How do you heal pets?

[Iamnuff]

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I got a cool dog-youkai thing and a great wolf, but both eventually died because I can't take them to the doctor.
How do I fix them?

[Gasp]

I doubt most people are that far yet. my animals heal from sleeping and level up from eating if that's any help. As far as healing their meridians go you probably have to learn golden acupuncture and figure out how to actually use it to heal them yourself. I have not yet figured out how to use golden acupuncture to heal meridians since the damage is always in excess of chi.

[Sinister Sage]

I was able to save my unconscious and dying horse by picking it up and placing it in a hospital bed. It was partially, not fully, healed though so I'm unsure how or to what extent it works.

[JordanU]

Feed them cooked meat, that'll give them a buff that gives a heal over time. If you mean their actual HP and not vigor, I think you have to heal their meridians when they are knocked out (you might be able to 'cure' them when they are conscious though, not sure).

[Iamnuff]

Originally posted by JordanU:

Feed them cooked meat, that'll give them a buff that gives a heal over time. If you mean their actual HP and not vigor, I think you have to heal their meridians when they are knocked out (you might be able to 'cure' them when they are conscious though, not sure).

The cure menu works when they're conscious, it just doesn't do anything.

When i'm 'curing' myself, I just make a loop that includes some of the red icons and they heal while the loop passes through them.

When I try to do that with someone else (or an animal) it doesn't seem to do anything.

[Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform]

Originally posted by Iamnuff:

Originally posted by JordanU:

Feed them cooked meat, that'll give them a buff that gives a heal over time. If you mean their actual HP and not vigor, I think you have to heal their meridians when they are knocked out (you might be able to 'cure' them when they are conscious though, not sure).

The cure menu works when they're conscious, it just doesn't do anything.

When i'm 'curing' myself, I just make a loop that includes some of the red icons and they heal while the loop passes through them.

When I try to do that with someone else (or an animal) it doesn't seem to do anything.

same. Currently my main wife has spreading stacks of fire. The unfathomably powerful beggar that forced herself on me may end up becoming the main woman if i can't get my wife's condition cured.

[Iamnuff]

Originally posted by Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform:

Originally posted by Iamnuff:

The cure menu works when they're conscious, it just doesn't do anything.

When i'm 'curing' myself, I just make a loop that includes some of the red icons and they heal while the loop passes through them.

When I try to do that with someone else (or an animal) it doesn't seem to do anything.

same. Currently my main wife has spreading stacks of fire. The unfathomably powerful beggar that forced herself on me may end up becoming the main woman if i can't get my wife's condition cured.

Fire?
I think anti-stringent cures fire and poison, I don't know if you can use it on other people.
Also, doesn't fire just wear off on it's own so long as you're not in a volcano zone?

I'm trying to work out how to build up my heat resistance though, because I need to do quests in a lava-zone.

[Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform]

Originally posted by Iamnuff:

Originally posted by Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform:

same. Currently my main wife has spreading stacks of fire. The unfathomably powerful beggar that forced herself on me may end up becoming the main woman if i can't get my wife's condition cured.

Fire?
I think anti-stringent cures fire and poison, I don't know if you can use it on other people.
Also, doesn't fire just wear off on it's own so long as you're not in a volcano zone?

I'm trying to work out how to build up my heat resistance though, because I need to do quests in a lava-zone.

there is a a fire disease that affects the meridians, and spreads every day at noon. Curing myself is easy, but i can't cure my wife.

[Naturalrice]

Originally posted by Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform:

Originally posted by Iamnuff:

Fire?
I think anti-stringent cures fire and poison, I don't know if you can use it on other people.
Also, doesn't fire just wear off on it's own so long as you're not in a volcano zone?

I'm trying to work out how to build up my heat resistance though, because I need to do quests in a lava-zone.

there is a a fire disease that affects the meridians, and spreads every day at noon. Curing myself is easy, but i can't cure my wife.

Assist > Cure ailments can be used for most meridian problems. Otherwise removing them from team seems to trigger them to seek a doctor. If it's just vigor, just corral them to teleport them back to their pens (ideally in a safe area) or just feed them some food.

[Iamnuff]

Originally posted by Naturalrice:

Originally posted by Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform:

there is a a fire disease that affects the meridians, and spreads every day at noon. Curing myself is easy, but i can't cure my wife.

Assist > Cure ailments can be used for most meridian problems. Otherwise removing them from team seems to trigger them to seek a doctor. If it's just vigor, just corral them to teleport them back to their pens (ideally in a safe area) or just feed them some food.

Pets don't go to the doctor.
Human Retinue members will, but fixing their vigour problems doesn't actually cure them.

That being said, I managed to fix a follower who'd developed serious Fire Ailment recently.
First of all, I was taught Golden Acupuncture by a clinic-owner who i'd seduced. (I tried to have her teach me normally, but I didn't meet the leechcraft prerequisite, but she just came running up to me and randomly taught me it one day)

Secondly, I noticed that curing meridian problems involves not just passing through the damaged nodes, but linking a bunch of stat-boosting nodes (which oesn't seem to do anything for npcs) and then going back to the core.

if you just link damaged nodes and then go back to the core, it does nothing. I had to pass through 5-10 stat-boosting nodes seemingly at random before the damage started fixing itself.