Wound infection

Stages

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

1. Infected wound

   only with medicine

   from 1 agent (of 500)

   Symptoms

   • Pain groans
   • Stamina runs out fast
   • Sick icon in the status bar

   You groan in pain every 18–26 s, and your stamina drains 1.33× as fast and refills at a third of the speed. Sick icon, no fever.

   Never by itself — the agents keep growing however strong your immune system is. Disinfecting yourself clears it completely as long as you are still in this stage.

   Iodine Tincture· Disinfect yourself: the infection is gone ~100 s later, as long as you are still in this stage then.Alcoholic Tincture· Disinfect yourself: the infection is gone ~100 s later, as long as you are still in this stage then.Disinfectant Spray· Disinfect yourself: the infection is gone ~100 s later, as long as you are still in this stage then.Tetracycline Pills· Pushes the infection back while it works, but disinfecting is the sure cure here.

   ~20 min if untreated.

2. Severe infection

   only with medicine

   from 250 agents; ends only at 0

   Symptoms

   • Screams of pain
   • Shaking hands
   • Feeling hot
   • Blurry vision
   • Thermometer shows 38.5 °C or more
   • Getting thirsty unusually fast
   • Stamina runs out fast
   • Losing health without being hurt
   • Sick icon in the status bar

   Every 6–12 s a scream of pain that cancels your health regeneration and costs a net 0.04 health per second. Shaking hands, fever (an extra 0.2 water per second, 38.5–39 °C on a thermometer), the weak stamina and the sick icon.

   Never by itself, and disinfectant now only holds the growth back for 100 s. Only tetracycline brings it down — take a pill whenever one runs out, until the pain stops.

   Deadly: ~42 min from full health, untreated.

   Tetracycline Pills· While a pill works the infection stops growing, the screams turn into light groans and you lose no health. Keep taking pills until the pain stops.

How to get rid of it

Infected wound: disinfect yourself with iodine, the alcoholic tincture or disinfectant spray; it is gone after about a minute and a half. Severe infection: take tetracycline, and another pill when it wears off, until the pain stops.

Iodine TinctureAlcoholic TinctureDisinfectant SprayTetracycline Pills

How to avoid it

Disinfect rags and sewing kits before you use them, and disinfect a fresh wound right after treating it.

Good to know

• A wound that stops bleeding by itself gets infected 40 % of the time. Closed with an unclean item it is 5 % for a bandage, 15 % for a rag and 30 % for a sewing kit; a disinfected item never infects.
• A transfusion from an infected blood bag passes the infection on.