Health

The Health Bar is the Character's HP allotment in Darkest Dungeon. When a character runs out of HP, they will enter the Death's Gate State.

Upon entering Death's Gate for the first time during combat, a character's Stress Meter will increase and from that point onward, damage done has a high chance of permanently killing off the character. The state can be cancelled out by healing a character.

Especially devastating attacks can cause a Deathblow, which will completely skip the Death's Gate State and outright kill the character.

Various class skills can heal hp during combat, but one Food is able to heal adventurers outside of combat.