How to increase health

[stratfordben]

So I have a greyed out health bar which is at maximum but the effective health is less than a quarter. The greyed out bar reduces when I sleep?

I don't understand how to increase my effective health - I know how to increase the greyed out bar - essentially keep your macroelements up which I'm getting the hang of now.

Any ideas on how to increase my effective health?

[guevara2]

Stay healthy and sane ;)
There is a loupe in the left corner (it pop´s up if you have an injury): take a look for you body.
Remove the leeches asap and heal your wounds. --> then the grey bar will fill up.
To reach maximum health you have to be saturated by every elements of food!

[Triggerhappy]

My left arm is in perpetual healing. Has been for almost the entire game. Is that what's stopping it from increasing?

[Meanator]

if its purmanently bandaged. i know the pain but unfortutly you will need a full reset if you can't go back before that. if you don't have a bandage glued to you for green hell days then idk how to help you there.

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

My left arm is in perpetual healing. Has been for almost the entire game. Is that what's stopping it from increasing?

[Triggerhappy]

Yah it's just about to kill me. May as well reset the save. Death by bandage.

[Triggerhappy]

Ok its not a bandage bug so much as a worm bug. Game wouldnt let me take out the worm, instead insisted that I bandage it.

[stratfordben]

Originally posted by guevara2:

Stay healthy and sane ;)
There is a loupe in the left corner (it pop´s up if you have an injury): take a look for you body.
Remove the leeches asap and heal your wounds. --> then the grey bar will fill up.
To reach maximum health you have to be saturated by every elements of food!

Thanks for the tips - I'm coping well with surviving and always check myself when I see the Magnifying Glass icon or the popups on the screen when you get a creature on you.

However, I have a bug at the minute where the magnifying glass stays on despite me checking myself and having no issues.

I'm also doing well at maximising my macroelements. So I thought my health would be increasing by now.

[Rattlehead]

Yeah, I have the same bug, with the magnifying glass always there despite nothing being wrong. Apparen't it's fairly common as I've seen multiple posts in the bug reports subforum about it.

Ah well, early access and all that. *shrug*

EDIT: After loading my game, I was able to see the wound again. I bandaged it, but now I have the other "version" of the bug, where the bandage never goes away and still can't heal. LOL

[Gravel Gravy]

Having this problem as well, now my health is permanently low enough that I get the loud heart pounding noise. And I've had this bandage on forever so can't go back to an earlier save. Hopefully they patch it?

[Rattlehead]

Originally posted by Zunlite:

Check the upcoming patch features, its gonna be fixed soon.

NORMALLY as long as you do not have anything on your body you should heal pretty quickly.

Ah, yep, there it is in the list on the sticky forum topic! I'd read that before but didn't realize that was the bug they were talking about because I hadn't experienced it myself yet. Good to know it's in the upcoming patch!