is living in StarRupture It's not just about building functional factories and shipping materials into orbit. Every time you step outside your habitat, a hidden layer of the system starts working against you. These stats quietly determine how far you can travel, how long you can fight, and how prepared you are for the dangers of Arcadia-7.
The game doesn't do much to explain how these mechanics work, so many early deaths feel sudden or unfair. Once you understand what each stat does, everything clicks. You'll stop reacting to empty meters and start planning your routes, meals and upgrades with purpose. This guide breaks down each state StarRupture And how you can manage each one.
How to unlock maps in StarRupture
Here's how to unlock the map feature in StarRupture, as well as how to quickly reveal Arcadia-7 using geoscanners.
All stats on StarRupture and how to manage them
You can view your character's main stats by pressing Tabwhich opens the character overview screen. Here, you will see five bars: Shield, health, calories, hydration, and toxicity. These constantly change depending on what you are doing and where you are.
There is also a sixth stat called Stamina. It is not performed in the same way, but it is important. Stamina controls how long you can sprint, jump, dodge, and fight before your body gives out. You cannot survive inside StarRupture For a long time without balancing all these six figures.
the shield
The shield is the blue bar that sits above your health. Any damage you take from enemies or hazards will drop the shield bar first. If you avoid damage for a short time, it will start to regenerate itself.
Shield regeneration is passive, and its maximum capacity is tied to long-term upgrades. As long as enemies drain your health bar, you can stay on the field for a long time without buying healing items.
Health
The health shield is the red bar below. If zero, you will die And return to your regeneration chamber. Your gear will remain intact after your death, but everything you're carrying will fall to your corpse.
If you want to recover completely StarRuptureYou must return physically and loot the items in your own body.
Unlike a shield, health doesn't naturally regenerate itself as you explore. You need to use healing items like Medtool to restore health StarRupture. Once unlocked, Medtool becomes your most trusted treatment resource.
calories
in calories StarRupture Represent your food store. Regardless of what you're doing in Arcadia-7, this bar fades out over time. It doesn't matter if you're mining, building, or just walking; Everything consumes your calories.
If calories drop below zero, you start to lose weight over time. If you continue to ignore this bar and focus on other tasks like building and construction you can die in a perfectly safe area.
To replenish calories, just eat polyfruit. It is normal and can be eaten straight. Make it a habit to grab it as soon as you see it and eat it when the bar sinks. Unlocks once cooked StarRuptureGood food restores more calories and usually provides other buffs. It will also change how often you have to stop and eat.
Hydration
Hydration behaves like most calories. It drains over time, and drops below zero Triggers damage over time. Dropping both hydration and calories into the red is the fastest way to end up with low health without falling into enemy hands.
To recover hydration, eat hydrobulbs. Also, you can use hydrobulbs to create better meals after unlocking a cooking station that can restore both hydration and other stats.
poisoning
Toxicity is different from every other condition. This only increases when you consume items that obviously add a poisoning status effect, such as aggressive food buffs.
When toxicity reaches 100, the game hits you with a severe penalty. You can easily reduce the toxicity before it hits the cap by eating foods made with perplants.
Endurance
You need stamina to move, sprint, dash, and double-jump. When stamina drops, your movement slows down, and you won't be able to perform any evasive maneuvers. In many situations, low stamina is more dangerous than low health because being unable to move can kill you instantly.
Eat snake root food to recover stamina. They improve Stamina regeneration and mobility but increase toxicity, so you need to be careful when consuming them.
While food, healing items, and passive regeneration are all important, you can increase your stats in the long run by using LEMs. You can find LEMs early in the game but to use them, you need to unlock the LEM station.
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January 6, 2026
- developer(s)
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The dreaded Jar
- Publisher(s)
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The dreaded Jar
- Multiplayer
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Online co-op
- Number of players
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single player
