Health system

Escape from Tarkov includes a robust health and damage system as part of the Hazardous Environment Combat Simulator.

Features

• Health and physical characteristics, including hydration, energy, blood loss, fractures, concussions, intoxication, exhaustion, tremors and so on.
• A large variety of medical supplies and provisions to stay alive and focused.

Part specific status effects

	Head/Thorax Can't be fractured Destroyed: Instant death. Note that bleeding into the destroyed state and health reduction from stimulators does not result in instant death, but any further damage will. A destroyed head or thorax cannot be fixed with a surgical kit.
	Right arm Fractured: Using items and searching containers is 50% slower than normal speed. Reloading, drawing, and aiming weapons takes 67% more time. Destroyed: Same as above, but additional damage taken will be distributed over the entire body's health pool at 0.49× the damage dealt.
	Left arm Fractured: Using items and searching containers is 67% slower than normal speed. Reloading and drawing weapons is 50% slower. Destroyed: Same as above, but additional damage taken will be distributed over the entire body's health pool at 0.49× the damage dealt.
	Stomach Can't be fractured Destroyed: Massively increased dehydration and energy loss (5x the base loss, including Health skill effects), additional damage taken will be distributed over the entire body's health pool at 1.05× the damage dealt.
	Legs Fractured: Each leg fractured reduces your speed by 45%. Decreased jump height. Disables sprinting unless under the painkiller effect. Sprinting causes further damage to the leg. Destroyed: Same as above, but additional damage taken will be distributed over the entire body's health pool at 0.7× the damage dealt.

Temporary status effects

Icon	Status	Effect	Duration	Causes
	Light bleeding	0.8 HP lost in each non-destroyed body part every 6 seconds until treated. Drains 5 energy per minute. Leads to death when total HP pool reaches 0	Every 6 seconds until treated.	Getting struck by a bullet Falling from great height Melee attacks Grenade shrapnel Barbed wire
	Heavy bleeding	0.9 HP lost in each non-destroyed body part every 4 seconds until treated. Drains 6 energy per minute. Leaves a trail of blood splatters. Becomes a Fresh Wound when treated. Leads to death when total HP pool reaches 0	Every 4 seconds until treated.	Getting struck by a bullet
	Fresh wound	Replaces Heavy Bleed after being bandaged. However, it will revert into a Heavy Bleed if the affected body part takes major damage, such as a bullet. Also, sprinting and jumping may cause Light Bleed.	480 seconds or until it starts bleeding again	Treating a Heavy Bleed
	Fracture	See part specific status effects above	Will remain until treated	Falling from great height Getting struck by a bullet Melee attacks Failing the Gym quick time event
	Pain	Vision darkens	Until the cause is treated	Caused by other status effects, such as Fractures
	Mild Muscle Pain	You gain 50% less skill points when using the Gym.	24 hours	Caused by first Gym training session
	Severe Muscle Pain	You gain no skill points when using the Gym.	24 hours	Caused by second Gym training session
	Concussion	Tinnitus and muffled audio	Depends on the cause	Grenades Helmet ricochets
	Tremor	Pulsating screen blurring progressively around the edges	Until cause of pain is treated	Caused by 45 seconds untreated pain Side effect of certain Stimulants and Provisions
	Tunnel vision	Screen vignetting pulsing in and out	Depends on the cause	Side effect of certain Stimulants
	On painkillers	Black-and-white peripheral vision, ignores fractures, and ignores pain.	Varies per consumed item	Consuming items such as Analgin painkillers or Vaseline balm
	Dehydration	You lose 1 Health Point per functioning body part every 15 seconds. Damage from this status effect causes Pain. Leads to death on the next damage tick after reaching 0 HP on the head or thorax. Grants Tremor effect.	Until Hydration is replenished	Caused 50 seconds after your Hydration reaches 0
	Fatigue	You lose 1 Health Point per functioning body part every 5 seconds. Leads to death on the next damage tick after reaching 0 HP on the head or thorax. Causes Tunnel vision.	Until Energy is replenished	Caused 30 seconds after your Energy reaches 0
	Overweight	You make more noise, reduced jump height, stamina drain increased, fall damage increased, movement speed decreased, walking drains your stamina.		Triggered when your PMC is at 26 kg total weight.
	Critical overweight	Cannot sprint, max stance height reduced, prone movement drains stamina, stance blocks stamina regain.		Triggered when your PMC is at 77 kg total weight.
	Fatigue (overweight)	Energy drain increased		Caused by constant use of stamina during critical amount state (red bar)
	Stun	You are blinded	Depends on the cause, starts to fade out after half of total duration	Caused by looking at the explosion of stun grenades and other flash weaponry
	Flash	Your vision is impaired	90 seconds	Caused by looking at the explosion of stun grenades and other flash weaponry
	Buff		Varies per consumed item	Caused by consuming items like Provisions or Stimulants
	Debuff		Varies per consumed item	Caused by consuming items like Provisions or Stimulants
	Berserk mode	Increased FOV, painkiller, infinite stamina	10 seconds	Stress Resistance elite effect, activates on low health
	Poisoning	Deals gradual damage over time (140 damage/min. Immunity lowers the amount of damage at 1% per level) and causes pain. Can be treated with xTG-12 injector or Perfotoran injector.	Will remain until treated	Getting struck by a Cultist knife
	Panic attack	Causes your currently equipped weapon to forcefully jam.	As long as Kollontay is holding his PR-Taran police baton in hands	Being in Kollontay's proximity while he has his PR-Taran police baton equipped

Destroyed parts healing

Destroyed body parts (except head and thorax) can be restored thanks to the CMS surgical kit or the Surv12 field surgical kit, surgical kits restore a destroyed part to 1 HP; so their use needs to be combined with medkits to be effective. Destroyed parts that are restored with a surgical kit only have 25% to 45% (CMS) or 60 to 72% (Surv12) of their max HP for the duration of the raid unless surgery is performed again on that body part, lowering it further.

Off-Raid Healing

When outside of a raid you will passively gain health, hydration, and energy. You can use Medical items to heal and Provisions to consume as if you were in a raid. To start you gain 456.6 HP/hour (7.61 HP/Min), 1 Energy/Min, and 1 Hydration/Min. Your passive gaining of stats can be increased through upgrading Hideout modules such as the Medstation and Rest Space to increase health regeneration, Nutrition Unit and Heating to increase energy regeneration, and Water Collector to increase Hydration recovery.

Therapist also provides healing to your character for a price after either dying or surviving with lost HP. For players at or below level 5 this service is free, otherwise this costs 30₽/HP at LL1 increasing to 33₽/HP at LL2, 36₽/HP at LL3, and 40.5₽/HP at LL4, being cheaper than any medkit sold at fixed prices. A light bleed costs 750₽ to heal, a heavy bleed costs 1,400₽, and a fracture costs 1,350₽, again cheaper than the items required.

With fixed prices, the best value medical item is the Grizzly medical kit.

First Aid Kit	Current Price (₽) (Traders)	Health Points	₽ per HP (rounded up)
Grizzly medical kit	79,739	1,800	45
Car first aid kit	11,795	220	54
AI-2 medkit	6,638	100	67
Salewa first aid kit	37,061	400	93
IFAK individual first aid kit	43,524	300	146
AFAK tactical individual first aid kit	61,617	400	155

Death

After dying in a raid or going MIA (Missing in Action) you will be brought back to the main menu and lose all of the items that were on your character with exception of equipped armband, melee weapon and the contents of your secure container and special slots. Your health will be set to 30% and it will passively be regained over time. If you die to suicide, exhaustion, group members, disconnecting, Minefields, Claymores, Border Snipers or without a firearm equipped, your health will be set to 1% on all body parts instead.

Unimplemented Features

• Biohazard/Intoxication
• Radiation exposure
• Blood pressure
• Drug addiction/Hallucination

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  Indicators for unimplemented status effects as seen in pre-alpha footage.

See also

• Medical items