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How do I heal damage?

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A player's health is tracked as a simple 0-100% stat; at 100% the player is uninjured, and at 0% the player is incapacitated, cannot act and will slowly bleed out. As soon as an incapped player is healed above 0%, they will wake up and can start moving again.

There are many ways to take damage, from combat damage like being shot, to environment effects like lack of oxygen or extreme temperatures. In some cases, a player may also take injuries, which must be treated before you can fully heal; a serious wound may also trigger bleeding, which will cause the player to lose health continually until they receive healing.

Press F1 and select the Health app to get a full run-down of your injuries and any other medical effects.

There are several ways to heal damage to your character, or heal other players.

Medpens

The quickest way to heal damage and stop bleeding, especially in the field, is to apply a medpen.

Note: There are multiple kinds of medical pen for different situations; for healing, you require a red medpen containing Hemozal.

  1. Press 4 to equip a medpen that is attached to your armour, or drag a medpen into your hand from inventory.

  2. LMB to apply the pen to yourself, or RMB to use it on another player.

Tip

If you run out of medpens while running an FPS mission, enemies will commonly carry medpens that you can loot.

Medguns

Medguns are a more advanced tool for healing larger amounts of damage, can be reloaded with additional medigel and have an advanced mode for applying other medical drugs to counteract injuries.

There is also a medical attachment for the Pyro multi-tool that can be used to heal damage, but does not include the advanced mode of the medgun.

  1. Press V to equip a medgun that is attached to your armour, or drag a medgun into your hand from inventory. You can also press 5 to cycle through gadgets until your medgun is equipped.

  2. Point the medgun at the target, and RMB to see a detailed read-out of the target's health and injuries. You can press B to point a medgun at yourself to get the same read-out and apply healing.

  3. Hold LMB to heal damage; as long as the trigger is pressed, the medgun will continue to heal damage.

Medbeds

Medbeds are included in medical/rescue vehicles, such as the C8R Pisces Rescue or Cutlass Red, larger capital/sub-capital ships like the Carrack & 890J, and are available at the clinics in all stations and hospitals in all cities.

  1. If you're at a clinic or hospital, you will have to request a room from the reception desk terminal. Once assigned a room number, follow signs to find the room and lie in the bed.

    • In a vehicle, you can go straight to the medical bay and lie in the bed.

    • If you are healing another player that is incapacitated, you will need to drag their body to the medbed and select the Place Body prompt on the bed.

  2. Immediately on lying in the medbed, any damage will begin healing and your BDL will start dropping.

Blood Drug Level

Using medguns & medpens will slightly increase your BDL (Blood Drug Level); repeated use of medical drugs will steadily increase this level until your character passes out.

Your BDL will slowly reduce over time; you can speed up that process by lying in a medbed or applying a DetoxPen (Resurgera).