Every hour a Blight breaks out somewhere on the island. Get inside, hold E on the concentration to siphon it, and fight off what comes for you. When it ends, everyone who took part is paid in Blight Fragments.
At a glance#
| How often | One every hour |
| Where | Chat names the grid square, and the map shows a BLIGHT marker |
| Warning | It forms for 5 minutes before it breaks out |
| How long | It waits up to 20 minutes for someone to enter. The first player inside starts a 150-second window |
| Siphon | Stand within 4 m of the concentration and hold E |
| Pay | Your siphoning, an end bonus for kills and siphoning, and fragments as you kill |
How a Blight runs#
- It forms. Chat names the grid square and the map shows the marker. It breaks out after 5 minutes, with reminders at 3 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds and 10 seconds.
- It breaks out. A purple dome rises, the concentration lands at the centre, and the blighted come with it.
- The window. The first player inside starts a 150-second clock. Hold E within 4 m of the concentration to siphon. A bar shows the time left and what you have siphoned.
- Waves. Every 25 seconds more of them arrive from all sides.
- It ends. When the window closes, everyone who took part is paid straight into their inventory.
If nobody enters within 20 minutes, it fades.
What you earn#
Siphoning: 0.12 fragments for every second you siphon, so a full window is 18. What you have siphoned is a tally: dying costs you time, not what you already pulled.
Kills: a Blight enemy you kill inside a Blight can drop fragments straight into your inventory.
| The enemy's health | Chance | Fragments |
|---|---|---|
| Under 400 | 35% | 1 |
| 400 to 999 | 60% | 1 |
| 1,000 and over | 100% | 2 |
The end bonus: on top of your siphoning, everyone who took part gets 0.25 fragments for each Blight enemy they killed inside and 0.04 for each second they siphoned, up to 10. You get it even if you only fought. The payout says what it was made of, for example: 17 fragments from the blight were added to your inventory: 12 from siphoning + 5 bonus (14 kills, 40s siphoned).
What a Blight is worth, roughly, with the kill drops counted in:
| You put in | About |
|---|---|
| A little (6 kills, 40 s of siphoning) | 13 fragments |
| A typical run (12 kills, 90 s) | 28 fragments |
| The whole window (20 kills, 150 s) | 47 fragments |
Tip: Dead, asleep or offline when it ends? Your fragments wait for you and arrive the next time you are on your feet.
Fragments buy boss fights in the arena (/buyboss): from free (the World Breaker) to 50 fragments. See Bosses & the Arena.
The Siphon Adept and Fragment Hunter skills on the Virulent path make you siphon faster and add up to 30% to every Blight payout. See The Blight.