Basic Blade

Basic Blade is a basic orb in Peglin that passively increases the damage of all your attacks by a flat amount. It was present in the game's demo release and appears in the game files as an effect that grants a constant stat bump to orbs.

The effect of Basic Blade is simple and deterministic: all attacks gain +1/+0. In other words, it increases the ordinary (non-critical) damage of each hit by 1 and does not change critical damage. This is reflected in multiple language game files describing the orb—English, Japanese (オーブのスタッツ +1/+0), Korean (모든 공격이 +1/+0를 얻습니다), and Chinese (所有攻击造成的普通伤害 +1/暴击伤害 +0).

Basic Blade interacts with modifiers and other mechanics that alter damage. For example, the v0.7.23 patch note "Allorbnothing now applies Basic Blade damage increase to its critical damage" indicates that some abilities or artifacts that reassign or modify how Basic Blade’s bonus is applied can make that +1 also affect critical damage under specific interactions. Unless such an interaction explicitly changes its application, Basic Blade itself only adds to base (non-critical) damage.

Practical usage and interactions:

• Basic Blade is a reliable, low-cost way to increase raw damage per orb strike, making it valuable on any build that benefits from many small hits.
• Its flat +1 scales best with builds that generate many orb hits rather than single high-damage strikes; stacking multiple Basic Blades or combining with multi-hit effects yields consistent incremental DPS.
• Because the default +1 applies only to normal damage, critical-focused builds do not gain additional critical bonus from Basic Blade unless an item/ability specifically redirects or duplicates the bonus to critical damage (as noted in the v0.7.23 Allorbnothing change).
• Basic Blade’s ubiquity in the files and early inclusion in the demo release mark it as a core, foundational orb for straightforward damage scaling.