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Official Casualties: Unknown screenshot showing a character exploring a dark alien cavern — Official game screenshot · Orsoniks / Oro Interactive

Before the next layer

Four things worth knowing first

Check the mod version before joining friends. Learn the health panel before treating a wound. Save at a layer transition, and keep useful materials out of recipes.

Multiplayer & ModsMultiplayer: Full Game or Demo?First AidFirst Aid & Triage Crafting & SkillsCrafting Guide Getting StartedSave and Exit Rules

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Getting Started

Beginner Guide

Start Casualties: Unknown with the right tutorial, inventory controls, early crafting priorities and a plan for reading injuries before the next descent.

Controls & Inventory

Learn Casualties: Unknown controls for picking up items, main-hand tools, throwing, health, crafting and movement using the release tutorial instructions.

Tutorial Course Unlocks

Find why Casualties: Unknown First Aid, Crafting and Movement courses are locked, which layers unlock them and the species requirement for training.

Inventory, Bags & Favourites

Manage Casualties: Unknown inventory slots, containers, wearables and favourite items so useful gear stays accessible and is not consumed by crafting.

Save and Exit Rules

Save a Casualties: Unknown expedition at a layer transition, understand Continue and avoid losing progress by quitting or dying in the middle of a layer.

Movement, Walls & Recoil

Use Casualties: Unknown wall jumps, wall slides, crawling and recoil movement as taught in the advanced course, while avoiding unnecessary fall injuries.

Characters: Experiment, Milky & Dune

Identify Casualties: Unknown Experiment, Milky and Dune, distinguish playable characters from trader descriptions and avoid unsupported demo stats.

Difficulty Presets & Run Settings

Choose Casualties: Unknown presets and interpret modifiers for loot, injuries, sleep and traders without confusing difficulty settings with equipment.

Unchipped & Endless Modes

Understand Casualties: Unknown Unchipped and Endless mode tradeoffs, including diagnostic limits, release changes and why neither is simply a normal run preset.

First Aid

First Aid & Triage

Read Casualties: Unknown injuries in the health panel, separate bleeding from circulation and breathing problems, and choose the treatment for the actual cause.

Health Panel Explained

Understand Casualties: Unknown health panel values, limb versus global damage, blood oxygen, heart rhythm and the difference between skin and muscle health.

Stop Bleeding & Use Dressings

Stop Casualties: Unknown limb bleeding with the correct health-panel interaction, understand dressing limits and check whether blood loss actually improves.

Internal Bleeding Treatment

Treat Casualties: Unknown internal bleeding with the game’s named options, distinguish it from visible limb wounds and check for a related hemothorax warning.

Hemothorax & Chest Drains

Use a chest drain for Casualties: Unknown hemothorax, target the correct body part and distinguish draining the chest from fixing the underlying internal bleed.

Tourniquet Limits

Understand Casualties: Unknown tourniquets: they stop circulation and bleeding temporarily, but do not heal a wound and can harm the limb if left applied.

Remove Shrapnel & Glass

Remove Casualties: Unknown shrapnel with the right minigame speed or tweezers, then reassess the injured limb for bleeding and other remaining damage.

Fractures & Dislocations

Treat Casualties: Unknown fractures and dislocations, use splints on the affected limb and understand why immobilizing a healthy limb reduces function.

Infections & Antiseptic

Treat Casualties: Unknown infected limbs with targeted antiseptic, read the direction arrow and distinguish infection control from merely stopping bleeding.

Sepsis Warning Signs

Read Casualties: Unknown sepsis warnings, identify spreading limb infections and understand why treating pain alone does not resolve the systemic condition.

AED & Manual Defibrillators

Use Casualties: Unknown defibrillators on the chest, compare AED and manual operation and check circulation after the heart rhythm stabilizes.

Auto-pump & Epinephrine

Understand Casualties: Unknown auto-pump support and the tutorial’s epinephrine interaction when the heart stops, including battery and underlying-cause limits.

Blood Pressure & Circulation

Read Casualties: Unknown blood pressure alongside heart rate and blood volume, understand the tutorial baseline and avoid confusing a number with a diagnosis.

Muscle Health & Limb Function

Fix the diagnosis when Casualties: Unknown hands stop holding items or breathing worsens: muscle health differs from skin health and ordinary dressing effects.

Prosthetics & Lost Limbs

Attach Casualties: Unknown steel prosthetics to the right body region, check missing-limb stumps and understand the 10 INT reliability requirement.

Moodles & Status Warnings

Read Casualties: Unknown moodles as specific warning descriptions, reveal hidden indicators and distinguish bleeding, infection, intoxication and other systems.

Crafting & Skills

Crafting Guide

Craft in Casualties: Unknown using nearby materials, ingredient qualities and INT requirements, then protect favourites and pin the next useful survival recipe.

Crafting Not Working

Diagnose blocked Casualties: Unknown recipes by checking favourites, item condition, material and tool qualities, available liquid volume and current INT.

Intelligence & Crafting Risk

Raise Casualties: Unknown INT through new crafts, blueprints, trading and descent, and understand the course’s 1–3 INT crafting failure thresholds.

Strength, Resilience & Carrying

Understand Casualties: Unknown Strength and Resilience, carrying-capacity interactions and the current patch restriction on overencumbrance experience.

Lockpicking & Tool Requirements

Pick locks in Casualties: Unknown using the arc interaction, understand claw damage and the 10 INT lock-picking kit requirement changed in release 1.0.

Item Labels, Colors & Favourites

Label and recolor Casualties: Unknown items with the release tutorial interaction, keeping visual organization separate from ingredient protection.

Items & Survival

How to Sleep & Recover Energy

Sleep in Casualties: Unknown using the nap control or sleeping bag, choose a better surface and understand why pain, illness or multiplayer can prevent sleep.

How to Eat & Drink

Eat and drink in Casualties: Unknown through inventory interactions, inspect liquid contents and avoid confusing a named bottle with safe drinking water.

Boil Water & Use a Campfire

Boil groundwater into clean water in Casualties: Unknown using the developer’s canteen and campfire workflow, with clear limits for other liquid types.

Torches, Lanterns & Batteries

Choose Casualties: Unknown light sources, relight a wet torch with a flame source and distinguish flashlight battery use from lantern item descriptions.

Battery Sizes & Removal

Compare Casualties: Unknown battery sizes, insert a battery from the main hand and use the device’s tool interaction for removal without guessing compatibility.

Armor & Protective Equipment

Compare Casualties: Unknown helmets, belly armor and trauma rigs by the area they protect, then inspect armor view instead of assuming full protection.

Traders, Gifts & Trust

Understand Casualties: Unknown trader interactions, gifts, trust and species differences, including why threatening or hugging a stranger can go wrong.

Mood & Impending Doom

Interpret Casualties: Unknown mood and Sense of impending doom, use the actual settings and avoid treating a dramatic warning as a verified enemy-spawn timer.

Liquid Containers & Mixtures

Inspect Casualties: Unknown liquid contents and volume, distinguish bottle labels from mixtures and transfer temporary-bottle contents before they vanish.

Multiplayer & Mods

Multiplayer: Full Game or Demo?

Check Casualties: Unknown co-op support: the base game is single-player, while community mod v5.5.0 targets release 1.0 with an explicit testing limitation.

Install Casualties Together

Install Casualties Together for Casualties: Unknown with version-matched assets, the documented BepInEx layout and the contents of the mod folder.

Multiplayer Not Working

Diagnose Casualties: Unknown co-op failures: version mismatch, missing mod controls, Steam lobby problems and documented synchronization limits.

Co-op Rules & Respawning

Understand Casualties Together sleeping, respawn, layer-transition and host-rule behavior, while keeping community co-op rules separate from the base game.

Mods & BepInEx Compatibility

Choose Casualties: Unknown mods by game edition, release target and loader requirements, and avoid treating a demo plugin or skin as verified full-game support.

Recover from a Failed Mod Install

Recover when Casualties: Unknown mods stop loading or break a run, preserve version details and distinguish deactivation from complete removal.

Versions & Setup

Linux & Steam Deck Mod Setup

Check Casualties: Unknown Linux and Steam Deck expectations, including the multiplayer author’s Proton override, Windows build requirements and testing limits.

Install Russian & Other Languages

Install Casualties: Unknown language JSON files from the release or demo folder, use the correct Lang path and avoid outdated translation packages.

Demo vs Full Game

Compare Casualties: Unknown demo and full release: Steam app IDs, layers, characters, endings and why mod or translation compatibility must be checked.

Download & PC Requirements

Find the official Casualties: Unknown full game and demo, read current Windows requirements and distinguish the older itch prototype from the Steam release.