Hyper Light Breaker is a tough game, and you’re going to die and reset several cycles before you start to understand what you have to do to be successful. To keep your run going, it’s important to know all of the healing sources in Hyper Light Breaker – including the Medkit, though this is not available at first.
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Before you unlock the Medkit, Hyper Light Breaker still offers a handful of ways to heal – and some of them are quite significant. Follow this guide to learn all of the ways to heal in the Overgrowth, and how to unlock and use Medkits, in Hyper Light Breaker.
How To Heal In Hyper Light Breaker
There are a few ways to heal in Hyper Light Breaker, though some healing methods work a bit differently than others. For example, some Holos allow you to restore recoverable red HP, while the MediGem resources will recover your normal HP. Certain events will also recover a portion of your HP, such as picking up a Prism or beginning the Extraction process.
- MediGems: Collectable flower in the Overgrowth, heals 5 HP
- Medkit: Used with up on the D-Pad, heals 75 HP
- Enemy Drops: Small interactable green sphere, heals 5 HP
- Perfect Parry: Successfully parrying enemies heals a portion of Red HP
- Holos: Varies, can recover both Red HP and normal HP depending on the Holo
- Prisms: Heals 50 HP upon pick up
- Extraction: Heals 50 HP upon triggering the event start
You can also heal by equipping Armor that has a higher base HP bonus than your current HP. If, for example, you pick up a Heavy Armor piece with +36 HP, but your current HP is below 36, it will be brought up to 36 when you equip it. You can then unequip the Armor, if desired, and will keep the HP recovered.
Hyper Light Breaker Medkits, Explained
Though there are lots of ways to heal in the game, once unlocked, Medkits become your primary means of healing in Hyper Light Breaker. You do not start the game with access to the Medkit, though – you have to expand your Medkit Capacity by using a Golden Ration.
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After equipping the Medkit Capacity mod, you are still not guaranteed a Medkit for your run. In fact, the only way to recover Medkit (once you have increased your capacity to at least 1), is to collect an item in the Overgrowth called a MediGem.
Increase Medkit Capacity With Golden Rations
To unlock the Medkit, Hyper Light Breaker players must earn a Golden Ration and use it to upgrade their Mods/Skill Tree.
Talk to Pherus Bit, the commander of the Breakers just opposite the room you enter the Cursed Outpost from. Tab over to the Mods/Skills screen. Here, you will see a variety of Mods that you can buy with Golden Rations and equip as permanent upgrades. To the right of the Tier 1 node, you should see a node that increases Medkit Capacity. The left side contains upgrades for your Hoverboard.
To get a Golden Ration, you must finish a full cycle while completing various objectives in the map. When you talk to Pherus Bit at the end of a run, a bar will appear that records your progress in the cycle. If you collected a lot of Prisms, defeated minibosses and bosses, collected lots of gear, or otherwise completed objectives within the Overgrowth, the bar will grow more. If you were successful enough to fill the bar, you will be rewarded with a Golden Ration to spend.
Use your first Golden Ration to purchase the Medkit upgrade. Hyper Light Breaker becomes significantly less painful once you unlock the ability to heal with Medkits, but you still aren’t guaranteed one for every run.
Gain Medkits With MediGems At Start & At Shrines
In Hyper Light Breaker, create Medkits by collecting and converting MediGems. MediGems are collectible plants you can find scattered throughout the overgrowth. They are more visible from far away than other vegetation with bright whitish-yellow petals that stand out amongst all scenery objects. Interact with one of these plants to collect it.
Like some Hyper Light Breaker resources, MediGems stay in your inventory across deaths and cycles, and can be converted into Medkits at various rates. When you begin a run, 3x MediGems can be converted into 1x Medkit use. But while inside the Overgrowth, you can interact with any Shrine to pay either 5x or 8x Medigems to refill your Medkit during a run.
Because you heal a little bit upon collecting a MediGem, it’s important to collect as many of these as you can in a run to maintain your Medkit uses between deaths. If you die before collecting 3x MediGems, you will start the next venture into the Overgrowth without healing.
- Franchise
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Hyper Light
- Developer(s)
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Heart Machine
- Publisher(s)
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Arc Games