Hardness

The hardness trait measures the creature's resistance to force: its ability to take physical stress without showing strain. Your hardness and size, combined determine your health factor (HX).

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HX = Size (Number) • H

Your HX, in turn, boosts your hp,max as its standard formula shows:

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hp,max = HX • (1 + M(Health))

Since most biological creatures have a hardness of 1, we usually don't count the hardness. It mostly comes up in bots and vehicles, many of which have a hardness of 2 (armoured vehicles have a hardness of 3 or even 4).

If your hardness trait is 2 or higher, your resistance trait gets a bonus to rst,frc, rst,prc and rst,sls equal to the hardness. So if the hardness is exactly 2, you would get 2(rst,frc), 2(rst,prc) and 2(rst,sls)