Editing 40d:Wound

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[[Creature]]s with severe '''wounds''' will flash with a yellow or red + icon; see [[status icons]] for a full list of status and injury indicators. A creature's injuries can be seen by pressing {{key|w}} while {{key|v}}iewing creature info in [[Fortress Mode]], or by {{key|l}}ooking at a creature and selecting their letter in [[Adventure Mode]]. Wounds are listed by body part and described by color, as displayed in the following table.

The {{k|w}}ound screen for an unwounded dwarf shows only the standard 15 body parts that can wear items of [[armor]]:

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:{{DFtext|left lower leg|#fff}}

:{{DFtext|right foot|#c0c0c0}}

:{{DFtext|left foot|#fff}}

:{{DFtext|fourth finger, left hand|#808080}}

:''This section is incomplete; much about the [[Combat|combat system]] is unknown.''

When a wound is inflicted, no matter how lightly, it will usually bleed (even if only for one turn). In [[Fortress Mode]], wounded dwarves receive various unhappy [[thought]]s, but also some positive thoughts from the rescue and recovery process (see next section).

Death from [[Blood|blood]] loss will happen quickly whenever wounds to major internal organs occur, like the heart being pierced or "entrails shooting out through the wound". In [[Adventure Mode]], a "Mortal Wound" status indicator will appear when this happens to your adventurer. There is no way to avoid this. A pierced lung doesn't always result in bleeding to death, but it may eventually cause suffocation, or dying of thirst due to Drink actions being interrupted by falling unconscious. [[Toughness]] may be a factor in helping to prevent this.

Stunning seems to also inhibit a dwarf's social skills, such as [[Judge of intent]].

|| Guts || Not known || <s>Not possible</s> Possible from extreme temperature.  Dwarf lives as normal although wound never heals. || Fatal Heavy Bleeding (on and off) as entrails spill out, extreme pain, and nausea. Can be a slow, painful death. ''Can only be mangled.'' || <s>The entire lower body is severed from the rest of the body or it is completely destroyed.  Instant death.</s> Guts is ''not'' the same as lower body, even though an attack against the guts sometimes shows up as an attack agains the lower body in adventure mode. Chopping off the lower body always results in instant death, chopping off the guts does not. For example, you need to damage the lower body of an enemy before you can even target the guts ("You slash the goblin maceman in the lower body with your iron long sword, spilling her stinking guts"). After that, the guts can be chopped off.

Dwarves with yellow or red wounds will attempt to get to a bed to [[rest]], if possible. Civilian dwarves with the [[health care]] labor will drag severely wounded dwarves to a bed and bring them [[food]] and [[bucket]]s of [[water]] as they recover. A severely injured dwarf will stay in bed, and occasionally cancel tasks to rest their injury. [[Main:Toady|Toady]] has stated that beds which are not in any defined [[room]] are considered hospital beds, and dwarves will recover faster when sleeping on them. Dwarves with light or moderate (medium grey to brown) wounds do not need to rest.

Wounded dwarves who rest are automatically labeled as "unconscious".

Any wound, however minor, will prevent a [[military]] dwarf from sparring (interrupting a [[sparring]] session if that's when the wound occurred) until and unless it heals.  Military dwarves with inadequate armor and low wrestling and block skills will often be seen sparring for only seconds at a time, before one gets a stubbed toe and runs off to the meeting area, then heals and runs back.

Minor nervous system injuries are one of the leading causes of early retirement in the military, since dwarves with such wounds will consider themselves too badly injured to spar (but not too badly injured to take on a [[dragon]] while unarmed and naked, with no backup; dwarven logic at its finest).  Because of this, an arena can be used to continue the training of brain-damaged dwarves.  Besides nervous system injuries, amputations, lost non-critical organs such as eyes, and often burn or cold damage will also result in permanent injuries and thus permanent retirement.  Such dwarves can also be used for the [[Fortress guard]]; or they can be made marksdwarves, as injuries* do ''not'' interfere with practice at the shooting range.

Lopped off limbs and other parts (such as eyes, ears, nose, etc.) can never grow back.  Because these injuries are permanent, they will also prevent sparring in the military.  The game seems to keep track of whether a severed part is "healed" enough to cease bed rest, but the pain of the injury never goes away.  These "phantom pains" can leave a dwarf permanently incapacitated, or cause him to randomly collapse while going about his business.  Dwarves with extremely high Toughness may be able to function somewhat normally, though they will still suffer from the other consequences of the injury (a missing foot or leg forces them to crawl, a missing eye makes their accuracy with ranged weapons suffer, etc.).

Dwarves have various [[thought]]s from injury, unconsciousness, and the healing process. Injuries cause unhappy thoughts, but these are offset by happy thoughts from getting rescued, being able to rest and recuperate (i.e. stay in bed), and being given water and food. Check for unhappy patients, as wounded dwarves have been known to go berserk when unhappy thoughts accumulate (see below). If you cannot ensure their happiness, you may have to station armed guards nearby as a precaution, or even lock the wounded dwarf in his bedroom and write him off.

Healing is much simpler in [[Adventure Mode]]; walking one space on the overland map will heal everything but severed limbs, including hunger and thirst. If an artery was torn, the body part will show up as yellow forever, but it won't keep on bleeding. Your <strike>Meatwall</strike> friends will also be healed, as long as they were reasonably close to you when you left the map. If you leave them bleeding and crawling in the cave below, however, they won't come with you.

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