Physical Healing and First Aid Kits
Surviving the perils of DREADMOOR requires understanding the distinction between recovering physical health and managing infectious mutations. A 
First aid kit serves as emergency aid. It helps treat wounds and physical injuries, but cannot cure the Sickness.
Applying medical treatment triggers the Heal action, restoring your survivor condition and physical health. In your vessel cargo, a First aid kit stacks up to a maximum stack of 99 units. Both the base purchase price and default sell value stand at 25 coins.
Crafting Medical Supplies
Bait and upgrades for weapons, fishing gear, and tools are crafted at the Craft table in the Dry Dock. At the workbench, you can craft baits, fishing rod upgrades, and other items. Select a resource and press [LMB] to place it in the work area.
When all required resources are placed in the work area, press and hold [F] to craft the item. Crafting a First aid kit requires 1 
Alcohol, 1 
Rusty Hinge, and 1 
Mutant Fish Meat. Stocking these ingredients allows anglers to assemble emergency medical supplies before embarking on dangerous voyages.
The Sickness and Environmental Hazards
While a First aid kit treats trauma from hostile encounters, it cannot counter ambient blight infection. Clouds of red Blight are extremely dangerous! Try to avoid them during open water navigation.
Extracted from fish, Essence temporarily suppresses the symptoms of the Sickness, but does not cure the infection. Essence slows mutations, but it is hard to obtain. The importance of essence in life after the Collapse is impossible to overstate, and for an angler, carrying a reserve is nothing short of essential.
Lore Notes and Healers of DREADMOOR
Historical logs across the flooded world describe physical trauma and unusual recovery. Local survivor notes recount severe injury: Old Lenny took his eyes off the Harpooner, and it bit off his hand. A companion cauterized and dressed the wound while feeding him stew.
Mutated aquatic life also exhibits abnormal flesh reconstruction: mutation endowed the 
Bonescar with remarkable properties, where wounds on its body heal over with ossified flesh. It is said that the renowned healer Estelle once managed to turn this fish into a living piece of bone during her experiments.
Furthermore, 
Bony Fish Meat consists of tough fibers saturated with ossifying essence. Legends say broth made from this meat helps heal fractures, but who believes such nonsense? It does make excellent special bait, though. Anglers also encounter spiritual figures such as Father Matthias while exploring settlement sanctuaries.
