You’re an adventurer that traverses the vast skies in survival gameAloft. Your goal is to go from one floating island to the next to restore ecosystems and purge the corruption that plagues the world. On every island, you’ll find a variety of flora and fauna. Some may even have hostile creatures you need to eliminate.

Part of surviving your quest to cure the land is watching over the condition of your own body. Several factors can affect your state, such as the environment you’re in and the food you eat. Certain conditions will help you perform better in exploration as well as battle, while others will prove perilous.

The At Peace status effect in the conditions page of Aloft.

Every Status Effect

There are different types of status effects that can affect your body’s condition.Positive status effects will grant you useful buffsthat will make youstronger in combat,more efficient in farming, and the like.Negative status effects will hinder your performance, making youmore susceptible to damagewhich is especially dangerous in combat.

There are alsoneutral status effects that don’t grant any buffs or debuffs, but will notify you of what your body is currently doing. One example of this is theDigesting condition.

Positive Status Effects

Plenty of positive status effects can be obtained by treating your body right withgood quality of rest,eating more complex dishes, andwearing the right clothingfor the environment.

Completing certain tasks will also grant you a mood boost that buffs your performance.

Drinking various recipes or water.

Damage, movement, attack speed, and momentum are increased.

Temporarily protected against the heat.

Wear linen clothing.

Apart from positive status effects, plenty of dishes also give varying amounts ofadditional health points. Thiswill not show up on your list of conditions, but it also acts similarly with a given duration.

Negative Status Effects

Negative status effects are primarilycaused by changes in your environment. This can be affected bythe current biome you’re inor byan attack dealt by a hostile creature.

rapid glider exhaustion and lessens momentum.

Terrified

Drains your current buffs over time.

Be within range of a Shrieker performing its high-pitched screaming attack.

Parched

Decreased attack speed.

Be exposed to the heat of the sun in the third biome.

How To View Your Status Effects

When a status effect is obtained, you’ll be notified of the exact one withtext that appears on the right side of your screen. You will also see the different status effects you’ve obtained represented invarious icons above your health barin thelower-left corner of your screen.

Negative status effects appear both in the notifications and as an icon on the lower leftin a shade of red. This will allow you todistinguish it from positive effects.

To see the full details of each status effect, as well as a list of every single one you’ve obtained, you need tohead to the Conditions tabof your menu.

Go to your menuandselect the heart iconfound at thetop of your screen. This will open up yourConditions pageand you will see thelist of current status effectsyou have. Each will havea short descriptionas well asa timer indicating what’s left of its duration.

Hover over each status effect toview its full description. This will include an explanation as tohow each was obtained.

How To Remove Status Effects

Both positive and negative status effectsonly last a certain durationandwill wear off after a few minutes. You will see how long each condition lasts througha timer found next to iton the conditions page.

While negative status effects will require that you patientlywait for them to disappear, you canget rid of positive status effects obtained from foodright away.

You can only eat two things until you becomecompletely full. At that point,you will be unable to eat moreor replace what you’ve consumed. That means the status effects you can obtain from food at a time islimited.

Drinking Digestive Tea willclear all the food in your stomach. To make Digestive Tea, you’ll needone Clean Water and two Leaves. Using a Cooking Plate by a fire,select the recipe for Digestive Teaoradd the ingredients manuallyto craft it.