Is Healing Factor Bugged in 7 Days to Die 1.0? Here's the Truth! 

I usually only put points into Healing Factor very late in the game when food is no longer a problem. It's actually more for convenience. I don't want to have to eat bandages all the time just to be at maximum health. It may not be the most efficient but it is very convenient to not have to think about topping of your health after every fight.

It’s also good to point out that, the same amount of skill points needed to max out healing factor, is equal to what you would need for master chef, living off the land, and physician combined.

Well: Despite the wrongly implemented control via the xml, the actual fact that food gets burned for healing is consistent across all versions of the game since this feature was introduced. I would have been surprised if you had actually shown that the wording of the attribute in the xml file would have finally been implemented. Thus, we can calmly deduce that the funpimps have a lot (since this one is just one under at least many hundreds) of bugs in the implementation of the xml files.

I've seen at least 2 thumbnails for this video, what's with the girl?

humm...yeah, I mean I do like to put a couple points into healing factor, because having some passive traits is just...nice, to not have to worry as much about topping off my health.

to be fair it actually makes way more sense for it to use food, bodies don't just heal off of water lol. this is a zombie survival game, you should actually have to, yknow, survive.. and that means farming a lot of food.

Hopefully you informed the bug forum/discord etc

izprebuilt and Saven's World have done videos on healing factor. Both concluded healing factor increases the metabolic rate which converts food into health. Healing has always been one to one with food cost since the skill system was introduced. Most food you will need to replenish such high metabolism also heals you for quite a bit making this perk redundant, just heal with food anyways

Healing Factor just never felt that special to me because the healing from food is so good. If you just eat one boiled meat, it's worth a couple minutes of healing ticking away. Unless you have a whole lot of points in healing Factor. It is still a nice passive perk but it doesn't feel all that necessary, especially considering all the drain you mentioned.

Healing Factor has always destroyed your food as far back as I can remember. Considering the amount of food it takes to heal over time, it's better to just eat decent food and get that health back faster

I feel like iron gut should be considered in this conversation.

Huge newbie trap, had to abadom my first game cause i took this talent

While I can’t speak for TFP’s intentions I think they have developed the new skill trees based on old school classes. For healing factor I’m guessing they were thinking a hunter type character with the majority of points going into healing factor huntsmen and the rest in the perception or agility trees. But that’s just my guess as the above build would most likely be living off of bacon and eggs for probly the first 30 days depending on your settings (I’m a 2 hour day guy) and food probly wouldn’t be an issue.on a side note I have noticed other debuffs in the skills but they’re a little more complicated like it seems like a waste of points to max certain weapon skills like spears or clubs because you can usually find all the books for each pretty quick negating the stamina costs. And the damage bonuses aren’t that huge considering none of the melee weapons get over 100 except the sledge.

wow thank you this explains everything! On a friends server i had a build where I spent 4 points into healing factor bcs its nice to have always full health wihtout healing. However i was always starving. I was constantly eating and my friend conplained and said I do sth wrong. Turns out its a bug haha

Regarding bandages, there's also a book in the Wasteland Treasures line that allows you to spin cloth from just common plant fiber. If you find that early enough, you can be swimming in bandages just from mining clay soil

Can you check if iron gut helps reduce the food/water cost of healing factor?

Healing factor has always cost extra food. Not sure if its bug or not because it's been that way for years. To be honest it's not a huge price to pay for regeneration that rapid. You're also saving the inventory space you'd use on other meds, of which there are several. The point investment is another matter and a totally valid complaint but then again, once you're at the kind of levels you need to max healing factor, I would think you're more than capable of securing sufficient food. Physician is definitely a more powerful perk than healing factor but the difference is that healing factor is totally passive and only requires you to eat a little more, which you should be doing anyway, whereas physician is active and requires medical supplies; if you happen to find yourself bereft of a splint or somehow out of bandages, you'll wish you had healing factor. Personally I'm not a big fan of the fortitude tree; farming is harder to sustain now without a farmer armor set, machine guns are the most ammo hungry weapons in the game and fistfighting will get you killed until you have all the perks, books and steel knuckles needed to get the wolverine build online. Thus, the point investment for healing factor IS a big downside for me. Your mileage may vary. On thing I think we can all agree on though is that healing factor should NOT be one of your first perks.

I've never put a single point into it even once. Why would I start now?

Lmao definitely thought it said it uses food in the perk 😅

If you think this is broken you need to look at the doctor perk rank 2 gives all the benefits of full maxed out, instant heal everything including broken,sprains

Hungry Factor

If food is an issue make sure you’re investing into stamina regen (cardio, medium/heavy armor perks and weapon perks/books that use less and restore more stam) and custom/improved fitting armor mods for heavy and medium armor. Around level 40 I stop bringing food with me when I leave my base. Around level 60-70 I’ll only need to eat once every 24 hours. That’s with healing factor 3. I wasn’t aware of the issue so now I need to decide whether it’s worth using a Forgettin’ Elixir for a problem I didn’t know existed. I just find so much food in POI’s (chicken soup/rations, miso soup, etc) it’s never an issue. I do like this kind of content. Knowing stuff like this makes future decisions easier.

Hey, side note... if I have Physician AND a Drone with the ability to heal me... do I still get my bonuses when it heals me?

I perked into healing factor thinking it would be beneficial -- then I noticed I was eating *way* more food on a mission than my friend, who didn't use it. I perked out of it using the respec potion and I never had the issue again; simply eating or using bangages was a better alternative. All healing factor seems to do is draw on your stomach to refill your health, effectively starving you to death. Saw a streamer play when 1.0 dropped and he couldn't explain why he was eating all the time until I clued him in. Got a free sub out of it :)

I am getting close to level 200, I have still not put a point in healing factor. Not saying it is bad, but I just haven't found a use for it, regardless, personally.

i usually put 1 point into healing factor at start and went good with it, but im always playing 1 live.

A the newb trap. Well not worth investing in my opinion. Don't feel like hording a lot of food and water

This explains why my characters are always chugging down the food.

After you eat, aren’t there buffs that minimize food and water loss for a period of time?

dude if you try extra perks mods, you'll see the obvious. I got all the Health recovery maxed and then increase max health and stamina, my food and water got drained at a brutal rate where I nearly die from starvation and thirst. luckily I got a few stews in my inventory. Maybe the stamina recovery is bound with water and health recovery bound with food? gotta need some tests to see that.

Guys the fun pimps are great company to work for ( word from employees) but horrible for consumers and are down right lazy the new armor system is a lie a scam almost it's kinda sad it was only created so they didn't have too create new assets for existing clothing and armor I mean they only did like 1-24 of the work they would have done if they actually did create new assets for the older clothing and armor system i doubt this will be fixed cops are bugged now as well they spit pretty much at you regardless if they see you or not

You guys need to use bandages ?

Try testing the opposite? With healing factor does food heal you more per tick? Be curious if there was a correlation.

Healing factor 4 is just fine. Once you get there food isn´t a problem anymore, you should be overflowing with food at that point no matter how you play. If it is a problem at that point, that´s a you problem. Also do a bug report if you think it is a bug. TFP surely won´t react to youtube videos.

never use it. its a food waste. horrible skill design all around. you shouldn't be burning anything for a limited resources game.

1.0 is buggy? This is my shocked face ;)

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