Health

How health works

Health

100, full whenever you arrive in a world

Refills

5 a second, starting 4 seconds after you were last hurt

At 0

You faint: you wake at the world's door (in LEGEND, at your last checkpoint) with full health, and keep everything you had

After fainting

Nothing can hurt you for 3 seconds

Safe places

The practice world and the NPC worlds never hurt

Food

Eat it to heal at once: Rootberry 10, Sap Apple 25, Emberfruit 50, Heartfruit 100. A food that only heals can't be eaten at full health.

The red bar under your level shows your health, only while you're hurt.

What hurts

• Cactus

  Its top and sides prick: 5 health a touch, at most twice a second, and you bounce off it.

  Anyone can grow one from its seed and place it, so look out for them.

• Thorn Roots

  Its top and sides prick: 5 health a touch, at most twice a second, and you bounce off it.

  They grow wild on the surface of Mossy Hollow worlds, and anyone can grow them from their seed.

• Magma Root

  You don't stand on Magma Roots: you sink into them and move at 60% of your speed. Hold jump to climb, and you leap out at the top.

  Inside them you lose 20 health a second, and 10 more each time they pulse, every 2 seconds. From full health you faint in about 4 seconds, so a quick dip is fine.

  They grow in the deepest rock of worlds made since 5 October, far below the door. Only a World Lock's owner can place them, and never within 5 tiles of the main door.

  Cinder Boots, a rare find in the roots, halve the burn: 10 a second and 5 a pulse.

  An Emberfruit or a Heartfruit stops the burn: for 10 secondsafter you eat one, the roots can't hurt you at all. Fainting ends it.

In a Root Vault they are 3 times as strong: a Cactus pricks for 15 and throws you up and back, and Magma Roots burn 60 a second and 30a pulse. Wings and jetpacks don't work there either.

Where every one of these comes from is on its page, and in Farming.