Curse of Decay

“You feel your life slipping away…”

The heaviest curse on MCNATION. Your flesh rots while you live: constant Wither and Hunger that deepen with stage, rot damage every 5 seconds that ignores armor entirely — and, worst of all, your maximum health shrinks. One heart gone at the first stage; three and a half hearts gone at Terminal. You move slower. You heal into a smaller pool. Every fight is uphill, and the hill is getting steeper.

The Stages

Stage	Name
I	Touched by Decay
II	Rotting
III	Curse of Decay
IV	Advanced Decay
V	Terminal Decay

How It Ends

It burns itself out: 5 minutes at the first stage, +1 minute per stage — Terminal Decay runs a full 9 minutes. Your job is simply to still be alive when it does.

Surviving it: bring more food than feels reasonable (the Hunger is constant), pick no fights, stand somewhere nothing can reach you, and count the seconds. Do not try to out-heal the rot in combat — with a shrunken health pool and armor-piercing damage, the math is against you.

Tip

Like every curse, Decay leaves no scars. The moment it ends — “The decay halts. Your body begins to heal.” — your full health returns, every heart of it.