Constitution

This article is about the skill that controls life points. For the old skill before the 3 March 2010 update, see Hitpoints (historical).

"HP" redirects here. For the statistic, see Life points. For the Barbarian Assault reward system, see Honour Points.

Constitution

Also known as	HP
Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members only	No
Minimum level for Hiscores	15 as of 12 Dec 2017
Players with 99	240,048 as of 4 Feb 2023
Players with 120	19,308 as of 4 Feb 2023
Players with 200M XP	5,345 as of 4 Feb 2023

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Life points bars appear above the heads of those in combat.

The sound played when a player levels up the Constitution skill.

Constitution (also known as health, and formerly as Hitpoints or HP) is a combat skill that affects how many life points (LP) a player or monster has. Life points represent the amount of damage a player or monster can withstand before it dies. Death occurs when a player or monster's life points reach zero.

The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,500,945) on the hiscores for Constitution is level 15. As of 04 February 2023, there are 240,048 current members that have achieved level 99 in Constitution. There are 19,308 current members that have achieved level 120 in Constitution.

The maximum number of life points a player may have without any armour or boosts is 100 times their Constitution level. Players begin with a Constitution level of 10 and thus 1000 life points, and their life points are increased by 100 for every Constitution level gained. As such, a player with level 99 Constitution has 9900 life points.

A player wearing a trimmed constitution cape

Fighting

Any player or creature who is hit in a fight will have a life bar shown above them, which represents their life points. There are two colours on the bar: green and red. The green part of the bar is on the left and represents how many life points the player has remaining. The red part of the bar appears on the right and represents how much damage has been taken away from their maximum life points. This allows an easy estimation of the percentage of health a player has left.

Players may look to their Action bar to see their current maximum life points as well as how many they have remaining.

Hitsplats

Main article: Hitsplat

Poison (Members only)

Main article: Poison

A player may become poisoned during a fight. This effect will continue to reduce life points periodically, even after the fight is over. The body's natural defences will gradually neutralise the poison, however.

For instance, if a player is hit by another player that poisons them, they would be hit for an initial amount of damage depending on the type of poison they were using. As time goes on the amount of damage is slowly reduced until it is gone. Players may cure the poison at any time with an antipoison or Super antipoison potion made using the Herblore skill. Super antipoisons will give a player temporary immunity to any poison-based attack. This is especially useful in the Pyramid Plunder Thieving minigame.

Please also note that if you are poisoned in a Members' server but then switch to a Free server, you will remain poisoned with no way to cure it (aside from eating food to offset the damage) until you switch back to a Members' server.

Death

A player dying and his Gravestone appearing

Main article: Death (mechanic)

Death occurs when a player's life points reach zero. A message in the chat box informs them of this: Oh dear, you are dead!. Once the player has died, they will either be placed at Death's office if there was wealth risked upon death or the nearest respawn hub if no wealth was risked.

Death will keep players' items from when they died for 24 hours of gameplay time. This heavily aids players who have died due to disconnection so that they can recover their items. These items include those that are not always kept on death or always kept on death unless in the Wilderness. You can choose to pay Death to reclaim your items using gold coins, otherwise you can leave his office and make your own way to your grave. However, keep in mind that grave timers are very short (averaging 2-3 minutes depending on your gravestone) before they collapse.

During Missing, Presumed Death, due to Death's kidnapping, Frank can instead be found in the office, and will act as a substitute for Death to reclaim items.

All minigames are either safe (for example, Fishing Trawler) or dangerous (for example, Pyramid Plunder). If a player dies whilst participating in a safe minigame, the player will retain all items and respawn at a location specific to the minigame. If a player dies whilst participating in a dangerous minigame, the player will respawn at the chosen hub, and a gravestone will be placed either at the place of death or at the entrance to the minigame.

Respawning

When a player dies, they will respawn, meaning they will live again. If wealth was risked, they will spawn in Death's office. If no wealth was risked, they will respawn normally at their chosen respawn point or the nearest major hub. See above for information on how the Death rework affects death and respawning.

Respawn points

• Free players, can choose to respawn in Lumbridge, or at the last major hub.
• For members, they will initially have the same options, but can gain additional ones by completing quests:
  • Falador, after completion of the Recruitment Drive quest;
  • Camelot, after completion of the King's Ransom quest and the Knight Waves Training Grounds miniquest;
  • Soul Wars lobby, after completion of the Nomad's Requiem quest.

Earning experience

To earn experience in Constitution, a player has to fight or do a quest that rewards Constitution experience. Alternatively, one could use an item that gives a specific amount of experience (for example, experience lamps or quest rewards).

When fighting, a player receives Constitution experience upon the kill. The amount of experience earned is found using the known combat experience for the offensive skills: $experience \times .333$. Constitution experience is earned at one third the rate of Attack, Ranged, Strength and Defence, or Magic if training via combat, making this one of the slowest skills to train, although it may be gained fast if you are focusing on Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged or Magic too.

Prayer cannot help train Constitution, however using the Rapid Heal or Rapid Renewal prayers, or the Soul Split Ancient Curse can help to restore health if you've lost some.

Recovering life points

A player casting the Heal Group spell

A player can heal to restore their life points back to or even over its maximum. There are a number of ways to do this:

• Let it recharge on its own. A player naturally heals at the rate of 0.1% of maximum life points (rounded down) every six seconds when not in combat.
• Resting restores 1% of life points (rounded up) every 6 seconds (in addition to the 0.1% normally).
• Listening to a Musician restores 1% of life points every 3 seconds.
• The prayer Rapid Heal doubles the rate at which life points naturally restore.
• The prayer Rapid Renewal reduces the interval between natural healing to the users Life points from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds.
• The prayer Fortitude doubles life point regeneration rate and allows increased regeneration during combat.
• The Regeneration aura doubles the rate at which life points naturally restore.
• The Regen bracelet triples the rate at which life points naturally restore.
• The lunar spell Dream restores life points at the rate of 10 times more than normal.
• Entering a bank or using a bank chest heals about 500 life points a second

The recovery rate for life points, in life points per minute, is given by adding natural regeneration (max life points divided by 1000. rounded down) to any regeneration increases (Rest has its own separate timer).

Method	Healing	Interval	Boost
Rest*	1% LP	6 seconds	1
Listening to a musician*	1% LP	3 seconds	1
Rapid heal prayer**	N/A	N/A	2
Rapid renewal prayer**	N/A	N/A	5
Regen bracelet	3x natural	Natural	N/A
Dream spell*	N/A	N/A	10
Regeneration aura	N/A	N/A	2

* Resting, listening to a musician, and the dream spell cannot be combined.

** The Rapid renewal and rapid heal prayer cannot be used together.

The maximum life point recovery rate without a familiar is 2510.5 a minute, using the best available equipment for maximum life points, having 99 constitution, wearing a regen bracelet, and using rapid renewal to cut the natural healing interval to a fifth of its normal time, and resting at the same time. For free to play the maximum life point regeneration, without using degrading equipment, is 918.5 life points a minute.

All restorations run on separate clocks. Resting/Listening to music/moving status on player is updated by one clock while the players natural regeneration is one a second clock. This second clock can be sped up using Rapid heal and Rapid renewal.

• Eating food recovers life points. The full life points for a food can only be obtained if the player's constitution level is at least as high as the level of the food, which is generally the cooking level required to prepare the food (there are exceptions where the levels differ, such as the Tuna potato and Cavefish). Otherwise, most food heals 25 less per missing level. For example, a Rocktail heals 2300 life points if the player has a constitution level of 92 or higher. If the player's constitution level is 91, it only heals 2275 life points.

Food	Life healed	GE price	Consumption bites	Level
Tuna	750	37	One	30
Lobster	1200	141	One	40
Swordfish	1400	157	One	50
Chocolate cake	1248	890	Three	50
Anchovy pizza	1374	600	Two	55
Curry	1500	203	One	60
Monkfish	1600	388	One	62
Pineapple pizza	1624	452	Two	65
Admiral pie	1750	3,407	Two	70
Shark	2000	1,933	One	80
Sea turtle	2050	1,541	One	82
Wild pie	2125	2,194	Two	85
Tuna potato	2125	2,292	One	85
Cavefish	2200 (gives a +2 combat boost)	2,540	One	88
Manta ray	2275	3,283	One	91
Rocktail	2300 (up to 10% above full health)	4,690	One	92
Tiger shark	2375 (up to +100 life points boost)	Untradeable	One	95
Summer pie	2400	1,192	Two	95
Rocktail soup	2500	9,439	One	95
Basket of strawberries	30% of max life points	1,423	Five

• Drinking potions. Members have access to Saradomin brews, which heal up to 1000 of a player's total life points and adds it to their life points. This can exceed their limit.
• Passive effects. Some weapons have passive effects that recover life points, such as the Enhanced excalibur and Saradomin Godsword. Additionally, the Guthan's set effect occasionally heals a player by the amount they hit.
• The monks at the Monastery of Saradomin and Entrana heal players if they ask them. They heal 20% of the player's life points level.
• The nurses Sabreen and A'abla and Surgeon Tafani at the infirmary north of Al Kharid Duel Arena heal players if asked.
• Two lunar spells can be cast to heal other players: Heal Other, level 92 magic needed, and Heal Group, level 95 magic needed.
• Die. When a player dies, they respawn at full health and full energy. This is not recommended unless the player has banked all items and wants to go to an area near their respawn point.
• A player can use a bracelet of regeneration which doubles life points recovery rate. When used in conjunction with the prayer rapid heal, it triples to 30 life points per minute.
• Using Soul Split (one of the Ancient Curses, level 92 Prayer required) adds 10% of damage dealt back to life points. Since this method needs high hits to heal fast, it can be used together with Turmoil. It is risky to use versus NPC capable of dealing high and/or frequent damage though. Used right, it is a great and potion-saving alternative against monsters usually fought with activated protection prayers or deflection curses.
• Returning to a safe town. Life points are automatically recovered to maximum upon return to a safe town (like Edgeville) and using the bank.
• The two Summoning familiars, the Void spinner (10 life points every 15 seconds) and the Bunyip (2% of maximum life points, rounded down, every 15 seconds), heal a player over time. The Unicorn stallion heals 10% of the player's life points by using its special move, Healing Aura.
• A Clan avatar with the healing over time buff will heal a player and any clanmates within range for 2% of their maximum life points every 5 seconds.

Familiar	Summoning level required	Heal rate
Void Spinner	34	10 life points every 15 seconds
Bunyip	68	2% of maximum life points every 15 seconds
Fire, Moss, Ice titans	79	80 life points per scroll (special moves)
Unicorn Stallion	88	10% of maximum life points (special moves)

Temporary boosts

Main article: Temporary skill boost

Boosts to life points

A player wearing a Constitution cape and performing the Skillcape emote

• Elidinis Statuette - this altar in Nardah will heal you and raise your total LP by 500, and will also fully refill your prayer. To use it, players will need to have completed Spirits of the Elid.
• Bonfires - 1% to 5% of LP for 6 min to 60 min percent corresponding to your Firemaking level, time corresponding with type of logs used. Note that this is a boost to LP high-water mark, the new higher level can be healed to by the usual means (food, banking, etc.).
• The thermal bath at the spa in Oo'glog boosts LP by 3% above maximum and can stacking with the boost from a bonfire. To use the bath, players will need to have completed As a First Resort.
• Rocktails, tiger sharks and rocktail soup can boost LP, in the case of soup by 15%.
• Using the Fortitude curse, unlocked after completing the quest The Light Within, grants a LP boost of 100 as long as the prayer is activated.
• Abidor Crank will boost a player's LP by 20%.

Boosts to Constitution

• Constitution Cape of Achievement - Owners of a Constitution cape can boost their Constitution skill by 1 every minute, by operating the cape or re-equipping it. The Constitution cape is one of the Capes of Achievement, which can be bought and equipped by players with 99 Constitution only. The cape is sold by Surgeon General Tafani at the Duel Arena in Al Kharid for 99,000 coins.

Trivia

Constitution's level-up jingle

• If you levelled Constitution before the 3 March 2010 update, it would show Hitpoints in your Adventurer's Log. It was changed to Constitution the following day.
• In RuneScape Classic, all players started with level 10 Hits and 1000 XP - slightly less XP than would be required for level 10 in all other skills. When RuneScape 2 was released, accounts that had not gained the Hits XP needed to reach level 10 or higher had their Hitpoints stat "corrected" to level 9. The only way to have level 9 Constitution is to have created an account prior to RuneScape 2 and not to have trained the Consititution skill since.
• If a player gained 200 million experience in Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged and Magic (assuming that no experience lamps or bonus experience were used), he/she would have gained 333,333,333.3 Consititution experience. In other words, training all combat style skills by killing monsters a player would end up with 5/3 times the experience than one of the other skills trained individually. 

See also

• Death
• Poison
• Disease
• Hitsplat
• Free-to-play Constitution training, a guide to training Constitution for free-to-play players
• Pay-to-play Constitution training, a guide to training Constitution for pay-to-play players
• Hitpoints (historical)
• Constitution/Level up table
• Quest experience rewards - Constitution