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schmloo wrote:

Would be pretty cool to see plague doctors and medical researchers. Fitting with the idea of contracting a random disease from certain sources, maybe the disease has a certain set of variable properties, and early remedies can be made from wild, currently one-use plants such as rose madder and indigo, which hold matching properties, and once glass tech is reached, modern research of some kind can take place? Syringes for vaccinations, petri dishes, eg.

Grind up roots and leaves into powders with a round stone and flat rock.    Create a herbal poultice by combining those powders with water and strips of cloth or tree bark.  Collect leaches from the ponds.    Practice blood-letting and trepanation to remove the evil spirits that plague your fellow villagers.    Burn incense and hang hexes to ward off disease and ill humors.   

The options are limitless.

If we are just tossing out crazy ideas, then I'm game.    The medical side of OHOL is a real joke.  It would be nice to see it developed into a full system.   

A few possible vectors for disease:

Dead bodies - If left unburied, human and animal remains will become "diseased".   Diseased bones produce clouds of carrion flies that operate similar to Mosquitoes, except that they "die" after a certain number of moves, like dogs.    If you are bitten by a carrion fly swarm, you will contract a random disease.    If your village is plagued by carrion flies, you should build a graveyard and clean up the dead faster next time. 

Rotten food - Leaving uncooked food out for too long can lead to decay and food poisoning.   Rotten food eventually decay into "mush".  You can still eat mush .. but you really shouldn't.   It's gross.  Uncooked meats carry the highest risk of food poisoning and it decays the quickest, but veggies will also rot eventually.  Nothing lasts forever.    Except Twinkies (Bread loaf + Banana cream).

Swamp water - Using pond water for food preparation can also cause food poisoning.    Unsafe water should be boiled over hot coals first to remove contamination.    Some recipes are safe, even if you use bad water, because the food is cooked after adding the water.   The primary symptom of food poisoning is significantly increased hunger drain.   It can be rapidly fatal unless treated right away.

Livestock - Close contact with sheep and other livestock carries a risk of disease.   Diseased animals act differently and might attack their handlers.   They should be separated from the flock until they return to normal or slaughtered.   Meat from diseased animals may be unsafe, so it is better to not eat it.    If a diseased sheep/cow bites you, then you will catch a livestock-related disease.   You should see the village healer immediately for treatment.

Dogs - There is a small random chance that a dog will become rabid for no apparent reason (Nosaj did it).    Rabid dogs act just like angry pitbulls, except they also froth at the mouth.    There is no cure for rabies.   Don't let the dog bite you!   Rabid dogs can be shot with arrows.

Blood -  Treating wounds or handling a bloody knife can expose you to blood-borne illnesses.   You have a chance to catch the disease if the bleeding person is a carrier for a blood-borne disease.   Disease carriers have no symptoms, but have the ability to spread the disease to new people who will either become another carrier OR start showing symptoms immediately.     You can also catch bloodborne diseases after being bitten by mosquitoes or carrion flies.

Mother/Baby -  Some blood-borne illnesses can be transmitted from mother to child at birth.    This can be especially dangerous to the baby, since their pips are so limited.   

Tattoos - Tattoo needles can transmit diseases between people.    If a tattoo needle is used on an infected person, then used again on a healthy person, the second person will catch the disease. 
Sterilization with alcohol (wine) or heat (fire) will stop the spread of disease.  Be sure that your tattoo artist knows what he is doing before you get some sick tats!

Physical contact - Close contact with an infected person increases your risk of contracting diseases that can be spread by physical contact.   If you stand on the same tile as an infected person, you have a small chance of catching the disease for each second that you share the same space.   Also, if you do any transitions involving the infected person (like feeding, treating wounds, swapping clothing, etc), there is an increased chance of catching the disease.   Standing on the same tile while behind a tree doubles your risk of catching contact diseases.   

Airborne -   Some diseases cause the infected person to do a "sneeze" emote.   When this emote happens, anyone within a three tile radius of the infected person will catch the disease.

That's not how the game plays or will ever play though. While you're welcome to dream up all these crazy situations the game has been stagnant for almost two years. This is a berry farming simulator that sometimes lets you do fun activities based off the color of your skin now. Not once out of my three lives today did I get to play a race I wanted and in fact got black twice.

I'd recommend something like ss13 if you wanted something close to ohol with all the whacky shenanigans parts.