Life Fruit

The Life Fruit is a Hardmode type of plant that grows on Jungle Grass in the Underground Jungle. Once harvested and used, a Life Fruit permanently increases the player's health capacity by 5, turning one of the hearts in the player's health meter golden.

Life Fruit can only be used once a player has reached the 400 health cap from Life Crystals. On the, Life Fruit will only grow after all Mechanical Boss have been defeated. On the, Life Fruit can be found prior to defeating a Mechanical Boss, just in much smaller numbers; defeating a mechanical boss increases the amount that can grow.

A total of 20 Life Fruit are required to reach the maximum of 500 health capacity, at which point all of a player's hearts will be golden.

Trivia

 * The plants on which the fruit grows have three different possible sprites. They are all functionally identical.
 * The small golden heart on the fruit represents the golden heart that a player would gain if they consumed a Life Fruit
 * Consider following Pink Fairies, if you happen to come across one, as they can often lead you to Life Fruit.

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生命果 Fruit de vie