Struggling a bit to recover health.

[Falaris]

You lose some from almost everything - getting cold, getting hungry, diving too long - but recovering it seems really hard. Any suggestions?
(Other than 'don't lose health')

Am I missing something?

[Sunkenland]

you can get antibiotics from trader or collect red algae and craft the health potion out of it. Some food would also add you some health
you can also try lowering the survival difficulty

[DaLagga]

No, you're absolutely right. Health recovery is way too annoying right now and there needs to be some kind of very slow regen item that is fairly common. The Red Algae is FAR too rare (and possibly finite) to be much help and food recovers only tiny amounts.

[myk]

Fish net(s) and a grill. The fish you catch will give you 30-40 health and you don't risk running out of air trying to stab marlins or sharks. You are allowed to over eat to heal all the way.

[Ray]

Sleeping recovers some health

[Falaris]

Originally posted by myk:

Fish net(s) and a grill. The fish you catch will give you 30-40 health and you don't risk running out of air trying to stab marlins or sharks. You are allowed to over eat to heal all the way.

This is weird - the fish gives me +30 food, but just +10 health and +5 energy, not 30. That's.. not a lot. If it works for you, you're a better player than I am. (The Tarpon, Wahoo, Breem, as well as large fish filets all do that).

I guess it gets easier when you have warm clothes and don't lose health at night - I have not been able to find cotton yet - but that's not enough to keep my health up currently.

[Sunkenland]

Originally posted by DaLagga:

No, you're absolutely right. Health recovery is way too annoying right now and there needs to be some kind of very slow regen item that is fairly common. The Red Algae is FAR too rare (and possibly finite) to be much help and food recovers only tiny amounts.

we will keep working on balancing it

[Sunkenland]

Originally posted by Falaris:

Originally posted by myk:

Fish net(s) and a grill. The fish you catch will give you 30-40 health and you don't risk running out of air trying to stab marlins or sharks. You are allowed to over eat to heal all the way.

This is weird - the fish gives me +30 food, but just +10 health and +5 energy, not 30. That's.. not a lot. If it works for you, you're a better player than I am. (The Tarpon, Wahoo, Breem, as well as large fish filets all do that).

I guess it gets easier when you have warm clothes and don't lose health at night - I have not been able to find cotton yet - but that's not enough to keep my health up currently.

do you sleep at night at all?

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Ray:

Sleeping recovers some health

Sleeping is good, but playing coop makes it difficult to sleep - both must be low on energy at the same time, and even then there's always 'just one thing' - sleeping isn't really happening a lot.

If we could sleep even if one was at high energy, that would help.

[Sunkenland]

Originally posted by Falaris:

Originally posted by Ray:

Sleeping recovers some health

Sleeping is good, but playing coop makes it difficult to sleep - both must be low on energy at the same time, and even then there's always 'just one thing' - sleeping isn't really happening a lot.

If we could sleep even if one was at high energy, that would help.

it's not like that. The sleep time depends on when you slept last time and it's same for all players in coop

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Sunkenland:

Originally posted by Falaris:

Sleeping is good, but playing coop makes it difficult to sleep - both must be low on energy at the same time, and even then there's always 'just one thing' - sleeping isn't really happening a lot.

If we could sleep even if one was at high energy, that would help.

it's not like that. The sleep time depends on when you slept last time and it's same for all players in coop

Really? It doesn't SEEM that way, but you should know. I guess that means we sleep fairly often then, at least.

[myk]

Originally posted by Falaris:

Originally posted by myk:

Fish net(s) and a grill. The fish you catch will give you 30-40 health and you don't risk running out of air trying to stab marlins or sharks. You are allowed to over eat to heal all the way.

This is weird - the fish gives me +30 food, but just +10 health and +5 energy, not 30. That's.. not a lot. If it works for you, you're a better player than I am. (The Tarpon, Wahoo, Breem, as well as large fish filets all do that).

I guess it gets easier when you have warm clothes and don't lose health at night - I have not been able to find cotton yet - but that's not enough to keep my health up currently.

I could be wrong because I can't be in the game and on here at the same time. I just know I spam food to get my health back. I was just at the police station which is too deep and had 3 sharks. I went through a lot of food.

[SpEciAl_K (kid)]

Originally posted by Sunkenland:

you can get antibiotics from trader or collect red algae and craft the health potion out of it. Some food would also add you some health
you can also try lowering the survival difficulty

hi, where are you guys from since this seems like a new studio and i would like to know about your team and company before buying. Don't want to end up with a dud.

[Emperor Fooble]

100% agree that health regen is very tiresome. Red algae is incredibly rare around the starting island, bandages require the increasingly vital and rare cloth resource, antibiotics are again incredibly rare.

My humble suggestion would be to add;
:A rare plant spawn to islands like a medicinal herb that can heal a small amount of health. It should be a rare drop akin to the branches or strawberry bushes that randomly spawn and respawn.
:Adding a small heal to the drop tables of enemy combatants and mutants, so that there is a chance to recover some health post fight.

[MechaGodzi11a]

Originally posted by myk:

Fish net(s) and a grill. The fish you catch will give you 30-40 health and you don't risk running out of air trying to stab marlins or sharks. You are allowed to over eat to heal all the way.

That's not health, it's hunger.