Hit Points

Hit points are your health. When you run out of hit points, you are "beaten all to hell" and will need to heal before you can adventure again.

Your maximum hit points are equal to 20 + the lower of {Strength and Will}. See also use your highest Attribute to calculate Hit Points and Empowered for ways to alter your max hit points.

The Undying Will skill will calculate your as just 20 + Will; Strength is ignored.

If you have 0 hp but but gain enough experience to boost the lower of your strength or will (and therefore your hitpoints), you get the message "You drag yourself back to your feet with a newfound strength." This can occur after combat (e.g. a draw), or anytime you can get XP while at 0 hp (e.g. crafting with Good Worker).

Regaining Hit Points

Everyday at "rollover", when you regain Energy, Hunger, and Body, you will be healed up to your maximum hit points. There are many other ways to heal yourself after taking damage.

• Resting

Healing in combat:

• Winning a combat with First Aid active
• Winning a combat with ancient timepiece equipped
• Using Pouring Blood, under some circumstances
• Using Take Root, then winning the combat

Healing by using items:

• Using most Medicine, biomonitor kits, first aid kits, or stained bandages (with diminishing returns until you rest)
• Watching Killers 3
• Reading Quantum Mechanics

Skills that help you heal:

• Kingly Favor - Full heal, 3x per day (among other options)
• Healing Factor - Full heal, 1x per day
• Slags Eater - Consumes turns of Etheric and released effects to heal
• Born of Sorrow - Gain 2-5 HP from picking Evil options
• Rapid Molting - Gain Will XP gained while you are conscious
• Run from Regret - Gain 2-5 HP from running away from combats

Encounters:

• Southside:
  • Southside Park: Burning Barrel/Evil Burning Barrel: Warm your hands (Long rest unknown?)
  • Southside Park: Abandoned Barrel: Warm your hands (Long rest)
  • Southside Park (post quest only): Dumpster Diving: Hide in it (Long rest)
  • Southside Park (post quest only): Dumpster Diving: Meditate in it (needs Poltergeist Spark) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Being Tracked: Throw him off (also elsewhere)
  • Security (Southside): gang warfare encounter (also elsewhere) (Long rest unknown?)
• The Docks:
  • Waterfront: Fishing Tales: Pass the thermos (with thermos of Joe in inventory) (Not long rest)
  • Dockside Sewers: Bat Colony: Watch them (Long rest)
  • Dockside Sewers: Mushroom Grove: Investigate here: Plant the white ones (Long rest unknown?)
  • Mushroom Cavern: Fae Acrobatics: Wait patiently (Long rest unknown?)
  • Mushroom Cavern: Cavern Grove: Lay down to rest (Long rest unknown?)
  • Midgard Warehouse: Stacks of Crates: Hide and nap (Long rest)
  • Below the Charnel House: Calm Section: Take a nap (Long rest unknown?)
  • Below the Charnel House: Lower Calm Section: Take a nap (Long rest unknown?)
  • Below the Charnel House: Fairy Spring: Ask for healing (needs Fae Sight) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Below the Charnel House: Fairy Spring: Ask for nothing (needs Fae Sight) (Long rest unknown?)
• Metroplex U:
  • The Quad: Trash From Environmentalists: Meditate in it (needs Poltergeist Spark) (Long rest unknown?)
• Outside the Slags/The Slags:
  • Midgard Bioresearch: Empty Breakroom: Take a nap (without Red Alert) (Long rest)
  • Midgard Bioresearch: Biotech Locker Room: Take a nap (without Red Alert) (Long rest)
  • Tainted Shoreline: Andrea the Grad Student: Walk up to chat: Yes, please help me (Not long rest)
  • Tainted Shoreline: Andrea the Grad Student: Walk up to chat: I'm from Dr. Myers: I'll go (post-fight) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Tainted Shoreline: Faerie At The Nest: Destroy the eggs (needs Fae Sight and not helped Andrea steal eggs) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Ghost Ship: Treasure Chests: Hide and nap (sometimes?) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Midgard Laboratory: Lab Locker Room: Take a nap (Long rest)
• Oldtown:
  • Records Office: Abandoned Cube Farm: Stop to meditate (needs Poltergeist Spark) (Long rest unknown?)
  • Records Vault: Soothing Stacks: Take a rest (Long rest)
  • Records Vault: Cold Storage: Climb in one (Long rest)
  • Records Vault: Cold Storage: Climb in one (with cold weather gear) (Long rest)
  • Records Vault: Skull in the Niche: Talk to it (Long rest)
  • Records Vault: Hidden Break Room: Climb in one (with cold weather gear) (Long rest)
  • Misty Offices: Strange Vines: Take a nap (Long rest unknown?)
• Downtown:
  • none

Losing Hit Points

You can lose hit points by:

• being attacked by opponents
• being hurt by something else via a noncombat or choice encounter
  • This can happen all over the place, but it's worth noting that misteps in the black book and related areas will always bring you down to 0 hp
• popping Atlas capsules, snorting hound dust, mucking about with gritty ointment, replacing your kidney, improperly handling an eternal sparkler or SDnano memory stick, chewing sabotaged Halloween treats, messing with powdered glass, or trying to slot a shielded emitter into a wired chamber (fool!).
  • The eternal sparkler (only obtainable on Metroplex Day, once a year), can reduce your HP by 1 at no other resource cost, useful if you need to set your HP to an exact amount.