State of Decay 2: How to Sleep and Cure Trauma

State of Decay 2 inflicts ailments on player characters like fatigue and trauma. Fatigue happens if your character is out and about too long. The longer they’re out running and killing zombies, the more fatigued they become. This limits the character’s stamina bar. 

Trauma happens after a character takes a big hit from a zombie. This has to be cured with rare medical items or the Infirmary facility.

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EditHow to Sleep/Fix Fatigue

After playing a bit of State of Decay 2, your survivor will naturally get sleepy. State of Decay 2 requires you to play each character in your community this way. 

In order to sleep, go back to your base and swap characters. After a few in-game hours, the character recovers from fatigue. You’ll receive a notification when this happens. 

You can drink things like coffee to push off fatigue, but there we have yet to find anything that completely takes it away. If you don’t have enough beds in your community for every person the characters recover slower from fatigue. 

Your companion also gets fatigued. Be sure to swap that person out and let them rest too or they’ll eventually abandon you and run straight home while killing zombies along the way.

EditHow to Cure Trauma

Trauma prevents a character from being able to get back to full health, and if the trauma is bad enough, it can also limit their stamina. Trauma can also impact their mood.

You can cure trauma with items like first aid kit, or at your base’s infirmary. If you don’t have an infirmary because you don’t have a character who has some sort of medical skill, get on that right away. You can randomly find medical textbooks that teach the medical skill in infirmaries, ambulances, and other medical structures. 

If you have the standard infirmary at your base, you can heal your active character at any time so long as you have at least 3 medicine in storage.  If you have an Infirmary level 2 or better, your characters will recover health AND trauma over time. 

Source: IGN Video Games