Injuries

UI

BCU ICU MONITOR

• Here you will see the basic info of your characters health performance. From hearth rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels to breathing rate.

Body status

• In this interactive tab you will see entire body x-ray with displayed injuries and symptoms. It also has 2 gauges showing your health and blood level. You can even click around different body parts to isolate which injury you whish to focus on. After you select the body part or the injury you can go to the treat tab.

Symptoms and Conditions

The list on the body can show either symptoms or conditions. Conditions are the all the nasty things that are affecting your body and are treatable, mostly. Symptoms are the consequence of the conditions that still have effect on your body, and can only be treated through their condition.

Treating tab

• When you select the injury you will find the treating tab/bar. With it on the center of the screen you will have the option of choosing the items you want to use to treat form either inventory or vicinity. The bar itself shows you all the info about the treatment. The red bar is filling up and it shows the progress of bleeding. Depending on the injury it can fill slower or faster, after the bar is filled the wound will go from untreated to stabilization and after it is stabilized it will go to recovery. You can patch the wound up to send it immediately to stabilization by treating it. When you patch a wound you will fill up the white outline of the bar. Once the line is full the wound is considered stabilized. So the more the severe the wound the more materials you need to stabilize it. Be careful tho, if you have a wound that is still in stabilization mode and you keep doing difficult actions with your character like jumping or sprinting around, you can open your wound again and will need to be patched up again.

Contamination

Wounds can get contaminated based on the cleanliness of your clothes, as well as what you use as a bandage. If your contamination level reaches 100% for any wound, an Infection manifests.

Contamination bar

This is a useful bar that will automatically show you the progress of your contamination level and its rising or falling rate. The total contamination rising level is the rising rate of #External Pathogens and #Wound Germs added up.

External Pathogens

External Pathogens are all the bacteria that come from outside sources, like dirty clothes or dirty bandages

Wound Germs

Wound germs can manifest inside of the wound if enough #External Pathogens are introduced to it. If #External Pathogens are taken away, wound germs will still manifest on their own if the #Immune System cannot fight them off.

Puppets also cause Wound germs on their hits with their dirty dirty nails

Immune System

• The Immune System is the ability of your own body to combat outside bacteria with its own defensive mechanism.
• The strength of your Immune System depends on your Constitution stat.
• The Immune System can be boosted with Antibiotics
• In case of multiple infected wounds your Immune System will need to adjust on all of them accordingly to the severity of those wounds.
• By taking an antibiotic you can boost your Immune System and help it destroy the bacteria that is the source of the Infection and help your body close the wound up after it is all gone.

Sources of contamination

Clothing

The levels of contamination related to clothing are as follows:

• No clothes: 0%
• Completely clean Clothes: 50%
• Completely dirty clothes: 100%

So the level of contamination from clothing varies on how clean/dirty they are.

No clothes, since nothing is contaminating the clothes there is no contamination part on the toolbar.

Putting a clean clothing item rises the wound contamination to around 50%.

Putting dirty clothing item on rises the contamination level to around 100%

If you have a wound on your legs and you pissed your pants the contamination will rise to 75%, so despite what your grandparents told you it is not a good idea to piss on an open wound.

Lowering Contamination

Bandaging wound

So how do you combat contamination? Well by disinfecting the wound and or using the right bandages.

• Medical items are all disinfected.
• Dirty rags have 100% contamination
• Clean Rags have 50% contamination
• Aseptic Rags are fully disinfected and have 0% contamination

Disinfecting wound

You can also apply Isopropyl Alcohol, or Absinthe Father also works in these cases, directly on your wound to disinfect it. However, the alcohol will evaporate after a while, so you will have to maintain the cleanliness of the wound. You can do that by removing bandages and adding new ones or cleaning the wound again. This is pretty useful when you have a Dirty Rag to patch up immediately and want to switch out to a clean one when safe to avoid Infection.

Removing Bandages

When you have applied a bandage to a wound, a little white arrow on the top right corner of the wound icon will appear. Clicking on this arrow will give you the option to remove the bandage. You do not get the bandage back when you remove it from a wound.

Change History

Update 11-29-22	ARS can now cause random bleeding injuries
Update 06-02-22	Added Infection, added ability to remove bandages, added contamination
Update 10-07-21	Removed the environment temperature indicator from the ICU monitor as it was too confusing, you can still see the temperature in the STATS panel.