Lifeforce is a life-giving energy, the Spark of Life that exists within all living creatures. You can harvest it from creatures that has enough body mass to produce Lifeforce Orb, but creatures like Rats or Rabbits are too small to produce enough Lifeforce necessary to create a Minion.
Lifeforce is needed to make new minions, and exists in four variants:
- Brown Lifeforce, which is found inside creatures of the Earth, like sheep or humans, and considered the most common of all the types of Lifeforce.
- Red Lifeforce, which is found inside creatures of Fire, like Magma Beetles.
- Green Lifeforce, which is found inside creatures of Nature, and for some reason inside creatures that are poisonous or stink, like Trolls or Puff Beetles.
- Blue Lifeforce, which is found inside creatures of Water or inside magic creatures like Boombo Birds, Toads, and Wisps.
Note that you can only harvest one variant of Lifeforce in Overlord: Dark Legend.
Lifeforce appears in Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell, Overlord II, and Overlord: Dark Legend. In Overlord: Dark Legend only Brown Lifeforce is found, but it counts for all Minions.
The maximum amount of Lifeforce you can collect for each type of minion in Overlord and Overlord: Raising Hell is 9999.