Hit Points

Hit Points (or HP) define the amount of damage your Character can take before dying.

When your Hit Points reach 0 or just below, you fall on the ground unconscious/knocked down, which means you can only whisper. While knocked down, you are unable to do anything that costs Action Points. When your HP goes to -20 you will die (or -40 with Dead Man Walking). Otherwise your HP will regenerate every 2 minutes allowing your character to stand back up when Hit Points recover to 1 or more.

Hit Points Regeneration

You can recover your Hit Points in the following ways:

• Hit Points regenerate on a 2 minutes time cycle, modified by your Healing Rate
• Medical Items:
  • A Stimpak (+10 to +40 HP)
  • Weak Healing Powder, which drops your Perception a little bit
  • Healing Powder (up to +20 HP), which does not drop your PE
  • Super Stimpak, the wasteland standard healing item
  • A "Star Trek" Hypo always gives you a flat +100 HP
• Your First Aid skill, that will heal you depending on the amount of Skill Points in the Skill. There is a cooldown timer that limits how often you can use FA, which is lower as your FA skill is higher. If you have FA 200% for example, you'll do heals for up to 200 Hit Points. The average amount you can heal at a time is based on your Luck. At low Levels, successful use of your FA skill will award you 3 XP for each Hit Point healed.
• Someone else can use their First Aid skill on you.
• You can ask Wasteland Doctor to heal you, which will cost a minimal amount of Caps.
• Using FA while holding a First Aid Kit or a Field Medic First Aid Kit, will yield a higher HP bonus.

Also, having the Medic perk will cut your First Aid timer in half, and being a Field Medic will apply your low timer to whomever you heal instead of to yourself. So a Field Medic can use FA multiple times in a single turn when healing others.

A highly effective Medic Build would have Luck 10, FA 200, Doctor 200, both the Medic and Field Medic perks.

Maximum Hit Points

The base maximum hit points formula is 55 + Strength + (2 * Endurance).

Additionally, you will be awarded more Hit Points until level 24 as you level up.
55 + Strength + (2 * Endurance) + 23 * 0.5 * Endurance

Endurance	Hit points per level
1	+0 / +1 every other level
2	+1
3	+2 / +1 every other level
4	+2
5	+3 / +2 every other level
6	+3
7	+4 / +3 every other level
8	+4
9	+5 / +4 every other level
10	+5

Lifegiver Bonus

Each Lifegiver perk will grant you 30 additional Hit Points. Because you can take it three times, the final bonus can be +90 Hit Points.

Chart showing HP levels at level 24, assuming 5 Strength. Each point in Strength gives 1 HP:

Endurance	No Lifegiver	1x Lifegiver	2x Lifegiver	3x Lifegiver
1	74	104	134	164
2	87	117	147	177
3	101	131	161	191
4	114	144	174	204
5	128	158	188	218
6	141	171	201	231
7	155	185	215	245
8	168	198	228	258
9	182	212	242	272
10	195	225	255	285

Implants

There is a small chance to find Nemean Armor Implants which can be added to a Character up to twice, via irreversible surgery done by a doctor in San Francisco. Implant surgeries costs 100k Caps per implant, and permanently add 10 Hit Points per Implant to that Characters HP.

See Also

• Alcohol Raised HP
• You Call This Soup?
• Bonus HP