It's often a struggle to survive the harsh environments found in 7 Days To Die, with so many different ways to injure yourself, become ill from infection, and get sick from consuming bad food. Here will guide you through the most efficient ways to heal yourself from cuts, sprains, and various ailments.

Infections

It's easy to become infected in 7 Days to Die, and it's even harder to cure yourself early in the game. The longer you stay infected, the harder it gets to heal. So watch your infection meter on the far-left of your HUD.

You can cure it with honey if the infection is under 5%. Honey is scavenged by harvesting tree stumps. (You can double up on honey. Two honey will cure up to 10% infection.)

Beyond 5-10%, your best options are antibiotics and herbal antibiotics. Regular antibiotics will cure 25% infection per dose, and herbal antibiotics will cure up to 10% per dose. These can be randomly looted in the world, purchased from traders, but only the herbal antibiotics can be crafted.

Sprains and breaks

Sprains and breaks are common injuries in 7 Days to Die. A sprained leg or knee will reduce your health and majorly slow you down, and a broken arm or leg will also reduce your health and speed even further. Each sprain will have a timer for how long you're affected by the injury.

It's also important to note that you shouldn't sprint or jump while suffering from a sprain because it will increase the amount of time you're suffering. So, only run around if you're in immediate danger.

Painkillers will help for a sprain, and these are easily found through normal looting. Broken bones can only be helped with splints and casts, but these are much rarer and only craftable with the Physician skill. To get this crafting ability, you need to first put two points into the Intellect attribute to unlock the Physician skill, and then spend the one point needed to purchase it.

Fatigue

Fatigue doesn't sound as awful as most of the other injuries or ailments in the game, but the impact of the effects can be costly. Fatigue is a negative stat that lasts for two hours, and it reduces your health by 20% and increases the damage you take from enemies by 10%.

The only way to cure this is with vitamins. Vitamins are found by random looting or sold by a trader. A bonus to taking vitamins is that you'll get a temporary resistance to disease, meaning you can drink murky water or old Sham sandwiches you found without worry of sickness.

Bleeding out

There are many ways to bleed out in 7 Days to Die. Getting attacked by a zombie, a vulture, or even the unfortunate mishap of accidentally bumping into your own spike traps.

Bleeding can be stopped with a standard bandage. These are easy to craft, but you won't get any health back. To stop the bleeding and regain lost health, you'll need to use either a first aid bandage or med kit.

Lacerations

A laceration is a deep wound that can only be mended by a med kit or a sewing kit. Sewing kits are also used for crafting armor, but you might want to keep a few on hand in case you get this type of injury.

Concussion

A concussion can often happen from a bad scuffle with zombies, and it may seem like you can carry on as normal with your adventure, but it lasts for two hours with a whopping 25% decrease to your health and all your player's attributes are lowered by one point.

This injury can be healed by painkillers, and these are found through normal looting.

Dysentery

If your HUD shows the--for want of a better term--orange pooping butt icon, then you're suffering from dysentery. This comes from drinking murky water you haven't boiled or from eating old food you found like Sham sandwiches.

The negative effect here is that your character has diarrhea, and it will reduce your fullness and hydration levels. There's only one way to cure Dysentery, but thankfully it's fairly easy to do. You need to boil some water and collect Goldenrod, which is the yellow flower commonly found in the world. This lets you craft Goldenrod Tea to cure this ailment.

Abrasions

Abrasions can be healed with aloe cream, which is made from the aloe plant. Aloe can be scavenged in the desert biome, grown on a farm plot, and found as random loot.

First aid bandages can also be used, and these will be best if you're low on health. These will provide additional health, while the aloe will not.

Here we also provide some 7 Days To Die 1.0 tips for beginners just getting started on console on PC. For more in depth tips, we guide you on how to find mechanical parts, how to get a set of wheels, and even how to respec your skills.