Talk:Wound

Old paragraph: Medium, bad, and severe wounds will need treatment.

Additional information: Bandaged medium wounds heal on their own again but very slow and maybe only below 25%, need further investigation.

Yes, bandaged medium wounds heal on their own; bandaging is one of the treatment methods. A bandage will heal about 1% health every 10 minute healing tick. On a well fed wurmian, medium wounds are stable, they neither worsen or get better. We hear of medium wounds worsening, but it always seems to be on players who might have fasted a lot or can't explain the details. If medium wounds above 25% are somehow special, this should show up in tests and should be reproducible. If medium wounds over 25% are stable; if they don't worsen; if it can't be reproduced, then it is merely an unfounded rumor and doesn't need to be in the wiki. Or needs to be labeled as such in the wiki. Urman 17:47, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

The values for damage caused by the wounds given in this article are horribly out of date and inconsistent with other articles. I do not have enough data to edit the page so it can be used, but so far dam/3-6 seems to give an accurate value for the leak-through from natural healing. Requesting that if anyone has data to add that they do so. --Icedblood 15:14, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Randomly Worsening Open Wounds_Infected Edges

By Dirk, 11/8/22

1) Infected Edges: Hole and Cut type wounds, possibly others, will randomly become worse with no event log indication. Examination will say something about the edges of the wound. I discovered this while skilling with a wound stabalized by a healing cover; all of a sudden the wound was getting worse. I "mined" data from my event logs for the past 2 months and found 3 different versions of this wound condition and about 8 separate infection events.

2) Known Infected Edges Types:

"You see a straight-through gaping hole with faintly miscolored edges at the chest. The wound is worsening (-1)."

"You see a straight-through gaping hole with faintly miscolored edges at the chest. The wound is worsening (-2)."

"You see a straight-through gaping hole with worryingly deep red edges at the chest. The wound is worsening (-2)."

2) Types of Wounds and Data Collection: Currently, data exists only for "hole" wounds at the chest as those are the fastest to get using thornbushes. A person I know has seen them for cuts as well. All wounds were between 49 and 60 damage as this is the size I've been using for skilling. Wounds are initially stabalized by 6 potency healing cover w/o bandaging. All infected edges events were observed while skilling, and appear to be random.

3) Duration of Infected Edges Condition: Infected Edges last between a few minutes and a few hours real life. The longest continuously infected edges wound was about 23 real life hours (8 hours logged in). Note these times are when I just happened to noticed it and examine. Once you get the infection, the duration and whether it gets better or worse seems to be random, most of the infections I observed only got better. The time between when you get the original wound and when an Infected Edges starts also appears to be random; I've gotten them 10 mins after getting a wound and after several hours.

4) The Infected Edges Change Over Time: The Infected Edges condition will also change between -1 and -2 (gets worse and/or better).

Here's one example of an infected edges timeline. Note this was both the longest and most varried event I've recorded:

-Original wound obtained: 9pm Day 1 (10/31/22)

-Infection started: Day 2 11 pm, after 4.5 hours in game with the original wound. Inspection showed: "worringly deep red edges (-2)"

-8 minutes later: "faintly miscolored edges (-2)"

-9 minutes later: "faintly miscolored edges (-1)"

-The next morning (Day 3) at 9am (11/2) it was still "faintly miscolored edges (-1)"

-At 3pm Day 3 it was back to "worringly deep red edges (-2)"

-6 minutes later it was "faintly miscolored "-1)"

-By 9p it was still "faintly miscolored "(-1)" (total time infected in-game: 8 hours)

-After that I didn't examine the wound again and my toon died at 2am the next morning (Day 4, 5 hrs later) while I as afk.

5) Curing It: In most cases observed, the infection gones away on it's own. It is removed if you sacrafice a rare item or upon death. It's not known whether applying a bandage will cure the condition. Using a Life Transfer (LT) weapon will lower the damage of the wound but the condition will remain until the wound is completely healed.

6) Speculation: It seems like there should be a "-3" or higher level of this condition based on the names "faintly miscolored" and "worringly red edges". "Worringly" suggests there is a worse version that hasn't been seen yet.