# NPC Diseases & Reality Bubble
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [March 24, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228 "2015-03-24T09:50:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Pandromidal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pandromidal)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/1 "2015-03-24T09:50:35Z")
Build 30580ff
SDL
Windows 8.1
NPC Diseases don’t go away outside of the reality bubble.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/2 "2015-03-25T00:43:01Z")
More an Enhancement since you’re asking for time-checking outside the bubble (not always simple and can slow up processing), but sure, this is an issue.
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### Author:  [@Wally-kun](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wally-kun)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/3 "2015-03-26T20:55:16Z")
Are they smart enough to know to take specific medicines for specific ailments? Last I checked, NPC’s that sent you to fetch antibiotics would just stand there forever and eventually die of infection with the unopened bottle of pills still in their hand.
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### Author:  [@Pandromidal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pandromidal)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/4 "2015-03-26T21:09:44Z")
Sorry for being unclear. I mean diseases of the form “asked to \_\_\_\_.” If you are outside of the reality bubble (such as on another z level) when you come back several days later npcs will insist that you just asked them to train and tell you to give it a while. The result is I end up treating my sleeping location as a resource that I need to allocate near the npc I want to train from / be friends with etc.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/5 "2015-03-30T02:23:14Z")
> [@Pandromidal](#):
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> Sorry for being unclear. I mean diseases of the form “asked to \_\_\_\_.” If you are outside of the reality bubble (such as on another z level) when you come back several days later npcs will insist that you just asked them to train and tell you to give it a while. The result is I end up treating my sleeping location as a resource that I need to allocate near the npc I want to train from / be friends with etc.
Yeah, I wondered about that for a second but realized that it wouldn’t make much difference whether it was a “real” disease or just a status-tracker one. Problem remains that the NPC needs updated for out-of-bubble time.
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/npc-diseases-reality-bubble/9228/6 "2015-03-30T04:31:16Z")
> [@Wally-kun](#):
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> Are they smart enough to know to take specific medicines for specific ailments? Last I checked, NPC’s that sent you to fetch antibiotics would just stand there forever and eventually die of infection with the unopened bottle of pills still in their hand.
They have some hard-coded items they use. Not a lot and the list is outdated.