Health Powerup Device Design Examples

Health Powerup is a device you can use in many different ways to regenerate a player's health, the health of their shield, or both. Find out a few cool ways to work this device into your island gameplay!

Health Boost Pickup

You can set up a health boost that increases a player’s health over time. In this example, you’ll configure the device to give the player a three-second health boost when they pick up the device.

Devices Used

• 3 x Health Powerup devices

• 1 x Player Spawner device

• 1 x Item Granter device

• 1 x Creature Spawner device

Set Up the Devices

1. Start with the Tilted Towers POI Island starter island.

2. Place a Player Spawner device.

3. Place an Item Granter device and register a Tactical Assault Rifle to the device.

4. Customize the Item Granter as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Receiving Players	All
   Grant on Game Start	On

5. Place a Creature Spawner device.

6. Place a Health Powerup device.

7. Customize the Health Powerup as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Effect Magnitude	15
   Effect Duration	3 Seconds

8. Duplicate the Health Powerup two more times in different locations.

You now have the basic functionality for a powerup that gives a timed health boost!

Design Tip

This core functionality of the Health Powerup is a great way to give players an incentive to move around your map in a multiplayer mode! Try playing with the spawn behavior on the powerups to get more variation in which powerups are reactivated, and when!

Survival Safe Room

The Health Powerup pairs very well with other devices to create the appearance that the player is being healed by an unseen force! 

In this example, you’ll use a Volume device with the Health Powerup device to create a safe room that heals the player!

Devices Used

• 1 x Health Powerup device

• 1 x Player Spawner device

• 1 x Wildlife Spawner device

• 2 x Post Process Device devices

• 1 x Volume device

Set Up the Island

1. Start with the Arctic Island starter island.

2. Place a fire from the Colossal Coliseum Prop Gallery inside the building on the hill.

3. Place a Player Spawner.

4. Customize the Player Spawner so Visible in Game is set to Off:

   

5. Place a Wildlife Spawner between the Player Spawner and the building.

6. Customize the Wildlife Spawner as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Biome Variant	Snow
   Allow Infinite Spawn	No
   Spawn Timer	0.1 Seconds
   Spawn Through Walls	Off
   Spawn Radius	30.0M
   Taming	Disabled

7. Place a Post Process device.

8. Customize the Post Process device as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Post Process Effect	Frost
   Blend in Duration	1.0
   Blend out Duration	1.0

Configure the Safe Zone

1. Place another Post Process device.

2. Customize the Post Process device as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Post Process Effect	Film Warm
   Starting Strength	0.0
   Blend in Duration	1.0
   Blend out Duration	1.0

3. Place a Health Powerup in a location that the player won’t be able to reach.

4. Customize the Health Powerup as follows:

5. Place a Volume device in the center of the building.

6. Configure the following events on the Volume so that when the player enters the building, the post processing changes and the Health Powerup is applied. When the player leaves the building, the Health Powerup should end and the Post Processing should go back to the starting state.

   

   

   Event	Select Device	Select Function
   On Enter Send Event To	Health Powerup	Pickup
   On Enter Send Event To	Frost Post Process Device	Blend Out for All
   On Enter Send Event To	Warm Post Process Device	Blend in for All
   On Exit Send Event To	Health Powerup	Clear
   On Exit Send Event To	Frost Post Process Device	Blend in for All
   On Exit Send Event To	Warm Post Process Device	Blend Out for All

Modify Island Settings

Make the following modifications to the island settings.

1. Go to Island Settings > Player.

2. Under Locomotion, change Allow Sprinting to Off.

   

You now have the functionality for a safe zone in an arctic survival game!

Design Tip

Invisible Health Powerups can give the impression that anything is healing the player, as long as it can send events to start and stop the healing! For example, try healing the player whenever they are in a vehicle! Or maybe heal the player only when they are standing in fire!

Build a Combat Game with Custom Health Pickup!

In this example, you’ll use events and functions on the Health Powerup to create your own custom health pickup, complete with audio and visual effects!

Devices Used

• 1 x Health Powerup device

• 1 x Player Spawner device

• 1 x Item Granter device

• 1 x Tracker device

• 3 x Creature Spawner devices

• 1 x Prop Manipulator device

• 1 x Customizable Light device

• 1 x Audio Player device

• 1 x VFX Spawner device

Set Up the Basic Gameplay

1. Place a Player Spawner.

2. Customize the Player Spawner so Visible in Game is set to Off.

3. Place an Item Granter and register a Tactical Assault Rifle to the device.

4. Customize the Item Granter as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Receiving Players	All
   Grant on Game Start	On

5. Place three Creature Spawners around the area.

6. Place a Tracker.

7. Customize the Tracker as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Stat to Track	Events
   Target Value	5
   Tracker Title	Eliminate Creatures
   Description Text	Eliminate 5 Creatures to Spawn the Healing Idol!
   Quest Icon	Enemy

8. Configure the following functions on the Tracker to increment the progress each time a creature is eliminated.

   

   Function	Select Device	Select Event
   Increment Progress When Receiving From	Creature Spawner 1-3	On a Creature Is Eliminated

Configure the Custom Health Powerup

1. Place a statue from the Colossal Coliseum Prop Gallery. Size the statue to be roughly the same size as the player.

2. Place a Health Powerup in the center of the statue.

3. Customize the Health Powerup as follows:

   

   

   Option	Value
   Stat to Modify	Both
   Effect	Set To
   Effect Magnitude	200
   Pickup Radius	1
   Respawn	No
   Spawn on Minigame Start	No
   Ambient Audio	Off
   Pick Up Audio	Off
   Who Can See This Powerup	None

4. Place a Prop Manipulator connected to the statue.

5. Customize the Prop Manipulator so Start Hidden is set to On:

6. Place a Customizable Light over the statue.

7. Customize the Customizable Light as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Initial State	Off
   Light Color	#FFB000

8. Place an Audio Player by the statue.

9. Customize the Audio Player as follows:

   

   Option	Value
   Audio	Unlock
   Play on Hit	Off

10. Place a VFX Spawner on the statue.

11. Customize the VFX Spawner as follows:

    

    Option	Value
    Effect Type	Burst
    Burst Visual Effect	Explosion Electrical

12. Configure the following events on the Tracker to spawn the custom pickup when the player completes the creature elimination objective.

    

    Event	Select Device	Select Function
    When Complete Send Event To	Customizable Light	Turn On
    When Complete Send Event To	Health Powerup	Spawn
    When Complete Send Event To	Prop Manipulator	Show Props
    When Complete Send Event To	Audio Player	Play

13. Configure the following events on the Health Powerup to play the custom effects and destroy the Creature Spawners when the player picks it up.

    

    

    Event	Select Device	Select Function
    On Item Picked Up Send Event To	Creature Spawner 1-3	Destroy Spawner
    On Item Picked Up Send Event To	Creature Spawner 1-3	Eliminate Creatures
    On Item Picked Up Send Event To	Customizable Light	Turn Off
    On Item Picked Up Send Event To	Prop Manipulator	Hide Props
    On Item Picked Up Send Event To	VFX Spawner	Restart

You now have the core functionality for a custom health pickup!

Design Tip

With the event that is called when the player picks up the Health Powerup, you can control any other device! Maybe if a player picks up a Health Powerup, the colors of the world should get brighter with a Post Process device! Or, you could this event to give the player a speed boost as well as a health boost!