My alt almost died from Bird Lung

[vatas]

I was exploring abandoned village after carelessly getting Asphyxiation damage, was left with 11 HHP with 16 wound points and and -5CON debuff just from "Bird Lung."

You shouldn't almost die just from taking a peek inside a Dovecote.

[Fostik]

Yeah, having lung infection right after asphyxiation which causes low oxygen saturation in your blood may be harsh.

[strpk0]

That feature has gone largely unused ever since it was implemented, because the wound it gives you either dooms you to die on the next KO if you're a sprucecap (losing a large % of your HP + the CON debuff), or takes so long to heal that if you actually try to raise doves it will stack up higher and higher to a ridiculous amount, even if your character has decent stats.

I'd say its one of the more ridiculous wounds in this game (up there with beestings) that just force you to use alts for no good reason, or to just not use the content like many have decided to. I can understand adding wounds for flavor or lore purposes, but they shouldn't just cripple the fuck out of your character simply because you had the audacity to right click an object. Its a giant newb trap too, for obvious reasons.

@devs please consider incentives when adding content to the game, just getting slapped with random wounds for no reason isn't fun nor desirable for anyone with a functioning brain, humans and most species of animals evolved to dislike getting the shit slapped out of them, and instinctively avoid things that hurt them, for obvious reasons.

[DDDsDD999]

A lot of wounds should just be mild debuffs with no HHP damage, because jorb just refuses to remove these retarded wounds

[VDZ]

Wounds should be a punishment for an "oh I messed up" thing.

I kind of agree that in theory, it'd be nice if they all were fail cases that you could avoid by doing it right, but I also think it's fine to have them as random costs of doing business. Nothing the player can really do terribly wrong in simple harvesting or crafting procedures that we could meaningfully key in on.

(original post)

It's what you get for using Dovecotes. Your mistake was engaging with content without using a dedicated alt for it, and this is your punishment.

Reposting this on the same subject, a case I find far worse than Bird Lung:

Oh noes, I got stung by a bee, it heals of itself in a day or two. Who cares?

Your stats got reduced to 1 for who knows how long. No big deal, who cares? Just the cost of doing business.

Stat penalties for normal activities are simply bullshit.

[WowGain]

A feature just as absolutely tedious and absurd as beestings from skeps. Since it's tied to doves, instead of just forcing everyone to make a million alts to harvest vital resources without gimping their characters no one with a brain even bothers to interact at all with the entire game mechanic.
Dove shit isn't even a useful alchemical ingredient. At least it wasn't last world. We haven't bothered to test it this world because it's not worth even trying.


Great content jorbtar.

[wonder-ass]

tbh everyone is so fucking wounded early world its great. i was killing people while i had like -45% hhp and you know damn well the people i killed had lower haha.

[fallout]

Snuggle killed my alt due to birdlung