Acute Pain

[Halabec]

I tried searching for "acute pain" in existing posts and am kinda surprised I didn't get any hits.

I'm playing my first game and one of my survivors is at risk of meltdown due to "Acute Pain -18". But as far as I can tell they're completely healthy. Clothing is good shape. I don't see any injuries. How am I supposed to prevent meltdown if I don't know the cause of or can't treat acute pain?

[Halabec]

Of course immediately after I posted this I see Health Conditions, Head: Migraine. I assume there isn't much I can do about this condition?

[Jaggid Edje]

It will go away on its own. There are several conditions that are just "deal with it until they get better".
It's a shame we can't make aspirin, but there aren't any birch trees.

If you have them drink smokeleaf tea or smoke a smokeleaf pipe, it will help. Both of those grant a pain relief buff (the one from the pipe is stronger).

[Team Triss]

Smokeleaf turned into Tea or Pipes gives a +18 Painkiller modifier, try to get some smokeleaf and make stuff with it.

[Jaggid Edje]

The pain relief from the tea is only -10 pain. The pipe gives more, -20 pain.

The +18 mentioned by @Team Triss above is the happiness buff from the pipe. The Tea gives a similar happiness buff, but only +15.

[Bjørn]

Nice that they cut the crafting time for the smokeleaf pipes by 90% or something in a recent patch. I rarely bothered to make them before, and saved them for someone needing them for pain, but now I have my people merrily puffing along on pipes all day!

[Actual Malice]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Nice that they cut the crafting time for the smokeleaf pipes by 90% or something in a recent patch. I rarely bothered to make them before, and saved them for someone needing them for pain, but now I have my people merrily puffing along on pipes all day! :steamsunny::lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Ooh, good catch! I missed that change entirely. Yeah, except for the crafting time, I never saw the downside to smokeleaf pipes and would put folks to work crafting them in late game when they didn't have much else to do so everybody could get "pain relief" (and, of course, happiness). And now crafting time is a non-issue. Very cool. I didn't make any in my last playthrough, because it was a solo and I figured I didn't have time, but I was so wrong. Thanks for that.