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Overview

The Overflow Vessel (溢光露盏, Yìguāng Lùzhǎn, literally 'Overflowing Light Dew Cup') is Honor of Kings: World's anti-waste mechanic for the stamina system. Once a player's stamina reaches the 360-point cap, any further natural regeneration is deposited into the Overflow Vessel instead of being lost. The vessel holds up to 1,000 points of banked stamina.

How It Works

• Cap trigger: When stamina is at 360 (the daily cap), regeneration goes to the vessel instead.

• Vessel cap: 1,000 points. Regeneration beyond this is lost.

• Withdraw: Players can convert vessel contents back into usable stamina on demand through the stamina interface.

• Offline persistence: The vessel works during offline periods, so players who cannot log in daily still accumulate meaningful stamina over the next several days.

Design Purpose: Anti Access-Anxiety

Tencent designed the Overflow Vessel specifically to reduce 'access anxiety' (上线焦虑), a common complaint about live-service F2P games where players feel pressured to log in daily to avoid losing stamina. The 1,000-point vessel means a player who skips three to five days still has stamina waiting for them instead of having lost it. This is one of several launch-time design choices (no character gacha, cosmetic-only monetization, cross-platform cross-save) intended to make Honor of Kings: World more player-friendly than typical gacha-first competitors.

Working with Daily Meal Bonuses

The vessel works alongside the 180 daily bonus stamina from the three meal windows (60 at lunch, dinner, and late-night snack each). Players who consume their daily meal bonuses while stamina is already at cap will deposit those bonuses directly into the vessel. This means the meal bonuses are never wasted even if the player cannot spend stamina immediately.

Sources

Huya stamina explainer (np.huya.com article ef012163cdd7b84515e5432acc66bd); GamerSky stamina planning guide (article 2122501).