Zombie infection

[Smakadin]

Should i just kill myself when im afflicted with this? no amount of iodine or pills seem to fix me, ever D:

[Kurdain]

Do you have alcohol or disinfectant?
Most likely you have an infected wound.

I REALLY (times 100^100 * infinity) wish they'd implement different sickness icons for different ailments.

I get the whole 'listen to your body feedback' and 'monitor your actions' play style but really...I am pretty sure in a survival world I would be able to tell the difference of being sick from eating bad food and an infected cut.

Good news is you get used to what causes what after a bit or you just spam vitamins.
Keep food and water maxed out helps also but I think that was tweaked a little in 1.19 - I'd have to go read the notes again...or was it in 1.18?

Take care.

[Smakadin]

thanks for the advice, yes it was an infected wound. I used two full bottles of iodine on the wound(s), dressed them cleanly and took a pack of antibiotics to no avail. I just wanted to know if its possible to cure it haha. Maybe I did something wrong in my healing steps

[Smakadin]

im a newby fyi

[Ranceed]

Wound infection has two stages.

The first stage is treat with iodine/alcohol tincture/disinfectant. One application to your body will do it, or disinfect your rags before use. Tetracycline does not work in this stage.

At stage two the grunting in pain sound changes. From this point you must use tetracycline to cure yourself. Take one tab directly after the last one ends and take one more after the disease symbol disappears.

[Smakadin]

Thanks a lot for this, will try it next time!

[Topher]

Normally stage 2 will require 4 tetra but you can also double med with multi-vitamin and do your best to raise your stats to 95+% immuntiy

[Sams]

Originally posted by Topher:

Normally stage 2 will require 4 tetra but you can also double med with multi-vitamin and do your best to raise your stats to 95+% immuntiy

FYI, wound infection doesn't react to immunity, so high stats and vitamins are useless.

[darkshar]

it is just stupid, just luck now if you can survive , hit by a zombie no were near a med building and you die, just lazy devs , making the game harder with little to no work, add find and cook fungi for cures ect, no just tweek the settings and call it a update, over 3000 hour and the game is getting worse , new update is terrible .

[Topher]

Originally posted by darkshar:

it is just stupid, just luck now if you can survive , hit by a zombie no were near a med building and you die, just lazy devs , making the game harder with little to no work, add find and cook fungi for cures ect, no just tweek the settings and call it a update, over 3000 hour and the game is getting worse , new update is terrible .

You spawn with two bandages. Your first priority should be to get a knife so you will immediately have access to rags. Almost all spawns are near a civilian town where not only will you find alcohol but also iodine and disinfectant spray that all serve the same purpose to give you clean rags to bind your wounds with.