How to Heal from Gloom

First, a quick primer on gloom:

You might discover the first method of fixing your lost maximum health during the Camera Work in the Depths Main Quest.

Simply put, stepping foot beneath a Lightroot –the Depth’s fast travel points– will recover your maximum health.

The other easy, free method is to fast travel back to the surface. Both methods will leave your newly recovered heart containers empty though, so be ready with health-restoring food to get back to tip-top shape.

It’s not always convenient to have to fast travel away from whatever you’re doing whenever you need to heal up, so it’s always handy to have the third way of gloom recovery on hand: Sundelions.

When used in cooking, Sundelions restore maximum health depleted by gloom. You can usually find a couple of these golden flowers on each Sky island way up high.

Know that, like the other methods, Sundelions, when cooked alone, only fix your empty containers, and don’t actually refill the lost health unless you cook them with another material that does, like meat. And like all meals, the more ingredients, the better it works.

That’s all you need to know about healing the gloom, but what about preventing it altogether? Hopping on gloom doesn’t do anything to extend the time it takes until infection–unless you’re able to get a paraglide off. But that’s really not reliable or effective, like some other methods.

Fair warning, the following tips can be a little spoilery, so turn back now if you’re satisfied.

A certain material called Dark Clump can be cooked with food to produce gloom-resistant meals. The blue-outlined heart containers represent the number of times you can essentially absorb gloom, but only from the environment.

Enemies will still hit you directly where it hurts, but still, it’s useful for getting around. You can buy Dark Clumps from the Bargainer Statue at Lookout Landing–and other locations in the depths–in exchange for Poes, the blue flame things. There’s also a spooky enemy that drops them, but we won’t spoil that.

Finally, you can also, eventually, purchase a Gloom Resistant Depths outfit from the Bargainer Statue once you’ve located enough of them, for a price. However, we haven’t found any way to resist gloom from enemy attacks. Not yet, at least!