how to get more health

[vtuber enjoyer]

i figured out how to deal with the other 2 game overs with dread/fasc

[Faey]

Study vitalitys.
Studying health and working health (or it's Skill) will generate vitality.
If you get illness, dream of it with funds or vitality to restore it to health.

[vtuber enjoyer]

ya i did a fresh new game and i was doing good then i relized i had no hp. im pretty tilted rn

[Manxome]

You will occasionally get random "Sickness" events that automatically grab one of your Health cards, and then return it to you as an Affliction card. When this happens, you want to dream with the Affliction card (plus either Funds or Vitality) to turn it back into Health...before its timer runs out.

If you remember to do this, you should suffer no net loss of Health.

[Helen_NZ]

At the start of each character, before you do anything else, you should put Health into Work, in order to generate Vitality. Once you have two Vitalities, study them together to get another Health. It's best to do this right at the start, before you have much to lose, and you don't need money so much.

[Cultist]

You can get vitality from working with health and from studying health. Together, they let you increase health very fast, perhaps even too fast.

[Crusher Von Splattenheim]

I've only ever gotten to a max of 5 health, but that's largely because I saw no reason to get more. As far as I can tell you can get infinte health.


So you'll quickly acquire a health card. There are 2 general ways to get the vitality necessary to get your second health card: Working the health card. Studying the health card. Either route nets you a guaranteed vitality at the end of 60 seconds but working straight health with no skill card attached carries the risk of injury -- something to consider. Be that as it may, once you net yourself 2 vitalities, study them together for your second health card and your new skill card.

Now that you have 2 health cards, you'll want to use one to study the other for work + skill card. Do this twice each and you'll fairly quickly generate the 4 vitalities necessary to study with your new skill card and earn an even better upgraded skill card and your 3rd health card. (Side note: exhausted health cards from work take 60 seconds to recover. If you immediately Dream your exhausted health cards you can have them back in action in 30 seconds cutting down time in half.)

Now that you have 3 health cards, you can work health much more efficiently. That additionall efficiency should be more than enough to get you the 6 vitalities necessary for the final skill card upgrade and your 4th health card.


Each additional health upgrade requires 8 vitalities, they still need to be studied with the skill card but the skill card wont get any better. It is nigh impossible to have 8 vitalities on the board at the same time just working health cards and studying health cards unless you get really lucky with a Course of the Heart event. To hit 8 vitalities on hand at the same time you'll need a 3rd source of vitality and unfortunately that's somewhat random. The way you're going to get this 3rd source of vitality most consistently is by going to the Woods and always picking The Well option (or the upper option if I rememered the name wrong). It's random, but there's a chance for a vitality to be there. What's going to happen is you'll be working health and studying health at max efficiency and you'll just see old vitalities burning away until you'll get lucky at The Well and then pretty much whether or not The Well has a vitality for you is going to dictate whether or not you can upgrade your health.


Never bothered to check if there was a cap on health, but really... I mean 4 or 5 health was the sweet spot for me. It's really easy for your work/study chain to get disrupted by an affliction and when you're trying to get 8 vitalities on board at the same time and it really sucks.

[Reshemin]

That's pretty much on point but you can apparently provoke Course of the Heart events by just talking to Heart followers - so if you add that in it just becomes a matter of time/retries. Although at the moment there's really nothing you'd need all that extra health for - except for feeling extra healthy.

[Quizer]

When you have nearly enough vitality, you can open up your study verb and put in the two oldest vitalities so their timers stop. You can't start anything, but just holding them in the slots stops the timers. You can use that to reach 8 when you're close by continuing to work physical labor and just hold the oldest two vit to buy just that little bit of extra time.

[Wokelander]

I managed to get to 8 Health so it's certainly possible to have 8 vitality on the board if you work for it.

But yeah, get more health by doing backbreaking manual labor and taking long walks in the park for that sweet vitality