You are free to explore the secrets of a post-apocalyptic wasteland in Once Human. In this survival-horror MMORPG, you'll have a vast world with various areas to investigate and quests to complete. You will need to gear up in order to fight off different hostile enemies, all the while ensuring you have the necessities to survive.

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The five aspects of your body that you'll need to keep watch over are your energy, oxygen, hunger, thirst, and sanity. Sanity in particular is driven by Stardust contamination. Insanity will lower your maximum health, and you will need ways to get your sanity back up.

What Is Sanity?

Sanity is one of the vital stats to keep an eye on for the survival of your character in Once Human. The icon for sanity is represented by a head above your health bar.

Your character will lose sanity if they enter areas that are polluted with Stardust, or if they are attacked by aberrant monsters.

You'll be notified if Stardust pollution is building up in an area you've entered. Entering a contaminated zone will drain your sanity to a certain point, after which it will stay at that level even if you remain in the area.

Bodies of water are also contaminated, so swimming will cause you to go insane.

Consuming contaminated items can also lower your sanity. This includes eating spoiled food, raw meat, and certain cooked food.

When you start going insane, your health bar starts filling up with an insanity bar. This reduces your maximum health points, and you will not be able to remove insanity using Activators.

While insanity can reduce your maximum health, this will not reduce it to zero.

What Is A Whim?

If your sanity drops below half, you will gain a condition known as a Whim. Whims affect you in different ways, and you can gain them through insanity or by taking elixirs.

Whims From Insanity

Condition

Invertebrate

  • An extra 30% decrease in Movement Speed after getting sprained.
  • Physical damage against you increases by 20%.
  • Elemental damage against you decreases by 20%.

Pyromaniac

When attacking enemies with Burn:

  • Fire Rate increases by 30% for three seconds.
  • Stability decreases by 30% for three seconds.

None Shall Pass

  • Melee damage decreases by 30%.
  • 20% chance to trigger ranged knockback after making a melee attack.

Gathering Storm

Attacking enemies with a Shock effect:

  • Continuous shock damage increases by 60% for three seconds.
  • Stability decreases by 30% for three seconds.

Magic Mushroom

After using Mushroom:

  • Movement speed increases by 30% for ten seconds.
  • Blaze damage increases by 30% for then seconds.
  • Sanity goes down by 100 points.

Innsmouth Shade

  • Swim speed increases by 30%.
  • Hydration depletion rate increases by 30%.
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You can only have six active Whims at a time. You can see how many Whims you have and the conditions that they inflict by clicking on Whim Details when you hover over the sanity icon on your character inventory screen.

How To Regain Sanity

You can regain sanity by either consuming certain things or sleeping in bed.

Using Consumables To Regain Sanity

Some consumables, such as Fruit Tea, alcohol, and sugar, can help in regaining a bit of sanity. Having sanity-restoring consumables in your bag is essential before you head out exploring.

Some sanity-restoring items will require a stove, which can be unlocked by spending Ciphers or Meme Points on the Stoves Memetic under the Logistics tab of your Memetics menu.

You will also need to unlock the Cooking II Memetic under the same tab to unlock some recipes for sanity-restoring consumables.

Fruit Tea is a great consumable to craft and take with you because it can restore 400 points of sanity and 50 points of hydration. It only requires a cup of water and two flowers to make. The downside is that this expires after 24 hours.

Another item to use to regain a chunk of sanity while away from home is the Sanity Gummy. It takes one cup of water and one serving of sugar to make, and consuming one piece allows you to regain 500 points of sanity.

Sanity Gummy will also remove negative Whims when consumed.

Using A Bed To Regain Sanity

Another way to regain sanity is by sleeping in a bed. This is a great way to regain sanity because it will also restore any lost health. That being said, it doesn't restore all your sanity instantly.

When you regain sanity by sleeping in bed, it doesn't cure you of negative Whims. This is a good way to cure insanity if you prefer to keep some useful conditions obtained from certain Whims.

A bed can be crafted by unlocking the Basic Furniture Memetic under the Building tab on your Memetics screen.

A bed can be crafted using twenty logs and three adhesives. This can only be constructed on your territory.

If you're at home, you should use the bed instead of taking a Sanity Gummy or other consumables when trying to regain sanity. This will allow you to save consumables for when you head out.

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