Summary
- O2 Recovery is crucial in Starfield for maintaining stamina and avoiding negative effects like blurry vision and weakness.
- Players can enhance their O2 Recovery by consuming items like TerraBrew Espresso, Crawler Bisque, Antibiotic Cocktail, and Snake Oil.
- These items provide benefits such as increased O2 Recovery, health restoration, and even treatment for various injuries and infections.
O2 Recovery is a vital mechanic in Starfield that will help players run, jump, and throw sluggish swings with melee weapons. Without a decent O2 Recovery in Starfield, players are bound to weaken themselves, blur their vision, and fail to run from threats, or towards them. Luckily, there are a few items and foods that players can consume that will help to increase O2 Recovery.
There are a variety of different items and foods that players can use in Starfield that will enhance their O2 Recovery, and ensure that they won’t be running out of oxygen any time soon. Many of these items can be found across the Settled Systems, provided players have the Credits necessary.
5 TerraBrew Espresso
- Purchased from TerraBrew stores
- 75 Credits
- Restores 3 Health
- +20 O2 Recovery for 3 minutes
With their strong Italian-style coffee, TerraBrew has taken over the galaxy as the prime and most popular choice for coffee services. Even though players can find the Adoring Fan in practically every TerraBrew across the Settled Systems, it's worth venturing inside to pick up the TerraBrew Espresso.
The 20% addition to O2 Recovery helps players stay on their toes and gives them the pick-me-up that they will need. However, the fact that the TerraBrew Espresso has a mass of 0.30, means that players won’t want to store hundreds of these in their inventory.
4 Crawler Bisque
- Purchased from most vendors with a food menu
- 350 Credits
- Restores 10 Health
- +10% O2 Recovery for 10 minutes
Some players may be turned away from the Crawler Bisque for a few reasons. The first, beaming that it includes steamed alien crawlers, and eating aliens from unknown planets may not be to everyone’s taste. However, if players can get past the strange meats, they might enjoy an incredible O2 Recovery bonus, which will see them receive a 10% increase in their recovery for a whopping 10 minutes.
A slight disadvantage of this aid food in Starfield comes from the fact that it has a pretty high price for a meal, and the fact that it takes up 0.50 mass, which means players can’t stuff their pockets with Crawler Bisque unless they have an absurd carry weight to support these fancy dinners.
3 Antibiotic Cocktail
- Reliant Medical purchasable
- 415 Credits
- Treats Infections
- +20% O2 Recovery for 5 minutes
Combining an alarming amount of antibiotics, players really will get a cocktail treatment of pills to create this medical item that can be used to increase O2 Recovery. It may not be the best, as it sits at an average 20% O2 Recovery increase for 5 minutes, but the fact that it can treat infections, and doesn’t warrant any other negatives, makes it a good choice and not a waste of Credits.
The other advantage of using the Antibiotic Cocktail comes from the fact that it only has a mass of 0.10, which is far less than other food and healing items that could aid the player. This means that players are free to take as many of these as they want to ensure that their O2 will remain stacked against the odds.
2 Boudicca
- Reliant Medical aid purchase
- 560 Credits
- +30 O2 for 3 minutes
- +300 Damage Resistance for 3 minutes
Although Boudicca is an inhaler that focuses on Damage Resistance, it’s still a great aid item to those who want to improve their O2 Recovery. However, the Boudicca item is more focused on adding to the player’s existing O2 levels rather than the recovery period, but it’s still worth noting as a great O2 item in Starfield due to the fact that players will not be running out of air as fast as before the inhaler was used.
These 3 minutes of +30 O2 can be a game changer, especially when combined with the fact that Boudicca will also grant a +300 Damage Resistance for a further 3 minutes. This means that players are free to challenge the galaxy’s toughest criminals and aliens with an extended O2 intake and Damage Resistance.
1 Snake Oil
- Reliant Medical purchasable
- Credit value of 125
- +20% O2 Recovery for 2 minutes
- Treats Brain Injury, Concussion, Heatstroke, Hernia, Hypothermia, Lung Damage, Poisoning, and Radiation Poisoning
Players can use some Snake Oil to purge their bodies of toxins, even if the Snake Oil was initially developed as a hangover preventative. The Snake Oil in Starfield is a useful aid item to those who want to keep themselves focused and on the move, and the fact that it can treat many injuries caused by harsh planet environments is an added bonus to the item itself.
The main focus of the Snake Oil consumable comes from the fact that it will also grant players a 20% increase in their O2 Recovery, which is essentially their stamina recovery. In using the Snake Oil, players are sticking to the known medicine that works, and ensuring that they have 2 minutes of extended recovery time.
Starfield is out now for PC and Xbox Series X|S.