How can I get my Caravan to use meds?

[senftoast]

I made a prisoner with my caravan. As the caravan was moving he got an infection. The caravan has meds but they dont use them to treat the infection. The prisoner is allowed to get treatet with the meds.

[HunterSilver]

To my knowledge there is no way to do this in the core game, you must use mods to have colonists utilize medicine while traveling in a caravan, such as Smart Medicine.

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[Astasia]

Originally posted by senftoast:

I made a prisoner with my caravan. As the caravan was moving he got an infection. The caravan has meds but they dont use them to treat the infection. The prisoner is allowed to get treatet with the meds.

It should be automatic but it's not instant, I'm not sure what the normal delay is for treating conditions on a caravan. I usually don't pay attention to it, it just gets done in a reasonable amount of time, probably less than 0.2 days.

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

To my knowledge there is no way to do this in the core game, you must use mods to have colonists utilize medicine while traveling in a caravan, such as Smart Medicine.

If you mean "manually" use meds when you tell them to, ya, there's no way to do that in vanilla, I don't know if Smart Medicine has that option, I haven't use it in a long time. Caravans in vanilla will use medicine and treat wounds automatically as they move though, it's not as good as tending in a bed but you can save a lot of time after a mission by just packing up the caravan immediately after killing the last enemies and letting them tend on their way home, I do this all the time.

[HunterSilver]

Tending happens yes, but I've never witnessed them actually use medicine on their own before. Mind you I haven't tested this in vanilla since 1.0, but I would regularly try to load up caravans with medicine only to have them return with every single one unused and doctors treating every wound on the road without medicine regardless of policy.

My memory isn't always immaculate and I often mistake small details here and there but I'm quite sure of this.

[Astasia]

No they definitely use medicine in vanilla, I just double checked with a test game, damaged a pawn and gave another an infection using dev mode, then formed the caravan with meds, they used meds to treat both.

[HunterSilver]

I guess I'm pleasantly mistaken then.