Life Steal

Your attacks have a x% chance to heal you for 1 HP per hit. Each time you life steal 1 HP, you cannot life steal again for 0.1 second. Meaning the maximum possible life gained per second is 10. This means that high percentages of life steal effectively have diminishing returns, as the chances of multiple instances of life stealing happening within the same 0.1 second drastically increases.

Extra projectiles, pierces and bounces trigger life steal. This includes Baby with a Beard and spawned projectiles from weapons such as Cacti Club.

If your Life Steal Stat is negative it acts like the stat is 0.

Explosions, Turrets, Cyberballs, etc. do not trigger life steal.

Weapons in the Medical class have innate Life Steal, and the Blade weapon class has Life Steal bonuses.

Items

Positive

These items increase your Life Steal.

Due to Item Tags, the Character(s) Lich, Masochist, Sick, Vampire have a higher chance to find these items in the Shop.

Name	Rarity	Effects	Base Price	Limit	Unlocked By	Tags
Bat	Tier 1	+2 % Life Steal -2 Harvesting	20			Life Steal
Blood Leech	Tier 2	+2 % Life Steal +2 HP Regeneration -3 Harvesting	45			Life Steal, HP Regeneration
Bloody Hand	Tier 4	+10 % Life Steal +2 % Damage for every 1 % Life Steal you have You take 1 damage per second (does not give invulnerability time)	110	1		Life Steal
Butterfly	Tier 1	+2 % Life Steal -1 Elemental Damage	30			Life Steal
Cape	Tier 4	+5 % Life Steal +20 % Dodge -2 Melee Damage -2 Ranged Damage -2 Elemental Damage	110			Life Steal, Dodge
Fin	Tier 3	+10 % Speed +3 % Life Steal -8 Luck	65		Win a run with Speedy	Speed, Life Steal
Mouse	Tier 3	+5 % Life Steal +10% Enemies -5 Harvesting	55	5		Life Steal, More Enemies
Octopus	Tier 4	+12 Max HP +5 HP Regeneration +3 % Life Steal -8 % Crit Chance	105		Win a run with Mutant	Max HP, Life Steal, HP Regeneration
Ritual	Tier 2	+6 % Damage +2 % Life Steal -2 Engineering	60		Win a run with Ghost	Damage, Life Steal
Whetstone	Tier 2	+4 % Life Steal -3 Knockback	40		Win a run with Sick	Life Steal

Negative

These items decrease your Life Steal.

Name	Rarity	Effects	Base Price	Unlocked By	Tags
Banner	Tier 2	+20 Range +10 % Attack Speed -5 Knockback	55		Range, Attack Speed
Bean Teacher	Tier 3	+50 % XP Gain -2 % Life Steal	70		XP Gain
Clover	Tier 3	+20 Luck +6 % Dodge -2 % Life Steal	65		Luck, Dodge
Exoskeleton	Tier 4	+3 Armor +5 % Crit Chance +5 Engineering +5 % Speed -2 HP Regeneration -2 % Life Steal	90		Armor, Crit Chance, Engineering, Speed
Plant	Tier 1	+3 HP Regeneration -1 % Life Steal	15		HP Regeneration
Robot Arm	Tier 4	+3 Melee Damage at the end of a wave +3 Engineering at the end of a wave -1 Max HP at the end of a wave	100	Win a run with Engineer	Melee Damage, Engineering

Characters

These Characters start with different Life Steal, or have mechanics related to Life Steal:

Positive Characters

Name	Stats	Unlocked By	Unlocks	Item Tags
Wildling	+30% Life Steal with Primitive weapons You start with 1 Stick You can't equip weapons above tier 2	Kill 10000 enemies	Hatchet	None
Sick	+12 Max HP +25% Life Steal You take 1 damage per second (does not give invulnerability time) -100 HP Regeneration	Reach -5 % HP Regeneration	Whetstone	Life Steal
Lich	+10 HP Regeneration +10 % Life Steal 100% chance to deal 10 () damage to a random enemy when you heal Damage modifications are reduced by 50%	Reach +100 Max HP	Tentacle	Max HP, HP Regeneration, Life Steal

Negative Characters

Name	Stats	Unlocked By	Unlocks	Item Tags
Chunky	Max HP modifications are increased by 25% +1% Damage for every 3 Max HP you have +3 HP recovered from consumables -100% Life Steal HP Regeneration modifications are reduced by 50% Dodge modifications are reduced by 50% Speed modifications are reduced by 100%	Die for the first time	Potato Thrower	Max HP, Luck
Cryptid	More trees spawn (+6) Gain 12 material and XP for every living tree at the end of a wave +3 HP Regeneration for every current living tree Dodge is capped at 70% +3 Attack Speed until the end of the wave when you dodge an attack -100 % Life Steal -100 Range -50% materials dropped from enemies	Finish a wave with 10 or more living trees	Claw	Exploration, Dodge

Weapons

These Weapons affect Life Steal:

Name	Class	Damage	Attack Speed	DPS	Crit Damage/Chance	Range	Knockback	Lifesteal	Base price	Unlocked by
Medical Gun	Medical, Gun	10(100%) 15(100%) 20(100%) 30(100%)	0.87s 0.77s 0.65s 0.53s	11.5(115%)/s 19.5(130%)/s 30.8(154%)/s 56.6(189%)/s	x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%)	400 400 400 400	0 0 0 0	40% 45% 50% 60%	15 31 61 122	Default
Scissors	Medical, Precise	5(80%) 10(80%) 15(80%) 20(80%)	1.01s 0.98s 0.94s 0.86s	5.0(79%)/s 10.2(81%)/s 16.0(85%)/s 23.3(93%)/s	x2 (10%) x2.15 (12%) x2.3 (15%) x2.5 (20%)	150 150 150 150	2 2 2 2	40% 45% 50% 60%	15 31 61 122	Default
Circular Saw	Blade, Medical	- 10(100%) 15(100%) 25(100%)	- 0.72s 0.67s 0.62s	- 13.9(138%)/s 22.4(149%)/s 40.3(161%)/s	- x2 (5%) x2 (10%) x2 (20%)	- 175 175 175	- 0 0 0	- 45% 50% 60%	- 46 86 173	Default

Weapon Classes

These Weapon Classes affect Life Steal:

Class	Bonuses	Weapons
Blade	(2)+1 Melee Damage 1% Life Steal (3)+2 Melee Damage 2% Life Steal (4)+3 Melee Damage 3% Life Steal (5)+4 Melee Damage 4% Life Steal (6)+5 Melee Damage 5% Life Steal	Chopper Circular Saw Sword Captain's Sword Chainsaw Thunder Sword Excalibur