Disease

WARNING!

• Players who are at max disease will begin taking humour damage from symptoms.
• Players who KO to a disease while it is max will Permanently die.
• Using the wrong cure will reduce the chances of you getting cured from the correct cure.

Diseases

There are four diseases you can catch in Salem either from a Rat, or from an infected dead or alive Pilgrim coughing nearby. These diseases are:

Diseases

Disease	Symptom Description	Cure
Big Pox	An imbalance of Yellow Bile, characterized by Coughing.	Pilgrims flinch and make a distinct coughing sound when symptom strikes.	Drinking Willowbark Tonic
Frontier Flux	An imbalance of Phlegm, characterized by Vomiting.	Pilgrims flinch and make a distinct puking sound when symptom strikes.	Columbine Paste
Land Legs	An imbalance of Black Bile, characterized by Dizziness.	Pilgrims flinch without making a sound when symptom strikes.	Sniffing Smelling Salts
Maroon Fever	An imbalance of Blood, characterized by a Headache.	Pilgrims flinch and make a moaning sound when symptom strikes.	Applying a Leech to the Torso and letting it drain Blood.

Caution! Using the wrong cure in an attempt to cure a Diseases makes it harder for for the correct cure to work.

Disease can also be contracted from the Cozy Blanket, a 'gift' from the developers, one to each player. They are sometimes gifted to unsuspecting newbies.

NOTE: Players may not be allowed to enter the Providence Church if they have a disease.

Diagnosis

[1] This video can help you identify your symptoms.

All four diseases will exhibit all four symptoms randomly, but one symptom will be more common than the others.

In the beginning, it is difficult to tell which disease has actually been contracted. As time passes, the disease will become more and more serious, the symptoms occurring more frequently. The worse the disease gets, though, the easier it is to figure out which symptom is the most common and therefore find the correct cure.

Be careful however as taking the wrong medicine will lower the chance of the right medicine curing the disease! Keep in mind though that it can take more than one dose to actually cure a disease even if no incorrect medicine have been taken beforehand. Once the disease bar is full, you will be dealt permanent humour damage and once a humour reaches 0, you permanently die.

Prevention

It is possible to avoid infection in most cases and not have to worry about curing Disease. Rat bites can cause disease, but as rats only live in the Darkness and Twilight, they can be easily avoided by most players.

The Plague Doctor's Masque and the Miasma Masque can greatly reduce risk of infection from other Pilgrims. Only the Coughing symptom is contagious and the masks filter out the bad air.

Drinking Berry Juice will also provide immunity for a period of time.

Those who are infected can equip a Silk Hanky in their hand to avoid infecting others.