As a traveler who journeys to the different islands in the skies in the survival sandboxAloft, you are left with the task to cure the different islands suffering from a corruption that terrorizes their ecosystems. With mysterious hostile fungi creatures choking the life out of different islands, various plant and animal life are prevented from thriving.

To purge the corruption that plagues several islands, you’ll need to destroy Corruption Nodes and Corruption Cores while defending against the hostile mobs protecting them. As you fight, you may sustain damage from getting attacked and experience loss of health. To stay in the fight, you’ll need to know how to properly heal yourself.

How To Craft Bandages And Heal

Your health bar is the long red bar found in thebottom left corner of your screen. As you take damage, you’ll seethe bar go down. If your health is reduced to zero, you’llblackout and return home.

To heal, you will need bandages. There aretwo types, and they’ll require different materials to craft.

Healsdecent wounds.

Once you have your bandages, you’ll need toequip it in a tool slot. From your inventory,drag your bandage to a slot on your tool barwith a corresponding number on your keyboard for quick access to it. You’ll also be able to scroll through your tools for itusing your scroll wheel.

A great slot to have your bandages in isnext to your weapon. That way, you may easilyswitch to and from your weaponand your bandages while in battle with a quick move on your scroll wheel.

Once you have your bandage equipped, scroll to it andleft-click to apply the bandageto your wounds. Your health shouldrestore over timeas you use the bandage.

Your bandage restores your health while youhold the button to apply it. Make surenot to just tap itwhen you use it to not waste the bandage’s healing potential.

How To Increase Health

As fights get more difficult, you’ll find that it’ll start to be a struggle tokeep your health from dropping to zero. That said, you need to find ways toincrease your health bar.

To increase your maximum health, you will need toeat dishes. Various meals can aid in giving you a delightfulhealth boost, and the more difficult the ingredients are to obtain,the higher the health bonuses.

Don’t forget that you only havetwo slots of food in your stomachbefore you get full. If you fill those slots,you won’t be able to consume anything else. That said, ensure that you’re eating dishes that give thehighest health boostfor your toughest battles.

If you need to get rid of the contents of your stomach,drink Digestive Tea.

Gourmet versions of disheswill allow them to grant you anincreased amount of healthfor alonger periodcompared to the normal version of the dish. To be able to make Gourmet dishes, you’ll need tounlock recipes for them.

These recipes can befound in Lost Treasures and chestsduring your explorations. Once you unlock the Gourmet version of a dish, there’sa chance you can make iteach time you prepare the dish.

A Gourmet version of a dish counts as a separate item so theycannot be stacked on top of each otherin your inventory or in storage.

How To Regenerate Health

If you run out of bandages while in battle, there’s no need to panic. There are ways for you torestore your health.

Sleeping in a bedwill restore your health completely, buttime will passas you do so. If you sleep in the morning, you willwake up in the afternoon. If you sleep in the afternoon, you willwake up at night. Healing using theLay Down optionmay be better if you’d prefer tomaintain the same time of the day.

To Lay Down is to perform an action where youlie directly on the ground. To do this, pick a safe spot andlook directly below you. Anoption to Lay Down should pop upover your crosshair. As you lie on the ground,your health will restore over timeand you’re able to wait for it to be completely full before heading back into battle.

You can perform the Lay Down actionanywhere on a flat surface.

If you spend a few moments while lying on the ground, you’ll eventuallyobtain the status effect At Peace. This is a condition thatlasts for ten minutesand while it is active, you willexperience minor health regeneration.

The At Peace status effect can be obtainedeven if your health is completely full. You just need to patientlywait until it appearswhile you perform the Lay Down action. This isa great condition to havebefore you head into your battles against the corruption plaguing different islands.