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Common cold

Being cold for a while (blue temperature indicator). A sneezing or coughing player close by only passes it on while you are cold yourself with a weak immune system.

Heals by itself

When warm

Gone in ~6 min once you are warm.

Catch it

~15 min freezing

With a light blue indicator; ~6 min in dark blue, ~4 min when it flashes.

Turns into

The flu

In ~12–20 min if you keep freezing with a weak immune system.

Cure

Tetracycline

Gone in ~1–1.5 min when you are warm.

A cold is flu germs in your body — the game counts them as agents, up to 1200. While you are cold (blue indicator) and your immune system is at or below ~72 %, they multiply; once you are warm, or your immune system is stronger, they die off. From 100 agents you have a cold, from 600 it is the flu.

Stages

How the disease runs in the game, stage by stage: when it starts, what it does, and whether it still heals.

  1. Cold

    heals by itself

    from 100 agents (of 1200)

    Symptoms

    • Sneezing

    You sneeze about every 2 minutes. No fever, no loss of health or water, no sick icon.

    When you are warm it shrinks by 0.3 agents per second, whatever your immune system — gone in ~6 min. In the cold it fades the same way if your immune system is above ~72 %.

    Tetracycline Pills· 1 pill: gone in ~1–1.5 min when you are warm.Multivitamin Pills· The agents die off twice as fast: gone in ~3 min, even in the cold.Codeine Pills· No cure — you only sneeze half as often.Morphine Auto-Injector· No cure — you only sneeze half as often.

How to get rid of it

Get warm, eat and drink. Tetracycline or multivitamins speed it up. Painkillers only make you sneeze less.

Tetracycline PillsMultivitamin PillsCodeine Pills

How to avoid it

Stay dry and warm, and keep your food and water up.

Good to know

  • A sneezing or coughing player within 3 m passes on a single agent at a time, less often if one of you wears a mask. It only grows into a cold while you are cold with a weak immune system.
  • After a cold you cannot catch a new one for 15 minutes.

Not sure it is this?

The doctor asks what you notice on your character and names the disease and its stage.

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