Most diseases will disappear after a certain number of days and will thus require treatment from a Doctor simply to stave off more severe stages of the disease and eventual death. This role relies on their Medical skill, so make sure that the best pawns for the job are assigned higher priorities for it. There, they will be treated by pawns who are able to assume the role of Doctor. When a pawn is unwell, they can be taken to a bed designated a Hospital Bed to rest. Once a pawn's immunity to a disease reaches 100 percent, the disease's severity will start ticking down to zero at which point it will disappear.

This can be bolstered with medicine to help a pawn survive less fatal diseases and get better quicker, but with low base immunity gain rates, you will need specific tools and medicines to treat them. One thing to know about treating diseases is that every pawn has a statistic known as the ' base immunity gain rate' which signifies their natural ability to deal with diseases. Improved manipulation, improved sight, improved hearing, improved talking, pain Reduced manipulation, reduced movement, pain Improved manipulation, improved movement, improved blood pumping, pain Reduced breathing, loss of consciousness, vomiting Reduced breathing, loss of consciousness, pain Medicine, Surgery (Medical skill of 5+ required) Reduced blood filtration, reduced blood pumping, vomiting Then again, some of them can actually be beneficial! Non-fatal diseases are largely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things but they can severely hamper a colonist's output. A disease being fatal doesn't necessarily mean that contracting it is a death sentence, but those that do end up with it will require treatment. Diseases in RimWorld can largely be broken down into two different categories: fatal and non-fatal.

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