Canonical player-state authority · Ver.1.09
Village in the Shade HP & Stamina Guide
Stamina and HP are independent gauges. Stamina mainly gates work and other physical actions; HP mainly absorbs damage. Food can restore current values, while Fox Fried Tofu and Nushi's Scale permanently raise different maximums. The Japanese release commonly calls Stamina 元気 and HP 体力; this site keeps its working English terms until Western UI wording is confirmed.
0 Stamina
No automatic faint
Stamina recovery
Food · sleep · Hot Spring
Maximum Stamina
Fox Fried Tofu
Maximum HP
Nushi's Scale
Four values, two systems
HP vs Stamina
Never substitute a current value for a maximum, or HP for Stamina. A recovery action fills a current gauge; a progression reward changes a maximum gauge.
| Value | What it means | Known recovery / upgrade owner |
|---|---|---|
| Current Stamina | What you can spend now on work and other Stamina-consuming actions | Food, sleep or Hot Spring |
| Maximum Stamina | The upper limit of the Stamina gauge | Fox Shrine → Fox Fried Tofu |
| Current HP | Your present damage-survival amount | Foods with explicit HP recovery |
| Maximum HP | The upper limit of the HP gauge | Okami Pool → Nushi's Scale |
Starting HP, starting Stamina, final maximums and the conversion between raw recovery points and a Stamina gauge are not verified. Unknown is not zero.
Exhaustion boundary
What Happens at Zero Stamina?
Reaching 0 Stamina does not automatically faint the player. The strongest current wording describes loss of Stamina-consuming actions, not a universal walking ban.
Automatic faint
No
Tool use
Unavailable when Stamina-consuming
Walking
Unknown
HP drain
Unknown
Money loss
Unknown
Current-value recovery
How to Restore Stamina
These methods refill current Stamina. None of the following should be read as a maximum-Stamina upgrade.
Food
Eat a raw crop, forage item, processed food or cooked dish only where its shared record supplies a Stamina value. Recovery varies by item.
Cooking recovery databaseSleep
Current Japanese guidance reports that Stamina is full the next morning. Sleep ends the day, so it is a next-day reset rather than an in-day refill.
Time & Sleep authorityHot Spring
After B120F, bathing restores current Stamina to the current maximum and costs 1 in-game hour. It does not restore HP.
Hot Spring unlock routeDamage recovery
How to Restore HP
HP recovery is a separate field. A food can restore Stamina without restoring HP, and the Hot Spring is not an HP heal.
Cooked food
Use the shared recipe record's explicit hpRecovery value. The representative table below shows dishes that restore both current HP and current Stamina.
Raw food
Current crop and forage authorities provide selected Stamina values, but no general raw-food HP rule. Do not infer HP recovery from a crop's sell price or Stamina field.
Sleep and Hot Spring
Sleep's HP result is unresolved. The Hot Spring's HP result is explicitly no. Damage prevention such as the Straw Doll is not recovery.
Cursed Objects boundarySelected shared records
Food That Restores Both HP and Stamina
This is a representative recovery table, not a second recipe database. Ingredients, complete unlock routes and restaurant/festival ownership remain on Cooking.
| Food | Japanese | Stamina | HP | How to get / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boiled Egg | ゆでたまご | +113 | +5 | Rokkaku's Spring Helping Event rewards the Hangō and Boiled Egg recipe. |
| Corn Soup | コーンスープ | +208 | +9 | Eat the same Corn Soup at Rokkaku's restaurant 3 times to learn its recipe. |
| Yakisoba | 焼きそば | +458 | +20 | Summer Festival food source is confirmed; the comment-only three-purchase/three-eat learning claim is not promoted to canon. |
| Salt Rice Ball | 塩むすび | +123 | +5 | Cooking source is not isolated in the current recipe record; see the Cooking guide. |
| Baked Sweet Potato | 焼き芋 | +56 | +2 | Produced by the Harvest Festival Sweet Potato roasting activity; recipe-learning semantics remain unresolved. |
| Kashiwa Mochi | 柏餅 | +19 | +1 | Eat the same Kashiwa Mochi at Rokkaku's seasonal restaurant menu 3 times. If missed, the recurring season is the documented recovery route. |
| Candied Apple | リンゴ飴 | +360 | +16 | Summer Festival food source is confirmed; the comment-only three-purchase/three-eat learning claim is not promoted to canon. |
| Soda Float | ソーダフロート | +293 | +13 | Summer Festival food source is confirmed; the comment-only three-purchase/three-eat learning claim is not promoted to canon. |
| Three-Color Dango | 三色団子 | +75 | +3 | Reward relation from the Cherry Blossom Viewing badminton activity. |
Highest recorded Stamina
Yakisoba is the highest Stamina value in this selected table. That is a numeric criterion, not a universal best-food recommendation.
Highest recorded HP
Yakisoba is also the highest HP value in this selected table. Material cost, timing and availability are not complete enough for a value ranking.
Raw crops and forage
Record-based Stamina recovery
The current repository stores raw recovery on individual records. It does not currently encode a verified universal floor(base sell price × 0.75) formula, so this page does not apply that formula to crops, forage, fruit, livestock goods or processed goods.
Crops
The shared crop authority supplies Stamina values such as Corn +32, Napa Cabbage +143 and Green Onion +57. These are raw crop records, not cooked dishes.
Quality changes sale-value handling elsewhere; the shared recovery field is not multiplied by a quality or branding sale multiplier. The exact engine formula and quality edge cases remain unresolved.
Browse crop-specific recoveryForage and processing
Foraging owns the full seasonal list. A few current records include Stamina values—Dandelion, Bamboo Shoot, Loquat and Matsutake—but the full list does not belong here. Processed outputs keep their own machine records and must not inherit raw-crop formulas.
End-of-day recovery
Does Sleeping Restore HP and Stamina?
The two stats must be recorded separately.
Stamina next morning
Verified full
HP next morning
Unknown
Ends day
Yes
Current Japanese guidance says sleep makes Stamina full, so there is no next-day carryover benefit from preserving a partially full Stamina gauge. That does not prove HP is also full. Exact bed timing, clinic penalties and any forced-return edge case belong to the broader time/night authorities and are not expanded here.
In-day full refill
Hot Spring Recovery
The Hot Spring is a current-Stamina refill, not a maximum-stat item.
Unlock
B120F boss
Available
Next day
Current Stamina
To current max
HP
No
Time
1 hour
The shared record places the Hot Spring in the mountain area northwest of the village after defeating the B120F Quarry boss; it becomes available the next day. Fee, daily limit, number of uses per day, operating hours and late-entry rules are unknown. See Hot Spring and Mining for the owned unlock and Quarry details.
Permanent Stamina progression
How to Increase Maximum Stamina
Fox Shrine rewards change the maximum; they are not ordinary cooked food.
Fox Fried Tofu
狐の油揚げ
Complete the relevant seasonal Fox Shrine offering progression. Each confirmed reward adds one full maximum-Stamina gauge segment. It is not added to the ordinary Cooking recipe table, and the current record does not verify whether receiving it also fills the new segment.
- Exact increase
- +1 gauge segment
- Starting bars
- Unknown
- Final maximum
- Unknown
- Total rewards / repeatability
- Unknown
- Mode
- verified Shade record
Recovery is different
Food, sleep and Hot Spring refill current Stamina. Fox Fried Tofu changes the upper limit. A larger maximum does not imply a larger numeric recovery from every food.
Cursed Objects comparisonPermanent HP progression
How to Increase Maximum HP
Nushi's Scale belongs to Okami Pool progression and is separate from Fox Fried Tofu.
Nushi's Scale
ヌシの鱗
Offer eligible Cursed Crops or Cursed Fish at Okami Pool, then follow the Midnight Nushi progression. The reward raises maximum HP; it does not refill current HP and does not affect Stamina.
- Exact increase
- Unknown
- Starting HP
- Unknown
- Final maximum
- Unknown
- Total rewards / repeatability
- Unknown
- Mode
- verified Shade record
HP vs Nushi Fish
Pool Nushi and Nushi Fish are different systems. This guide uses Nushi's Scale only for the maximum-HP progression record.
Do not confuse these
Current Recovery vs Permanent Upgrades
The most useful distinction on this page is whether an effect fills a current gauge or changes its maximum.
| Mechanic | Restores current Stamina | Restores current HP | Raises max Stamina | Raises max HP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food | Yes, when recorded | Yes, when recorded | No | No |
| Sleep | Yes | Unknown | No | No |
| Hot Spring | Yes, to current max | No | No | No |
| Fox Fried Tofu | Unknown on receipt | No | Yes, +1 gauge | No |
| Nushi's Scale | No | No | No | Yes; amount unknown |
Where HP matters
Mining, Hunting and Midnight preparation
HP is damage context; Stamina is action budget. The encounter pages own their hazards and combat rules.
Quarry
Deep Quarry enemies can damage HP. Carry food with an explicit HP field and use the Mining guide for floor and boss details.
Mining authorityHunting
Hunting hazards remain on the Hunting and Wild Animals pages. This guide does not invent damage values or HP=0 rules for them.
Hunting authorityMidnight
Midnight encounters have their own return and anomaly rules. The Straw Doll prevents one damage event; it is not HP recovery.
Midnight authorityDamage boundary
HP = 0 Behavior
There is no universal HP=0 rule published across every activity.
Midnight
Do not assume; context-specific
Quarry
Do not assume; boss context
Hunting
Unknown
Other
Unknown
Current sources warn about reaching 0 HP during Midnight and Quarry play, but the repository does not normalize the exact consequence, item loss, money loss, clinic route or time shift by context. This page therefore reports preparation and links out rather than creating one universal penalty.
Mode boundary
Shade vs Sunshine
Mode availability is not inferred from the fact that a mechanic exists in Shade.
Village in the Shade
The current repository models Fox Fried Tofu, Nushi's Scale and the Hot Spring in the Shade record set. These are the facts used by this authority.
Village in the Sunshine
Full recovery parity and facility/reward availability remain unresolved. Do not promise Fox or Nushi progression in Sunshine without a mode-specific record.
Mode guideFast fixes
HP & Stamina Troubleshooting
My Stamina reached zero but I did not faint
That matches the verified boundary. Use food, sleep or the Hot Spring; the precise ordinary-walking rule remains unverified.
I ate food but HP did not recover
Not every edible item has an HP value. Check the shared recipe or item record rather than assuming Stamina recovery includes HP.
A better-quality crop did not restore more Stamina
The recovery field is separate from quality-adjusted sale value. The current shared data does not apply a sale multiplier to recovery.
The Hot Spring did not increase maximum Stamina
That is expected. Hot Spring fills current Stamina; Fox Fried Tofu is the maximum-Stamina progression reward.
Nushi's Scale did not affect Stamina
That is expected. Nushi's Scale is maximum HP progression; Fox Fried Tofu is the separate maximum-Stamina reward.
I cannot find Fox Shrine or Okami Pool
Use their acquisition authorities and the Midnight/Map pages. This guide summarizes the stat effect without duplicating location routes.
FAQ
HP and Stamina questions
Visible answers and FAQ schema use the same shared list.
What is the difference between HP and Stamina?
Stamina is the current resource for work and other Stamina-consuming actions. HP is the damage-survival resource. Current HP, maximum HP, current Stamina and maximum Stamina are four separate values.
What happens when Stamina reaches zero?
There is no automatic faint at 0 Stamina. Current Japanese guidance reports that Stamina-consuming actions, including tool use, become unavailable. Whether ordinary walking is blocked is not separately verified.
Do you faint at zero Stamina?
No automatic faint is currently verified. Zero Stamina is an action-availability boundary, not a published HP-overexertion or money-loss rule.
Does zero Stamina drain HP?
No verified HP-overexertion conversion is published. Do not import that mechanic from another farming game.
How do you restore Stamina?
Use a food with a documented Stamina value, sleep for the next day, or use the Hot Spring after its B120F unlock. These restore current Stamina; they do not raise maximum Stamina.
How do you restore HP?
Use a food whose shared recipe record has an HP value. Raw crop and forage records currently do not provide a general HP-restoration rule. The Hot Spring does not restore HP.
Does sleeping restore Stamina?
Yes, current Japanese guidance describes Stamina as full the next morning. Sleep ends the day. The repository does not independently verify the amount of HP restored by sleep.
Does sleeping restore HP?
Unknown in the current canonical repository. Stamina recovery after sleep must not be expanded into an HP-full claim.
Does the Hot Spring restore Stamina?
Yes. It restores current Stamina to the current maximum and advances the clock by one in-game hour.
Does the Hot Spring restore HP?
No. The shared Hot Spring record explicitly sets HP recovery to false.
Does the Hot Spring increase maximum Stamina?
No. It fills current Stamina only. Maximum Stamina is a Fox Shrine progression system.
How do you increase maximum Stamina?
Complete the relevant Fox Shrine offering progression and receive Fox Fried Tofu (狐の油揚げ). Each confirmed reward adds one Stamina gauge segment.
What does Fox Fried Tofu do?
Fox Fried Tofu is a progression reward, not an ordinary tofu recipe. It raises maximum Stamina by one gauge segment; the current data does not verify a raw-point conversion, starting bars or final cap.
How do you increase maximum HP?
Offer the eligible cursed items at Okami Pool and follow the Nushi progression to obtain Nushi's Scale (ヌシの鱗). It raises maximum HP; the exact numeric increment remains unresolved.
What does Nushi's Scale do?
Nushi's Scale belongs to the Okami Pool route and increases maximum HP. It does not increase Stamina, and it is not the Nushi Fish catch.
How much HP does Nushi's Scale add?
The current canonical record confirms the direction of the effect but not the exact heart or point increase.
How many Stamina bars can you get?
The exact starting bar count, number of permanent Fox rewards and final maximum are not verified here. Do not promote an external 5-bar claim to canon.
Does crop quality increase Stamina recovery?
The shared crop authority stores raw recovery separately from quality-adjusted sale value. No quality multiplier is applied to the recovery values shown here; the universal formula and every quality edge case remain outside this page.
What foods restore both HP and Stamina?
Boiled Egg, Corn Soup, Yakisoba, Salt Rice Ball, Baked Sweet Potato, Kashiwa Mochi, Candied Apple, Soda Float and Three-Color Dango are representative shared recipe records with both values.
Is Boiled Egg good for recovery?
It is a practical early example because the shared recipe uses Egg ×2 and restores both current Stamina and HP. It is not declared the universal best food.
Do HP and Stamina work the same in Village in the Sunshine?
No mode parity is verified for the full system. The current max-stat progression records are Shade-only, and Sunshine availability remains unresolved.
Written by: Village in the Shade Guide Editorial Team
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Sources: Official publisher and storefront pages, released-game research and linked source notes.