Do tinctures actually really do anything?

[Kax]

Yeah as the title says - I mean does doing the whole tincture/morphine/pills process actually do anything besides raising your rep / depleting resources? I mean they die anyway and it wouldn't do anything to stop the spread of infection. I mean I may as well just sell the herbs at the bar.
On that note, does anyone know if doing stuff like trading immunity boosters has any tangible effect like lowering overall infection rates or something?

[Waismuth]

Don't sell your tinctures, do your job in the hospital and max out your fund money first and foremost. Max fund means tons of money and 7 000 coins daily. Use + tinctures for raising immunity of important NPCs. The best plus tincture for this is ZURH+ (ashen swish and any other herb) because zurh + only lowers thirst so it’s the least useful to you in terms of lowering needs. Yas + made from white whip and Mendrel + from swevery will lower your hunger and sleep a little bit, so keep those to yourself. Also, an important thing, when you’re administering tinctures ALWAYS lower pain to ZERO, if you manage to do this, a single + tincture will show you definite symptoms, meaning when you lower the patient’s pain level to zero you won’t have to waste many tinctures trying to figure out which antibiotic to administer, so keep that in mind. Normal, non plus tinctures will actually RAISE your needs, however, Zurch (non plus version) only raises thirst, so therefore it’s easiest to mitigate because you can’t die from thirst. High thirst can be easily countered by “jogging” meaning if you raise your fists, like when you turn on fighting stance you can sprint indefinitely. It’s of course slightly slower then actual sprint but still better than walking when your thirst is maxed out. Brew painkillers from HEALTHY organs to lower pain of patients, administer a plus tincture and you get definite symptoms. If you can afford organize daily trips to the forgotten village where you can stack upon extra herbs, usually you’re free to sell your surplus of black, blood, and brown twyrie but don’t sell swevery, ashens and whites.

PS: usually it's not worth it to trade your immunity boosters (pill form) since you're gonna need them anyway

[Kax]

Oh wtf I had no idea about the morphine thing? Thanks man that's gonna save me a lot of ♥♥♥♥.

[Waismuth]

Yeah I actually didn't know about it either, I read it somewhere else because it’s not really explained that you HAVE to lower the pain to zero to get the best results. After you get assigned daily shifts in the hospital it’s best to max the fund, so after the quest in the hospital I think you only need to heal like 3 or so people, maybe 4 to max out the fund. After that you will never have food and money problems. Also the quality of painkiller and antibiotics from best to worst go like this: brain is the best, while blood and kidneys have the worst quality, but usually it’s easiest to get the heart out with the good quality scalpel in the early game so aim for that, brains are hard to get out with the later game blades

[LMP]

dude waismuth you're wayyyy too knowledgeable about the game please come watch my stream later and help me

[Waismuth]

Originally posted by LMP:

dude waismuth you're wayyyy too knowledgeable about the game please come watch my stream later and help me

if you drop a link to your stream then sure. Most of the knowledge comes from anons sharing their tips and experiences on 4chan’s /v/ pathologic threads

[Waismuth]

Okay, so i personally tested the tincture thing with diagnose. I’m pretty certain tinctures+ are better in identifying which layer is the poisoned one, than using the normal, non plus ones. Using the normal ones there’s a high change you won’t get any clues (the icon in the middle of the diagram lights up - meaning you get no answers) while the plus one uncover the definite or close to definite layers. There IS a possibility of a definite diagnosis with just one plus tincture, but it needs to be the same layer, for example when using white plus tincture the only way it’ll be definite is for the diseased layer to be bones (white), as in white tincture can’t definitely uncover the correct layer in one go if the disease is in for example nerves or blood, it will give you two possible layers however. Also it seems the whole “lowering pain level to zero” doesn’t do much, it’s mostly about using the plus tinctures because they’re better in identifying the layer. When I have the possibility of testing it more, I’ll post an update

[Kax]

Thank god for Waismuth

[LMP]

praise be. also my stream is twitch/littlemisspiss i'll be picking up from day 5 in a bit. need lunch first.

[Gor Mor]

Originally posted by Waismuth:

Yeah I actually didn't know about it either, I read it somewhere else because it’s not really explained that you HAVE to lower the pain to zero to get the best results.

Dude, the clay toy tells you this during doctoring tutorial in your hideout. The lower the pain the more chances to get the definitive diagnosis.

[Anders_UA]

Originally posted by Gor Mor:

Originally posted by Waismuth:

Yeah I actually didn't know about it either, I read it somewhere else because it’s not really explained that you HAVE to lower the pain to zero to get the best results.

Dude, the clay toy tells you this during doctoring tutorial in your hideout. The lower the pain the more chances to get the definitive diagnosis.

thank god for another soul who reads tutorials and plays with their eyes open.

[Waismuth]

Originally posted by Anders_Z1:

Originally posted by Gor Mor:

Dude, the clay toy tells you this during doctoring tutorial in your hideout. The lower the pain the more chances to get the definitive diagnosis.

thank god for another soul who reads tutorials and plays with their eyes open.

I mean that there's not much difference between zero pain, and first level of pain in terms of uncovering symptoms, the outcome is more or less the same when using +tincture for symptoms, as in doesn’t really matter if you bring pain to zero or leave it on the first lowest possible pain level. Tumbler toy only says you won’t be able to uncover symptoms if the pain is at it’s maximum, he doesn’t say anything about the efficiency in correlation to minimum pain levels, at least not in terms of pure numbers.

[Kax]

Wow dude rude af. Lord help you if you don't play for a bit and forget something in the tutorial.