Deep cut healing by infection

[cecil01]

I had a deep cut worth 4 points which i neglected healing.
I went into a swamp and accidentally walked thru one tile before getting into a dugout, and the cut immediately got infected.
That pissed me off considerably and i was already thinking it was over, I'll be having a wound until i get soap, and logged off, with energy above healing but not in a bed or anything.
When i came back after around 12 or so hours, the wound was gone. Which shouldn't be possible since deep cuts don't heal naturally.
Is this some kind of bug or exploit or did i just get lucky?

[vatas]

It used to be that you could simply turn wounds into infected sores and then immediately wash them off with soap.

Devs addressed this by adding support for Wounds to have "subwounds" like infection, and treatments were also changed to use the same system.

You've possibly run into some kind of bug, though I have no idea what kind of spaghetti would cause this I just remember that allegedly Infected Sore has a chance to not only make the wound bigger, but also SMALLER. This resulted in the nonsensical situation where infection basically healed the wound (albeit through some lucky RNG.)

[Necrisha]

That's infection RNG. it doesn't happen often, but sometimes you get lucky.

[Procne]

I'll only add that soap is not the only way to deal with infections. Ant paste can be used as well: https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Ant_Paste
The downside is that ant paste adds another wound for about 15 hp, which heals on its own

[Reiber]

thats how infection works, its an gamble and only really works on small wounds,