Vitality
formerly known as Hitpoints
Your hit-points pool. The skill that decides how long you stay standing.
Vitality is what RuneScape and Melvor players know as Hitpoints: the size of your health bar. Every Vitality level adds 10 maximum Vitality, so a level 99 keeper carries 990 before gear and other bonuses. It trains by itself: every hit you land, in melee, ranged or magic, pays a share of its damage into Vitality XP.
How Vitality works
Maximum Vitality is your Vitality level times ten, plus whatever your gear, pets and Wayfaring course add. It regenerates on a ten-second tick, about 1% of your maximum each time, and a few rings, amulets and Vigils add to every tick.
Food is the other half. Cooked food sits in your food slots, and auto-eat eats it when your health drops low, which is what lets a fight run while you are away. Auto-eat comes in three tiers that raise the line it defends, and The Last Breath Vigil (60) lifts that line further.
If you do fall, you come back at 30% of your maximum, and one random piece of equipped gear goes to your bank. Nothing is destroyed.
Inputs
- Any combat: Vitality XP comes from every hit you land
- Cooked food in your food slots
Outputs
- Vitality XP
- 10 maximum Vitality per level
- More room for a fight to run unattended
Tips for training Vitality
- You never need to train Vitality on purpose. It rises with every fight, whichever style you use.
- Better food buys longer sessions: a cooked Shark heals 160, a Manta Ray 320 and a Whale 384, and a perfect cook heals about a tenth more.
- Rapid Heal (Vigil 24) and Rejuvenation (Vigil 62) add flat Vitality to every regeneration tick.
- The Regeneration Potion opens at Apothecary 35.
Skills that pair with Vitality
The 28 trades aren't isolated. Vitality works best alongside these:
Frequently asked about Vitality
Why is the skill called Vitality and not Hitpoints?
Tideward renamed Hitpoints to Vitality in the May 2026 rebrand, as part of giving its trades names of their own. The mechanic is the same: it is your health pool.
How do I train Vitality faster?
You do not train it directly. Every hit you land in any style pays part of its damage into Vitality XP, so anything that makes you deal more damage, faster, raises Vitality faster too.
What's the maximum HP at level 99?
990 from the skill alone, ten per level. Some gear, pets and the Wayfaring course add flat Vitality on top, and a few items lower it.
Train Vitality wherever you play.
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