What does the bicep icon mean

[YELLOWSUPERCAR76]

the bicep icon next to your hunger and thirst is confusing. What does it mean?
Also why do enemies just make beelines for smelvin its so rude

[jill valentine <3]

i would also like to know. i was thinking maybe armor but my bar was partially red from the start and my friend had a different red bar

[YELLOWSUPERCAR76]

armor is already represented by the colored bar right beside your health, so it can't be that.

[Ikit Claw]

I think it has something to do with how much you're carrying? I've seen it change over the course of me picking up more and more stuff but maybe it was something else.

[The_Lion_Turtle]

My buddy and I were assuming it was some kind of aggro meter for the cannibals. It seemed to quickly fill when we were cutting down trees, making lots of noise, or killing cannibals in large amounts.

[DaoDemon]

It feels up when you swing stuff around so im guessing it has something to do with strength. It resets to zero when it gets full.

[Misery1ndex]

its your strength. it goes up for doing melee/physical things like swinging weapons/tools. should increase your melee damage and probably cutting trees faster, among other things probably. everytime the circle fills up and resets you gain a strength level. so just naturally swinging your axe or a stick will increase it

[PromNightFetus]

Originally posted by Ikit Claw:

I think it has something to do with how much you're carrying? I've seen it change over the course of me picking up more and more stuff but maybe it was something else.

Nah its not encumbrance. You won't see it change when you pick things up or drop them. I believe its a sort of fatigue. Everytime I use stamina and swing my axe to cut trees I notice it go up. At some point though it changes to numbers and I wonder if its a strength stat that increases as long as you use your stamina (making you tired quicker, I think) and fill the bar up but goes down if you rest too long.

[Slayemin]

It levels up your strength as you use it. I think it causes melee weapons to deal extra damage? I have no idea how to tell how much strength I have. The UI in this game is a little too minimalist.

[YELLOWSUPERCAR76]

yeah would be nice if the right handed guidebook kept track of that stuff

[Milk_Cupps]

the bicep icon is your strength level, each time its a full circle it resets and give a slightly MAX HP boost, they said this in the interview, the heavier the items ur cutting, killing or whatever ur doing grants more xp. i reccomend leveling this since it also improves your dmg on trees, enemies and overall more hp for later