Red Mail

Upgrades

1. Blue Mail
2. Red Mail

Damage to Link in each mail

When an enemy touches Link, the game reads the damage from a table of ten damage classes with one column for each mail, so the mail does not take off a fixed share. Against some enemies the Blue Mail halves the hit and the Red Mail quarters it; against others the mail makes no difference. Below is the damage each enemy does by touch, in hearts.

Enemy
Green Knife Soldier	½	½	½
Green Sword Soldier	½	½	½
Blue Sword Soldier	½	½	½
Charging Sword Soldier	½	½	½
Red Spear Soldier	1	½	¼
Bush Spear Soldier	1	½	¼
Javelin Soldier	1	½	¼
Blue Archer	½	½	½
Green Archer	½	½	½
Bomb Soldier	1	½	¼
Ball and Chain Trooper	1	½	¼
Octorok	½	½	½
Four-Way Octorok	½	½	½
Buzz Blob	½	½	½
Armos	½	½	½
Toppo	½	½	½
Zora	½	½	½
Walking Zora	½	½	½
Sand Crab	2	1	½
Octoballoon	½	½	½
Geldman	1	½	¼
Vulture	1	½	¼
Poe	2	1	½
Crow	1	½	¼
Deadrock	1	½	¼
Tektite	2	1	½
Rat	¼	⅛	⅛
Rope	½	½	½
Keese	¼	⅛	⅛
Popo	½	½	½
Leever	½	½	½
Devalant	1	½	¼
Unbeatable Devalant	1	1	1
Ropa	2	1	½
Hinox	3	2	1
Moblin	2	1	½
Snapdragon	3	2	1
Stal	1	½	¼
Pikit	2	1	½
Green Zirro	2	1	½
Blue Zirro	1	½	¼
Swamola	4	3	2
Lynel	4	2	1
Mini Helmasaur	1	½	¼
Red Bari	1	½	¼
Blue Bari	½	½	½
Terrorpin	1	½	¼
Water Tektite	1	½	¼
Kyameron	1	½	¼
Zol	2	1	½
Gibdo	2	1	½
Blue Zazak	2	1	½
Red Zazak	2	1	½
Gibo	1	½	¼
Freezor	4	2	1
Pengator	2	1	½
Stalfos Knight	2	1	½
Yellow Stalfos	4	2	1
Babasu	2	1	½
Sluggula	4	2	1
Pokey	4	2	1
Chain Chomp	4	3	2
Anti-Fairy	1	1	1
Circling Anti-Fairy	1	1	1
Green Eyegore	1	1	1
Red Eyegore	1	1	1
Mini-Moldorm	1	½	¼
Hardhat Beetle	¼	⅛	⅛
Wizzrobe	4	2	1
Stalfos	½	½	½
Kodongo	1	1	1
Spark	1	1	1
Armos Knights	½	½	½
Lanmolas	1	1	1
Moldorm	1	½	¼
Agahnim	1	1	1
Helmasaur King	2	1	½
Arrghus	2	1	½
Arrghus Puff	2	1	½
Mothula	2	1	½
Blind the Thief	2	1	½
Kholdstare	4	3	2
Ice Shell	2	1	½
Ice Chunk	2	1	½
Vitreous	4	3	2
Rock Head	4	3	2
Fire Head	4	3	2
Ice Head	4	3	2
Ganon	8	6	3
Land Mine	1	½	¼
Spike Roller	3	2	1
Beamos	1	1	1
Guruguru Bar	1	1	1
Medusa	¼	⅛	⅛
Spike Trap	1	1	1
Big Spike Trap	1	1	1
Fireball Candlestick	¼	⅛	⅛
Winder	1	1	1
Bunny Beam	¼	⅛	⅛
Laser Eye	4	2	1
Bumper	2	1	½

Floor hazards

Two kinds of tile hurt Link, and so do the pits in some rooms. Each takes one heart in every mail, so the Blue Mail and the Red Mail give no help against them.

Tile
Spike blocks and cacti	1	1	1
Spike floors	1	1	1
Pits in some rooms	1	1	1

Walking into a spike block or a cactus hurts Link and throws him back. The Magic Cape keeps them from hurting him. Spike blocks are in 17 dungeon rooms: Skull Woods (5), Ganon's Tower (4), Ice Palace (3), Palace of Darkness (1), Swamp Palace (1), Thieves' Town (1), Misery Mire (1), Turtle Rock (1).

Standing on a spike floor hurts Link without throwing him back. The Magic Cape and the ring of the Cane Of Byrna keep it from hurting him. Spike floors are in 16 rooms: Misery Mire (6), Ganon's Tower (4), Turtle Rock (2), Ice Palace (1). Outside the dungeons they are in caves: Death Mountain (Dark World, 1), Pyramid (1), Ice Lake (1).

After any hit Link flashes for 58 frames, about a second, and the spikes cannot hurt him again until it ends. On a spike floor he loses another heart each time the flashing stops.

Pits drop Link to the floor below, or outdoors into the place under the hole, without hurting him. Only in 53 rooms and in one part of Death Mountain (Light World) does a pit take one heart instead and put him back: in a room at the spot where he came in, outdoors where he stood before he fell. If that leaves him with no hearts, he dies. The rooms are in Ganon's Tower (13), Turtle Rock (8), Misery Mire (7), Skull Woods (4), Palace of Darkness (3), Ice Palace (3), Hyrule Castle (2), Hyrule Castle Tower (2), Thieves' Town (2), Eastern Palace (1). Outside the dungeons they are in caves: Death Mountain (Light World, 4), Lake Hylia (2), Death Mountain (Dark World, 2).

After a pit or deep water puts Link back, he flashes for 144 frames, about 2.4 seconds.

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