The Starfield universe is a dangerous place. You can be slashed by predators, shot by pirates, and cooked by radiation on inhospitable planets. In-game, these injuries are recorded as Afflictions which can apply some annoying and damaging status effects to your character.
If you’re not careful, these effects can add up quickly. Puncture wounds, broken bones, infections, poison, and other horrible ailments can drag your character into Starfield. It’s the last thing you want to worry about when space pirates are after you.
Don’t worry, for every space disease there is a space cure. Here’s your guide on how to fix afflictions in Starfield.
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How afflictions and status effects work in Starfield
Basic afflictions apply a negative status effect to your character. Acute and Severe afflictions can apply multiple status effects. If you get an Affliction you already have, its severity will improve.
Afflictions are indicated as triangular symbols on the left of the watch screen. To find out how Affliction is affecting your character, highlight Status Effects in the Status Menu for a description.
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Afflictions also have a prognostic rating that improves over time from poor to stable to good to excellent. With each rating improvement above Poor, there is an increasing chance that the Affliction will be cured. If you receive the same Affliction again before it has been cured, its prognosis will reset to Poor.
This is how it works in practice: an evil space dog cuts you with its claws! This gives you a basic Affliction called Laceration. You head to the status menu, highlight status effects, and see that the laceration causes pain, draining 02 every time you take damage. The prognosis is poor, so it may take some time before the affliction heals.
No one wants to stay Lacerated for long, so what can you do?
How to fix afflictions and status effects in Starfield
You can let the prognosis improve gradually, of course, and if an Affliction’s prognosis is Excellent, you may want to wait for it to heal quickly rather than waste healing resources. If you want an instant solution at any time, you need help articles.
To quickly find the right help item for your affliction, head to the Help section of your inventory and choose one with a triangular icon that matches the one on your watch. You can also read the descriptions of the aid items for a list of afflictions they can cure.
Mmmmm, delicious healing paste. | Image credit: Eurogamer/Bethesda.
For example, let’s say you dove into a frozen lake and got the frostbite affliction. It appears as an orange triangle with black drops on your watch. Head to the Help section of your Inventory and flip through the list to find an item with the same orange triangle (Heal Paste, for example), and apply it to cure your frostbite immediately.
Alternatively, visit a doctor. Doctors can cure afflictions immediately and can sell you aid items to use in the field.
We’re still discovering the many afflictions and status effects that can happen to your character in Starfield, and we’ll put together a list as we go. In the meantime, we hope this brief explanation helps you get rid of some of the nastier injuries that can occur on the dangerous frontiers of Starfield.
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