Dead State

Hey.

I just started playing this and have played a few hours so far. It's pretty rough with Ironman/Hardcore/Whatever turned on, and the game wasn't 100% clear about some things in the tutorial. Can someone answer these questions?

1 - When a character has low HP and you heal them, is their overall HP loss, i.e. the equivalent of a Constitution loss, permanent? If not, how do you heal that? For example, Anita is 25/100 HP, and I sleep the night, go out on a scavenge the next day and she's still wounded. If I heal her, she'll go to 47/90. How do I get that overall HP back? On second thought, how do I properly heal at all while at the school?

2 - How can you tell what the status ailments are? I see that Anita is crippled or something, it looks like a broken arm icon, yet I don't see anywhere in the menus that I can find out what exactly the ailment is and what to do for it. Where is that information?

3 - Screwdrivers are cool. The Skullcrusher skill is really deadly on undead. Just thought I'd share that.

1. The heath you can't heal via med kits can be restored by either general rest or more rapidly using a doctor and the hospital upgrade. Using the hospital most characters will be back at 100% in a single day assuming a skilled doctor.

2. All ailments are resolved by rest (either hospital or bed). Some ailments can take a maximum of 3 days to go away.

Dead state wiki is very comprehensive but I recommend keeping usage to a minimum as it is full of spoilers:

https://deadstate.gamepedia.com/Status_Effects

Thanks. I'm trying to avoid spoilers. But those few things seemed necessary.

Regarding 3, most of the hard fights are against humans with guns, not undead, so you may want to limit the anti undead choices when leveling up, especially on your main guy.
That said, it really helps in the early game.