“It closes the body, not the fear.”
Antibiotics restore 55 health and nothing else. They don’t remove hunger or thirst and they don’t touch sanity either. They are a white box with half-erased text and a blister pack gnawed by damp, and the only remedy that raises health in one go.
How they are obtained
They are found in wall first-aid cabinets, metal boxes bolted mid-corridor that almost every wanderer learns to recognize by the red paint edge. They fall under the same scarcity distribution as the rest of the consumables, so there are few and almost never near another cabinet. If you see one open and empty, another survivor got there first.
Relation to the bandage
The bandage closes local wounds, by body zone, and antibiotics raise overall health. They complement each other, because the bandage stops the loss and the antibiotic recovers what was lost. To understand which zone is bleeding and why, see Wounds and Body Zones.
How they are used
- First stop the wound with the bandage. Then take the antibiotic, because the other way around you lose health while you recover.
- Keep them in your inventory within reach, not at the bottom of the backpack. When they are needed, there is no time to rummage.
- They weigh little. See Backpacks and Weight before deciding what to carry.
What they don’t do
They don’t touch sanity. For that, only Almond Water exists.
What is said
- It is said that some first-aid cabinets only appear in corridor stretches that the Displacement has just placed.