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Casualties: Unknown Guide Directory
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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.
Read guideControls & Inventory
Learn Casualties: Unknown controls for picking up items, main-hand tools, throwing, health, crafting and movement using the release tutorial instructions.
Read guideTutorial Course Unlocks
Find why Casualties: Unknown First Aid, Crafting and Movement courses are locked, which layers unlock them and the species requirement for training.
Read guideInventory, Bags & Favourites
Manage Casualties: Unknown inventory slots, containers, wearables and favourite items so useful gear stays accessible and is not consumed by crafting.
Read guideSave 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.
Read guideMovement, Walls & Recoil
Use Casualties: Unknown wall jumps, wall slides, crawling and recoil movement as taught in the advanced course, while avoiding unnecessary fall injuries.
Read guideCharacters: Experiment, Milky & Dune
Identify Casualties: Unknown Experiment, Milky and Dune, distinguish playable characters from trader descriptions and avoid unsupported demo stats.
Read guideDifficulty Presets & Run Settings
Choose Casualties: Unknown presets and interpret modifiers for loot, injuries, sleep and traders without confusing difficulty settings with equipment.
Read guideUnchipped & Endless Modes
Understand Casualties: Unknown Unchipped and Endless mode tradeoffs, including diagnostic limits, release changes and why neither is simply a normal run preset.
Read guideFirst 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.
Read guideHealth Panel Explained
Understand Casualties: Unknown health panel values, limb versus global damage, blood oxygen, heart rhythm and the difference between skin and muscle health.
Read guideStop Bleeding & Use Dressings
Stop Casualties: Unknown limb bleeding with the correct health-panel interaction, understand dressing limits and check whether blood loss actually improves.
Read guideInternal 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.
Read guideHemothorax & 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.
Read guideTourniquet 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.
Read guideRemove Shrapnel & Glass
Remove Casualties: Unknown shrapnel with the right minigame speed or tweezers, then reassess the injured limb for bleeding and other remaining damage.
Read guideFractures & Dislocations
Treat Casualties: Unknown fractures and dislocations, use splints on the affected limb and understand why immobilizing a healthy limb reduces function.
Read guideInfections & Antiseptic
Treat Casualties: Unknown infected limbs with targeted antiseptic, read the direction arrow and distinguish infection control from merely stopping bleeding.
Read guideSepsis Warning Signs
Read Casualties: Unknown sepsis warnings, identify spreading limb infections and understand why treating pain alone does not resolve the systemic condition.
Read guideAED & Manual Defibrillators
Use Casualties: Unknown defibrillators on the chest, compare AED and manual operation and check circulation after the heart rhythm stabilizes.
Read guideAuto-pump & Epinephrine
Understand Casualties: Unknown auto-pump support and the tutorial’s epinephrine interaction when the heart stops, including battery and underlying-cause limits.
Read guideBlood 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.
Read guideMuscle 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.
Read guideProsthetics & Lost Limbs
Attach Casualties: Unknown steel prosthetics to the right body region, check missing-limb stumps and understand the 10 INT reliability requirement.
Read guideMoodles & Status Warnings
Read Casualties: Unknown moodles as specific warning descriptions, reveal hidden indicators and distinguish bleeding, infection, intoxication and other systems.
Read guideCrafting & 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.
Read guideCrafting Not Working
Diagnose blocked Casualties: Unknown recipes by checking favourites, item condition, material and tool qualities, available liquid volume and current INT.
Read guideIntelligence & Crafting Risk
Raise Casualties: Unknown INT through new crafts, blueprints, trading and descent, and understand the course’s 1–3 INT crafting failure thresholds.
Read guideStrength, Resilience & Carrying
Understand Casualties: Unknown Strength and Resilience, carrying-capacity interactions and the current patch restriction on overencumbrance experience.
Read guideLockpicking & 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.
Read guideItem Labels, Colors & Favourites
Label and recolor Casualties: Unknown items with the release tutorial interaction, keeping visual organization separate from ingredient protection.
Read guideItems & 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.
Read guideHow 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.
Read guideBoil 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.
Read guideTorches, Lanterns & Batteries
Choose Casualties: Unknown light sources, relight a wet torch with a flame source and distinguish flashlight battery use from lantern item descriptions.
Read guideBattery 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.
Read guideArmor & 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.
Read guideTraders, Gifts & Trust
Understand Casualties: Unknown trader interactions, gifts, trust and species differences, including why threatening or hugging a stranger can go wrong.
Read guideMood & 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.
Read guideLiquid Containers & Mixtures
Inspect Casualties: Unknown liquid contents and volume, distinguish bottle labels from mixtures and transfer temporary-bottle contents before they vanish.
Read guideMultiplayer & 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.
Read guideInstall Casualties Together
Install Casualties Together for Casualties: Unknown with version-matched assets, the documented BepInEx layout and the contents of the mod folder.
Read guideMultiplayer Not Working
Diagnose Casualties: Unknown co-op failures: version mismatch, missing mod controls, Steam lobby problems and documented synchronization limits.
Read guideCo-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.
Read guideMods & 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.
Read guideRecover 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.
Read guideVersions & 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.
Read guideInstall 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.
Read guideDemo 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.
Read guideDownload & 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.
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