Resident Evil 4 Remake: How to heal and how to increase the health bar? Resident Evil 4 Remake - guide, tips
On this guide page you will learn how to heal the hero in Resident Evil 4 Remake and whether health can regenerate itself. In addition, we explain how to permanently increase the health points.
Last update: 22 March 2023
On this page of the RE4 Remake guide, you will find tips on how to heal and regenerate lost health. We explain whether the health bar can regenerate itself and how to permanently increase Leon's health bar.
On the Can you use armor? page, you will find information on how to obtain Body Armor. This will increase your chances of survival.
Regenerating health points
Resident Evil 4 Remake doesn't have the option to automatically regenerate health by default. You have to restore HP with medkits.
The exception is the lowest difficulty level - Assisted. It has an option to regenerate health when you are in the Danger state. Thanks to it, you will die less often. If you have more health, the autoregeneration will not trigger.
The best way to heal is with First Aid Spray, so you can restore to full health. Use it when you have little health left to make it as efficient as possible. You should leave spray for the more challenging fights.
You can heal yourself regularly with Herbs. As in other RE games, you should combine them to amplify their effects. The main combinations are:
- Green Herb + Green Herb;
- Green Herb + Green Herb + Green Herb;
- Green Herb + Red Herb.
You can combine herbs in the inventory or in the Crafting tab - the available combinations will then be highlighted.
Rarer ways of healing are:
- eggs - you can find them in locations with chickens and they come in several varieties (the rarer the egg, the better the healing);
- Viper - you can kill vipers found in the game world (in containers and crawling on the ground).
Increasing the health bar
You can also find Yellow Herbs - they are collectibles, i.e. they occur in small quantities and in specific locations (their list is in the Secrets and puzzles chapter).
Alternatively, you can buy yellow herbs from the merchant for Spinel currency (Trade tab).
You can combine yellow herbs with others, that is, with green, red and their combinations. You can check the available combinations in the Crafting menu.
Eating yellow herbs (just it or combined with other plants) permanently extends Leon's health bar. The eventual change in the health bar is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen. The one-time HP gain is small, but you can find more yellow herbs. Eventually, you will fill the entire "missing" part of the health bar.