¶ Life Support System
¶ Overview
The Life Support System is the foundation of survival in DIE.
It manages the player’s essential needs — Food, Water, and Sleep — and ties them directly to health, stamina, and overall performance.
This System forces players to pay attention to their environment and bodies.
If your suit doesn’t warn you, your body will.
It rewards discipline, planning, and resource management while punishing excess and neglect.
👁️“Survival shouldn’t be about numbers — it should be about awareness.”
¶ Core Stats
| Stat | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Food | Represents hunger and overall energy levels. | Eating regularly prevents stamina loss, helps with health regeneration and grants short-term buffs from specific meals. |
| Water | Tracks hydration and body regulation. | Dehydration reduces movement speed and health regeneration. |
| Sleep | Measures fatigue and mental focus. | Lack of sleep increases screen shake, blurring, and increases fatigue which means no running |
| Bloating | Tracks overeating. | Disables running, causes sickness, and can be fatal if ignored. |
💡 Each stat affects more than comfort — it changes how effective you are in combat and exploration.
¶ Visual Indicators
The Life Support HUD now integrates Health, Sleep, Water, and Food directly, with Radiation appearing only when active exposure is detected.
This system replaces traditional progress bars with dynamic visual and on-screen warnings designed for immersion and quick readability.
Dual-ring nutrition gauge (bottom-right): Outer ring = Water, Inner ring = Food.
Sleep gauge (top-right): tracks fatigue and rest levels.
Health: represented by a medical cross and circular meter.
Radiation: appears only when active exposure is detected — the icon glows yellow/orange/red and fades out once you are safe.
Icons shift yellow → orange → red as conditions worsen.
When low or critical, icons for Food, Water, or Sleep will project onto the center of your screen (HUD overlay) as flashing red warnings, ensuring visibility even in combat or cockpit view.
At critical levels, your screen pulses red, and icons flicker to simulate distress.
Opening your helmet hides the entire HUD, simulating environmental vulnerability.
¶ HUD at a Glance (Legend)
| Element | Display Behavior |
|---|---|
| 🩸 Health | Circular medical cross icon, always visible |
| 💤 Sleep | Top-right circular ring |
| 💧 Water | Outer ring (bottom-right) |
| 🍴 Food | Inner ring (bottom-right) |
| ☢️ Radiation | Appears only during exposure (dynamic) |
| ⚡ Power / O₂ / H₂ | Standard circular gauges (unchanged) |
💡One ring for sleep and one for hunger and thirst — both screaming red when you’ve pushed your luck too far.
¶ Controls & Accessibility
The Life Support interface combines automatic HUD feedback with manual stat control tools. Players can rely on quick visuals for awareness or open detailed menus for precise readings.
Hold N → Opens the Stat Monitor Popup, showing exact numeric values for Food, Water, Sleep, Health, Radiation, and Buffs in real time by moving you mouse over top of each stat.
Press Shift + B → Displays all active Buffs and Debuffs, including their remaining duration and effects.
🧭 You’ll see danger long before you can measure it. The HUD warns — the Stat Monitor just confirms you’re dying.
¶ Buff & Debuff Effects
Proper management of your Life Support System provides buffs, while neglect leads to debuffs:
Buffs
- Increased health
- Movement speed
- Oxygen Consumption
- Faster tool speed
Debuffs (Added from Apex Advanced!)
- Reduced movement speed
- Slow health recovery
- Fatigue / forced rest
- Screen warnings and color shifts
💪 Every day you stay alive, you adapt — you harden.
💀 But every choice, every risk, could erase it all.
🏆 Survival is the reward… and the challenge that never ends.
¶ Radiation
Radiation is an integral part of the Life Support System, representing environmental exposure and contamination.
It interacts directly with your biological stats and suit protection systems.
Uranium ingots and reactors emit harmful radiation when nearby.
Prolonged exposure causes health decay and visual distortion.
A distinct Geiger-like clicking sound increases in frequency and intensity based on your exposure level, providing an audible warning of danger.
Any Radiation will be visible on the HUD, even when other stats are hidden.
Certain foods and medications provide temporary resistance or cleansing effects.
Solar radiation is now a problem a player has to deal with, although low could still cause future health problems if not looked after!
☢️ Radiation is silent but constant — the unseen threat that tests your preparation.
¶ Integration & Crafting
Key Blocks
Algae Farms (Large & Small Grid) – Grow algae for nutrient processing.
Farm Blocks – Manage crop growth and harvesting. (Must be enclosed within a room and have oxygen)
Food Processor – View recipes, buffs, and drawbacks for every meal.
Irrigation System – Automates crop watering.
Composter – Breaks down unwanted food and waste into Organic, used as Bio-Reactor fuel.
Resource Cycle
Grow crops or algae.
Process food through the Food Processor.
Consume meals to manage stats and gain buffs.
Compost leftovers into Organic.
Use Organic to power the Bio-Reactor.
♻️ Nothing goes to waste — every step feeds back into survival.
¶ Eat Food, Not Bullets
Category: Ingredients, Consumables & Stat Effects
When hunger hits, logic fades. The Apex food system is built around balancing nutrition, hydration, and regret — every meal restores something, but most come with side effects.
Good meals boost stamina and focus; bad ones make you slow, bloated, or question your life choices.
¶ Dietary Balance & Penalties
The Apex digestion system doesn’t reward lazy eating habits. Variety keeps your stats stable — repetition does not.
Eating the same food twice in a row forces a 2-minute cooldown before you can benefit from it again.
Overeating identical meals suppresses health regeneration, stamina recovery, and causes bloating.
Rotating between different food types maintains balanced recovery and keeps your bloating and fatigue low.
¶ Base Ingredients
| Icon | Effect (If Consumable) | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🪱 Organic | — | Cannot be consumed raw | |
| 🧫 Algae | — | Cannot be consumed raw | |
| 🍱Tofu | -10% Health / +10% Food / +8.5% Bloating / -0.01% Recovery | Only found and used for Dumblings | |
| 🍎 Fruit | +10% Food / +5 Sleep / +2.5% Fatigue / +1% Bloating / +0.1% Recovery | Sweet and vitamin-rich; can be eaten raw or processed into food. | |
| 🌾 Grain | — | Cannot be consumed raw must be processed into food | |
| 🍄 Mushrooms | +10% Food / +5% Health / +0.0625% Bloating / +0.0625 Recovery | Low-maintenance fungus used in processed into food | |
| 🥕 Vegetables | +10% Food / +5% Health / +2.25% Bloating / +0.01% Recovery | Diverse plant matter — nutrient dense, low fat, and essential for balanced meals. | |
| 🍖 Mammal Meat (Raw) | -40% Health / -30% Food | Uncooked meat — will cause sickness or food poisoning. Cook before consumption. | |
| 🍖 Mammal Meat (Cooked) | +18% Food / +10% Health / +5% Bloating / +1 Recovery | Rich protein source; staple for frontier diets. | |
| 🦗 Insect Meat (Raw) | -40% Health / -30% Food | Uncooked meat — will cause sickness or food poisoning. Cook before consumption. | |
| 🦗 Insect Meat (Cooked) | +14% Food / +10% Health / +5% Bloating / +1% Recovery | High-protein, tofu-like texture. Surprisingly tolerable. |
¶ Drinks
| Icon | Effect (If Consumable) | Description | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| 💧Sparkling Water | +25% Water / +1% Bloating / +0.1% Recovery | Refresh yourself | 50x Ice, 5 Iron Ingots |
| 🥤Clang Cola | +15% Water / +12.5% Sleep / +6.25% Fatigue / +4% Bloating | Sustainable made for Seals | — |
| 🍹Fruit Tea | +20% Water / +10% Sleep / +10% Bloating | Fruit and tea, my favorite drink | — |
| 🍺InterBeer | +5% Food / +1% Food / -5% Sleep / +3% Bloating | Homemade brew | — |
| ☕Cosmic Coffee | +15% Water / +4% Sleep / +2% Fatigue / +8% Bloating | Warm and Satisfying | — |
¶ Prepared Meals
| Icon | Effect (If Consumable) | Description | Ingredients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🧫BioPaste | -5% Health / +5% Food / +10% Water / +5.5% Bloating / +0.5% Recovery | Yucky but sustainable food package | 50x Organic, 50x Ice | |
| 🎒Emergency Ration | -5% Health / +8% Food / +5.5% Bloating / +0.5% Recovery | Sustainable made for Seals | 10x Gravel, 5x Ice, 10x Organic | |
| 🍟LaysChips | +10% Food / +5.5% Bloating / +7.5% Recovery | Just a snack, bet you cant eat just one | — | |
| 🧂PrlnglesChips | +15% Food / -10% Water / +7.5% Bloating | Better then lays, prove me wrong | — | |
| 🧇 Kelp Crisp | +15% Food / +18% Bloating / +5 Recovery | Crunchy wafers made from processed algae. Lifesaving in a pinch. | 4x Algae | |
| 🍪 Fruit Bar | +20% Food / +10 Sleep / +5% Fatigue / +4.5 Bloating / +6 Recovery | Dense bar of grains and fruit mash. More functional than flavorful. | 1x Algae, 1x Fruit | |
| 🥗 Garden Slaw | +20% Food / +10% Water / +10 Bloating / +6 Recovery | A mix of chopped veggies and fruit. Texture optional. | 2x Vegetables, 1x Fruit | |
| 🍡 Red Pellets | +20% Food / +10% Health / +5 Bloating / +6 Recovery | Sweet-and-sour fruit pellets for space rations. | 2x Fruit, 1x Vegetables | |
| 🌶️ Chili | +25% Food / +5% Bloating / +12 Recovery | Warm and spicy. Makes you forget you’re freezing. | 3x Vegetables, 1x Fruit | |
| 🥤Myco-Boost | +10% Food / +5% Health | Need a little boost? | 5x Iron Ingots, 100x Ice, 1x Mushroom | |
| 🫓 Flatbread | +35% Food / +18% Bloating / +1.2% Recovery | Tangy, pizza-like base meal. Frontier favorite. | 1x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 1x Fruit | |
| 🍜 Ramen | +35% Food / +15% Water / +9% Bloating / +10 Recovery | Hot noodles seasoned with rehydrated vegetables. | 1x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 2x Algae | |
| 🥧 Fruit Pastry | +35% Food / +15 Sleep / +7.5% Fatigue / +24% Bloating / +11% Recovery | The closest thing to dessert you’ll find. | 2x Grain, 2x Fruit | |
| 🍔 Veggie Burger | +45% Food / +15% Bloating / +12% Recovery | Pressed grain and mushrooms — plant-based redemption. | 1x Grain, 2x Vegetables, 1x Mushrooms | |
| 🍛 Curry | +35% Food / +15% Health / +7.5% Bloating / +2% Recovery | Spiced grain-and-fruit meal pack. Surprisingly satisfying. | 1x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 2x Fruit | |
| 🟢 Green Pellets | +65% Food / +10% Health / +35% Sleep / +1.75% Fatigue / +5% Bloating / +2% Recovery | Blended algae and insect protein. Not awful. | 2x Algae, 1x Vegetables, 1x Insect Meat | |
| 🥟 Dumplings | +65% Food / +10% Health / +15% Water / +25% Sleep / +12.5% Fatigue / +15% Bloating / +10% Recovery | Mushroom and veggie dumplings; best served warm. | 2x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 1x Mushrooms, 1x Tofu | |
| 🍝 Spaghetti | +75% Food / +20% Health / +20% Sleep / +10% Fatigue / +30% Bloating / +15% Recovery | Pasta in hearty mushroom-vegetable sauce. | 3x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 1x Mushroom, 1x Cooked Mammal Meat | |
| 🍲 Lasagna | +70% Food / +15% Health / +10% Sleep / +5% Fatigue / +12% Bloating / +3% Recovery | Layered grain and meat sauce. Non-dairy, still delicious. | 2x Grain, 1x Vegetables, 1x Cooked Mammal Meat | |
| 🌯 Burrito | +85% Food / +4% Bloating / +3% Recovery | Beans, rice, meat — the universal meal of explorers. | 2x Grain, 2x Vegetables, 1x Cooked Mammal Meat | |
| 🥣 Frontier Stew | +70% Food / +15% Health / +15% Water / +5% Bloating / +36% Recovery | Rich stew made from rare frontier ingredients. | 2x Algae, 1x Grain, 2x Mushrooms, 1x Insect Meat | |
| 🍖 Seared Sabroid | +75% Food / +15% Health / +30% Sleep / +15% Fatigue / +1.5% Bloating / +42% Recovery | Cooked alien meat with complementary sides. Frontier delicacy. | 1x Grain, 1x Algae, 1x Vegetables, 1x Mushrooms, 1x Cooked Insect Meat | |
| 🥩 Steak Dinner | +75% Food / +25% Health / +20% Sleep / +10% Fatigue / +1.5% Bloating / +56% Recovery | The apex of meals — protein, flavor, and dignity. | 1x Grain, 1x Vegetable, 1x Mushrooms, 1x Fruit, 1x Cooked Mammal Meat |
⚠️ Eat for survival, not comfort. Empty stomachs don’t win fights — but neither do cramps.