All Health Filament Upgrade Locations

Arguably the most important collectibles you can find in South of Midnight are Health Filaments, which increase Hazel’s overall vitality when you grab them in all their Chapter locations. Nine different Health Filaments are found scattered throughout the game as you progress the story. Every time you pick up three Filaments, Hazel’s HP grows, giving her more life to overcome combat challenges.

Don’t worry about missing a Health Filament during a Chapter as you move on to different points in the story. You have the option to replay Chapters you’ve already beaten to search for whatever collectibles you’ve missed at any time. This is a great way to earn achievements in South of Midnight tied to specific goals, such as defeating a boss without taking any damage.

Every Health Filament Upgrade Location In South Of Midnight

Explore Nine Different Chapters Of The Story

The nine available Health Filaments are found in Chapters 3-7 and 9-12 in the story, giving you three total increases to Hazel’s HP. Every three Filaments you gather, your health will be restored, healing your current vitality to full to match the new value. Only Chapters 1, 2, 8, and 13 do not have a Health Filament present, narrowing down where you have to look.

Whenever you want to replay a Chapter in South of Midnight to find a Health Filament, go to the game’s main menu. From here, select the “Load Game” option, then the “Replay Chapters” prompt from the next menu that opens up. This restarts a Chapter from its beginning, putting you back at the start of a story segment but reopening each location you’d visit in that part of the narrative.

The following tables tell you where to find every Health Filament in the Chapters they appear in:

Chapter	Health Filament Location	How To Get Filament	Image
Chapter 3 – “A Big Fish”	Along the main path of the story.	From “The Happiest Day” Readable collectible, jump across the main path forward to spot the Filament on the road to the Chapter’s main area.
Chapter 4 – “Wicked Temper”	In the cave underneath the Church on the cliffs.	Use your grappling ability to reach the island in the middle of the lake below the Church. Then, platform and grapple your way into the cave where the Filament can be found.
Chapter 5 – “Everything that Rises”	On a water tower in a field of sunflowers.	Progress through the Chapter until you get to the second memory flashback of Two-Toed Tom. Then, grapple onto telephone poles to the right of an overgrown house in the memory. This should take you across a lake into a field of sunflowers, where you can use your Weave powers to create a platform path to the Filament on top of the lone water tower.
Chapter 6 – “Hush, Hush, Sweet Cherie”	On the upper level of Old Smokey’s Barn, near Bonnie’s house.	Enter Old Smokey’s Barn and summon Crouton to destroy the Haint’s nest within it. Then, go back to the crossroads between Bonnie’s House and the Barn to summon a spectral cart. Push this cart near, then use it to jump up to the Barn’s roof and break into the second floor where the Filament is.
Chapter 7 – “A Barman is Hard to Find	Past the area where you defeat your first Brute Haint enemy type.	Once you defeat your first Brute, go to the cave path past the elite enemy area. From here, keep going forward until you see the Filament behind some vines. Use your Strand Push ability to break the vines and grab this collectible in South of Midnight​​​​​​.

Chapter	Health Filament Location	How To Get Filament	Image
Chapter 9 – “Of Webs and Woman”	Huggin’ Molly’s house after stigma knots are destroyed.	Clear all four stigma knots in the Chapter to reveal everything about Itchy’s past. Then, go along the left path leading up to Huggin’ Molly’s manor toward a series of ledges you can grab onto. Travel across the ledges to reach the nearby Filament.
Chapter 10 – “Light in the Darkness”	Across the water from the central tree in this Chapter area.	Use Crouton to regain all your Spindle abilities. Then, summon a bridge to reach the next island. Throw a rock at some exploding mushrooms to open a grapple point where your regained Pull ability will lead you to another Filament.
Chapter 11 – “Muddy Waters”	After you have rocks thrown at you by Altamaha-ha, within the area you are dropped in after the second stigma knot of the enemy’s past has been unraveled.	Take the thorny path leading up among the trees. At the end of the path, you can create two platforms using your powers to help Hazel reach the other side. Double jump and dash to reach the path’s end with the Filament.
Chapter 12 – “The Crossroads”	On a floating part of the road above the main intersection in the New Orleans area you visit in this Chapter.	Look for platforms you can make below the Filament, then jump quickly between them as you bring each into existence. Finally, jump into the air current at the end of the platforms, grapple under an archway, and create one final platform to take you up to where the Filament is.

Thankfully, the level of difficulty in South of Midnight you play on does not make Health Filaments or any other collectibles easier or harder to find. On each playthrough, these Filaments will appear in the same spaces, allowing you to upgrade Hazel’s health to its max if you gather them all.

Getting each health upgrade in every Chapter will not only bolster Hazel’s health three times but also grant you a rare reward. Those who find the locations of all Health Fragments in South of Midnight will receive the “Fit as a Fiddle” achievement for their efforts.

South of Midnight

8/10

Released

April 8, 2025

ESRB

rp

Developer(s)

Compulsion Games

Publisher(s)

Xbox Game Studios

Engine

Unreal Engine 5