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[TheFreshPrince]

His head, liver, body and tail were red after his last battle. They seem to have healed though, the body liver and tail are now yellow (tail and body described as having massive scars in his description screen, no other injuries reported there), and the head is like a faded brown color.

Have these wounds healed essentially? Will any of them make him a weaker combatant or bring him closer to death?

How are creature wounds/healing handled in general?

Really interesting in how this all works, your detailed responses would be greatly appreciated.

[Jacob/Lee]

Red body parts have suffered massive structural damage and function loss (for example: a sword rammed into the chest once or twice). Yellow wounds are minor damage and some function loss but they're still mostly okay (scratches from weaker animals; glancing blows from cheap weapons/unskilled soldiers). In general, all wounds will eventually heal except damage to the nervous system, nails, and missing parts (except if the person turns into a werecreature and back).

The wiki has an article on wounds and on dwarven healthcare. Do note that healing pets is currently impossible aside from their natural recovery.

As for your pet snake: General skull damage doesn't do anything to a creature unless it brains and kills them. Livers currently have no function at all. The red body parts, however, may put him at a disadvantage until they heal. I've honestly never observed snakes enough to see how body damage affects them, but he should be good to fight again after a while.

[TheFreshPrince]

Great thank you, what about war dogs? Are they generally good to keep fighting unless they lose a limb? Their red wounds seem to heal to yellow and sometimes better than that over time as well, not sure if they have suffered any serious drop in combat effectiveness when that happens though.

[TheFreshPrince]

Red body parts have suffered massive structural damage and function loss (for example: a sword rammed into the chest once or twice). Yellow wounds are minor damage and some function loss but they're still mostly okay (scratches from weaker animals; glancing blows from cheap weapons/unskilled soldiers). In general, all wounds will eventually heal except damage to the nervous system, nails, and missing parts (except if the person turns into a werecreature and back).

The wiki has an article on wounds and on dwarven healthcare. Do note that healing pets is currently impossible aside from their natural recovery.

As for your pet snake: General skull damage doesn't do anything to a creature unless it brains and kills them. Livers currently have no function at all. The red body parts, however, may put him at a disadvantage until they heal. I've honestly never observed snakes enough to see how body damage affects them, but he should be good to fight again after a while.

Also, so a yellow body part on a creature is generally still combat effective, and always will be until it turns red?

[Jacob/Lee]

Also, so a yellow body part is generally still combat effective, and always will be until it turns red?

Yes. Red is when there's a good chance that nerves were severed or there's massive amounts of blood pouring out, while yellow is just a bit scratched up or bruised.

Dogs are definitely useful, but it drops off hard at a certain point. They can kill some of the more common and less horribly dangerous animals you'll find in the wild, but they tend to do nothing but waste the time of a soldier from a sentient race, like goblins. Bites simply glance off metal armor in nearly every case and even textile clothing has a noticeable degree of protection from bites.

They're mostly good for distracting an opponent so the dwarf they're assigned to can flee. A dog missing a leg can perform this task to some extent, but a crawling dog is a good deal slower than a walking one. Dogs missing limbs have exactly two options: Send them back out to fight or send them to the butcher's shop. I would personally leave them fighting.

Also: On the top right of your post, there's the "modify" button. This can be used to change your post's content and avoid doubleposting.

[TheFreshPrince]

So if a red wound on a creature or whatever heals to yellow, it means nothing vital was damaged to the point that it wasn't able to heal, save for some scarring, correct?

[Jacob/Lee]

So if a red wound on a creature or whatever heals to yellow, it means nothing vital was damaged to the point that it wasn't able to heal, save for some scarring, correct?

Scarring won't show up on the health screen of the creature. If it heals to yellow and then stops, the limb is slightly impaired (such as only a few nerves being severed, without losing total function of the part). It'll still work, just with minor loss of function. For example, a yellow hand wound makes it easier to force items out of that hand with wrestling/struggling over a lodged weapon.

[TheFreshPrince]

So if the part (like on my snake) keeps suffering further damage, say, more nerves getting severed, eventually the part will lose all functionality and stay red?
Each severed nerve is tracked forever I assume correct? Do Severed nerves heal? Or is it just layers of fat and such that can fully heal?

[Jacob/Lee]

So if the part (like on my snake) keeps suffering further damage, say, more nerves getting severed, eventually the part will lose all functionality and stay red?
Each sever nerve is tracked forever I assume correct? Do Severed nerves heal? Or is it just layers of fat and such that can fully heal?

Red is the color of "there are holes all over the place/the part is now mush." When all the flesh wounds heal, it'll go back to yellow, but still be useless. Severed nerves don't heal in the vanilla game (aside from werebeast transformations, as said earlier, but only sentient creatures can go through those) and will remain with the creature until their death, along with nails, horns, and other minor parts. All other wounds will heal, given enough time.

[TheFreshPrince]

Awesome. thanks so much guys, extremely helpful