Candy Chaos

During the first and second phase of Diretide players must collect Greevil Taffy to deposit into their pumpkin basket. Each teams pumpkin basket is located where their ancient camp usually would be and is marked on the map. The first phase lasts for eight minutes.There are several ways to gather Greevil Taffy, the scoreboard in the center of the screen will tell you who is currently in the lead along with the remaining time on the phase. You can deposit a Greevil Taffy into your teams pumpkin basket by selecting the item in your inventory and clicking on it.Similar to a regular game of Dota 2, each lane has a series of creeps which meet in the middle to fight one another. In Diretide the creeps are replaced by ghosts, ghouls and roshlings. Roshlings will drop two Greevil Taffys if a player attacks one close to death. Jungle camps also have a rare chance of dropping Greevil Taffy.Greevil Taffy can also be stolen by attacking the other teams pumpkin basket. Stealing a Greevil Taffy will deduct points from their total. Pumpkin baskets have truesight aura, revealing nearby invisible players.Whenever you pick up a Greevil Taffy an icon will appear above your head with the amount you're currently holding. This total is visible to everyone in the game. Whenever you pick up a Greevil Taffy it will reduce your total amount of health by 7.5% which stacks until you eventually have one hit point.If you die while holding Greevil Taffy they will drop on the ground allowing other players to pick them up, deposit them into your pumpkin basket before you get too many. Depositing Greevil Taffy will also grant bonus experience points and gold to everyone in the game.