No antibiotics in v1?

[Neo]

Me and my friend are playing together and we're constantly fighting infection with honey. But we've not found a single antibiotic yet even though we've looted lots of medical places.

I've been fighting a losing battle with infections. It's getting to the point that my friend and I are just looking for tree stumps all the time looking for our next fix of honey.

Are antibiotics meant to be ultra rare now?

[Ogami]

Onyl found some herbal antibiotics in loot in about 20 hours in 1.0.
So yeah, they seem very rare. But i found a ton of honey, have like 25+ in my storage chest so that balances it. As long as you always carry some with you to nip those infections right at the start its not a problem.

[Serious]

They were also very rare at A21. Currently day ~30 and i won't say it's different so far.
Probably you are playing on a higher diff or with other mods now?

[Undefined]

I would suggest buying Honey/Antibiotics from the trader, but it could be more expensive in 1.0 (because of lack of dukes) and, also, it sounds like you guys are getting infected too much for that to be a sustainable option.

[Xandor]

I think I found ~4 herbal antibiotics so far.
When I move between areas I try to destroy every tree stump I see since that honey is so important.
I probably get ~4 honey for every that I use so it is not a problem but easy to get infected and they are basically the only way to cure it. I think 1 honey cost 240 from trader which is almost free (I think a quest gives like 800 although scaling with type/difficulty so more/less), limited by how fast they restock tho, I think they have ~3 in stock.

I am not sure but it might be loot stage related, we might see antibiotics at higher loot stage but not sure. I think I started seeing herbal antibiotics after loot stage raised a little, could be a coincidence, seems reasonable that better ones are at higher loot stage.

[Neo]

Damn I feel you guys were lucky finding the herbal antibiotics. Even the trader is not selling them yet.

I think we've just been really unlucky because we both got infected early then had a big dry spell on finding honey, so the infection got too high and now it's a losing battle.

[Neo]

Originally posted by Serious:

They were also very rare at A21. Currently day ~30 and i won't say it's different so far.
Probably you are playing on a higher diff or with other mods now?

I think we are playing on nomad (the one higher than normal)

No mods.

[Pain Weasel]

I found some regular antibiotics on Day 2 and it saved me. I haven't found any herbal yet, but I do have a lot of honey.

[Underscorecow]

Since they made progression sort of keep you in the forest for atleast a few days i can only assume they expected you to chop every stump you come across.

[MiSFiT77]

You should always focus tree stumps from the minute you spawn. You need wood. Tree stumps are made of wood, they also occasionally give you honey. Ideally you want to be finding honey before you get infected.

[Neo]

Originally posted by MiSFiT77:

You should always focus tree stumps from the minute you spawn. You need wood. Tree stumps are made of wood, they also occasionally give you honey. Ideally you want to be finding honey before you get infected.

Yeah I get that, but not much use if the honey doesn't drop much and meanwhile the infection is getting out of control. As I said already we were getting lots of stumps but we had a huge unlucky dry spell of no honey. Then the zero antibiotics only exacerbated the problem.

[Pain Weasel]

Wasteland Treasures #1 lets you get honey from trees and not just stumps. You can also increase the chance to get the perk book with a point into Salvage Operations.

[Kresselack]

in game mechanics spending points into physician increase chance of looting them

[Mardoin69]

I usually stop worrying about infection... once it gets very high. If I can't cure it with one remedy... oh well, shrew it, I'll just let myself get killed off. Re-spawn, infection gone, and problem solved. lol