
Can you make medicine in Rimworld?
But you cannot heal alone with medicine, you also need to provide them with special beds so that your settlers heal much better and faster. Generally, you need money to buy new medicine, but there are ways to make medicine yourself. In RimWorld, healing is accomplished mainly by colonists who have acquired the medical skill.
How do you heal in Rimworld?
In RimWorld, healing is accomplished mainly by colonists who have acquired the medical skill. The ailing settlers must have doctoring status enabled and are subject to a bed so that you may be able to heal.
How to get new colonies in Rimworld?
Part One – The first way you will get new colonists is through join events. As the game has developed and received new patches and content, these events have become more varied. Out of all the ways to get new RimWorld colonists, this is the one you have the least control over.
How do I heal injuries on my colonist?
Make sure you have at least 2 colonist with medical skill enabled. added: in some mods there is synthetic skin that heals damage to torso injury if can't be healed or remove a limb and put it back can remove the injury. Do not tary at putting it back or your colonist will get a penalty in mood for harvesting a limb.

Disease Overview
Diseases in RimWorld can largely be broken down into two different categories: fatal and non-fatal. A disease being fatal doesn't necessarily mean that contracting it is a death sentence, but those that do end up with it will require treatment.
How To Treat Diseases
One thing to know about treating diseases is that every pawn has a statistic known as the " base immunity gain rate " which signifies their natural ability to deal with diseases.
How often should you treat a colonist?
At regular intervals, a resting colonist can be treated by a doctor. This slows the progression of symptoms and for most diseases it is critical to treat the colonist as often as possible. You cannot give a new treatment until 3 hours before the expiry of the previous one, and you can see the remaining time by hovering over the disease in the colonist's Health tab. The treatment interval varies for each disease.
How do colonists contract diseases?
Colonists sometimes contract diseases. Diseases most often occur through random events that vary by biome and difficulty. Infections have a random chance of developing from an injury regardless of biome.

Medicines
Surgery
- Surgery is a medical operation which involves removal and addition of body parts, or excising carcinomas. Any doctor can perform most types of surgery (excising carcinomas requires 10 medical skill), and herbal medicine is the minimum required medicine for most surgical operations, although it's not advisable to use herbal medicine in surgery unless you have an exc…
Sanitation
- The cleanliness rating of a room has a major impact on the infection chance of a pawn, and a comparatively minor, but still significant impact on the success chance of surgery. It also affects other things, like research speed and food poisoning chance InfectionWhen a bed is set to be medical, selecting it shows the infection chance modifier of the room. The overall chance of infe…
Doctoring Strategies
- You will often need to make the most out of the doctors you have, to ensure maximum doctoring efficiency and colonist survival rate/ well-being.
Version History
- 0.9.722- Surgery can fail now, sometimes catastrophically. Failure chance is related to the surgeon’s medical skill and the quality of the medicine.
- Beta 18 - all surgeries now have a minimum 2% chance of failure, no matter how good everything is.