Hit points

Hit Points (or HP) define the amount of damage your character can take before dying.

When your hit points reach 0 or below, you fall on the ground knocked down, which means you can only whisper. While knocked down you are unable to do anything. When your HP goes to -20 you will die, but if not in combat, your HP will regenerate every 2 minutes allowing your character to stand back up when it reaches 1 or above.

Hit Points regeneration

You can get back your hit points using:

• Hit points regenerate every 2 minutes by amount of Healing Rate
• A stimpak (+10-40hp), weak healing powder, healing powder (up to +20 hp), or a Super Stimpak - take care about the drugs inconvenients first, though.
• Your First Aid skill, that will heal you depending on the amount of skill points in the skill, with a cooldown if you use it (With 200% for example, you'll heal your target for up to 200 hit points). The average amount you can heal at a time is based on your Luck. The First Aid skill will award you 3xp for each hit point healed.
• You can ask Wasteland Doctor to heal you for caps.

Maximum Hit Points

The base maximum hit points formula is 55+Strength+(2*Endurance).

Additionally, you will be awarded more hit points when you go up a level. The formula for hit points per level is Endurance/2. As the number of hit points per level is rounded down, it is advised to have an even number of Endurance points (2, 4, 6, 8, 10).

Endurance	Hit points per level
1	0
2	1
3	1
4	2
5	2
6	3
7	3
8	4
9	4
10	5

Lifegiver bonus

Due to changes of session 6 (06/01/2012) the lifegiver perk will grant you some amount of hit points. As you can take it three times, the final bonus can be of +90 hit points.

Graph showing HP levels at level 24, assuming 5 Strength. Each point in Strength gives 1 HP:

Endurance	No Lifegiver	1x Lifegiver	2x Lifegiver	3x Lifegiver
1	62	X	X	X
2	87	X	X	X
3	89	X	X	X
4	114	X	X	X
5	116	136	X	X
6	141	161	191	X
7	143	163	193	233
8	168	188	214	254
9	170	190	220	260
10	195	215	245	285