Tetracycline Pills Rage Quit

[Zaddo]

I have recently got into DayZ. It seems that no matter how careful you are, you are going to eventually get sick. The only cure for getting sick is Tetracycline Pills. Which are as rare as hens teeth.

Survival has become binary, dependant on Tetracycline Pills.

Am I missing something, or are Tetracycline Pills the only thing that matter in this game? Everything else can be learnt and managed, but Tetracycline Pills are random chance. And you are screwed if the dice don't roll in your favour?

[ast]

dunno...I never get sick in game unless I do something stupid like eating with bloody hands.
make sure that you stay well fed and warm and you won't have to worry about illness anymore.

[Harbinger]

If you do get sick and have food, just take little nibbles to allow your health to rise. This will give you enough time to hopefully find a med centre.

[Mayhem]

One tip I have for you, since I have been experiencing/managing a zombie case of cholera for what seems like an eternity... Find yourself a Mk.II .22 pistol and farm the zeds milling around the hospitals. The ones wearing paramedic or hospital clothes. Sometimes the loot in buildings is less useful and the zeds will usually be carrying something. I have grabbed all the kinds of pills off their corpses.

Second tip: if you are hanging around a hospital or medical center, saline bag+IV start kit = saline drip bag and you can use that to both hydrate (give self infusion) and replenish any lost blood. You didn't used to be able to give yourself an infusion so that's pretty neat. If you are sick with cholera (and dehydrated), it won't trigger puking either. Cholera basically shrinks your stomach and any overfilling induces instant puking.

I will just echo that vitamins seem way more important than they used to be too... Ideally I would take the tetracycline and follow up with vitamins. They usually spawn in random civilian locations as opposed to hospitals though.