Players are Meta-Humans who can withstand the danger.

Despite being a Meta-Human, you still do not want to risk high exposure to pollution.

In high-pollution areas, your cradle will start showing you how much pollution you are getting.

Player character with knees bent and arms out cautiously.

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When the cradle on your back starts counting upward, you should be worried.

Pollution drains your health bar and makes it so that you cannot heal.

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Learning how to deal with pollution is crucial for accessing more dangerous areas in the game.

Gear has a percentage of pollution resistance.Higher tier gear will have better pollution resistance.

All early-game gear is tier 1 and has a base pollution resistance of nine.

Test Subject Mask armor in armor crafting menu.

These can be upgraded to tier 2 to increase pollution resistance to 12.

On top of having high pollution resistance, it’s crucial that you utilize consumables that alleviate pollution damage.

Consumables can be crafted to cure the pollution damagedone to your health bar.

Electric Stoves recipe being selected under the perks menu.

This will allow you to heal fully.

You will have to unlock the recipe for these items.

Stovesand consumable recipes are found by opening yourMemetics and looking under Logistics.

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Here’s our complete guide to Once Human, the free-to-play multiplayer survival game from NetEase.

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