Scaria

Scaria is a disease that causes afflicted animals to be permanently manhunter, and afflicted humans permanently berserk. If not treated, it kills the victim in five days.

Upon death, pawns with scaria have a chance of instantly rotting, preventing any butchering products from being obtained. This chance is dependent on difficulty.

The pawn's mental break will be suppressed if it is downed, but resumes if they regain movement.

Occurrence[edit]

Ordinarily, it may be introduced to the map only on by a manhunter pack event or quest, and will not infect your tamed animals by event. In scarlands half of wild animals will enter the map with scaria.

A wound inflicted by scaria animals^{[Detail needed]} may develop a scaria infection. A scaria infection has the same immunization properties as infection, but increases mental break threshold in addition to pain, and causes scaria instead of death.

Treatment[edit]

Scaria infections may be treated in the same manner as an ordinary infection. If this fails, the infection will be replaced by scaria.

On a downed pawn, scaria can be treated with an operation requiring both:

3 medicine of industrial quality or better; and
A doctor with a medical skill of 8 or higher.

Analysis[edit]

Scaria was added to balance out manhunter packs, from being a huge wealth boost from the corpse butchering. Now most of the manhunter animals end up as useless rotten corpses.

Financially, it is almost never worth it to cure an animal's scaria, with the exception of Thrumbos or any other high value animals. In that case, if the manhunter Thrumbo is downed, curing the scaria then slaughtering it guarantees a useful corpse for butchering.

In addition to the risk of wound infections, pawns engaged in melee with scaria manhunters will be exposed to corpse gas from instant rot, which will cause lung rot very rapidly. Detoxifier lungs will defend against this danger.

The same techniques that defend against normal wound infections also apply to scaria infection. If beating the infection is in doubt, the pawn should be disarmed before the disease drives them berserk. Afterwards, treatment may be applied if the requirements are available and the victim is unable to walk.