Zomboid Skills: First Aid

In this series, I take a look at what the Zomboid skills think they do, what they actually do, whether you want it, and how to level it.

Unfortunately, in it's present state, first aid could probably just be removed entirely from Project Zomboid with no real loss.

[cellinitv]

“Just stand on broken glass and use tweezers to pull out the shards and level up fast”
If only it were that easy to become a doctor 😂

[BayraktarWhyNot]

I just imagine a freshman in medical college is being greeted by a senior with ridiculous amounts of scars on his legs

[justlilly]

I hope they make the skill more useful in the update, I would love to see first aid give you the ability to bandage wounds faster with less risk of infection (not zombie infection) or the ability to disinfect much faster. This would make it so useful to have a medic on your team when you have a neck wound and you have limiting food for healing your character

[AaronL]

It will never stop being hilarious how the best way to level up is to walk over glass

[Lucy-fnrj]

tbh this is kinda realistic. unless you have access to surgical tools, lots of specific medications, etc. there isn’t much you can do besides keep the wound clean and apply pressure (if you aren’t already dead). more skill would only really make a noticeable difference with more advanced stuff like splints

[ChipsForBreakfastCFB]

I could dedicate the rest of my life on this earth to the pursuit of understanding every intracite detail of combustion.. The rates and conditions at which flesh and meat fail to retain heat..
Reaching the ripe old age of 60, knowing all there is for a human to know about flame..

I'm still gonna die if you light me on fire

[guilhermef.cabral]

When the npc update comes in this is gonna be THE SKILL

[boringkobold]

I started as a burn victim and I was tending my own wounds while reading it first aid book turns out that's a really good way to power level your first aid skill

[jomardepedro]

My friend and I crashed into each other in multiplayer.

The result was broken bones and a near critical condition

My friend was saved by a level 10 player who had mastered first aid and was miraculously healed within 2 game days noting bed rest and sufficient nutritious food

[PvtYeza]

My first custom character (my first two were randoms) was a doctor who survived up to nearly 3 months and managed to get first aid 8 without power leveling, he managed it by just by patching all my my multilayer friends up all the time

I only got stuck on first aid lvl 8 because we couldn't find first aid book 5

[Art_Cat]

Everyone talking about easy way of upgrading the skill but nobody talks about this red text "infected"

[RahulKumar-syqy]

This is the best video to explain why first aid good and why not

[eduardotrillaud]

I've installed a mod that overhauls First Aid, and it really improves it: Now I can't bandage my burns if I don't clean it first, the bandaging and stitching processes sometimes just fail and you have to repeat, while bleeding of course, now the wound infection does make you sick so you have to change your bandages often; which is convenient because you can't stitch your crotch until level 2. Oh, and there's also a very rare medicin that gives you a chance to cure Knox Virus, if you happen to find it in time.

[symbiotesoda]

I feel like, once NPC survivors are added, it’ll become way more useful. Conflicts with hostile survivors will probably be much more likely to have injuries in need of tending with first-aid, and you’d be able to patch up your NPC allies.

[hunterlovejoy]

People discount the danger of a dirty wound getting infected and the benefit of faster healing

[HairyScrambler]

Imagine if it could deal with the infection to some extent? It’d actually make the skill useful

[lucasg]

"What fid you do in medical school?"
"It's complicated"

[ZestyBirb]

If they just added crafted salves and tonics to remedy different afflictions, that is all that would be needed to make First Aid a useful skill. Probably make them not as effective as actual drugs but a useful alternative for after all the medical locations have been ransacked

[dualie]

If they want to make it first aid good here’s the list of all the things they should affect;
Speed of dealing with wounds
Effectiveness of certain bandages or stitches and better the bandage, faster the time heal(sterilized rags shouldn’t give it nor regular bandages) (not like a deep wound in a day but ya know make it heal faster)
Things that can help with sadness and stress(and make stress matter more) are more effective.
Crafting options for improvised medical ailments with the new herbs being added.

Makes it sound OP and obviously try to negate the training method with broken glass, and make it where if you don’t invest in it early you are missing out on good effectiveness.

Obviously still won’t stop a bite unless you have sandbox settings(my friends do “everyone is infected” with a higher zombie pop)

[chrishubbard]

Older video but my viewpoint is, that first aid should effect the heal time for all injuries, chance of nonzomboid infection, and treatment speed.