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.
Death By Sickness[]
Ted:[]
- Ted has been sick for far too long, and he was too weak to keep going. He passed away in his sleep. (Ted died)
Dolores:[]
- Dolores's sickness progressed quickly. Coughing, fever, chest pain. She didn't recover. (Dolores died)
Mary Jane:[]
- When Mary Jane's sickness got worse, and when we weren't be able to provide her with medicine, she decided it's time to cure whatever she had by her own. She left a note saying she's not coming back since she never liked our town to begin with. (Mary Jane died)
Timmy:[]
- Timmy was very sick and there was nothing we could done to make it better. He understood it and he probably decided he's better off far away from such irresponsible parents... he left and never came back. (Timmy died)
Type Of Sickness (To be confirmed)[]
The game has different type of sickness.
Passive Sickness:[]
A character will be considered Passively Sick when cured from any sickness. This status will be removed after 5 days. When a family member has this status, some events can cause Serious Sickness. These events are:
- Dead Air --> If Nothing is used
- Infestation --> If Nothing is used
- Plumbing Action --> If Nothing is used
- Something Smell Worse Than Us --> If you say No
- Swarm --> If Nothing is used
Basic Sickness:[]
Basic Sickness is the most common sickness in the game. It can be cured with the First Aid Kit or some events like "Bad Smell" or "Happy Birthday Mary Jane/Timmy !", but it can also be cured with a certain amount of soup : if a character is fed a certain amount of consecutive days, they will eventually recover from their sickness.
Fortunately, in the case of Basic Sickness, the amount of soup needed is set based on the number of days the sick character wasn't fed since becoming sick:
| 0-1 Day | 2 Days | 3 Days | 4 Days | 5 Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Soups | 5 Soups | 8 Soups | 9 Soups | ??? |
A character given the required amount of soup will result on them being sick on the following day, even without feeding them that day they will be cured the day after.
Serious Sickness:[]
Serious Sickness has the same properties as the Basic Sickness, except for the amount of soup needed. In the case of Serious Sickness, the amount of Soup needed seems to be random, meaning that it's often better to use the First Aid Kit or just wait for an event.
Serious Sickness can be caused by certain events; for example, letting the mutant roaches in the shelter.
Curing Sickness[]
(To be checked)
Sickness is avoidable with certain scenarios, but members will get sick randomly on occasion (typically in Tsara 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 sickness is Diseased. This means you are really close to dying.
- If someone is sick, they will die faster of starvation.
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