Wombat Get Infected

GET INFECTED One scratch is all it takes. In vanilla DayZ the infected can only make you bleed. With Wombat Get Infected they carry a real infection - and you can catch it three ways: from their claws, from the air around them, or from the bodies you loot. Once it's in your blood it gets worse over about an hour: fever, staggering, your vision turning green. A blood test or a thermometer can tell you how bad it is. If you don't find a cure it kills you - and then you get back up as one of them. How You Catch It 1. A fresh cut 5% per cut - every time an infected opens a new bleeding wound on you, there's a 5% chance it infects you. Hits that don't make you bleed are safe. Your clothes protect you - the cut only counts on an exposed body part: nothing worn there, or the clothing there is ruined. Intact headgear or mask, jacket, gloves, pants or boots on the hit part keep you safe. (Server admins can switch this off so any cut can infect.) 2. Breathing it in Don't hang around them - every second within arm's reach (1.5m) of an infected, alive or dead, fills a hidden exposure counter. Five minutes next to one infected and you're infected. A crowd fills it faster - three infected around you means three times as fast. Step away and it clears - away from infected the counter slowly drains, at half the speed it fills. You'll be warned - "Something smells wrong" at half way, "You feel sick" when it's close. Past half way you start to hear flies buzzing around you, louder and louder, and when it gets bad you start coughing - the closer you get, the more you cough. Cover your face - a bandana, balaclava, ski mask, shemagh, dust mask, surgical mask or face wrap slows it to 15%. A gas mask or NBC respirator stops it completely. Novelty masks (Payday, mime, hockey, Santa beard, crooked nose), a mouth rag or a ruined mask don't help. 3. Looting bodies bare-handed The longer you dig, the worse it gets - searching a dead infected bare-handed fills the exposure counter three times faster than standing next to one. Grab what you need and go. Wear gloves - any intact gloves protect you completely. Ruined gloves count as bare hands. 4. Other players From stage 1 an infected player spreads it too - weakly at first, as strong as an infected by stage 3. Standing near them counts like standing near an infected, and so does looting their body. You won't know straight away that you've caught it - unless you test your blood. How It Plays Out Incubation (0-10 min) - nothing. You feel fine. Stage 1 (10-25 min) - coughing, light pain, you get thirsty faster (1.5x) and tire a little sooner. Stage 2 (25-45 min) - the fever hits: fever blur, shaking hands, vomiting, heavy pain. You start to stagger: your view sways, your vision blurs and you walk with a limp. Your stamina shrinks and is slow to come back. You lose health steadily and it no longer regenerates. Water drains twice as fast. Stage 3 (45 min+) - blackouts and fast health loss until you die. You reel like a drunk - big sways, sudden lurches, heavy blur and a bad limp that everyone can see. You can barely run: less than half your stamina, and it barely recovers. Water drains three times as fast. Your vision turns green - once the fever hits (stage 2) the screen starts to tint green, reaching full strength at stage 3. No timer death - you die when your health runs out, not at a set time. The infection only progresses while you're online, and it survives logging out. Finding Out Blood test kit - test yourself or someone else. As well as the blood type it tells you POSITIVE or NEGATIVE, and how far along it is: early, moderate, advanced or critical. Accurate fro