Staying alive and strong in Survival: Fountain of Youth is much more challenging than just starting a fire and crafting items. You’ll have to protect yourself against all types of diseases while in the wilderness. Thankfully, there are ways to cure yourself. We have everything you need to know right here.
How to Cure All Diseases in Survival: Fountain of Youth
You can catch diseases from the weather conditions, animals, or eating the wrong food or water in Survival: Fountain of Youth. If you gain a disease, it’ll pop up on the top left side of the screen.
To view the details of the disease, press C to bring up your Statuses menu. Then, hover over the disease to see what it is and how it will affect you. Certain diseases, if not cured right away, can progressively get worse to the point where they will start to drain your health. These are the types of diseases you can get it:
- Sunburn: Caused by being in the sun for too long.
- Flu – Caused by exposure to cold or rainy weather or in water for too long.
- Wounds – Caused by crafting injuries, falling from heights, or animal attacks.
- Fever – Caused by exposure to poor weather conditions for too long.
- Food Poisoning – Caused by eating raw food or dirty water.
- Malaria – Caused by specific insects and animals.
- Overheating – Caused by being in the sun for too long.
- Poisoning – Caused by specific animals or edibles.
If left unattended, the diseases can progressively get worse and become life-threatening. To prevent that from happening, you’ll want to make some medicine. You can make several types of medicine to help with these various diseases.
Most medicines can be crafted on any Campfire. However, some more advanced medicines will require better crafting stations like the Chemistry Table. First, you must ignite the fire and switch to the Crafting tab. Here, you’ll have options for cooking food and preparing medicines. However, you’ll also need the proper ingredients to make the medicines.
How to Make All Medicines
Here’s a look at all the medicines, what they do for you, and how to make them:
| Medicine | Ingredients | Cures |
|---|---|---|
| Bandage with Redgum | Wide Leaf Eucalyptus Leaves | Restores 13 Health in 2 Hours |
| Coral Powder | Purple Coral Boiled Dorado Fin | Restores 36 Health in 4 Hours |
| Medical Kit | Fish Bone Needle Animal Tendons Alcohol | Restores 65 Health in 4 Hours |
| Steamed Leaf Bandage | Wide Leaf Narrow Leaves | Treats all kinds of Wounds |
| Processed Scorpion Venom | Scorpion Carcass Wide Leaf | Treats all kinds of Poisoning |
| Hibiscus Petals | Hibiscus Flowers Wide Leaf | Treats all kinds of Flu |
| Tobacco Compress | Tobacco Leaves Wide Leaf | Treats all kinds of Burns |
| Treated Formic Acid | Handful of Termites Wide Leaf | Treats all kinds of Overheating |
| Chamomile Juice | Chamomile Flowers Wide Leaf | Treats all kinds of Indigestion/Food Poisoning |
| Clay and Egg Ointment | Clay Strip Bird of Paradise Flower Egg | Treats all kinds of Wounds and Burns |
| Bark Concoction | Tree Bark Clean Water Sea Salt | Treats all kinds of Malaria |
| Bat Ointment | Bat Wide Leaf | Fights wind and wind chill |
| Crushed Sage | Sage Flowers Wide Leaf | Treats Fever |
| Chamomile and Sage Broth | Chamomile Flowers Sage Flowers Hibiscus Flowers Alcohol | Cures Fever |
| Powder from Snakes and Spiders | Dried Snake Tails Spider Carcass Sea Salt | Treats all kinds of Poisoning and Indigestion Gives temporary protection against pests |
| Sweating Potion | Cannonball Fruit Pineapple Alcohol | Treats all kinds of Flu and Overheating |
| Aloe and Bark Ointment | Bark Concoction Aloe Leaf Alcohol | Treats Malaria Gives temporary protection against pests |
| Algae Ointment | Algae Ointment Recipe | Scares away pests |
| Healing Ointment | Pepper | Fights cold and frost chill |
| Resin Ointment | Resin | Treats all kinds of Indigestion, Burns, Wounds, and Flu |
| Pinole | Pinole Recipe | Gain temporary increased weight carrying limit |
| Diligence Potion | Diligence Potion Recipe | Temporarily reduces time for processes |
| Antiseptic | Unlock Medicine Skill Effect | Treats all types of disease |
| Buffalo Potion | Unlock Alchemistry – Rank I | Heals all diseases and restore max health |
| Snake Potion | Unlock Alchemistry – Rank II | Temporarily disables food, water, and energy consumption |
| Puma Potion | Unlock Alchemistry – Rank III | Temporarily gives unlimited stamina |
| Bird Potion | Unlock Alchemistry – Rank IV | Temporarily gives unlimited concentration mode |
Most medicines will treat your disease from one to stages of progression. If the disease has progressed to a very severe case, you may need more than one dose of medicine to cure it. Along with treating the disease, medicine will also prevent disease progression for a few hours and heal you up to five points of health or more over time.
Other Ways to Prevent Disease
Besides using medicine, there are a few other methods you can use to treat diseases as well. Sleeping and eating foods. Each time you sleep, you can restore some health and help prevent disease progression, as long as you have decent sleeping arrangements. Sleeping on the ground won’t help you as much as sleeping in a comfortable bed with a roof over your head. Along with sleeping, eating food restores health, and specific foods like broth can treat some diseases.
Besides sleeping and eating, you’ll also want to wear some protective gear. Wearing clothes on your head, chest, legs, and feet protects against the elements, and depending on what materials they are made out of, can also protect against animal attacks.
Stay well rested and fed, and wear proper gear to protect against any diseases you can catch on the island.
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Published: May 21, 2024 08:03 am