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Lagos Life needs: food, rest and recovery
Cook Jollof restores 65 Hunger in 60 game minutes and trains Cooking. Bucket Bath restores Hygiene without shower power.
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After two recipes from the Mushin starter pantry, rice and Gino are empty. Refill those two packs for ₦650; the Maggi and oil left over cover two more recipes. From an empty cupboard, all four packs cost ₦1,150 at base prices.
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Lagos Life needs: Hunger, Energy and Hygiene
For Lagos Life Hunger, choose food; for Energy, sleep; for Hygiene, wash. Training can improve one bar while spending another: Dance to Burna adds Fun and trains Dance but drains Energy. Work Out trains Fitness while draining Energy and Hygiene.
Some recovery actions stop when their target bar fills. Sleep, Bucket Bath and Use Toilet have that condition. Their listed game-minute durations are not real-time waiting instructions. Cook Jollof instead has a completed-action Hunger effect of +65, limited by the bar’s maximum.
What restores the six need bars?
| Need | A practical action | Where to start |
|---|---|---|
| Hunger | Cook Jollof, eat a meal, or use available food | Kerosene Stove with ingredients; Amala Shitta serves Amala & Ewedu at a ₦300 base price. |
| Energy | Sleep or nap | Your starter mattress or bed. |
| Hygiene | Bucket Bath or Shower | Use your existing bucket; a powered shower has additional conditions. |
| Bladder | Use the toilet | Check the toilet already placed in your home. |
| Fun | Play Afrobeats, Dance to Burna, or watch a movie | The starter radio already provides entertainment. |
| Social | Gist, chat, or a social venue action | Choose a social interaction offered by the game; meeting another player is different from a venue activity. |
Restore Hunger: Jollof ingredients and meal costs
Cook Jollof needs one unit each of rice, Gino, Maggi and oil, takes 60 listed game minutes and adds +65 Hunger on completion while training Cooking. The starter pantry’s two rice, two Gino, six Maggi and four oil units supply two recipes.
After cooking those two, the pantry has zero rice, zero Gino, four Maggi and two oil. At base shop prices, a ₦550 rice pack adds four units and a ₦100 Gino pack adds three. That ₦650 restock provides two more complete Jollof sets with the Maggi and oil left over. You do not need to rebuy all four packs yet.
From an empty cupboard, one pack each of rice, Gino, Maggi and oil costs ₦1,150 and supplies three complete sets, limited by Gino’s three units. Rice has one unit left, Maggi seven and oil three. This is a base grocery example before shop modifiers or delivery, not a flat per-meal charge.
For immediate food out, Amala Shitta in Surulere opens 07:00–22:00. Amala & Ewedu lists ₦300 and 40 game minutes; Jollof, Dodo & Chicken lists ₦550. Include the trip when comparing a bought meal with using an already stocked cupboard.
Energy, Hygiene, Bladder, Fun and Social actions
Energy: Sleep on the mattress or bed has an until-full condition. Take a Nap lists 90 game minutes and is a separate action. The full sleep’s listed 480 game minutes are not a required real-time wait.
Hygiene and Bladder: Bucket Bath lists 22 game minutes and targets full Hygiene; a powered Shower lists 15 minutes. Use Toilet lists 10 minutes and targets full Bladder while slightly lowering Hygiene, so use the toilet before washing to avoid that trade-off.
Fun: the radio provides entertainment. Dance to Burna lists 40 game minutes, trains Dance and raises Fun while spending Energy. Choose radio entertainment instead of dancing if Energy is the bar you are trying to protect.
Social: Amala Shitta’s Gist with Mama lists 20 game minutes. Eko Police Division’s Gist with the Desk Officer also lists 20 minutes and trains Charisma. These venue activities are separate from messaging another player; select the offered action for the need effect.
Training and work can spend needs
Practice Coding trains Coding while reducing Fun. Plan an entertainment action between sessions when Fun is already low.
After a workout, plan a wash and rest before a demanding shift. Before coding, restore low Fun with an available entertainment action rather than queueing session after session into an already low bar. Work Like Jaguda drains more Energy and Fun than the steady work option, so the approach you choose at work changes what you need afterward.
When low needs become a health problem
In Lagos Life, treat illness notices separately from the six need bars. Mild illness has an Order drugs from the chemist option at ₦1,500 in the health panel; that treatment is delivered to your Sim. Serious illness needs a doctor and blocks starting work. A full Energy bar alone does not remove that illness state.
General Hospital in Ikeja is listed open 24 hours. Choose See a Doctor · Get an Injection, a 30-game-minute action with an ₦8,000 base cost. It treats the illness; include any journey to the hospital in the amount you need. The health panel can direct you there. Treat a serious notice promptly instead of continuing a work plan that the game will not let you start.
Low needs or illness: which recovery comes first?
| What is blocking you | Action or route |
|---|---|
| Low Energy before work | Sleep on the mattress; the until-full condition follows Energy. |
| Low Hygiene after exercise | Bucket Bath without shower power, or Shower when electricity is available. |
| Low Fun before coding | Radio entertainment; Dance also spends Energy. |
| Mild illness notice | Health panel → Order drugs from the chemist, ₦1,500 base. |
| Serious illness notice | General Hospital, Ikeja → See a Doctor · Get an Injection, ₦8,000 base plus travel. |
Serious illness blocks clock-in even if the six bars are full. If needs and health are ready but work is still missing, check the workday, city and one-shift limit. If an object is unreachable, clear the approach in Buy mode.
Sources & updates
- Lagos Life: current game definitions ↗
Official public game client, checked 7 October 2026. Values describe the base rules; your in-game quote includes current modifiers.
- Original Lagos Life game ↗
Live game and current on-screen prices.
- Original Lagos Life rules ↗
Work, promotion, training, starting cash, and housing rules checked 7 October 2026.
- Official needs and health interface ↗
Checked in the official 7 October 2026 client; open the original game for its current interface. Needs panel, chemist treatment for mild illness, and the General Hospital treatment route.