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Player stat guide

HP & Stamina Guide

HP and Stamina are separate stats. Nushi's Scale permanently increases maximum HP, while Fox Shrine rewards increase maximum Stamina. Food restores current HP and/or Stamina. The Hot Spring fully restores current Stamina, but it does not increase its maximum or restore HP.

HP

Damage survival

Max upgrade: Nushi's Scale

Stamina

Work and tool actions

Max upgrade: Fox Fried Tofu

Four separate values

Current and maximum stats

Recovery fills a current value. Progression items raise a maximum value. They are not interchangeable.

Current HP

Recovery target

Food can restore it where recorded

Maximum HP

Permanent progression

Nushi's Scale

Current Stamina

Recovery target

Food or Hot Spring

Maximum Stamina

Permanent progression

Fox Fried Tofu

Base HP, base Stamina, final caps and the conversion between food points and gauge units are not verified. The page keeps those unknowns null rather than creating a numeric cap.

Permanent upgrades

Nushi's Scale and Fox Fried Tofu

These two rewards improve different maximum stats.

Maximum HP

Nushi's Scale

The Okami Pool progression associates Nushi's Scale with a permanent maximum-HP increase after cursed-item and Midnight Nushi progression.

Exact increase per Scale: not verified

Maximum Stamina

Fox Fried Tofu

The Fox Shrine reward adds one full Stamina gauge. The exact total number of Tofu rewards is not established, and no raw point conversion is assumed.

Per confirmed reward: one full gauge

Recovery

Food can restore current HP and Stamina

Cooking, raw crops and processed foods remain separate sources. Numeric values below come from their shared records.

Cooking recovery examples
Cooking exampleCurrent StaminaCurrent HP
Boiled Egg1135
Corn Soup2089
Yakisoba45820
Salt Rice Ball1235
Baked Sweet Potato562
Candied Apple36016

Raw crops

Some raw crops have explicit Stamina recovery values. Corn restores 32, Napa Cabbage restores 143, and Green Onion restores 57. These values do not imply that every crop is edible or restores HP.

Browse crop records

Processed foods

Natto, Yogurt, Tofu and Smoked Egg have explicit shared Stamina records. Smoked Chicken and Turkey Leg remain unresolved in this dataset, so no value is invented.

Natto

Stamina 60

Yogurt

Stamina 165

Tofu

Stamina 45

Smoked Egg

Stamina 86

Hot Spring

Full Stamina recovery at a cost

The Hot Spring is a recovery facility, not a permanent stat upgrade.

Restores

Current Stamina to max

HP recovery

No

Max Stamina

No increase

Time cost

1 in-game hour

In Village in the Shade, defeat the B120F Quarry boss and the Hot Spring appears the next day in the mountain area northwest of the village. See the Hot Spring guide for the unlock route and boss boundary. The Mining guide owns the Quarry progression.

Combat preparation

Max HP helps you survive damage

HP matters for Quarry enemies, the deepest boss, hunting hazards and Midnight anomalies. Stamina does not replace HP protection.

Before B120F

Nushi's Scale upgrades are valuable preparation for the deepest Quarry boss. Carry food that restores both current stats, such as the shared Boiled Egg record.

Damage prevention

The Straw Doll absorbs one damage event and is consumed. It prevents damage; it is not HP recovery or maximum HP.

Review Straw Doll context

Clinic boundary

The achievement record confirms a clinic-wakeup milestone at 10 wakeups. Exact money, time, item and stat penalties remain unverified.

See achievements

Unknowns kept explicit

What this guide does not guess

The current repository does not establish several edge mechanics or final caps.

Base values

Starting HP, starting Stamina and final maximum caps are not verified.

Sleep and exhaustion

Next-day recovery and zero-Stamina behavior are unresolved.

Overflow

The result of eating above a missing amount is not verified.

Nushi total

Total obtainable Nushi Scales: not verified. Do not infer it from the Rain Whistle milestone.

Raw points and gauges

Food numbers are not converted into Fox Tofu gauge units. Current conversion: not verified.

Other upgrades

No additional permanent HP or Stamina upgrade is claimed without a canonical record.

The shared model uses null for unknown or unspecified recovery and progression values. It does not silently turn unknown into zero.

FAQ

HP and Stamina questions

Keep permanent progression, current recovery and damage prevention separate.

How do I increase maximum HP?

Use Nushi's Scale from the Okami Pool progression. It permanently increases maximum HP, but the exact increase per Scale is not verified.

How do I increase maximum Stamina?

Complete Fox Shrine offering cycles for Fox Fried Tofu. Each confirmed reward adds one full Stamina gauge. Do not convert that gauge into raw points.

Does the Hot Spring increase maximum Stamina?

No. The Hot Spring restores current Stamina to its current maximum, takes one in-game hour, and does not restore HP or raise maximum Stamina.

What is the best healing food?

Do not use a single highest numeric recovery as a universal ranking. Boiled Egg is a practical portable example because it restores both current Stamina and HP.

Do sleeping and exhaustion restore my stats?

The current canonical data does not verify sleep recovery, zero-Stamina behavior, food overflow, or exact clinic penalties, so this guide does not invent those rules.

Written by: Village in the Shade Guide Editorial Team

Last updated: August 27, 2026

Sources: Official publisher and storefront pages, released-game research and linked source notes.