Action Points

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Action Points (represented as ) represent your energy in Die2Nite. Most actions you take require at least 1 .

You have a normal maximum of 6. Being Wounded Wounded will reduce your maximum to 5, in addition to other hindrances. If you reach 0 , you'll be Exhausted Exhausted and unable to complete most actions (including some that don't require , such as attacking with a weapon in the World Beyond).

Contents 1 Restoring AP 1.1 Food 1.2 Water 1.3 Alcohol 1.4 Drugs 1.5 Other Sources 2 Uses for AP 3 Free Actions 4 External links

Restoring AP

Each night (if you survive the Attack, of course), you will be restored to your maximum . There are also numerous methods to gain beyond this.

Food

You can eat a single piece of Food each day. Doing so will give you the Fed Fed status.

• Eating basic food restores your to the maximum.
• Eating premium food restores your to the maximum, plus one. This is 7 for a healthy individual, or 6 if they are Wounded Wounded.

Water

Unless you are Dehydrated Dehydrated!, drinking from a water source restores your to the maximum and gives you the Refreshed Refreshed status. Even when Refreshed Refreshed, you can still drink again if you are Thirsty Thirsty or Dehydrated Dehydrated!, which will improve your status ( Dehydrated Dehydrated! to Thirsty Thirsty or Thirsty Thirsty to normal) , but it will not yield any extra either.

Alcohol

Drinking alcohol restores your to the maximum and gives you the Drunk Drunk status, preventing you from drinking any more alcohol that day. This will be replaced by the Hangover Hungover status the following day, preventing you from drinking that day, too.

Drugs

Some Drugs can restore . Using any drug will give you the Drugged Drugged status. This does not prevent you from using additional drugs, but doing so will give you the Hooked! Hooked! status.

• Taking Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids restores your to the maximum.
• Taking Twinoid 500mg Twinoid 500mg restores your to the maximum, plus 2. This is 8 for a healthy individual.
• Taking Unlabelled Drug Unlabelled Drug or Betapropine 5mg (expired) Betapropine 5mg (expired) has a chance of either restoring your maximum , or your maximum plus 1.

Other Sources

The following methods can be attempted once per day:

• Rolling Dice Dice has a chance of restoring 1 .
• Playing with the Incomplete Deck of Cards Incomplete Deck of Cards has a chance of restoring 1 .
• Heroes can build Siesta Time in their house. Having a nap using this will have a chance of restoring 2 .

These methods are limited by your available resources:

• Using the EMS System EMS System (charged) will injure you and restore up to 5 (not 6, due to the injury). It cannot be used while injured.
• Drinking Bloody hot coffee Bloody hot coffee restores up to 4 .

Uses for AP

Any action that uses AP will indicate its cost beforehand.

• Upgrading your home. The initial cost (to build a Tent Tent) is 2 .
• Construction. Each player can contribute as much as desired to the construction of buildings.
• Moving around in The World Beyond. It costs 1 to move from zone to zone.
• Opening and closing the town gates. It costs 1 to open or close them.
• Using a Repair Kit Repair Kit or Kwik-Fix Kwik-Fix. This costs 1 .
• Attempting to open a Safe Safe or Sealed Architect's Chest Sealed Architect's Chest. Costs 1 per try.
• Clearing debris from a buried building. It costs 1 to clear one piece of debris from the building.
• Fighting zombies barehanded in the World Beyond. It costs 1 per attempt.
• Dragging the corpse of a dead citizen out of town. This costs 2 .
• Converting materials in the Workshop Workshop. This costs 3 normally, 2 with either the Factory Factory or the Hacksaw Hacksaw, and 1 with both the Factory Factory and Hacksaw Hacksaw.
• Attacking other citizens, in 100+ SP towns. This costs 5 .
• Using the Primitive_Catapult Catapult uses 4 . Building the Calibrated Catapult Calibrated Catapult reduces the cost to 2 .
• Improving your home as a Hero. Costs vary depending on the improvement and its level.
• Improving a campsite in the World Beyond costs 1 .
• Searching the refuse (for Shunned Shunned Citizen Citizens, or anybody if the Town Town is in Chaos Mode). This costs 1 each time.
• Entering a Explorable Ruins Explorable Ruins, this costs 1 .

Free Actions

None of these actions require to accomplish.

• Collecting your daily Water Ration from the town's Well. If you are able to take an extra ration, this also will not require to do so.
• Estimating the night's zombie attack at the Watchtower.
• Eating/drinking (including alcohol)/taking drugs.
• Combining items in your home (e.g. Can Can + Screwdriver Screwdriver= Open Can Open Can)
• Tidying your house and cleaning your clothes.
• Using weapons in the World Beyond.
• Searching an area or building for items, and subsequently autosearching the zone every two hours.
• Stealing from fellow citizens.
• Picking up or dropping items.
• Cooking food in a Kitchen.
• Taking items from the Town Bank.

External links

die2nite.com help topic on getting_around