Medical Treatment refers to the method to healing injuries from animals or other players. Treatment must be applied swiftly to avoid a players's death. Therefore, ensuring medical supplies are stocked up in-advance is wise. Pads become dirty if dropped on the ground and must be re-sterilized, so must be stored in a clay bowl. Used bloody pads can not be re-sterilized and will disappear after two minutes.
Injuries act as held objects; Acquiring an injury causes you to drop whatever you are holding (including babies), and prevents you from picking up items. However you can still open doors. It is possible to get more than one injury, each of which will halve the amount of time until you die. Injuries (except for Yellow Fever) will slow a player to 75% walking speed.
Injuries and Cures[ | ]
Injury type | Cause | Cure |
---|---|---|
Bite Wound |
Wolf Grizzly Bear Mean Pit Bull |
Use a Sterile Wool Pad to get Clean Bite Wound, then use a Needle and Thread. |
Snake Bite |
Rattle Snake |
Use a Sterile Wool Pad to get Clean Snake Bite, then use a Antivenom Knife. |
Hog Cut |
Wild Boar Domestic Boar |
Use a Sterile Wool Pad to get Clean Hog Cut, then use a Needle and Thread. |
Yellow Fever |
Mosquito Swarm |
Yellow fever cannot be cured, but will end after 35 seconds. It raises your temperature dramatically and reduces your food bar to 30% of its maximum. So it is best to seek out cold Biomes, preferably near home, so you can get other players to feed you while you recover. If you get bit multiple times, the period of sickness will be extended. You are less likely to survive with the extra insulation of clothes. If you have no-one to feed you, you can still survive by heading directly to a snow biome and scouting out a readily available food while you wait for the fever to end. Snowmans also lower surrounding temperature, and may be worth setting up for this purpose. |
Knife Wound |
Knife |
Use a Sterile Wool Pad to get Clean Knife Wound, then use a Needle and Thread. |
Arrow Wound |
Bow and Arrow |
Use empty hands to remove the Headless Arrow, to get Embedded Arrowhead Wound. Then use a Sterilized Knife to get Extracted Arrowhead Wound. Use empty hands to get Flint Arrowhead and Empty Arrow Wound. Then use Sterile Wool Pad to get Clean Arrow Wound, and finally use a Needle and Thread. |
Crafting Medical supplies[ | ]
Needle and Thread[ | ]
Combine Bone Needle and Thread or Ball of Thread. A needle and ball of thread can be used identically to Needle and Thread, and can be used multiple times before running out, so is a better option to keep around the medic station.
Sterile Wool Pad[ | ]
Use Ball of Thread or Dirty Wool Pad on Simmering Water. Store in Clay Bowl to get Bowl of Sterile Pads. Pads become dirty if dropped on the ground and must be re-sterilized, so must be stored in a clay bowl. Used bloody pads can not be re-sterilized and will disappear after two minutes.
Sterilized Knife[ | ]
Add knife to any Fire, Burning Adobe Oven or Firing Adobe Kiln. Will revert back into knife after 30 seconds, or if placed on the ground. A sterilized knife can be distinguished from a regular knife by its black tip.
Antivenom Knife[ | ]
Use a Riding Horse on a Rattle Snake to get Snake-Bit Riding Horse. Use a knife on the dead horse to get Snake-Bit Horse with Blood Leak. Use a Clay Bowl to get Bowl of Antivenom Blood. Use a Sterilized Knife to get antivenom knife. Placing an antivenom knife on the ground will cause it to revert back to a knife. The dead horse will disappear after 10 minutes.
Red Cross Apron[ | ]
Aprons can be useful in carrying an easily accessible Needle and Thread or a knife. The Red Cross Apron is a vanity version obtained by dyeing a White Apron with red dye.
Info[ | ]
- Added in version 113
- Prior to v.150, it was optional to use sterile wool pad on a bite wound
- Prior to v.152, it was possible to "drop" a wound by using a Teleporter. The detached wound could be treated but was still lethal.
- v.170 - Yellow Fever and mosquitoes added.