regen, and longer bite cooldowns. Necropoison escalates through color tint, confusion, and ability lock at high stacks. Corrosion shaves weight while ticking damage. Radiation is a low DoT that also eats into your positive ailment block percentage.

Deep Wounds is the sneaky one: it blocks bleed healing entirely, so you need a cleanse or to wait it out before normal bleed recovery works again.

Control and mobility debuffs

These effects decide whether you can fight, fly, or eat at all. Freeze and Paralyze hard-lock actions. Slowed, Shock, and Confusion soften your options without a full stop. Shredded Wings and Broken Legs hit movement modes directly.

Realm hazards like Sticky Tar, Tangled Kelp, and Urchin Sickness block specific actions until you leave the hazard zone. Vision debuffs (Blurred Vision, Tunnel Vision, Inked) change awareness more than raw stats.

Fear and Scared look similar but behave differently: Fear cuts damage less but boosts speed more; Scared is tied to the Cower pose with a heavier damage penalty.

Ability buffs and cleanses

Temporary combat buffs come from active abilities and poses. Adrenaline and Unbridled Rage trade stamina sustain for damage and speed. Aggressive pose stacks damage while you hold still. Fortify, Harden, and Reflect are your defensive toolkit.

Escape Area and Speed Blitz are panic buttons for repositioning. Life Leech and Damage Link change how damage flows between targets. Lich Mark family buffs (Blessing's Boon, Malice's Mark) mix instant stamina with sustained healing.

When planning a fight, note which buffs stack duration versus which grant a one-time burst on apply.

Survival sustain and food pairing

Food and water statuses reward planning before a long hunt.

Satiated cuts hunger drain and speeds growth. Enriched boosts stamina and stamina regen with a long refreshable timer. They pair well: Satiated for growth sessions, Enriched for stamina-heavy combat or flight.

Clean Water, Spring Water, and Refreshed cover thirst-side sustain. Muddy is both a regen buff and a bleed/poison recovery accelerator. Healing Pulse adds a flat HP tick bonus that still works when bleed or burn blocks normal regen.

Pack and territory buffs (Pack Forager/Guard/Oracle/Scout, Pack Banner Protection, Territory, Migration Region) change how groups sustain and grow together.

Survival debuffs and resource drain

Hungry and Thirsty trigger direct damage when bars empty. Sickly from rotten food or dirty water drains needs faster and slows regen. Aftershock lingers after earthquake disasters with injury-style movement loss.

Avoid eating questionable carcasses or drinking from poisoned water after acid rain unless you want Sickly or Disease on top of everything else.

Weather and environmental ailments

Three cold-related effects confuse players because the names overlap:

• Frostbite comes from seasonal snow piles and combat abilities. It stacks hunger and stamina penalties.
• Hypothermia is blizzard exposure. It crushes stamina regen and drains HP unless you shelter or lay down.
• Freeze is a hard immobilize from abilities, not the same as walking through a blizzard.

Acid Rain and Heat Wave are shelter checks: acid rain adds poison stacks, heat wave adds burn stacks. Rain Ailment taxes takeoff during normal rain but helps water interaction. Blood Moon and Blue Moon swing whole-server combat and recovery stats in opposite directions.

Event rows like Corruption, Star Speed, Spicy, and Minty rotate with seasonal content. Check availability on each card before assuming they are live.

Map-wide and seasonal ailments from blizzards, acid rain, heat waves, moons, and events. Frostbite (ability or snow), Hypothermia (blizzard shelter check), and Freeze (hard immobilize) are three different problems with different fixes.