Sickness can occur to anyone in the shelter that came back from an expedition without a Gas Mask (if the fallout outside is highly radiated), hasn't eaten in a while, or by certain events, like the Suitcase event or the Shower event.
Gameplay effects[]
Members that are sick will eventually die/leave after 15/20 days. It can be cured by using a First Aid Kit or with the shower event. The player can also tell if Ted, Dolores or Timmy are closer to death when they're sick because their eyes will get more bloodshot, and they will appear to suffer more pain. A member can also get sick if injured.
Curing Sickness[]
Sickness is avoidable with certain scenarios, but members will get sick randomly on occasion (typically in Tsar Bomba mode.) Curing sickness is done via the first aid kit and, if lucky, the Shower Event. Feeding a member more often/every day can occasionally cure them, but this is not always the case. If a member is fed consecutively throughout 3-5 days and is still sick, then the method will not work. However, if you keep feeding them, they will not transition into their Diseased stage, which is a great way to stall if you are in need of a medkit.
Trivia[]
- When sick, Ted and Dolores will have green skin with red parts, Timmy will look white as snow and Mary Jane will have reddish-pink skin.
- If you look closely, Timmy looks like he has the chicken pox. Also, Timmy and Dolores' hair will be darker than usual.
- Ted and Dolores would look like they have the flu (especially Dolores).
- The entire family will appear to excrete a bright blue substance from their noses if sick. This could just be a design choice, or a symptom of some kind of mutated radiation poisoning.
- Ted won't have a red nose if tired, sick and insane.
- It is sometimes possible to cure the family members of sickness by giving them food for 3-5 consecutive days. If that doesn't work, no amount of soup can fix them. If that happens, then the Medkit/Shower Event must be used in order to heal the sick person.
- The second stage of that is Diseased. This means you are really close to dying.
- If someone is sick, he will die faster of starvation.
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