While you can get higher health by equipping armor and accessories in Core Keeper, it’s not permanent. That health only lasts as long as you have that armor or accessory equipped – and if it’s armor, it has to have durability left. If you want more health permanently, you’ll have to find some special consumables.
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These consumables are filled with a strange power, and there’s no way for you to grow them like normal crops, and lesser enemies won’t drop them. If you want to be as strong as possible, you’ll have to scour the underground for where they hide, from the blazing desert to the dangerous jungles.
How To Permanently Increase Your Max Health
There are a total of nine special food items that, when consumed, permanently boost your Max Health by a specific amount, regardless of when they’re obtained and used.
- Two of them are event-related.
- Four of them are obtained from specific scenes.
- Two of them are obtained from defeating bosses.
- One is obtained from fishing.
You can only obtain the Max Health buff once per consumable, but any duplicates can still be eaten for their food bonus or cooked into different dishes in a Cooking Pot.
In some cases, the item also provides some extra buffs as well, such as the Anniversary Cake giving a bonus to your Glow stat, making them handy to have around even if you’ve already gotten the Max Health from them.
You can tell whether you’ve obtained a consumable’s Max Health buff by checking their description. If the Max Health and only eaten once text is green, you haven’t eaten it. If you have, the text will be grayed out instead.
|
Max Health Consumable |
Biome Found In |
Max Health Added |
How To Obtain It |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Amber Larva |
Forgotten Ruins |
50 Max Health |
Locate an Amber Boulder scene in the Forgotten Ruins, and mine the boulder with a pickaxe until it breaks and drops the Amber Larva. Only one Amber Boulder scene spawns per world, but it’s guaranteed to spawn. |
|
Anniversary Cake |
Any |
27 Max Health |
Purchase from the Seasonal Merchant during the Core Keeper’s Birthday event period. The Seasonal Merchant can move into a valid room by placing the Advent Calendar down inside it. |
|
Atlantean Worm Heart |
Sunken Sea |
100 Max Health |
Locate and defeat the Atlantean Worm, a roaming and optional boss in the Sunken Sea, and receive it as a reward. |
|
Giant Mushroom |
The Underground Clay Caves |
25 Max Health |
Locate a Giant Mushroom Area scene in either The Underground or the Clay Caves, or find one that’s spawned randomly, and break it with a pickaxe or other tool. A maximum of two Giant Mushroom Area scenes can spawn per world, and at least one is guaranteed to spawn. |
|
Giant Mitochondrion |
The Passage |
100 Max Health |
Locate Urschleim, a roaming and optional boss, in The Passage biome and defeat it to receive the Giant Mitochondrion as a reward from its chest. |
|
Golden Chocolate |
Any |
28 Max Health |
Purchase Luxury Winter Presents from the Seasonal Merchant during the Christmas event period or with leftover currency, and open them. |
|
Paradise Fruit Basket |
Azeos’ Wilderness |
50 Max Health |
Locate a Paradise Tree scene in Azeos’ Wilderness and interact with the pedestal beneath it to get the Paradise Fruit Basket. Only one Paradise Tree scene spawns per world, but you’re guaranteed to have one. |
|
Splendid Amalgam |
Desert of Beginnings |
50 Max Health |
Locate the Amalgam Basin scene in the Desert of Beginnings and interact with the Amalgam Basin in the center to get a Splendid Amalgam from it. Only one Amalgam Basin scene spawns per world, but you’re guaranteed to have one. |
|
Starlight Nautilus |
Molten Quarry |
100 Max Health |
Locate any Molten Quarry sub-biome in the Desert of Beginnings and fish there. It has around a 5 percent chance of being fished up, and you need a Galaxite or Solarite Fishing Rod to be able to fish in it. |
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