Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - Health System: How To Upgrade Rations ...

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla health system explained - how to heal and is there health regen?

As we mentioned above, Valhalla's health system is slightly different to previous Assassin's Creed games.

For one, there's no automatic health regeneration - you need to actively do something if you want to recover health, as it won't go back up over time.

How to heal in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

There are three ways you can heal in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla:

1. Consume a ration - you start off being able to store one ration at a time, but can increase your rations capacity as you progress. Press right on the D-pad or H on the keyboard to consume one.
2. Consume food - such as berries from bushes, wild mushrooms, or interactable pots, baskets or plates of food found around the world.
3. Sleep in your bed - you unlock this once you unlock your Settlement in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. Sleep in your bed in the longhouse to fully heal.

Most of the time then, you'll be healing by eating either rations or food, with the sleep-in-your-bed option a bit impractical for adventurers wandering around the whole of Anglo-Saxon England.

Food is usually found in the form of berry bushes in the world, be that the countryside or dotted around the outside of buildings and towns. In those towns, including your own settlement, you'll find more 'standard' food, usually in the form of a steaming pot of stew over a fire, or on tables in dining halls and houses.

Rations, meanwhile, are closely related to food but work slightly differently. The heal by more than food and can be carried with you to use as-required, so these should be your priority for healing while hunting for food is more of a backup. You'll want to strategise your ration usage, then, so for more on those read on below.

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