Summary
Health and Disease mod is a modification to Minecraft that adds 39 new medicine and treatment items, 15 new diseases, 17 new symptoms, 5 chronic conditions and 4 other various illnesses. It also contains 6 blocks to aid the player in treating and diagnosing diseases.
This mod tries to accurately depict diseases in Minecraft, however, not all diseases are 100% accurate thus far. Improving the accuracy of these diseases will come with new updates.
Short Guide
Contracting Diseases
Diseases are spread in a variety of different ways, however, most conditions arise when the player goes to bed. The most common diseases range between 1/100 days to 1/200 days, and some diseases are as rare as 1/1000 days. Other diseases such as Lyssavirus and Leishmaniasis occur in specific conditions. Lyssavirus can only be caught by getting bitten by an infected wolf, where 1/10 wolves spawn with this condition. You can spot these infected wolves because they always have red eyes, and will attempt to attack the nearest player with 20 blocks. Once bitten by an infected wolf you will contract Lyssavirus. On the other hand, Leishmaniasis has a 1/300,000 chance of spawning, in every game tick in which the player is in a jungle (Jungle, Bamboo Jungle and Sparse Jungle).
Disease Symptoms and Early Warnings
Most diseases have some early warning symptoms, such as tiredness or malaise, these conditions usually come before an infection has fully started. Once a disease has taken hold, you will get a variety of different symptoms that do not seem to run out. These symptoms can range from lesions to fever, to a sore throat, and all of them together can be an indicator as to what disease you may have. For example, lesions only spawn when the player has a bacterial infection such as MSSA, Septicemia, MRSA, and Bacterial Meningitis, as well as Leishmaniasis. A sore neck is another early warning symptom that can indicate that you have either Meningitis or Lyssavirus.
Treatment
Almost all diseases can be treated and cured effectively in this mod, however, some diseases have a slight mortality risk even if treatment is pursued, such as Meningitis, Lyssavirus and Cancer. While treatment can slow down and prevent death from cancer and meningitis, lyssavirus is completely untreatable when symptoms start showing up. To treat Lyssavirus, you have to use the Lyssavirus vaccine after you are bitten by an infected wolf, and before you get symptoms.
Diseases are broken up into 4 main parts, Bacterial, Viral, Chronic, and Miscellaneous. Treatments are the same, medicines are broken up into 4 main parts, Antibiotic, Antiviral, Palliative, and Symptom medicine. Where Antibiotic medicine helps defeat bacterial infections, and antiviral medicine for viral infections, medicine for palliative care is different. Palliative care medicines include Acetaminophen, and Aspirin, as they reduce pain and other symptoms, but can help increase the quality of life of the player. Symptom care medicines are specialised medicines designed to handle a specific symptom, for example, Modafinil treats tiredness specifically.
Prevention
Disease Prevention is also a possibility, as vaccines prevent the player from even catching a disease in the first place. There are currently 3 different vaccines for 3 different diseases, Influenza, COVID-19 and Lyssavirus. These vaccines prevent the player from catching the targeted disease. The lyssavirus vaccine can also work after the player has caught the disease, but only when there are no symptoms.
Full documentation can be accessed via the link below
DOCUMENTATION WILL BE REDONE FOR 1.0.0
Plans for future updates
The plan for the 1.0 update of the mod has changed, 0.19.0 will act as part 1 of 3 of the full release. 0.19.0 will be out shortly.
Disease list
- Common Cold
- Influenza A
- MSSA
- Septicemia
- MRSA
- Rhinovirus
- Adenovirus
- Swine Flu
- Stomach Flu
- Viral Meningitis
- Bacterial Meningitis/Meningococcal
- Avian Flu
- Covid-19
- Lyssavirus
- Leishmaniasis
Chronic Conditions (Long term diseases)
- CFS
- Hypochondria (Somatic Symptom Disorder)
- Immunodeficiency
- Heart Disease
Cancers
- Adenocarcinoma (Lung Cancer)
- Astrocytoma (Mild Brain Cancer)
- Glioblastoma (Aggressive Brain Cancer)
- Leukemia (Blood Cancer)
- Melanoma (Skin Cancer)
- Sarcoma (Aggressive soft tissue Cancer)
Misc Illnesses
- Heart Attack
- Cardiac Arrest
- Broken Arm/Leg/Foot
- Overdose
Treatment List
- Anti-Fever
- Bismuth Subsalicylate
- Modafinil
- Umifenovir
- Augmentin
- Amoxicillin
- Xofluza
- Ciprofloxacin
- Cytoxan
- Vancomycin
- Doxycycline
- Ensitrelvir
- Ampligen
- Ritonavir
- Amphotericin B
- Doxorubicin
- Cephalexin
- Moroxydine
- Warfarin
- Acetaminophen
- Ibuprofen
- Morphine
- Aspirin
- Fentanyl
- Epinephrine Injection
- Influenza A Vaccine
- Covid-19 Vaccine
- Lussavirus Vaccine
- Narcan
- Cidofovir
- Ganciclovir
- Dicloxacillin
- Ipilimumab
- Impavido
- Corticosteroids
- Acebutolol
- Menadione
- Butamirate
- Ampicillin
- Phenytoin
- Trabectedin
