Casualties Unknown Injuries and Medical Guide: Treating Bleeding, Dislocations, and Infections
Mastering wound treatment, shrapnel extraction, joint realignment, and antiseptic hygiene is essential for surviving physical trauma in Casualties: Unknown.
Bleeding Wounds and Crafting Dressings
Opening the medical panel reveals teardrop icons over injured limbs showing active hemorrhage. To prepare medical supplies, open the crafting menu by pressing C and gather three foliage from nearby cave flora to weave one canvas, which then yields ripped dressings. Combining two ripped pieces creates a full dressing. Dragging the dressing over a bleeding limb triggers a wrapping mini-game where spinning the cloth around the limb eliminates the teardrop indicator. When managing multiple cuts, alternating applications between wounds stabilizes them faster. A small white droplet indicates a stabilized wound that can wait, but yellow blood icons require immediate wrapping before blood loss turns critical.
Extracting Shrapnel and Resetting Dislocations
Shattering glass observation windows on pods litters surrounding terrain with dangerous shards that pierce limbs as shrapnel — see our dedicated guide on how to remove shrapnel for the surgical mini-game. Selecting the remove shrapnel option above the rubble icon opens an extraction interface where players manually click and drag embedded shards outward. Moving steadily prevents aggravating tissue damage, though crafting tweezers is optional rather than required. Once glass pieces are pulled free, wrap the exposed puncture to seal lingering bleeds, and shatter leftover debris blocks to avoid repeated punctures. Severe impacts and long drops can also trigger joint dislocation, displayed as a bone icon surrounded by vibration marks. Clicking fix dislocation initiates a manual alignment task where timing hits with swing momentum forces the joint back into alignment. Ignoring a dislocated joint prevents normal physical function until the bone is reset.
Hygiene, Disinfectants, and Curing Infection
Open skin lacerations readily harbor dangerous microbes, making post-trauma infection one of the most fatal threats in deep cave layers. Bodily dirt sharply accelerates how rapidly an infection festers — resting safely without spreading bacteria is covered in our food and sleep guide. Players can wash off grime by submerging inside cavern water pools, holding X to ragdoll across shallow puddles until dirt clouds cease rising from the body. Disinfecting wounds requires applying glow fruit gathered from luminous cave plants directly onto infected parts within the medical menu, though raw fruit slightly degrades local skin health. For lasting protection, combine 400 ml of boiled soap with a clean dressing to craft a sterilized dressing. This item provides durable antiseptic coverage that suppresses bacterial spread and reverses active infection before systemic sepsis sets in. While surface cuts and dislocated bones can be field-dressed, deep thoracic hemorrhages require chest drains as explained in our internal bleeding guide.
