Fatigue System
All player characters have a Fatigue pool, with a maximum value of 100. Fatigue represents a character’s available physical and mental energy for performing labor-intensive or skill-based actions.
The fatigue system exists to promote intentional decision-making and to help maintain balance in the game’s economy. Players must choose how to spend their character’s energy rather than attempting to gather all available resources indiscriminately, the intent being to create natural scarcity and encourage trade, preparation, and thoughtful play.
Fatigue Usage
Fatigue is consumed when a character performs any action that yields resources. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Fishing
- Skinning animals
- Searching junk piles
- Gathering plants
Most of these actions consume one point of fatigue per attempt, and will not consume fatigue on failure. Resources that exist in a static location will usually incur a higher cost.
Regeneration
Fatigue regenerates automatically at regular intervals (approximately every ten minutes), even while your character is offline. The exact amount of regeneration is influenced by several in-game conditions:
- Hunger and Thirst: Characters who are well-fed and hydrated will regenerate fatigue more quickly.
- Nutrition: Characters with good nutrition levels gain additional recovery benefits.
- Stimulants: Active stimulant effects can further enhance regeneration.
- Addiction: Stimulant addiction reduces regeneration benefits, and in severe cases can nearly negate them.
- Storms: Fatigue regeneration increases during storm conditions, encouraging activity during dangerous or unusual weather.
Even under poor conditions, characters will continue to recover fatigue gradually. The system is designed to avoid situations where a character becomes completely stuck due to lack of energy.