SURVIVAL SICKNESS

Survival Sickness adds a realistic disease and medicine system to Minecraft. Players can catch illnesses from rain, mobs, heat, unsafe food, wounds, and other survival conditions.
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Description

Survival Sickness

Survival Sickness adds a deeper survival health system to Minecraft. Players can catch diseases from bad weather, mobs, unsafe food, desert heat, freezing, low sleep, wounds, and underwater strain.

To survive, you must prepare medicines, collect medical ingredients, use the Medicine Mixer, and trade with Doctor villagers.

This mod is made for survival, hardcore worlds, and multiplayer servers where health management should feel more meaningful.


Features

  • 10 survival diseases
  • Disease stages and symptoms
  • HUD disease icons
  • Screen effects for some illnesses
  • Cough, sneeze, and symptom sounds
  • Medicine Mixer workstation
  • Custom medicines and ingredients
  • Doctor villager with medicine trades
  • Raw Crystal Ore world generation
  • Crystal Salt smelting system
  • Custom ingredients found in village, shipwreck, and ruined portal chests
  • Multiplayer disease spread between nearby players
  • Server-friendly survival gameplay

How To Start

Start your world normally. Collect wood, food, stone tools, and basic resources.

As you explore, collect medicine ingredients from crafting, mining, and loot chests. You will need these to prepare medicines later.

Useful early items to collect:

  • Kelp
  • Wheat Seeds
  • Bone Meal
  • Charcoal
  • Flint
  • Honeycomb
  • Brown Mushroom
  • Glow Lichen
  • Moss Block
  • Vine
  • Rooted Dirt
  • Cactus
  • Blue Orchid
  • Azure Bluet

You can also find custom ingredients inside:

  • Village chests
  • Shipwreck chests
  • Ruined portal chests

Raw Crystal Ore and Crystal Salt

Crystal Salt is an important medical material used for medicine crafting and the Medicine Mixer.

To get Crystal Salt:

  1. Mine Raw Crystal Ore underground.
  2. Get Raw Crystal from the ore.
  3. Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace.
  4. Receive Crystal Salt.

Raw Crystal Ore has two variants:

  • Raw Crystal Ore
  • Deepslate Raw Crystal Ore

Best mining level:

 
Y 16
 

Good mining range:

 
Y 0 to Y 32
 

Full generation range:

 
Y -24 to Y 56
 

Raw Crystal Ore generates in the Overworld with iron-like underground generation.


Medicine Mixer

The Medicine Mixer is the main workstation used to create medicines.

To use it:

  1. Place the Medicine Mixer.
  2. Add Medical Catalyst as fuel.
  3. Add a Clean Water Bottle.
  4. Add the correct two medicine ingredients.
  5. Wait for the mixing progress to finish.
  6. Take the finished medicine from the output slot.

One Medical Catalyst gives fuel for multiple medicines.

Medicines are made inside the Medicine Mixer, not in the crafting table.


Important Crafting Recipes

Clean Water Bottle

 
Water Bottle + Kelp = Clean Water Bottle
 

Medicinal Herb

 
Wheat Seeds + Bone Meal = Medicinal Herb
 

Mint Leaf

 
Fern + Bone Meal = Mint Leaf
 

Ginger Root

 
Rooted Dirt + Bone Meal = Ginger Root
 

Silverleaf Flower

 
Azure Bluet + Bone Meal = Silverleaf Flower
 

Blue Aloe Flower

 
Blue Orchid + Cactus = Blue Aloe Flower
 

Swamp Moss

 
Moss Block + Vine = Swamp Moss
 

Cave Fungus

 
Brown Mushroom + Glow Lichen = Cave Fungus
 

Charcoal Powder

 
Charcoal + Flint = Charcoal Powder
 

Honey Extract

 
Honeycomb + Sugar + Glass Bottle = Honey Extract
 

Bandage Cloth

 
String + White Wool = Bandage Cloth
 

Crystal Salt

 
Smelt Raw Crystal in a furnace = Crystal Salt
 

Medical Catalyst

 
Crystal Salt + Charcoal Powder + Cave Fungus = Medical Catalyst
 

Medicine Recipes

All medicines are prepared inside the Medicine Mixer.

Fever Tonic

Cures Fever.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Medicinal Herb
 

Cold Syrup

Cures Cold.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Honey Extract
 

Cough Syrup

Cures Cough.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Mint Leaf + Medicinal Herb
 

Flu Remedy

Cures Flu.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Silverleaf Flower
 

Pain Relief Tablet

Cures Headache.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Silverleaf Flower + Crystal Salt
 

Muscle Balm

Cures Leg Pain.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Blue Aloe Flower + Honey Extract
 

Breathing Elixir

Cures Respiratory Issue.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Swamp Moss + Crystal Salt
 

Digestive Medicine

Cures Diarrhea / Digestive Illness.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Charcoal Powder + Ginger Root
 

Antibiotic Mix

Cures Infection.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Cave Fungus + Bandage Cloth
 

Warmth Potion

Cures Frostbite.

 
Clean Water Bottle + Ginger Root + Honey Extract
 

Diseases

Diseases build up from survival conditions. Most diseases give warning messages before becoming active.

Disease How You Get It Cure
Cold Rain, wet exposure, cold conditions Cold Syrup
Cough Rain exposure, slime exposure, nearby sick players Cough Syrup
Flu Witch exposure or nearby sick players Flu Remedy
Fever Desert heat, husks, overheating Fever Tonic
Headache Lack of sleep, heat and hunger Pain Relief Tablet
Leg Pain Sprinting too much Muscle Balm
Respiratory Issue Repeated diving, low air, drowned exposure Breathing Elixir
Diarrhea Rotten flesh, unsafe food, witch exposure Digestive Medicine
Infection Zombies, spiders, cave spiders, low-health wounds Antibiotic Mix
Frostbite Freezing, powdered snow, stray exposure Warmth Potion

Doctor Villager

Villagers can become Doctors when a Medicine Mixer is nearby.

How to get a Doctor:

  1. Place a Medicine Mixer near a villager.
  2. Wait for the villager to become a Doctor.
  3. Right-click the Doctor with an empty hand.
  4. The Doctor can diagnose your sickness and offer medicine trades.

Doctors are useful when you do not have the ingredients to prepare medicine yourself.


Loot Chest Support

Custom medical items can also appear in loot chests.

Village chests may contain:

  • Medicinal Herb
  • Ginger Root
  • Mint Leaf
  • Bandage Cloth
  • Blue Aloe Flower
  • Silverleaf Flower
  • Raw Crystal
  • Crystal Salt
  • Medical Catalyst

Shipwreck chests may contain:

  • Clean Water Bottle
  • Swamp Moss
  • Mint Leaf
  • Raw Crystal
  • Crystal Salt

Ruined portal chests may contain:

  • Raw Crystal
  • Crystal Salt
  • Medical Catalyst
  • Cave Fungus
  • Charcoal Powder

Survival Tips

  • Mine around Y 16 to find Raw Crystal Ore.
  • Always keep Clean Water Bottles ready.
  • Carry Medical Catalyst when exploring.
  • Prepare Fever Tonic before desert travel.
  • Prepare Warmth Potion before snowy biome travel.
  • Prepare Breathing Elixir before ocean exploration.
  • Prepare Antibiotic Mix before cave exploration.
  • Sleep regularly to avoid Headache.
  • Avoid standing too close to sick players on multiplayer servers.
  • Milk does not properly cure diseases. Use the correct medicine.

Multiplayer / Server Info

For best results:

 
Server: required for disease mechanics, medicine crafting, Doctor villagers, trades, and world generation.
Client: recommended for HUD icons, GUI visuals, sounds, and screen effects.
 

This mod works well for survival servers, hardcore worlds, and roleplay-style survival gameplay.

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