Difference between revisions of "Medicine"

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Medicine, also called industrial-tech medicine in the Health tab, is an expendable item used in doctoring.

Acquisition[edit]

Medicines can be crafted at a drug lab once the medicine production research project has been completed. Each requires 3 Cloth, 1 Herbal medicine, 1 Neutroamine and 700 ticks (11.67 secs) of work modified by the drug synthesis speed of the crafter.

Medicine can also be purchased from traders and looted from raiders.

Summary[edit]

Any form of medicine can be used whenever a doctor tends to an injury or disease. In most cases, medicine does not directly cause healing. Instead, using medicine and better medicine will increase tend quality, increasing the rate of healing for injuries, or slowing down progression of a disease. For gut worms and muscle parasites, tend quality is directly used to cure the disease.

With a Medical Potency of 100%, medicine has a 100% multiplier on both tend quality and surgery success.

Medicine does not spoil, but will deteriorate when left outside.

Experience[edit]

The amount of XP gained from tending depends on the type of medicine used, and what it is used on (human or animal). The equation for this is:

XP = Patient XP Factor × Medicine XP Factor × Doctor's Learning Rate

Where:

Patient XP Factor is a multiplier from the patient type. ×175 for animal patients, and ×500 for human patients.
Medicine XP Factor is the medicine's potency multiplied by 0.7, and clamped in the range of 0.5 and 1.
Doctor's Learning Rate is the doctor's own multiplier on XP gained for the medicine skill. See "Improving Skills" for more details.

Medicine	Potency	XP Factor	Tend XP from patient
Medicine	Potency	XP Factor	Human	Animal
None	0.30	0.5	250	87.5
Herbal medicine	0.60	0.5	250	87.5
Medicine	1.00	0.7	350	122.5
Glitterworld medicine	1.60	1	500	175

Analysis[edit]

Superior to herbal medicine but inferior to glitterworld medicine.

Industrial medicine is best used for diseases and surgery, where Medical Potency has the greatest impact. A dose or two of medicine can save a colonist's life from the plague. So long as patients are constantly treated by a decent doctor, resting full-time, and well-fed, this medicine should be enough against any disease.

It is generally misused for bruises, cuts, and other injuries. These are usually too common to waste high-quality medicine on; use herbal medicine or no medicine instead. But if a colonist is bleeding out rapidly, you may want to use better medicine for its increased tend speed and quality. Note that colonists are set to use the best quality medicine by default. In the assign tab, you can set colonists and other pawns to herbal medicine or worse. You can also alter this in a colonist's Health tab.

Regular medicine is enough to reach the 98% surgery success chance cap, under the right circumstances. A healthy doctor with Medical 8 can reach the surgery cap (for most surgeries) in a lit, clean room, using a normal quality hospital bed. Without a hospital bed (or sterile tile), Medical 11 is required for the same thing. Note that many factors, such as a dirty room or a surgeon's damaged Manipulation, will quickly lower your success rates.

Gallery[edit]

One medicine
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history[edit]

1.0 - Received a new description.
1.4.3523 - Added recipe for bulk medicine creation.

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-<noinclude>
+{{Infobox main|medicine
-{{Define|Medicine
+| name = Medicine
+| image = Medicine industrial a.png
+| description = A kit of industrial-era medical equipment. It contains basic drugs, tools for suturing and bone setting, diagnostic devices, and various pads and fluids.
+<!-- Base Stats -->
+| type = Medical Items
+| type2 = Medicine
+| tech level = Industrial
+| hp = 60
+| deterioration = 2
+| marketvalue = 18
+| beauty = -4
+| mass base = 0.5
+| flammability = 0.7
+| stack limit = 25
+| path cost = 14
+| rotatable = false
+<!-- Medical -->
+| medical potency base = 1
+| medical quality max = 1
+<!-- Creation -->
+| production facility 1 = Drug lab
+| work to make = 700
+| work speed stat = Drug Synthesis Speed
+| research = Medicine production
+| resource 1 = Cloth
+| resource 1 amount = 3
+| resource 2 = Herbal medicine
+| resource 2 amount = 1
+| resource 3 = Neutroamine
+| resource 3 amount = 1
+| bulk product amount = 4
+<!-- Technical -->
+| defName = MedicineIndustrial
+<!-- Unused -->
 | always haulable = true
-| def name = Medicine
-| description = Medical staff use these supplies to heal the wounded.
 | draw gui overlay = true
-| e type = Medicine
 | graphic class = Graphic_Single
 | graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
 | label = medicine
 | parent name = ResourceBase
-| path cost = 15
 | resource readout priority = Middle
-| rotatable = false
 | selectable = true
 | sound drop = Standard_Drop
 | sound interact = Standard_Drop
-| stack limit = 75
 | thing class = Medicine
-| use standard health = true
-| max health base = 100
 | use hit points = true
-| deterioration rate base = 1
-| flammability base = 1.0
-| market value base = 25
-| max hit points base = 100
-| medical potency base = 0.7
-|mass = 0.5
 }}
-</noinclude>
+'''Medicine''', also called '''industrial-tech medicine''' in the [[Health#Health tab|Health tab]], is an expendable item used in [[doctoring]].
+== Acquisition ==
+{{Acquisition}}
+Medicine can also be purchased from [[traders]] and looted from [[raider]]s.
+== Summary ==
+{{stub|reason=Tend speed}}
+Any form of medicine can be used whenever a [[doctoring|doctor]] tends to an [[injury]] or [[disease]]. In most cases, medicine does not directly cause healing. Instead, using medicine and better medicine will increase [[tend quality]], increasing the [[injury#Healing rate|rate of healing]] for injuries, or slowing down progression of a disease. For [[gut worms]] and [[muscle parasites]], tend quality is directly used to cure the disease.
+With a Medical Potency of 100%, medicine has a 100% multiplier on both tend quality and surgery success.
+Medicine does not spoil, but will [[deteriorate]] when left outside.
+===Experience===
+{{Medicine Experience Gain Table}}
+== Analysis ==
+Superior to [[herbal medicine]] but inferior to [[glitterworld medicine]].
+Industrial medicine is best used for [[disease]]s and [[surgery]], where Medical Potency has the greatest impact. A dose or two of medicine can save a colonist's life from the [[plague]]. So long as patients are constantly treated by a decent doctor, resting full-time, and well-fed, this medicine should be enough against any disease.
+It is generally misused for bruises, cuts, and other [[injuries]]. These are usually too common to waste high-quality medicine on; use herbal medicine or no medicine instead. But if a colonist is bleeding out rapidly, you may want to use better medicine for its increased tend speed and quality. Note that colonists are set to use the best quality medicine by default. In the [[assign]] tab, you can set colonists and other pawns to [[herbal medicine]] or worse. You can also alter this in a colonist's Health tab.
+Regular medicine is enough to reach the 98% [[surgery|surgery success chance cap]], under the right circumstances. A ''healthy'' doctor with Medical 8 can reach the surgery cap (for most surgeries) in a [[light|lit]], [[clean]] room, using a normal quality [[hospital bed]]. Without a hospital bed (or [[sterile tile]]), Medical 11 is required for the same thing. Note that many factors, such as a dirty room or a surgeon's damaged [[Manipulation]], will quickly lower your success rates.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Medicine industrial a.png|One medicine
+Medicine industrial b.png|Partial stack
+Medicine industrial c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
-{{TOCright}}<includeonly>{{Main Article | Medicine }}</includeonly>
+== Version history ==
-Medicine is used in [[doctoring]] to improve the results of medical treatment substantially compared to the organic [[herbal medicine]], but isn't as effective as [[glitterworld medicine]].
+* 1.0 - Received a new description.
+* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Added recipe for bulk medicine creation.
-In terms of Medicine's optimal use in regards to its medical potency: medicine is best used for treating diseases and infections; it's overkill for standard injuries (unless a pawn is bleeding out so rapidly that they'll bleed out even before herbal medicine treats the wounds), but also isn't good enough to reliably perform surgical operations - unless the doctor is bionic and is enhanced by potentially [[luciferium]] and [[go-juice]] in conjunction, or is a trauma savant. If you use ordinary medicine in surgical operations, you are generally going to be taking a somewhat significant risk, as you're less likely to succeed with ordinary medicine in Alpha 16 compared to if you were to use herbal medicine in Alpha 15.
+<gallery>
+Medicine industrial old 4.png|Fourth texture
+Medicine industrial old 3.png|Third texture
+Medicine industrial old 2.png|Second texture
+Medicine industrial old.png|First texture
+</gallery>
-Medicine can either be occasionally looted from pirate [[raider]]s, purchased from outlandish/orbital traders, or manufactured at a [[drug lab]] using herbal medicine, [[cloth]], and [[neutroamine]]. For the latter option, only people with at least 6 medicine ''and'' 3 crafting can produce medicine.
+[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Medicine]]
-</noinclude>