Enigma

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This article is mostly accurate for the latest version of the game (7.38), in which this hero/item was changed.
It has no changes in the current game version — 7.38b.

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Enigma

#26

21 + 2.5

14 + 1

19 + 3.6

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+55HP and +0.25HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed
	+43.2MP and +0.18MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance
	+3.2 Main Attack Damage

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582 +2.35

303 +1.45

3.33 Armor (698.28 EHP)

26.9% Magic Resist (796.17 EHP)

43 ‒ 49 ▶️ Damage (46.3 Avg)

900 Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

500 Attack Range (800)

100 (114) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.4 + 0.77 Animation

280 / 310 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Ethereal Gib Type

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2011-02-12 Released

2005-03-01 (v6.00)

Competitive Span 2011-02-12 — Present

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Traps and damages enemies in a black hole.
A mystery worthy of his name, Enigma could only be described as a being of the void, a beast between planes. He draws aspects of himself from other dimensions, performing Demonic Summonings, commanding an ever-present contingent of Eidolons. The ground darkens under a Midnight Pulse, and foes are stunned by the unseen enchantments and Malefices as they try to flee its entropic effects. One legend has it that Enigma is actually the first collapsed star. This theory grows more plausible as Enigma begins to channel a cosmic singularity, pulling and entrapping all except himself into the super-dense center of his Black Hole.
Roles:	Disabler Initiator Pusher
Adjectives	Blue, Flying, NicePecs Legs ( 0 )

Facets

Event Horizon

Applies a movement speed slow to enemy units not facing Enigma within the radius.

Splitting Image

If Enigma takes up to a certain amount of damage, a Demonic Summoning of its corresponding level will fracture from himself.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes the outer radius of the vortex to now pull in enemy units, but does not disable them.

Black Hole additionally deals the affected enemy's max health as damage per second within the inner radius.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Creates a Lesser Eidolon correspondingly of Demonic Summoning's level per Malefice stun instance.

The Eidolons created this way do not multiply further.

Increases stun duration.

Talents

+4 Demonic Summoning Eidolons	25	+4 Malefice Instances
+40 Eidolon Damage	20	+200 Midnight Pulse Radius
+50 Malefice Damage	15	+250 Health
+50 Black Hole Damage per Second	10	+10 Eidolon Attack Speed
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Bio

Chaos hunts the spark of endless suns, whose light will die in my crushing grasp.

▶️  Enigma, the Consumer of Worlds

Lore:

Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.

There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified—a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient—his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.

Voice:

Jon St. John (Responses)

Innate

Gravity Well

Gravity Well

Ability

Passive

Affects

Allied Units

Grants incoming damage reduction bonus to allied units within the radius.

The effect lessens with distance from Enigma.

Min Radius: 500

Max Radius: 200

Min Damage Reduction: 0%

Max Damage Reduction: 9%/11%/13%/15%

Aura Linger Duration: 0.1

This ability levels up with Black Hole.

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  • Does not affect self.

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  • Grants 0.3%/0.4%/0.4%/0.5% incoming damage reduction per 10-distance proximity between Enigma and allied units within the radius.

modifier_enigma_gravity_well

Gravity Well: Taking less damage.

Event Horizon

  Event Horizon

Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemy Units

Applies a movement speed slow to enemy units not facing Enigma within the radius.

Radius: 600

Move Speed Slow: 8%/12%/16%/20%

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

This ability levels up with Black Hole.

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• Selecting the   facet unlocks this ability.

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  • The aura does not linger and clears once the affected unit faces away from Enigma.
  • 
    • Applies an ability effect on debuff-affected units.

modifier_enigma_event_horizon

Hidden modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

The universal one has the following hidden innate abilities.

It may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.

Details

Hidden Innate Abilities

Tap on the innate abilities for more details.

Abilities

Malefice

Q

F

Malefice

▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Focus his will on an enemy unit, damaging it and repeatedly stuns it.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.6

Cast Range:  450/500/550/600

Number of Instances: 3 ( 7)

Instance Interval: 2

Damage per Instance: 55/70/85/100 ( 105/120/135/150)

Stun Duration per Instance: 0.3/0.5/0.7/0.9 ( 0.6/0.8/1/1.2)

Malefice Duration: 4 ( 12)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases stun duration.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Creates a Lesser Eidolon correspondingly of Demonic Summoning's level per Malefice stun instance.

The Eidolons created this way do not multiply further.

Number of Eidolons per Instance: ( 1)

20/18/16/14

100/110/120/130

Strange gravities pull at the core of those who would oppose you, holding them in place.

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  • The first instance procs upon cast, subsequent instances proc per 2 seconds.
  • Reapplying the debuff refreshes the duration and continues applying damage in the same intervals as the first cast.

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• SHARD NOTES
  Creates a Lesser Eidolon corresponding of Enigma's Demonic Summoning level per modifier_stunned instance applied, following component .
  • Issues an attack order for the created Eidolons on the unit-targeted enemy.

Interactions: Spell Steal

Creates Eidolons of Enigma's corresponding Demonic Summoning level when acquired.

Interactions: Spell Reflection

Requires the caster to have Demonic Summoning to create the Eidolons.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Requires drafting Demonic Summoning for its corresponding component to work.

modifier_enigma_malefice

Malefice: Does x damage and stuns for x seconds every x seconds.

modifier_stunned

Stunned

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows per interval proc:
    1. The magical spell damage.
    2. The stun debuff.
    3. Creates a Lesser Eidolon corresponding of Enigma's Demonic Summoning level.
       • Leveling up Demonic Summoning immediately update the current created Eidolon per debuff application.
  • Applies the following total stun duration over all instances:
    • 0.9/1.5/2.1/2.7 ( 2.1/3.5/4.9/6.3)-second.
    • 1.8/2.4/3/3.6 ( 4.2/5.6/7/8.4)-second.
  • Deals the following total magical spell damage (before reductions) over all instances:

L	1	2	3	4
L1	165	210	255	300
				450
				700
				1050

Demonic Summoning

W

C

Demonic Summoning

▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Self / Eidolon

Damage

Instant Kill

Summons fragments of the Enigma himself.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.7

Cast Range:  400

Number of Eidolons: 3 ( 7)

Duration: 40

Grants the summoned Eidolons max health bonus corresponding to Enigma's current health.

Current Health as Max Health Bonus: 300%

These eidolons are all under Enigma's control, with the first set of repeated, and successful attacks on valid units causing them to multiply.

Upon multiplying, the first eidolons' health are set to its created max value.

N^th Attack to Multiply: 7

Set Current Health: 100%

Number of Copies: 1

The new-birthed Eidolon cannot further multiply. However, it has its duration increased.

Duration Increase: 2

40/38/36/34

70/80/90/100

75/100/125/150

Enigma is capable of drawing aspects of himself from other dimensions — the result is a trio of dark eidolons that hunt the corporeal plane.

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Splitting Image

If Enigma takes up to a certain amount of damage, a Lesser Eidolon of its corresponding level will fracture from himself.

Damage Threshold: 350
Damage Timer: 7

The Eidolons created this way do not multiply further, and have a lesser gold and experience factor.

Gold Bounty Factor: 0.5
Exp Factor: 0.5

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Eidolon (Summoned Creep)

180/200/220/240

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The Eidolons always spawn in the same formation, 100-distance from the point-targeted location 0° facing east, to its right, left, and backside.

17/27/37/47 (x̄)

0.67 Atks _{/ s}

280/310/340/370 (100)

Lvl

1

2/3/4/5

30%/40%/50%/60%

1200 • 800

425/450/475/500 (800)

10

18.5 (x̄)

T0 Ability

The Eidolons' main purpose is to help Enigma destablize the equibrilium in the quickest possible way.

Attack Speed Bonus: ( 10)

Attack Damage Bonus: ( 40)

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  • 
    • The current health cost utilizes setting health and is non-lethal.
      • Hence, this ability can be cast when Enigma has less than the required current health.
  • FACET NOTES
    • 
      • Accumulates damage sources from all damage types (after reductions), except from the following sources:
        • HP Removal sources.
        • No-reflection sources.
      • The damage accumulation counter resets in the following conditions:
        • Upon creating a Lessor Eidolon, following component .
          • Works independently of Demonic Summoning's cooldown, and neither cost mana nor health.
            • Does not proc on-cast effects.
        • Upon the damage timer expiring.

• The created Eidolon has three main properties:
  • 
    • The created unit's health is defined as:
      • EXPR
        Unit MaxHP = 180/200/220/240 + ⌊ EnigmaCurrentHP × 0.03 ⌋
  • 
    • The first batch of Eidolons created via a Demonic Summoning cast multiplies at its 7th attack attempt after accumulating 6 valid attacks.
    • 
      • The tally only increases upon the Eidolon's attack point while attacking the following valid enemy units:
        • Heroes
        • Clones
        • Creep-heroes
        • Creeps of all types.
        • Ward-type units.
      • Does not tally attacks on the following units:
        • Allied units.
        • Buildings
    • The 7th attack attempt creates new Eidolons regardless if the attack is applied onto the aformentioned valid enemy units.
  • 
    • Applies the following ability effects on the remaining Eidolons upon multiplying:
      1. All current Eidolons' health are set to 100% current health.
         • This neither dispels nor disjoints incoming projectiles.
      2. Creates the second batch of non-multiplying Eidolon corresponding to the current ability values, following component .
      3. Both batches of Eidolons' current duration is now defined as:
         • EXPR
           Duration = FirstEidolon RemainingDuration + 2

modifier_demonic_conversion_model_scale

Hidden modifier

modifier_demonic_conversion

Demonic Summoning: This entity is under control of Enigma.

• The Eidolons have the following additional properties:
  • 
    • Creates three groups of Eidolon(s) at point , point , and point respectively.
      • Point is the point-targeted location.
      • Line PQ forms a straight line.
      • FP = FQ = FS = 100
    • TALENT NOTES
      The number of Eidolons increasing talent still creates three groups of Eidolons in the same formation.
      • Both point and point each have 3 Eidolons, while point has 2 Eidolons.
  • COSMETIC
    • The unit's name progresses as follows per Demonic Summoning level:
      • Lessor Eidolon Eidolon Greater Eidolon Dire Eidolon
    • 
      • Eidolons are created immediately regardless of its spawn animations with Geodesic Eidolon equipped.

Midnight Pulse

E

D

Midnight Pulse

▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Steeps an area in dark resonance, damaging enemy units correspondingly to their current health.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0

Cast Range:  700

Effect Radius: 600 ( 800)

Damage per Second: 5/10/15/20

Current Health as Damage per Second: 4%/6%/8%/10%

Duration: 9/10/11/12

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

40/35/30/25

65/90/115/140

A section of the world slowly descends into the void.

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• Has the following targeting functionalities:
  • 
    • Creates a negative aura at the area-targeted location and deals 2.5/5/7.5/10 + 2%/3%/4%/5% current health to affected enemy units in 0.5-second intervals, over 9/10/11/12 damage instances with the aura linger duration.
      • Can affect enemy units at max 1300 ( 1500)-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.
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        • Reapplying the debuff refreshes the duration and continues applying the magical spell damage in the same intervals as the first cast.
      • Does not affect the following units:
        • Ancient creeps.
        • Ward-type units.
    • 
      • Trees within the effect radius at the area-targeted location are destroyed upon cast.
  • 
    • Considers portrait-casting as a ground-targeted cast, and centers the radius around Enigma.

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  • Multiple overlapping Midnight Pulse radius do not stack.

modifier_enigma_midnight_pulse_thinker

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modifier_enigma_midnight_pulse_damage

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• Deals 47.5/105/172.5/250 + 36.18%/52.41%/66.17%/77.12% current health as magical spell damage (before reductions) within the radius for the entire duration.

Black Hole

R

B

Black Hole

▶️

Ability

Area / Channeled

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Pure

Summons a vortex that pulls in and disables enemy units within the radius.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Cast Range:  275

Max Channel Time: 4

Inner Effect Radius: 420

Inner Pull Speed: 30

Damage per Second: 100/150/200 ( 150/200/250)

Max Silence Duration: 4

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Max Health as Damage per Second: ( 4%)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Causes the outer radius of the vortex to now pull in enemy units, but does not disable them.

Black Hole additionally deals the affected enemy's max health as damage per second within the inner radius.

Outer Effect Radius: ( 1200)

Outer Pull Speed: ( 175)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Roshan is not affected by the max health as damage per second.

Other ability effects still apply.

180/170/160

300/400/500

The ground trembles as Enigma channels his ultimate vortex of destruction, a singularity with the power to end worlds.

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• Has the following targeting functionalities:
  • 
    • Can affect enemy units at max 695 ( 1475)-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.
    • 
      • Grants a 4-second 800-radius caster vision at the area-targeted location upon cast.
        • The vision component is independent of the channeling component.
    • 
      • Creates two negative auras that lasts as long as the channeling duration at the area-targeted location.
  • 
    • Considers portrait-casting as a ground-targeted cast, and centers the radius around Enigma.

• The ability has two main components:
  • 
    • Does not affect the following units:
      • Buildings
      • Ward-type units.
    • Affects the following units:
      • Couriers
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    • The inner radius applies the following ability effects to the debuff-affected enemy units:
      • 
        • Applies a disabling forced movement that pulls affected units to the center of the area-targeted location.
          • Can pull over impassable terrain.
          • Does not destroy trees.
        • Has the highest priority over other forced movement sources.
      • Leash
      • Silence
      • Stun
      • Deals pure spell damage + enemy max health as damage in 1-second intervals, starting 1 second upon debuff application.
        • SCEPTER NOTES
          The additional damage is added to the base damage per second as a single damage instance in the combat log.
    • Affected units within inner radius can be pulled out by various sources, except the following sources:
      • Force Staff-based items.
      • Geomagnetic Grip
      • Dispose
      • Snowball
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    • The outer ring applies the following ability effects to the debuff-affected enemy units:
      • 
        • Applies a non-disabling forced movement that pulls affected units to inner radius within 1200 radius.
          • Can pull over impassable terrain.
          • Affects the Tree Dance unit, but does not unperch it.
      • Does not affect the following enemy units:
        • While affected by other disabling forced movement sources.
        • While affected by enigma_black_hole_pull within inner radius .
      • SCEPTER NOTES
        The ability range indicator does not indicate the outer ring .

modifier_enigma_black_hole_thinker

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modifier_enigma_black_hole_thinker_scepter

On hidden entity

modifier_enigma_black_hole_pull

Black Hole: Taking damage per second, stunned, and being pulled towards the event horizon.

modifier_enigma_black_hole_pull_scepter

Black Hole: Being pulled towards the event horizon.

• Antilockwise
  • 
    • Spirals affected enemy units anticlockwise while channeling at 14.32° per second.
    • Can be pulled up to 120-distance within the inner radius .
    • The closer the units are to the center, the stronger the inner pull.
    • The model of affected units near the center only rotates.
  • 
    • Spirals affected enemy units anticlockwise while channeling at 5.73° per second.
    • Can be pulled up to *
      SCEPTER NOTES
      Affected units within the outer radius can be pulled up to 700-distance within the outer ring .
  • Unlike the inner radius, the spiral pull is stronger outward.
  • The closer the units are are to the center, the weaker the outer pull.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Enigma/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Mar 15, 2025 - 12:55 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			1 : 0
Mar 11, 2025 - 16:30 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			1 : 0
Mar 11, 2025 - 13:50 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 10, 2025 - 21:30 SAST	Tier 4		SEL: Major 1			0 : 1
Mar 10, 2025 - 17:15 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			1 : 0

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Increased base attack damage from 7‒13 to 19‒25.
• Rescaled Event Horizon movement speed slow from 9%/11%/13%/15% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.

• Talents:  

  LVL 15  +40 Malefice damage instance increased to +50.

7.37e
(2024-11-19)

• Demonic Summoning
  • Eidolon
    • Increased Gold bounty from 14‒20 to 17‒20 .

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• Gravity Well
  • Rescaled max incoming damage reduction from 15% on each level to 9%/11%/13%/15%.
  • This component levels up with Black Hole .
• Event Horizon
  • Rescaled movement speed slow from 15% on each level to 9%/11%/13%/15%.
  • This component levels up with Black Hole .

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Enigma's Relics	Voice Lines
Kills During Malefice Eidolon Kills Three Hero Black Holes Midnight Pulse Black Hole Combos Midnight Pulse Damage Creep Tower Damage Blink Stuns Kills During Black King Bar Channels Cancelled Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ He-he-huh-heh-heh. ▶️ Well, this is a paradox.
	Silver	▶️ An astronomical price. ▶️ Stare into the abyss.
	Gold	▶️ Silence is golden. ▶️ You are beneath me.
	Platinum	▶️ A welcome manifestation of randomness.
	Master	▶️ If light cannot escape me, what hope have you?
	Grandmaster	▶️ Is this real? Am I…real?

Trivia

• Enigma's attack response ▶️ "I stare also into you." is a reference to "Beyond Good and Evil" from Friedrich Nietzsche, where it is stated that "And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.".
• His move response ▶️ "Reality is illusion." is a reference to a quote from Albert Einstein: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.".
• His rivalry line towards Faceless Void ▶️ "Even time may fail in the face of gravity." is a reference to the time dilating effect of gravity.
• Many of Enigma's responses are also references to concepts in cosmology (the Big Bang, gravity wells, redshifts, black holes) or particle physics (path integrals, universal constants, the action principles).

• Enigma, Chaos Knight, Keeper of the Light, and Io together represent the four fundamental forces of the universe with Enigma representing the gravitational force.
  • Most of Enigma's abilities reflect his theme of gravity, especially his ultimate ability Black Hole.
  • Similarly, his name and lore as a mystery is a reference to gravity currently being the least understood of the four forces.

• "Eidolon" comes from ancient greek literature, where it refers to a human-like phantom, the shade of one who died.
  • The word itself translates to "figure" or "representation", from eidos ("sight") or eido ("I see).

• On his release in Dota 2, Enigma's voice files did not have the heavy reverb and echo effects on them.
  • His voice was similar to that of Duke Nukem, as Jon st. John pretty much used the same technique for Enigma.
  • Enigma's old voice files are archived and can be found here.

• In DotA, Enigma's full name and title is "Darchrow, the Enigma".
  • In the transition to Dota 2, this was changed to "Enigma, the Consumer of Worlds".
  • His Dota 2 title may be a reference to Galactus from the Marvel Universe, who is commonly known as the "Devourer of Worlds".

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Midnight Pulse is based on the Lich's Death and Decay.
  • Enigma is one of the two only heroes with a custom model.
    • He utilizes a custom model named "WaterElemental", created by the pseudonymous content creator alfredx_sotn in 2004.
    • The model is based on the Voidwalker from World of Warcraft.
  • Although other heroes have custom models too, most of them are just fixed up versions of the default models.
    • Phantom Lancer has a custom skin, but it is an interpretation of an existing character from another franchine, and not an original creation. Also, he uses an existing model as his basis, only changing the textures.
    • Venomancer uses a model from Starcraft, but this is a model that already exists within the Warcraft 3 files.
    • Only Ancient Apparition has a fully custom, original model.

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  Model before Version 7.00

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  Ability icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead