🦠Illness Farming🦠

What Is Illness Farming?
Illness farming is the act of gathering up many fodder/disposable wolves/puppies, usually all in a single cave, and infecting them with contagious illnesses

Why Should One Practice Illness Farming?
You can get a whole lot of experience/herbalist proficiency for your wolf from it through the diagnose function that your herbalist has.

A herbalist gets about 20 experience per wolf diagnosed and 1 proficiency about 33% of the time from diagnoses.
While it does not seem like much it can quickly stack up with more and more wolves infected a day, 50 newly infected already translates to 1000~ experience or about 16 proficiency for your wolf which is no small amount.

Though it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it also provides incentives to clear out the many unwanted puppies off the trade center, which would greatly help with the current overflow of pups

Thanks for the diagnosis, Plague Doctor Derpy 😂

This is also a way to level Stalkers (especially if their +1s start going off-kilter) since Herbalists share the same favored stats. _{**I didn't come up with this, thanks High Stats Wolvden chat!}

Ive never let a wolf stay sick for more than like 3 seconds. How long does it take for illnesses to spread? I bought some sick pups today to start doing this with

Most illnesses dont spread whilst a few spread on rollover

...I already have my pack covered in fleas. Your plan is perfect.

Thanks! This is pretty smart and useful, I was wondering why some people weren't bothering to cure some of their wolves.

Derpy, can I become a fellow plague bearer too, please? I already use flea strategy and now I want to start use the plague pups to 1. level up my pupsitters (as I rarely have pups on my own, I tend to breed wolves at the end of their live) 2. level up my herbalist too >u>