What do Humanity consumables do?

[Xzall]

Hey,

Dark Souls noob here.

What do consumable Humanity thingies do?

I picked some of them up from fallen enemies.

Should I just use them? After I die they go away?

The servers are shut down right? Either way I'm playing offline mode - no summons no invasions etc.

[King Robert Baratheon]

It's almost 3am for me and I'm too tired to type out every detail, so please just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9aUaaTahQc

It's a little less than 4 minutes long but he explains it very well. In case he doesn't mention this, having soft humanity gives you defenses.

[Xzall]

so...basically I need to hold 10 of them to get some passive bonuses if I don't invade / wanna be invaded?

[delzaron]

And the loot. 10 humanities in your counter means better loot.

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by Xzal:

so...basically I need to hold 10 of them to get some passive bonuses if I don't invade / wanna be invaded?

Having specifically 10 soft humanity (meaning the humanity in your humanity counter) doesn't have anything to do with invading or not invading. You only need to be human to invade, which means consuming one humanity, which gives you 1 humanity in your humanity counter, and then you use that to go human at a bonfire. 10 humanity + the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring gives you 410 item find rating (which is the max item find rating). Your defenses (physical and elemental as far as I know) scale with humanity all the way up to 99 humanity. So people who take DS1 pvp really seriously will try to always do pvp with 99 humanity.

[dcy665]

Queleegs Fury Sword scales with your Soft Humanity, the funky number upper left on your hud. If you routinely have few humanities then the sword will do less than satisfactory damage.

Past that, it increases search, which in many games would be called Luck.
Consuming a humanity also restores "a large amount of HP"

[richardson]

Originally posted by Xzal:

Should I just use them? After I die they go away?

Just the opposite, consumable humanity objects in your inventory _don't_ go away when you die. Soft humanity (the number in the upper left corner) does (although you can get soft humanity back from your body along with the souls you dropped). So the humanity objects you loot from (mostly) rats is a safe way to bank up a huge number (for, forex, one particular NPC's quest line) without risking them to death.

They're the only way to long-term reliably farm humanity from mobs, as while you do acquire more soft humanity just from killing things in a particular zone, this stops when you kill the final boss in that zone.

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by richardson:

Originally posted by Xzal:

Should I just use them? After I die they go away?

Just the opposite, consumable humanity objects in your inventory _don't_ go away when you die. Soft humanity (the number in the upper left corner) does (although you can get soft humanity back from your body along with the souls you dropped). So the humanity objects you loot from (mostly) rats is a safe way to bank up a huge number (for, forex, one particular NPC's quest line) without risking them to death.

They're the only way to long-term reliably farm humanity from mobs, as while you do acquire more soft humanity just from killing things in a particular zone, this stops when you kill the final boss in that zone.

Woah. I have a LOT of hours in DS1 (more in PPTDE than Remastered) but I never knew that soft humanity gains from enemies stop when you kill the final boss of the zone the boss is in. That's weird, and kind of lame.