Battlefield Anatomy

Quickstart

1. Craft Field Dressings from paper and wool, then keep them in your hotbar:
2. Take a hard hit or arrow wound and watch the body diagram in the top-left corner. Injured regions change color; the bar below shows bleeding.
3. Hold a treatment and use it on yourself (right-click by default). A Field Dressing reduces bleeding. For internal bleeding or multiple injuries, use a Trauma Kit:
4. Type /anatomy to see a text summary of your injuries and both kinds of bleeding.

Overview

Damaging hits can cause injuries to specific body regions, and arrows can also cause organ injuries and bleeding. Armor can prevent some severe injuries or reduce their severity. Falling impacts can injure a leg and cause internal bleeding.

Injuries and bleeding can cause health loss or impair movement and combat. Treat them rather than relying on ordinary recovery.

What It Adds

The HUD diagram shows injuries to the head, chest, abdomen, arms, and legs. Yellow indicates a lower injury severity; red indicates the most severe. The bleeding bar gives a visual warning, while /anatomy distinguishes external from internal bleeding.

How To Use

• Check your status: Use /anatomy for a detailed summary. Injury severities are shown as I, II, or III.
• Apply a treatment: Hold the item and use it on yourself. A treatment is consumed only when it can treat a matching injury.
• Watch for ongoing effects: Bleeding causes periodic health loss. Severe head or leg injuries can slow you; arm injuries can cause weakness. Lung, gut, and heart injuries can also impair you.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft these treatments at a crafting table. Each recipe below shows its ingredients and layout.

Field Dressing — crafts 2:

Field Splint — crafts 2:

Trauma Kit — crafts 1:

Abilities And Mechanics

Injuries are more likely from damaging hits; armor helps protect against them. Stronger hits can cause more severe injuries. Arrow wounds may cause external bleeding and can injure organs; hard impacts to the chest or abdomen may also cause internal bleeding.

The Field Dressing reduces external bleeding by 4 levels. A Trauma Kit reduces external bleeding by 6, internal bleeding by 3, and each existing body-region or organ injury by 1. A Field Splint reduces the most severe injured arm or leg by 2 levels.

Progression And Strategy

• Wear armor to reduce the chance or severity of injuries.
• Keep Field Dressings ready for external bleeding, and use a Trauma Kit when injuries are widespread or internal bleeding is present.
• Use a Field Splint for limb injuries that hinder movement.
• Check /anatomy after treatment to see what still needs attention.