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.

Fourth texture
Third texture
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First texture

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-<noinclude>
+{{Infobox main|medicine
-<!--Top Nav Box-->
+| name = Medicine
-{| align=center
+| image = Medicine industrial a.png
-! {{MainSection_Nav}}
+| 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 -->
-{| align=center
+| type = Medical Items
-| {{Resources_Nav}}
+| type2 = Medicine
-|}
+| tech level = Industrial
-<hr>
+| hp = 60
-<!-- End of Nav -->
+| deterioration = 2
-</noinclude>
+| 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
+| draw gui overlay = true
+| graphic class = Graphic_Single
+| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
+| label = medicine
+| parent name = ResourceBase
+| resource readout priority = Middle
+| selectable = true
+| sound drop = Standard_Drop
+| sound interact = Standard_Drop
+| thing class = Medicine
+| use hit points = true
+}}
+'''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}}
-{{TOCright}}<includeonly>{{Main Article | Medicine }}</includeonly>
+== Analysis ==
-'''Medicine''' is used to improve outcomes when healing colonists, is required to remove or install body parts and their replacements and to build hospital beds.
+Superior to [[herbal medicine]] but inferior to [[glitterworld medicine]].
-Healing is done by colonists with [[doctoring]] enabled. The patient needs to have [[patient]] enabled and be in a bed. Medicine is not required, but will '''improve the chance of a good treatment''' drastically, allow for the '''healing of multiple small injuries in one go''' and '''double the amount of experience gained''' by the doctor.
+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.
-'''Good Treatment''' doubles a colonist's heal rate and reduces the chance of any lasting effect from an injury.
+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.
-As doctoring greatly depends on both sight (70%) and manipulation (90%), having a doctor with bionic eyes and hands greatly improves the effectivity of your medicine.
+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.
-<noinclude>
+== Gallery ==
-== Resource Shortage ==
+<gallery>
-{{Resource| name        = No Medicine
+Medicine industrial a.png|One medicine
-| description = Sometimes resources are scarce and treatment has to go forward without any medicine. This pretty much guarantees a bad treatment quality from any but the most experienced and/or enhanced of doctors.
+Medicine industrial b.png|Partial stack
-| tags        =
+Medicine industrial c.png|Full stack
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 0.5 }}
+</gallery>
-}}
-== Growable Medicine ==
+== Version history ==
-{{Item
+* 1.0 - Received a new description.
-| name        = Herbal Medicine
+* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Added recipe for bulk medicine creation.
-| image       = Herbal_Medicine.png
-| description = ''Game Description Needed''
-| information = This is a cheaper type of medicine. You are able to farm this medicine by growing [[Xerigium]]. It seems to fill the same functions as the normal medkit with the exception of it not being as effective and does not have anesthetic properties during medical operations, such as installing prostethics. It also cannot be used as the crafting material needed to make the hospital beds.
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 0.85 }}
-}}
-== Imported Medicine ==
+<gallery>
-{{Item
+Medicine industrial old 4.png|Fourth texture
-| name        = Medikits
+Medicine industrial old 3.png|Third texture
-| image       = Medicine Icon.png
+Medicine industrial old 2.png|Second texture
-| description = ''Medical staff use these supplies to heal the wounded.''
+Medicine industrial old.png|First texture
-| information = Medikits can be [[trade|bought]] from traders or taken from raiders. Combat traders carry large quantities of them at a discount price to encourage violence and raise demand for their other goods.
+</gallery>
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 1.0 }}
-}}
-{{Item
+[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Medicine]]
-| name        = Glitterworld Medicine
-| image       = Glitterworld Medicine.png
-| description = ''Game Description Needed''
-| information = Glitterworld medicine can be [[trade|bought]] from traders. Each one comes with a copy of ''Doctoring for Dummies'', giving even colonists without any skill a high chance for a good treatment.
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 1.8 }}
-}}
-</noinclude>