# What Keeps You Alive

Two bars run your body: **health** and **stamina**.

## Health

Take damage and your **health** drops. Out of a fight it slowly heals on its own, so you are never stuck waiting forever, but a real beating still puts you down. Your **Resistance** stat is more health and a smaller hit each time.

## Stamina

**Stamina** is the pool you spend to run and to work. Gathering and sprinting draw it down, and it refills when you ease off. Your **Stamina** stat is a bigger pool that comes back faster.

## Some places bite

The world is not all quiet. Out past the safe ground, things will come at you. You have your own moves to fight back, and a well timed jump slips a blow. But some creatures are quick, so pick your battles and do not wander in over your head. See [Fighting](/gluebook/gluniverse-fighting).

Next: [Gathering](/gluebook/gluniverse-gathering).