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 one mechanical boss has been defeated, but their spawn rate increases as more mechanical bosses are 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.

Tips

 * A Lifeforce Potion can be used to temporarily increase health capacity even beyond 500, to a maximum of 600.
 * Later on in the game, after the player has obtained 20 Life Fruit required to reach max health, they become a good source of money.
 * Farms can be made by making long platforms of Jungle grass underground. Jungle grass spreads with Jungle Grass Seeds.
 * can often lead the player to Life Fruit.
 * If the player has explored a large area of the Underground Jungle before defeating a mechanical boss, they can use the Metal Detector in conjunction with the map to find Life Fruit very effectively.
 * A quick and easy way to find Life Fruit is to use the Clentaminator with Dark Blue Solution specifically, as this will break the Life fruit and leave them on the ground, and illuminated by the glowing mushroom for the player to see. After the player is done gathering, the biome may be easily switched back to the jungle via Green Solution.

Trivia

 * The plants on which the fruit grows have three different possible sprites. They are all functionally identical.
 * The small golden heart on the Life Fruit represents the golden heart that is obtained when a fruit is consumed.
 * If the player's max health is less than 500 and more than 399, Life fruits will always increase the max health by 5, even if the current max health isn't a multiple of 5. This means, if the player sets their max health to 499 using an inventory editor and then uses a life fruit, the player's max health will be permanently increased to 504, which is 4 beyond the normal maximum.

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