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Surviving inThe Forestis certainly not a piece of cake, as you get stranded on an island without any clue while being hunted by creatures and cannibals. While fighting these creatures, or traversing around the island, you’re bound to get hurt and lose health.
The game doesn’t tell you how to heal, like every other survival game, thus confusing many. Don’t worry, The Forest does have a healing feature, and we’re here to familiarize you with it.
How To Heal
In The Forest, you can lose health in many ways, like eatingpoisonous food, falling from high places, getting damaged by various living beings,and worst yet, your friend.
Just like the game has different ways to get hurt, there are many ways to heal as well. Here are all the ways you can heal yourself in The Forest.
Medicine
Meds are one of the first things you can get after starting the game. Thesecan be found at theplane wreck and in suitcases spread around. Open the suitcases by hitting them with an axe or rock.
These suitcases also drop cloth pieces, outfits, and other items sometimes.
Meds areorange in colorand can be found in abundance. you may find more incannibal villages, caves, and dead bodies.
Keep in mind you can only carry a few in your inventory, so keep count of them.
Drinking Health Mix
You can craft yourself a herbal medicine to heal yourself. Thesefunction the same as regular medicineand stock up separately. There aretwo types of herbal medsin The Forest, and the crafting recipes are as follows:
You can use these extra meds during boss fights and keep your health up.
Eating Meat-based Food
You canget passively healed over time by eating food. You can get enough of it bykilling animalsin the wilderness. Whether you want to eat it raw or cooked is simply up to you. But your main goal is to keep yourstomach full to get healed.
Keep in mind that raw meat gets spoiled over time, so do not eat it.
Here is thelist of raw itemsthat can be found in the game:
