Sometimes.. Sometimes I really want to punch a developer in the face.
Heres why. Please appreciate the few minutes i spent on editing this to look nicer xD

Apparently, my fellow wizards, it turns out it means "Local to the method/scope using the variable", not "Local to the class".
No wonder some people think im a fuckup lol

@JiggleTits if you also make it static it should hide that.

@JiggleTits "local to a class" how does that work?
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Nd with that I mean why isnt a non private member not local to the class.

@Codex404 idk. Im retarded XD
I forgot that a variable without an access modifier is accessible from classes within the same package.
If im wrong here, im gonna go eat something to help against the crying.

@JiggleTits

I am assuming you want to define a constant here similar to #define defaultMaxHealth 20 in C/C++. For that you need to go for
private static final double DEFAULT_MAX_HEALTH = 20;

And preferably use upper snake case, thats the convention.

@JiggleTits this explains so much!

@bitsnpieces thanks for the clarification.
What is upper snake case? Caps lock with underscores to connect each word?

@JiggleTits yupp