How do you raise overall health?

[Bolt]

I have a hospital built but it has 0 patients and yes I do have someone asigned to be a doctor(whatever it's called). Could old age be a factor in overall health dropping?

[rman88]

i think its by having a verity of food. as well as a surplus. other then that i dont have a clue.

[[HONK] THESOVIETRUSSIAN]

herbs

[Bolt]

I have anywhere between 1500-3k food at any givin time and over 200 herbals (yummy). So I don't know either. All the older people have 2 hearts! scary!

[Veneke]

As far as I can tell, age doesn't factor in health. At least, I haven't noticed a significance difference between the health of my older people and my younger. Herbs and having access to a variety of food will raise it. I'm also pretty sure that extended exposure to cold/hunger can decrease it, so if your health isn't rising and you have a lot of warning notifications (even if they don't result in deaht) they might negatively affect your ability to raise your overall health.

Doctors, I believe, only cure diseases.

[Doublespeak]

A variety of food, I was down to 1 health and then built a few different types, gatherer, orchard besides my fishing and my health is now gowing up. Herbs help if you don`t have a variety of food but not that much.

[[HONK] THESOVIETRUSSIAN]

Herbs is the main way to raise health. the reason the health bar was going up was because people with low health died

[Wings]

A villager that has recently eaten a variety of foods will slowly regain health. If a villager has less than full health, it probably means their food supply only has one type of food in it.

[Bolt]

Thanks for the input maybe a market place will centralize the varieties because my food variety is spread out a little bit due to space

[Bolt]

Think I figured it out. I had 205 herb but I never have seen anyone use them. I assumed the people would just take herbs from the barn but it appears they have to visit the actual herbalist themselves to recieve them. I had the herbalist off

Edit

Yup line around the block for the herbalist LoL

[switch]

Originally posted by Boltron23:

Think I figured it out. I had 205 herb but I never have seen anyone use them. I assumed the people would just take herbs from the barn but it appears they have to visit the actual herbalist themselves to recieve them. I had the herbalist off

Edit

Yup line around the block for the herbalist LoL

I had same issue, this fixed it thanks

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

People gain 1/2 heart of health each visit to the Herbalist shack. I always have a Herbalist close to my Market. It may not gather many herbs, or none at all, but the people don't have to walk way out into the forest to get healthy.

[LoonyLoser17]

I didn't really appreciate the effect of the herbalist until I first tried the Adam and Eve mod. Even once I'd added a gatherer's hut to my hunting shack my overall health hadn't increased much. It was only after I got a herbalist up and running that I saw a noticeable increase in my health. The variety of food does help though.

[Angelo]

I have a prosperous town with pears,cherries,pumkins,beans,berries and (for protein) eggs,a herbalist and sufficient coal/firewood.However,while the herbalist does struggle to meet demands sometimes,my real problem is with clothes.A citizen with no clothes (that I have noticed)has the lowest amount of happiness by the adult stage and does little to work and stay healthy.A villager with a stone house but ragged clothes eventually brought down the average health despite my best efforts.

[DOFHarambe]

When a villager has low health they will attempt to visit the herbalist. They will attempt to get a herb from the stockpile, and if one is present they will take it to a herbalists hut. If there is a herbalist staffed there then the villager will have their health increased.

A herbalist is required to be staffed in order for villagers to be healed even if there is a large surplus of herbs. The herbalist will act as a labourer when there is a surplus of herbs until a villager requires their services. If there are no herbalists staffed villagers will not take herbs from stockpiles.

Great question.

http://banished-wiki.com/wiki/Herbalist

[Auronp]

Originally posted by Bolt:

Think I figured it out. I had 205 herb but I never have seen anyone use them. I assumed the people would just take herbs from the barn but it appears they have to visit the actual herbalist themselves to recieve them. I had the herbalist off

Edit

Yup line around the block for the herbalist LoL

I had 90 "medicine" from the Herbalist for almost 2 years after I closed it down...read your post and opended and boom, they all showed up haha