I haven’t played in years and boy there is a lot of cool stuff now. I’m doing well, making stuff and reading up on so many guides to make my base.
But for some reason, my skin is itchy! It says my bowels ache and after some investigation I’ve concluded I need to hunt for anti parasitic drugs, but I can’t find anything on itchy skin. I’ve taken antibiotics once a day for four days now and it’s still there, so it isn’t an infected wound (though my immune system is probably amazing now).
No mutations, not albino, haven’t had a chance to find the antiparasitic drugs. It’s possible that the itching is parasitic but I’m not sure and I haven’t seen anything that would relate it to a parasite.
My character is very plain; she doesn’t have any mutations and her traits are rather tame. None that would cause itching at least.
Yeah, fair point! I’ll just itch like a crack addict and maybe it’ll cure itself. It doesn’t exactly inflict pain or it doesn’t seem to be giving any sort of status effects. Once I get the parasite out of my butt I think I’ll be solid.
If you fought a waspy-thing in the swamp recently (can’t think of the name right now), you might be harboring baby ones that will burst out of your flesh and do some damage. Yeah, ew. IIRC, you get some nausea for a while before that happens. I think that resolves it, though (can’t remember for sure - usually stay away from those guys, as they really aren’t worth messing with).
If you’ve eaten raw wild vegetables or meat, you may have a parasite.
Either way, you need anti-parasitic medication or the all-natural equivalent (mugwort oil, I think it is). And there’s no reason to take lots of antibiotics (or almost anything else in this game) - one dose takes care of the problem, generally. Taking fungicide (instead of anti-fungal medication) for a fungal problem has a chance to fail, but when it succeeds, you get a message that tells you so, so you can take it until success, then stop.
Only exception I can think of is vitamins - those give a benefit to health over time, so taking those daily does help.
Itchy veins, whoa. That doesn’t sound good at all. My advice is to take whatever drugs you have. That way, even if the drugs don’t fix the problem you’ll at least die happy.
Itchy veins? The bad news is you have parasites. Blood worms, specifically.
The good news is that you already knew you had parasites. So you still just need to get your hands on some antiparasitics, mugwort oil, or royal jelly. If you can find a Blood Filter CBM that will take care of your blood worm buddies, but not your tapeworm.
Jesus that was some rancid meat. I ate like two uncooked meats and now I’m 1/3 parasite. Managing hunger sucks because the parasites keep eating it now I got blood parasites? Yikes.
Where’s a good place to find antiparasitic drugs (and maybe mugwort)? I figure that’s better than hunting down mugwort and leveling up my survival skill. I looted a hospital and two pharmacies but I found nothing claiming to be antiparasitic. The hospital had lots of other wonderful things like a flu shot and enough disinfectant and antibiotics to cure an epidemic. But not one antiparasitic drug.
While I’m on the topic of being a newb and asking questions, where the heck are welding goggles usually found? I need those to get my death-mobile and my home fridge and all that set up.
Yeah, anti-parasitic is generally the rarest medication, in my experience - I usually find royal jelly more often, even (though I end up with more uses of anti-parasitic simply because it comes in stacks).
Seriously, hit an anthill, beehive, or lab for royal jelly - it’s a more dependable way to find something that will fix you.
(Levelling up survival and to make mugwort oil is the MOST dependable, but that does indeed take quite a while if you can’t find the right book.)
Ant hills have royal jelly is what they meant, as well. Royal jelly seems to be the cure-all for everything. Which I believe there’s actually a word for that. Panacea? I think?