In Survival Mode, the player has 100 health that can be depleted through a variety of factors.
Losing Health
When either hunger or dehydration hit 0, the player will start slowly taking damage, potentially killing them if food and water are not found. Health can be depleted by environmental factors as well. Aggressive lifeforms such as the Marrowbreach may attack the player, causing damage that is generally as severe as the predator is large. Even immobile lifeforms such as the Toxic Sponge can harm the player while defending itself. Extreme heat, or even medium levels of heat when unprepared, can also be lethal.
Gaining Health
Health can be regained from some Consumables and some Food. The main sources of healing are the Basic First Aid Kit and Enhanced First Aid Kit, which can be used from the inventory at any time and heal +50 and +100 health respectively. Healing items can be crucial in tense situations such as when being chased by predators.
Death
When the player's health reaches 0, they will die. Some of the items in their inventory (not including their hotbar) will be dropped in a blackbox at their death location and they will be reprinted at their assigned Biobed. Biobeds can be built in a player's seabase or found in various ruined seabases. The player's default biobed is located in the Lifepod.
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Surviving Death
Isn't death irreversible?
Not anymore.
Five hundred years ago, a pierced intestine was a mortal wound. In today's age of nanomachines and field fabrication, a pierced intestine can be treated with a medical satchel and rest.
The same transformation is now underway for wounds we think of as life-ending. TSF Frontiersmen rely on body imaging and human fabrication technologies in the battle against the kharaa. Now that technology can also help pioneer colonists survive the new world.
Imagine going to a biobed to treat your pierced intestine. Nanomachines clean the wound, and a biobed fabricator restores the missing tissue. One molecule's as good as another. It's the pattern of atoms and molecules in your body which defines your identity. As long as that pattern can be healed, YOU can be healed.
What if we could store the pattern of your body in a safe place, and use it as a guide to heal you from serious injury? A missing limb? A crushed torso? Even an insult to the brain?
Thanks to phase imaging, we can treat these wounds even after your biological body has ceased to function-or been completely annihilated.
In fact - if we define 'death' as 'a life-ending injury that can't be treated' - then death no longer exists. There are only degrees of recoverable injury.
A body produced by a biobed human fabricator is often known as a PRINT. All prints which share a common set of memories are referred to as a FORK.
For further questions, see FAQ: Death and Recovery
Source: Die for the first time
FAQ: Death and Recovery
FAQ
IS THIS REALLY ME? AREN'T I JUST A COPY?
There are branches of human thought which reject the idea that a perfect duplicate is the same as the Self. This is known as the Thesean fallacy. Debunking this fallacy is beyond the scope of this FAQ.
It may be productive to ask yourself: if I suffered progressive brain damage from a disease like Alzheimer's, would I accept nanofixing therapy to restore my brain to its earlier, more functional state? Would I be worried about losing my identity-or happy to have it back?
Think of human body fabrication as a particularly rapid and holistic therapy.
BUT I DIED BACK THERE! THIS ISN'T ME!
Your old body stopped working, but you did not die. The processes of your brain caused your neural nanosystems to send an update to your last stored image, where those processes resumed. A biobed fabricated a new body. You picked up right where you left off.
Many people intuitively fear discontinuity or breaks in the mental process. Remember that your brain is a constantly evolving process, a warm, wet, noisy organ. You lose more of your identity in the course of a regular workday than you do in the clean, clear transfer from old brain to new. While data compression may introduce some noise, your brain evolved to deal with errors.
WHAT IF I GET REPRINTED, THEN MY OLD BODY WAKES UP?
This outcome is illegal and should be prevented by the testate protocol in your neural nanosystems. Consult an Alterra labor counsel for further advice.
YOU CAN'T STORE A HUMAN BODY IN COMPUTER MEMORY!
It's true that imaging and archiving the position of every atom in a human body is beyond our technology. Instead, phase conjugation stores a quantum echo of the body in optical quartz. This image cannot be cloned; it can only produce one printed body. However, it's easy to produce multiple images during one scan, allowing you to keep archived copies of your body from months or even years earlier.
DOES THIS MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE NOW IMMORTAL?
It is possible to achieve dramatic life extension with biobed support. The social consequences of this emerging technology are beyond the scope of this FAQ.
Source: Die for the first time
