Health Points

Your Health Points represent your character's physical health.

• A character can have a maximum of 14 . Certain Diseases and Disorders can reduce your maximum.
• When your drops to 0, your character immediately dies.

Your starts at its maximum, but it can quickly be drained by accidents or by attacks from your fellow crewmates. You should protect every that you have, and work with other crew to restore each other's health as efficiently as possible.

Gaining HP

Source	Gain	Notes
Surviving a day	+1	HP is gained when transitioning from Cycle 8 to Cycle 1.
Eating a Banana.	+1
Eating certain Alien Fruits.	+1
Taking certain Drugs	+1-2
Using a Bandage	+2
Being treated with the Medikit or in the Infirmary	+3	+1 with the Ultra-Healing Pomade Research. +2 if used by a Medic
Consuming a spore with Phagocyte.	+4
Mutating	+4

Losing HP

Source	Loss	Notes
Random accidents	-2	This damage has a low chance of occurring when a player picks up an item (including the iTrackie), repairing equipment/items, using equipment/items, extinguishing fires with Firefighter, or snooping with Scrapper.
Scratched by Schrödinger	-2	Schrödinger has a high probability of scratching someone (other than Raluca) each time he is picked up or cuddled.
Being present in a room during an electrical surge	-3	Happens randomly between cycles.
Being present in a room during a roomshake	-1-3	Happens randomly between cycles.
Being struck by a metal plate	-4-6	Happens randomly between cycles.
Being in a burning room during cycle change	-0-2
Being Starving during cycle change	-1
Certain diseases.	-1-4
Using the Spore Sucker	-3
Combat: Hit with bare hands	-1-3	Combat. Wrestler and Solid can inflict +2 and +1 damage respectively.
Combat: Hit with the Knife	-1-5	Combat. Critical hits may inflict extra damage.
Combat: Hit with a Blaster	-2-3	Combat. Critical hits may inflict extra damage.
Combat: Hit with Old Faithful	-2-3	Combat. Critical hits may inflict extra damage.
Combat: Hit with the Natamy Rifle	-2-4	Combat. Inflicts double damage to Mush characters.
Combat: Hit with the Lizaro Jungle	-3-5	Combat. Critical hits may inflict extra damage.
Combat: Hit with the Rocket Launcher	-6-12	Combat.
Combat: Throwing a Grenade	-0-3	Combat.
Combat: Hit by a Grenade	-0-10	Combat.
Being in a patrol ship that is shot by a Hunter.	-1-?
Fatigue event during Exploration.	-2
Accident event during Exploration.	-3-5

All combat damage can be reduced by 1 (cumulative) if you are holding the Plastenite Armor or have the Hard Boiled Mush skill.