So how do you gain health/blood?

[Slushy]

Don't say transfusion and blood bags etc. I know, but what about the people who play solo? I tested this by eating tons of food and my grey screen is still grey? Why is that? I thought drinking and eating gives you health/blood?

[MistahMoose]

You have to remain at full food/water for an EXCESSIVELY LONG TIME! :P
If you find a saline bag and iv kit let me know and Ill come use it on you and restore ya.

[Noun]

Originally posted by Mr.Moose #SoPro:

You have to remain at full food/water for an EXCESSIVELY LONG TIME! :P
If you find a saline bag and iv kit let me know and Ill come use it on you and restore ya.

Also overeating can slow your blood gain and can even cause your blood to drop.

[Eldanon]

Had anyone actually CONFIRMED that just eating/drinking will replenish blood? (I know it's supposed to but sure looks like something is broken). I've sat in one spot and ate more food and drank more water every couple of minutes to see if I'd start to regain color but it never happened. I'm at about 3 hours of a nearly black and white game and I have plenty of food and water. Either blood is not regaining or just the color coming back is bugged.

[Marcus]

it's not that bad time wise.. Now once you are full enough (thirst/hunger) to regen health in the menu it will say "Healing" once your at full this changes to Healthy (providing your not sick, bleeding etc) your problem is probably you didn't eat/drink enough all at once to prompt the "healing to start" the first couple days it seemed to take longer to regen blood then it does now.. but I think that simply becuase its easy to see now when you have actualy started the healing... now I can for instance get hit by a zombie a couple times and I got from Healthy to Healing, use my bandage and I'll be back to healthy in only a few minutes tops

I think that other things promote how fast you heal also once your at "Healthy stage" say you get hit and use a rag I think you will heal slower then if you use a bandage.. also things like Vitamins could also modify the regen, for me I normaly always pop some vitamins if I got them..

the main thing was figuring out how much you need to get healthy to begin with after that the regen is more then reasonable though and once you actualy see how it works I think you will agree its cool.. (also at this Healthy Stage you have literaly hours of no msgs for food or water becuase your actualy full and also have imediate healing when you take dmg in this stage to)

[Marcus]

and yes I can confirm it works flawless, I was in the same boat as you the first two days I was swearing up and down thinking that it was just bugged I was black/white for so long on one game I nearly jsut killed myself for a fresh start.. sat in bushes waiting for regen that never happened.. it is simply that food and water dont give blood.. you use them for energy and also to get to a healthy state.. the best way to go about getting to healthy is find a water well in a city and drink until you get a msg saying that you feel full.. make sure you have no "Sick, Bleeding, hungry" affixs and you should start healing.. when you r completly full and blood is good level you will get a healthy affix to show your content and all is right with the world

[Marcus]

also once you reach healthy like i mentioned above you should try to stay healthy so you recover faster from mistakes and always have good blood levels. after your healthy and you get say a hunger affix in the menu you should eat and drink to full again even though you could prolly survuve for hours at that point its best to get back to the healthy affix.. once I get a hungry affix after being healthy I will eat like 3 cans of something on the spot and then maybe drink 1 1/2 canteens of water to get back to healthy again..at this point im good for hours of all out sprinting all over cherno

[Marcus]

sorry for the novel, just is kinda a hard thing to explain

[Noun]

Originally posted by Eldanon:

Had anyone actually CONFIRMED that just eating/drinking will replenish blood? (I know it's supposed to but sure looks like something is broken). I've sat in one spot and ate more food and drank more water every couple of minutes to see if I'd start to regain color but it never happened. I'm at about 3 hours of a nearly black and white game and I have plenty of food and water. Either blood is not regaining or just the color coming back is bugged.

It does it is just painfully slow at full hunger and hydration you will gain 3 blood per second, whereas a saline bag will set you to 5000 blood.

[Salling]

I'm not sure the regenerating thing works. I got shot (didn't die) and even though I didn't have a problem with hunger or thirst, I never really regained my colors, until I recieved a saline bag.