Dead Cells
Dead Cells

Item List

Master your Dead Cells arsenal with our item list. Understand grenades, tactical traps, potent skills, and invaluable amulets that alter your run's trajectory.

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Item List: Your Arsenal for Survival

In Dead Cells, mastering your primary weapons is just the beginning. The true depth of combat and strategic planning lies in the vast array of secondary items you'll discover. These range from devastating grenades and tactical traps to potent skills and invaluable amulets, each capable of dramatically altering your run's trajectory. Understanding their utility, acquisition, and synergistic potential is paramount to conquering the Hand of the King and escaping the island.

This comprehensive guide will break down the various item categories, providing detailed information on specific items, their locations, and how to best integrate them into your builds. Whether you favor brute force, cunning tactics, or resilient survival, there's an item combination waiting to elevate your gameplay.

Skills: Your Secondary Offensive & Defensive Tools

Skills are powerful, cooldown-based abilities that occupy your two secondary item slots. They scale primarily with your chosen color (Brutality, Tactics, or Survival) and offer a wide range of effects, from direct damage and crowd control to defensive buffs and utility. Choosing the right skills to complement your primary weapons and mutations is crucial for success.

Grenades & Bombs: Explosive Solutions

These are your bread-and-butter area-of-effect (AoE) damage dealers, often providing crucial crowd control or burst damage against elites and bosses. Always consider their synergy with your build's primary color and other items.

  • Cluster Bomb: Throws a bomb that explodes into multiple smaller grenades.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Inquisitors (Ramparts, High Peak Castle).
    • Strategy: Excellent for clearing groups of weaker enemies or dealing sustained damage to larger foes. Aim for the center of a pack. The smaller explosions can also trigger secondary effects from mutations like Open Wounds or apply status effects over a wider area. Synergizes well with "Damage over Time" builds.
    • Common Pitfall: Can be difficult to aim precisely at a single target, and the smaller explosions might not always hit where intended.
  • Heavy Grenade: A powerful, single-target explosive with a significant blast radius.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Survival
    • Location: Starting item blueprint (available from the start).
    • Strategy: Ideal for bursting down high-priority targets like Elites or dealing a chunk of damage to bosses. Its slow fuse time means you need to anticipate enemy movement or use it on stunned/frozen foes. Can also be used to destroy destructible elements like wooden doors or breakable floors.
    • Recommended Loadout: Pair with a stun-inducing weapon (e.g., Stun Grenade, Cudgel) for guaranteed hits.
  • Fire Grenade: Explodes, leaving a burning area that damages enemies over time.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Zombies (Prisoner's Quarters, Promenade of the Condemned).
    • Strategy: Great for area denial and continuous damage. Combine with oil effects (e.g., Oil Grenade, Pyrotechnics) for massive damage amplification. Effective in narrow corridors or against slow-moving enemies. Excellent for activating "burning" synergy affixes on weapons.
    • Boss Weakness: Highly effective against bosses that remain stationary or move predictably, like the Concierge or the Time Keeper.
  • Ice Grenade: Explodes, freezing all enemies within its radius for a short duration.
    • Scaling: Tactics/Survival
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Buzzcutters (Toxic Sewers, Ancient Sewers).
    • Strategy: A premier crowd control tool. Use it to freeze dangerous groups, create openings for powerful attacks, or escape tricky situations. Essential for builds that rely on critical hits against frozen enemies (e.g., Ice Bow, Frost Blast).
    • Actionable Tip: Always keep an eye on the freeze duration; enemies will unfreeze and immediately retaliate.
  • Stun Grenade: Explodes, stunning enemies within its radius.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Disgusting Worms (Toxic Sewers, Ancient Sewers).
    • Strategy: Offers a brief window to deal damage or reposition. Less potent than Ice Grenade for full crowd control but has a faster cooldown and can interrupt specific enemy attacks. Useful for setting up critical hits from weapons that crit on stunned foes.

Traps & Turrets: Deployable Support

These deployable items provide invaluable support, offering additional damage, crowd control, or even temporary distractions. They scale primarily with your Tactics stat, making them a staple for ranged and strategic builds.

  • Sinew Slicer: A deployable trap that rapidly slices nearby enemies.
    • Scaling: Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Scorpions (Toxic Sewers, Ancient Sewers).
    • Strategy: Place it strategically in choke points or directly under bosses. Its high attack speed makes it excellent for triggering on-hit effects (like poison or bleed) or critical hits from mutations like Point Blank (if you're close enough). Great for passive damage while you focus on dodging.
    • Missable: Scorpions can be elusive; explore thoroughly in the Toxic Sewers to find them.
  • Wolf Trap: A deployable trap that immobilizes the first enemy to step on it.
    • Scaling: Tactics/Survival
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Knife Throwers (Promenade of the Condemned, Ramparts).
    • Strategy: Essential for controlling dangerous elites or providing an opening for burst damage on bosses. Place it slightly ahead of an approaching enemy's path. Can also be used defensively to create space or block enemy projectiles.
    • Common Pitfall: Only affects one enemy. If multiple enemies are approaching, prioritize the most dangerous one.
  • Crusher: A heavy, deployable trap that crushes enemies, dealing damage and stunning them.
    • Scaling: Survival
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Golems (Slumbering Sanctuary).
    • Strategy: Excellent for both damage and crowd control. The stun effect can interrupt dangerous enemy attacks. Due to its weight, it's less mobile than other traps but delivers a powerful punch. Ideal for Survival builds needing extra damage.
    • Actionable Tip: Golems are tough; consider bringing a shield or a parry-focused build when hunting this blueprint.
  • Powerful Grenade: A single, high-damage grenade that also pushes enemies back.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Survival
    • Location: Starting item blueprint (available from the start).
    • Strategy: Similar to the Heavy Grenade but with added knockback. Use it to create space, push enemies into environmental hazards (spikes, lava), or interrupt charging attacks. Very versatile for maintaining distance.

Utility & Support Skills: Strategic Advantages

These skills often don't deal direct damage but provide crucial buffs, debuffs, or defensive capabilities that can turn the tide of a difficult encounter. They are often key to enabling specific build synergies.

  • Ice Shards: Throws multiple shards that slow and eventually freeze enemies.
    • Scaling: Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Lancers (Ramparts, High Peak Castle).
    • Strategy: Fantastic for crowd control and setting up critical hits for weapons that deal bonus damage to frozen enemies. Use it to create breathing room or to lock down a dangerous foe. Can be spammed due to its low cooldown.
    • Recommended Loadout: Pair with Ice Bow, Frost Blast, or any weapon with "+100% damage to frozen targets."
  • Corrupted Power: Temporarily increases your damage output but also makes you take more damage.
    • Scaling: Brutality/Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Cursed Swordsmen (Prison Depths, Corrupted Prison).
    • Strategy: High risk, high reward. Best used during boss fights or against elites when you're confident in your ability to dodge. Combine with shields or invincibility frames (e.g., from mutations like Armadillopack) for maximum effect.
    • Common Pitfall: Using this when low on health or against fast, unpredictable enemies can lead to a quick death.
  • Magnetic Grenade: Pulls enemies towards the explosion center.
    • Scaling: Tactics
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Arbiters (Cavern, Guardian's Haven).
    • Strategy: Excellent for grouping enemies for AoE attacks (e.g., Cluster Bomb, Flamethrower Turret) or pulling ranged enemies into melee range. Can also interrupt certain enemy attacks by repositioning them.
    • Actionable Tip: Combine with a skill that leaves a damaging area (e.g., Fire Grenade, Cleaver) for devastating combos.
  • Lacerating Aura: Creates an aura that damages and inflicts bleed on nearby enemies.
    • Scaling: Brutality
    • Location: Blueprint drops from Slashers (Toxic Sewers, Ancient Sewers).
    • Strategy: Excellent for melee builds, providing continuous damage and bleed stacks while you're in the thick of combat. Synergizes with mutations like "Open Wounds" and weapons that crit on bleeding targets.
    • Boss Weakness: Very effective against bosses that require close-range engagement, like the Concierge.

Amulets: Passive Power-Ups

Amulets are unique equipment pieces that provide passive bonuses, often including extra scrolls, damage reduction, or special effects. You can only equip one amulet at a time, making its selection a critical decision for your build.

  • Standard Amulet: Provides +1 to a random stat (Brutality, Tactics, or Survival) and often a minor bonus like damage reduction or a small amount of gold.
    • Location: Drops from various enemies and found in chests throughout the game.
    • Strategy: Always pick up an amulet if you don't have one. Prioritize amulets that match your primary color or offer a useful defensive affix.
  • Legendary Amulet: A rare drop that provides +2 to a random stat and a more powerful, often unique, passive effect.
    • Location: Very rare drops from elites and bosses, or found in Legendary Altars.
    • Strategy: These are game-changers. If you find one, consider adapting your build to fully utilize its legendary affix. For example, an amulet that grants "gain 10% damage reduction for 5 seconds after killing an enemy" can be incredibly powerful for aggressive play.
  • Cursed Amulet: Grants significant stat bonuses (e.g., +3 to a stat) but applies a curse, causing instant death if you take any damage.
    • Location: Extremely rare drop, often from Cursed Chests or specific elite enemies.
    • Strategy: Only for the most confident and skilled players. The stat boost can be immense, but one mistake means instant death. Best used by players who can consistently clear biomes without taking a single hit.

Scrolls of Power: Permanent Stat Boosts

Scrolls of Power are arguably the most important pickups in Dead Cells. Each scroll permanently increases one of your three primary stats (Brutality, Tactics, or Survival) and, crucially, increases your maximum health. The more scrolls you collect in a single stat, the higher the damage multiplier for weapons and skills of that color.

  • Single-Color Scroll: Increases one specific stat by +1.
    • Location: Found in chests, dropped by elites, awarded for clearing challenge rooms, and purchased from shops.
    • Strategy: Always prioritize scrolls that match your primary build color. If you're running a Brutality build, pick Brutality scrolls. This maximizes your damage output.
  • Dual-Color Scroll: Allows you to choose between two specific stats to increase by +1.
    • Location: Found in chests, dropped by elites, awarded for clearing challenge rooms, and purchased from shops.
    • Strategy: If one of the options matches your primary color, take it. If neither matches, choose the one that provides the most health (usually the one with fewer existing points) or the one that helps meet mutation requirements.
  • Triple-Color Scroll (Scroll of Power): Allows you to choose between all three stats to increase by +1.
    • Location: Very rare, often found in specific challenge rooms or as rewards for defeating certain bosses.
    • Strategy: Always choose your primary build color. No exceptions.

Strategy Tip for Scrolls: Early in a run, it's often beneficial to spread scrolls slightly to meet mutation requirements, but after the first few biomes, focus almost exclusively on stacking your primary color. The damage scaling is exponential, and a high main stat vastly outweighs a balanced spread.

Consumables & Curiosities: Single-Use Advantages

These items are typically single-use or have very specific applications, offering temporary buffs, healing, or unique interactions. While not always present, they can provide a critical edge.

  • Health Flask: Your primary source of healing. Starts with 1 charge, can be upgraded at the Collector.
    • Location: Always available. Charges are refilled at the end of each biome.
    • Strategy: Use sparingly. Try to clear biomes without using charges to save them for boss fights. Upgrading flask charges and healing amount at the Collector is a top priority.
  • Food: Drops from enemies or found in walls. Heals a small or large amount of health.
    • Location: Random enemy drops, hidden in breakable walls (indicated by a faint glow).
    • Strategy: Always pick up food if you're damaged. If you're at full health, consider leaving it on the ground and coming back for it if you take damage in the same biome.
  • Gold: The universal currency for shops and upgrades.
    • Location: Drops from enemies, found in chests, breakable objects, and sold in shops.
    • Strategy: Manage your gold wisely. Prioritize weapon/skill upgrades at the Blacksmith, then useful items from shops. Don't hoard too much, as you lose a percentage upon death.
  • Keys: Used to unlock specific doors or chests.
    • Location: Often dropped by specific elite enemies, found in hidden areas, or purchased from shops.
    • Strategy: Always look for keys. They often lead to valuable blueprints, challenge rooms, or alternative paths.

By understanding and strategically utilizing this diverse arsenal of items, you'll be well-equipped to face the ever-increasing challenges of Dead Cells. Experiment with different combinations, learn enemy patterns, and adapt your loadout to conquer the island!