I believe the wiki says that sterilized bandages keeps infection rate down, don't know if that true.

A guide to combat and how moodlets affect it maybe? I heard that being tired and hungry makes you weaker while being well fed makes you stronger. Would love to see some explanation of this

guide about wall HP, wiki said wall lv 3 has 250, how about log wall, metal wall, wire fence, etc. which wall is the best for defense?

Would love to see an episode on Electrical skill, I've heard so many weird rumors and conflicting things and leveling it seems incredibly difficult and obtuse.

@@mikoajpyrzanowski6721 1 pip in tiredness affects melee damage output more than max stress and max panic combined. Tiredness affects swing speed. Stress seems to affect crit rate. Panic greatly affects gun accuracy therefore also damage output since if you miss you don't do any damage.

Also gameplay/roleplay/story possibilities opened: the guy who just sits in the base and doesn't seem to fight zombies or even chop wood or go outside: suddenly someone has a bite, or finds their bandaged leg has gotten gangrene, etc, and now he's needed: working on the patients wounds until they should be able to heal. Or a radio call and a scary overnight dash from an allied team across the map.. bringing one of theirs who has a nasty wound etc and needs the best Doctor on the server.. etc.

@@gabedude68 That would add so much to the game. Would love that element. I love playing healing and support roles in games, do it whenever the game gives the opportunity to do so.

@@StudlyFudd13 try foxhole being a medic

Antibodies mod

@@Ahrone1586 I have that game on my wishlist, waiting for it to go on sale. Definitely wanna play it.

Clean the scratch with alcohol heps with infection prevention? or you clean only when is infected '-' There is no such a thing like "dirty Scratch" but you clean it anyway...

@@Luperoi cleaning the wound with alcohol puts a buff on the wound that prevents infection until the buff disappears. Usually the wound heals before that happens.

sterilized bandages actually auto cleans up infection in wounds when applied, so you dont waste time cleaning wound then bandaging yourself

There is always the custom sandbox option to make bites the only way to become infected. That being said the threat of death via wounds is so incredibly low. You either get completely mauled to death, or don't die. Very rarely do you make it out ripped to shreds. I blame the drag down option. Instantly dying because three zombies get near you cuts off most desperate survival situations.

@@theodoredumas4946 Welcome to the club. That's how zomboid works. Scratches have 7% to become infected, Lacerations have about 25%, and if you're Bitten, might as well reset (ofc all of that comes into play if the wound originates from a zombie).

@@ZzRuanZ you can use sandbox settings or mods such as antibodies mod. First Aid as a skill is just worthless. Grinding to lvl10 is both incredibly long, boring and pretty much impossible in regular non-grind gameplay.

Itd be nice if you just got a really bad infection instead of straight up death. I play with no virus and take that trait that makes you prone to illness. My death might not be assured. But without antibiotics im in the frying pan.

Not really. Infections just make the wound heal slower. As long as it’s bandaged you’re fine.

Your poor feet...

Honestly, making bites not 100% death sentence will make the game more engaging, as people will then wait out the zombification period just to see if they make it or not. As it is now, however, whenever I got bitten I just stood there smiling goofily letting the zeds eat me alive...

This is amazing solution, thank you for recommending this. Just what I wanted. Not only does this fixes my gripe with being bitten = restart, but also makes Prone to Illness / Resilient traits actually matter. And you have to put an effort if you screwed up. The best mod from those that allow to survive sombification, IMHO.

Or you can play sims intead

@@bsherman8236 why do that?

@@sylvo1057 because there is no challenge to that, actually the clunky controls are biggest challenge for me

People told me about the higher first aid skills fixing your swing speed when injured, but it ended up being exactly the same. Just putting a bandage on certain wounds increases your swing speed whether 0 or 10 first aid. Fractures definitely benefit from first aid skill though, also their healing speed. Like most things with the game, the answer is to avoid it happening in the first place, but even if you do break your leg its the perfect time to cover yourself in scratches and power level your first aid. No need to level it beforehand.

@@Retanaru When you fall off your poorly designed carpentry tower enough times, being able to move quickly again is an absolute character-saver especially in servers where the day length is modified to be much longer. There's no "right click, walk to, 2x gameplay speed" option there, so you kind of just have to deal with that. In my experience, it is worth it to have one person with this skill for that reason alone, especially in real-time servers with no sleep. That makes you a relatively valued commodity. Outside of that? It's nothing worth fretting over. Take advantage of it if you got it, or play without it. It's also worth noting that the consequences of long-term injuries can be super drawn out if you can't skip through that, spanning multiple sittings. This is all setting dependent, of course.

I could see PZ pulling this off tbh.

Devs have stated amputations is one of the things that will never be in this game unfortunately.

@@albert4860 what why

​@@alper9979 as cool as it would be, zomboid is pretty dead set on being a game that death is always coming. No matter how hard we fight, we will always end up dying at some point, amputations would make it better avoidable, thus changing the game loop heavily. TLDR, amputations make dying avoidable.

@@sovietscumbag5879 Yeah but by that logic wearing armor is against the point of the game too, it prevents you from dying. In amputation's case you both can't amputate an arm twice, there's a massive penalty to doing it, you can die from blood loss (I died many times with the mod) etc. You're just prolonging your life and live more miserably, not becoming immortal

If that's what the goal is, perhaps the first aid skill could allow one to see these things as it levels up. Perhaps not totally realistic but I'd imagine a surgeon or field medic would be way closer to the mark on an intuitive guess than Average Joe would.

@@steviesteveo1 it kinda does, I think at least. Higher first aid skill allows you to judge the severity of an injury. Or was ist because of the doctor trait? But it still is useless. I can judge the severity by how fast my hp drops. And it does not matter how bad it is once its desinfected and bandaged. Just switch bandage till its gone. Are there any disadvantages from having a lot of light injuries? Apart from the possible zombification?

​@@SkeleTonHammer I think one way that it could be improved is by adding some elements of stress, panic, and pain management to the treatment process. If your first aid experience basically ends at bandaids and Neosporin, a major injury, or even just one that's bleeding heavily, could send you down a really nasty path of negative, counterproductive thinking (which would translate in-game to varying degrees of stress and panic), but if you're properly trained, even a pretty gnarly injury could be handled quickly, and you'll feel much more confident that your treatments will take hold. As for the pain, it also makes sense that an inexperienced medic might improperly apply dressings or sutures such that they'd be a little more painful than need be, which could be yet another reason to have a higher first aid level. Basically, lower first-aid characters will have to rely more on drugs and entertainment to manage the symptoms of injuries, while the mentality and skills of a more trained medic will allow them to more directly deal with them, saving time and resources as well as leaving you less vulnerable during the healing process. Also, this is more just a neat thing I like as a forager, it means that training my first-aid would make me get more mileage out of my black sage, which I ordinarily find to be almost useless given how little pain it actually relieves.

You can also boil them in a container of hot water for Sterilized bandages. Very nice once you have a stable water supply.

It removes the infection?! That's news to me. Thanks!

@@PanduPoluan Not the zombie infection, the standard other bacteria infection

@ilikebacon The solution is to simply not break your leg.

@@antipsychotic451 the solution to the infinite live in zomboid is never getting scratched, why haven't people thought of that yet?

@@antipsychotic451 No one plans on breaking their leg. Imagine you go to the hospital irl and the doctor says "just don't get injured next time." You have absolute pea brain mindset.

@ilikebacon will it? even the dumbest of survivors can splint said leg and eat to become well fed.

@bobb I think his point is if you're hiding in your base after breaking a leg then you don't really need a speedy recovery.

The issue with gating treating the zombie virus behind high first aid is that the vast majority of wounds in this game that would get you EXP in order to get to max have an infection risk. The only way you'd survive long enough to grind to 10 first aid would be if you ran around barefoot to grind minor foot wounds or something - or if you made survivors immune in the sandbox options, but obviously if you did that you don't need a zombie virus cure. And I'm doubting the feasibility of grinding to 10 even if you have books and start with 3 first aid for the highest multiplier.

First aid should level up from textbooks only, and all medicine (there should be more types with various side effects) should just have a generic name, before the specific type is revealed, and eventually the exact composition, effects and length of side effects and the like as your character learns what they're actually reading.

The devs have straight up said there won't be any kind of cure in the vanilla, period.

Then it's an absolute useless, garbage skill, period.

@@Jeyeyeyey it wont always be useless though... for example when they add wild animals and human AI... then you will have non-zombie sources of damage and injury.

I once ran into a tree and scratched my neck

@@arcanumelite4853 just as long as they dont make zombie animals ah-la 7 days to die

Then again, NPCs aren't in the vanilla game, and the mod isn't that great. MP Will make first aid a bit more useful though, gotta take care of them bullet wounds somehow

yeah this is exactly how id like it to be, no chances of curing once you are infected but giving you a better chance of preventing infection and keeping it always a risk saw someone suggest being able to check the status of a wound without removing the bandage at high levels and another saying there should be more in-depth pain location information which i also think would be good changes

You had me laughing for a solid minute. Maybe I'll make a video talking like him.

You can only suture deep wounds. Lacerations are a 25% chance to be zombified. Keep the bandage on and it'll heal up on its own. Thick skinned decreases your chance of being wounded, not the wound type. The text in the health panel that says things like "severely injured" and "mortally wounded" is based off the amount of health you have and not any sort of future prediction of death. Eating food for the green food buffs lets you regenerate health faster.

I think first they'd need to give more wound types, and more care necessary for the wounds. Infections would also need multiple stages, as is you just slap a bandage on and ignore the infection because the wound will heal before the infection ever actually does anything. The second problem is that there are not many situations where you can get heavily injured and escape, especially since multiple lacerations is a heavy dice roll into zombified death. I've been doing immune runs with drag down turned off (it insta kills you if 4 zombies touch you) and it was fun to be able to get chewed up by several zombies, escape and then deal with my wounds for a few days. Finally they can add treatments that only someone with high first aid can do, that quickly speed up healing, or at least reduce the penalty for being wounded such as taking a leg wound from a 50% slow down to a 10% slow. Multiple infections that a high first aid skill could identify so you know what medicine to use would be cool too.

Immune runs(with boosted zombie stats to compensate) are the most fun kind of run imo. And the player character being immune makes more sense anyways given how they hint at the virus going airborne in the later news broadcasts. I like to turn off zombification and pull down, increase zombie strength and toughness, and use 'customizable zombies' mod to give small chance of sprinters.

I keep them in for that RP look.

Every once in a while I break a limb in a car accident and survive. Only then would not having to redo my herbalist paste as often really help out.

press H remove the bandage and right click the wound with tweezers in your inventory. It should say there is a lodged bullet without doing that though.

@@Retanaru Little update, the game didn´t tell me there was a bullet in the wound, till I had the equipment to remove it. Might be because I only had medical skill 2, but in the end I didn´t know about it, till I got the stuff to remove it and checked my options.

At least its the fastest one.

The infection you can see is just a normal infection. The zombie infection does not show up and there's nothing you can do to avoid it aside from never getting hit by a zombie.

What if, and this is mind blowing, it is labeled dirty when it is dirty. No need to randomly click on it to check.

It does.

Wounds you receive have a random amount of heal time. First aid doesn't make anything heal faster, it makes bandages and poultices last longer.

All things you can avoid by... not doing them. It's the same thing with some negative perks like Prone to Illness. Just avoid those situations. "A horde that caught you off guard" is not a problem that First Aid solves. Awareness and patience solve that problem. There's no reason to jump through a window with glass in it, because there's no reason to be caught in that situation in the first place. Running through trees, same thing. Stop panicking. That's the solution. Not wasting time with a skill that takes forever to level and gives you nothing that caution can't also give.

@@screwgoogle4993 if you plan to not make mistakes, a mistake can be fatal. Better to cover your bases.

At least some tiny trickle of XP gain for crafting bandages would be nice.

Lol if it's trash it's trash.