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Health in Dark Souls, also referred to as Life, Hit Points or HP, is a game mechanic that controls if the player is alive. It's represented by a red bar on top of the hud.

Amount

  • The Vitality stat governs the amount of Health the character has.
  • The maximum Health of 1900 HP is achieved at 99 Vitality (hard cap).
  • The amount of HP gained per level in Vitality fluctuates heavily, but the amount gained reduces when above 30 Vitality (soft cap) and then steadily declines.
  • Health can be increased by wearing the Ring of Favor and Protection (+20%), the Tiny Being's Ring (+5%) and the Mask of the Mother (+10%).
  • Health can be decreased by wearing the Dusk Crown Ring (-50%) or being cursed (-50% for the duration of the curse).
Vitality 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 60 70 80 90 99
Health 572 682 792 938 1100 1216 1325 1424 1500 1588 1675 1758 1837 1900

(for a full list see below)
 

Depletion of health

Health generally gets depleted by taking physical or elemental damage. It can also be lowered by poison, toxic or bleeding. There are also enviormental means of losing health such as falling, standing in fires, traps or touching lava.

 

Recovery

There is no passive regeneration of health. It can only be regenerated by player actions, such as

 

Health Trivia and Tips in Dark Souls

  • When using items to go above 1900 HP (the maximum at 99 Vitality without items) the health bar will not show the HP. The HP are however still present and count fully against damage, they just don't get displayed.
  • One block of the Health Bar is equal to roughly 135.7HP, and each division of each block is about 27.1HP.

 

 Dark Souls Vitality/Health List

Vitality HP Individual Gain
1 400 -
2 415 15
3 433 18
4 451 18
5 471 20
6 490 19
7 511 21
8 530 19
9 552 22
10 572 20
11 594 22
12 616 22
13 638 22
14 658 20
15 682 24
16 698 16
17 718 20
18 742 24
19 766 24
20 792 26
21 821 29
22 849 28
23 878 29
24 908 30
25 938 30
26 970 32
27 1001 31
28 1034 33
29 1066 32
30 1100 34
31 1123 23
32 1147 24
33 1170 23
Vitality HP Individual Gain
34 1193 23
35 1216 23
36 1239 23
37 1261 22
38 1283 22
39 1304 21
40 1325 21
41 1346 21
42 1366 20
43 1386 20
44 1405 19
45 1424 19
46 1442 18
47 1458 16
48 1474 16
49 1489 15
50 1500 11
51 1508 8
52 1517 9
53 1526 9
54 1535 9
55 1544 9
56 1553 9
57 1562 9
58 1571 9
59 1580 9
60 1588 8
61 1597 9
62 1606 9
63 1615 9
64 1623 8
65 1632 9
66 1641 9
Vitality HP Individual Gain
67 1649 8
68 1658 9
69 1666 8
70 1675 9
71 1683 8
72 1692 9
73 1700 8
74 1709 9
75 1717 8
76 1725 8
77 1734 9
78 1742 8
79 1750 8
80 1758 8
81 1767 9
82 1775 8
83 1783 8
84 1791 8
85 1799 8
86 1807 8
87 1814 7
88 1822 8
89 1830 8
90 1837 7
91 1845 8
92 1852 7
93 1860 8
94 1867 7
95 1874 7
96 1881 7
97 1888 7
98 1894 6
99 1900 6

 

 
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    • Anonymous
      10 Mar 2025 17:40  

      Your base health is good enough, so avoid wasting a level on this garbage can of a stat, you're just filling it with trash (though given most people play handicap souls I'm surr you put most of your levels into health, like the trashy gamer you are). If you really need more health use that ring siegmeyer gives you.

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      • Anonymous
        25 Oct 2024 20:28  

        Question, Dusk Crown Ring and Curse both reduce your health by 50% right? Now, do those reductions stack? Or does having one reduction negate the other? Because if they don't stack, a person using the DC ring can laugh at enemies that cast curse as their playstyle is already built around having reduced health.

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        • Anonymous
          25 Oct 2024 20:18  

          No Passive HP Regen? Replenishment and Bountiful Sunlight are just figments of Faith players imaginations then?

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          • Anonymous
            11 Feb 2021 04:21  

            I have a character with 99 vitality, and I've noticed something odd lately (since I leveled it that high) that occasionally (about 10-15% of the time) when I take a hit, I simply don't take damage on the bar. Nothing else is boosting my health, just the vitality.

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            • Anonymous
              08 Nov 2020 03:32  

              I don't see it here but I feel it's worth mentioning that the max health you can have (99 vitality + ring of favor and protection + mask of the mother + tiny being's ring) is 2,565 hp.

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              • Anonymous
                21 Jun 2020 10:56  

                Once happened to me that i was left with empty health bar but still survived. Any idea how much health it was ? 1-2 ? I was really lucky haha

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