Humanity (Item)

Humanity is a restorative item in Dark Souls. It is also commonly known as solid humanity, to distinguish it from its liquid form.

Availability
This item is automatically granted to players and phantoms that defeat certain bosses. It can also be found in various chests and corpses scattered throughout Lordran, dropped from various enemies, and purchased in limited quantities from merchants.

Humanity is also obtainable through killing certain characters for solid Humanities, as well as using the Dark Hand strong attack to steal liquid humanity from other players and characters.

Drops

 * Undead Rat - Uncommon
 * Snow Rat (Painted World of Ariamis) - Uncommon
 * Baby Skeleton (Tomb of the Giants) - Semi-rare
 * Pisaca (The Duke's Archives) - Rare
 * Humanity Phantom (Chasm of the Abyss) - Common

Corpse locations

 * Firelink Shrine - Three can be picked up near the bonfire on a corpse hanging over the well.
 * Depths - Through a short tunnel in the lowest level, teeming with Basilisks.
 * Undead Burg - On top of the fortified wall that also acts as the aqueduct passage to Firelink Shrine.
 * Undead Parish - Turn left when facing the door that leads to Knight Lautrec of Carim. One can be found at the end of the hallway.
 * Valley of Drakes - In a small cave. It's adjacent to the first Wyvern when coming from New Londo Ruins or Blighttown.
 * Tomb of the Giants - At the bottom right of the last slide coming from The Catacombs.
 * Crystal Cave - Past the first Crystal Golem, across an invisible path in a short tunnel.

General information
Consuming a Humanity will trigger a somewhat lengthy animation, restoring the player to full HP, as well as granting players one liquid humanity. It has no effect on status effects such as Bleed or Poison.

The Chaos Servant Covenant and the Darkwraith Covenant require the player to use liquid humanity as an offering in order to increase the player's rank within those covenants.

Having liquid humanity also increases item discovery chance (this stops increasing after 10 liquid humanity), as well as defenses (physical, magical, curse resistance, etc.).

Overview
Players do not lose solid humanity items upon death. This means that as long as players have Humanity in their inventory, they will not need to worry about running low.

Humanity is a popular item in PvP, as Lloyd's Talismans cannot block players from using humanity to heal; additionally, while phantoms cannot use Estus to heal in their hosts' world, they can use Humanity instead.

Humanity is not such a popular item for healing in PvE, as it takes longer to heal than Estus and is harder to replenish.