Health and food

Hearts

Wick's health is counted in hearts. How many he starts with depends on the difficulty: eight on Cozy, five on Normal, three on Hard and one on the hardest settings. The most he can ever have is twenty.

Healing

There are no potions. Hearts come back three ways:

• Food. Apples and field mushrooms heal one heart; a heel of bread or a wedge of moor cheese heals two. Food turns up in pots, on the ground and in dungeon stores.
• Mend. A healing spell paid for in magic.
• Rest. Resting at a lit town torch heals Wick, but the creatures of the land wake again.

Falling

When Wick falls he returns to the last town torch he lit, and the fight he lost starts over. A journey saved inside a dungeon carries on from that dungeon's entrance. On Impossible a fall ends the journey for good.