Infection Is Random and Quicker

This mod makes infections much more deadly by taking less time to reach 100%, and being randomly rolled each time you get infected.

The vanilla game (in a19) takes approx 7 hours [real time] for an untreated infection to reach 100%.

This mod changes that to 3 hours (max allowed real time) and adds an element of randomness so each time you get infected so you may have a chance of having less time to treat the infection.

The odds of “time left” [real time, not game time] once you are infected, are currently:

% Chance – Time [real time, not game time] to 100% infection if untreated

• %15 – 3 hours
• %20 – 2 hours
• %25 – 1.5 hours
• %25 – 1 hour
• %10 – 45 minutes
• %5 – 30 minutes

Why?

• Increase game difficulty.
• More immersion. You never know how badly you are infected until you are scratched 🙂 Maybe it was a deep scratch, maybe it was a mutant strain, who knows.
• More incentive to not get touched by zombies.
• More incentive to not ignore infections. You may have to carry antibiotics at all times, or run back to your base/trader/other players immediately to get some.
• An untreated infection during a horde night or early game where you cannot loot or barter/trade can easily prove fatal.

Bug Hunters/Fixers

• 👏: IronSharkInc: 21.2-b37.21.0.0.1. Pull request to make buff code better, roll 1x for rand infection value. Done in 21.2-b37.21.0.1.0
• 👏: ate0ate: a20.0-b238.1.0.0. Discovered infection cure % of items was not accurate. Fixed in a20.0-b238.1.0.1

Changelog

• (new) Merged Github pull request by 👋IronSharkInc for refactor to “Ailment: Infection Is Random And Quicker”. Mod is more efficient in how it works (less random rolling), and also should work more as advertised with respect to infection percent chances as Doughphunghus never knew much about storing variables in buffs so he didn’t do that with the original version.
• Updated for A21.
• Conversion to a20.
• Fixed invalid XML formatting.

Alpha 21 Version
DOWNLOAD for A21 (9 KB)
Alpha 20 Version
DOWNLOAD for A20 (9 KB)

The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: Doughphunghus