While you can get higher health by equipping armor and accessories inCore 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.
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 ofnine special food itemsthat, when consumed,permanently boost your Max Healthby a specific amount, regardless of when they’re obtained and used.
You canonly obtain the Max Health buff once per consumable, but anyduplicates can still be eatenfor theirfood bonus or cooked into different dishesin a Cooking Pot.
In some cases, the item alsoprovides some extra buffsas well, such as theAnniversary Cakegiving abonus to your Glow stat, making themhandy to have aroundeven 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 theMax Health and only eaten once text is green, you haven’t eaten it. If you have, the text will be grayed out instead.
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.
Any
27 Max Health
Purchase from the Seasonal Merchant during the Core Keeper’s Birthday event period.
The Seasonal Merchant canmove into a valid roomby placing the Advent Calendar down inside it.
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.
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.
The Passage
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.
28 Max Health
Purchase Luxury Winter Presents from the Seasonal Merchant during the Christmas event period or with leftover currency, and open them.
Azeos' Wilderness
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.
Desert of Beginnings
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.
Molten Quarry
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.
