After several updates, Project Zomboid has grown into a deep and intricate zombie survival-sim, with a thousand strategies and threats for players to overcome. The current health system in the game is extremely granular, with areas as specific as feet, forearms, and groin all being individually tracked for damage.

To make matters worse, any injury inflicted by zombies has the chance of infecting the player, which can also be a form of death sentence. One of the more severe injuries that your character can receive is lacerations, which need to be carefully treated. Hence, this guide will show you everything you need to learn about lacerations in Project Zomboid and how to set up a secure Project Zomboid server.

What Are Lacerations in Project Zomboid?

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Lacerations in Project Zomboid are wounds that are more serious than a scratch, but less so than a deep cut or fracture. These injuries are among the more "basic" types of injuries and can be dealt with quickly and reliably. Lacerations are not hard to notice, and players are bound to see the injury at some point or another. Some of the triggers of lacerations in Project Zomboid include:

• Falling heavily,
• Crashing a car,
• Climbing through a window with broken glass in it,
• Jumping fences with a high load or low endurance.

Fortunately, all lacerations are survivable except that they came from zombies. This type of laceration has a 25% chance of infecting players with the Knox Infection, which is fatal. However, this illness can be disabled or tweaked in the sandbox settings to emulate other zombie media.

How to Spot and Treat Lacerations in Project Zomboid

The first indication of a new injury is a sound and a Moodle of a broken bone that will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. Players will then be able to check which kind it is by opening the health window, which is done by clicking on the heart icon in the upper left. If it is a laceration, it will cause moderate health loss, as well as bleeding and pain.

Treatment of a laceration should be done with bandages, which can be made from tearing up clothes in an emergency.

Bandages in Project Zomboid

While they are effective for curing lacerations in Project Zomboid, the different bandages have varying potencies.

These comprise:

• Bandage: Grants 4 Bandage Power
• Dirty Bandage: Gives 0.5 Bandage Power
• Sterilized Bandage: Grants 4 Bandage Power and prevents or cures infected wounds

Players can obtain regular Bandages in medical buildings, and first aid kits, while sterilized bandages must be crafted. To craft a Sterilized Bandage, you need the following items:

• 1x Bandage
• 3x Bottles of Disinfectant, 10x Bourbon
• 5x Cooking Pot, or 10x Saucepan

In place of sterilized bandages, Adhesive bandages can still do a better job than torn sheets in treating lacerations, but aren't reusable. Regular bandages are by far the best bandage to use because they last the longest, can be reused, and can also have disinfectants applied to them to aid in recovery by reducing the chance of infection.

Using Bandages to Cure Lacerations in Project Zomboid

To treat a laceration in Project Zomboid, players should open the health menu, right-click on the injury, and select the preferred bandage. In the process, they can apply any disinfectant or alcohol on hand directly to the injury before bandaging to further lower the chance of infection.

Every once in a while, the bandage will become dirty, increasing your chances of infection. However, it can be cleaned with 1x Water to turn it into a regular Bandage.

Tricks on how to Deal with Lacerations in Project Zomboid

Although lacerations on your body carry no risk of the zombie virus, they will still make the player slow, bleeding, and vulnerable. In more severe cases, they can become dangerously infected with the Knox infection if not treated properly. Here is how to outsmart it in the game.

Trick 1: Play it Safe and Avoid Lacerations at all Costs

The zombie apocalypse setting of Project Zomboid makes it a dangerous place, and survivors run the constant risk of injury. However, some actions can help you prevent lacerations in the game. These include:

• Protect yourself from glass shards in broken windows before climbing into a building
• Driving safely while avoiding any crashes
• Avoid jumping fences if encumbered or when you have low endurance

Trick 2: Eat Good Food to Speed Up Recovery

It is necessary to watch your character’s hunger, thirst, and tiredness, especially when treating lacerations. These traits keep your character healthy and increase the rate at which lacerations heal.

Trick 3: Play It Smart Even With Lacerations

When your character has lacerations, avoid explorations, especially if you have sufficient resources to last you during the time frame. That way, it’s less likely zombies will attack you again, which might otherwise give you another laceration or more severe injuries.

Use Scalacube Servers for the Highest Survival Odds in Project Zomboid

Besides lacerations, another factor that can significantly distort your gaming experience in Project Zomboid is lag and game bugs. While Bandages can effectively fix lacerations, you need ScalaCube’s robust servers to prevent lag and bugs.

With Scalacube game servers, you and your friends can play privately with low latency and 24/7 game time. Choose from a variety of games, invite people from different parts of the world, enjoy private matches, or build your online community with your own guidelines.

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Conclusion

Injuries in Project Zomboid cause issues, but fortunately, lacerations rarely cause serious problems, since they can be dealt with in nearly any situation. In most cases, lacerations are the preferred outcome when a player is hurt, since other wound types can be debilitating.

Of course, if these lacerations are caused by a zombie, players should be wary of the Knox Infection, which can also be deadly in most cases. To avoid such circumstances, players should bandage their lacerations, disinfect them if possible, keep the bandage clean, and eat plenty of food until the injury heals.