clraik has been hit with a Ryu virus, maybe a Ryurona?! And it looks like we have a ryudemic on our hands! You may have noticed your pixelated buddy has been feeling a bit under the weather.
We have set up the 🏥 Ryu Health Center 🏥 in order to provide you with more information but also as a place for our sick Ryus to be identified and convalesce. Here we can nurse and provide them with the needed care and attention for their recovery. In saying this, if you are entering the Ryu Health Center and are not infected you are running the risk of becoming infected yourself. ☣️You have been warned!☣️
In order to help provide care to our sickly Ryus we have set up emergency tents and collected them below in order for the community to provide all the love, cuddles and chicken noodle soup they need. Once we get things under control we hope to have a more permanent set up.
When you become infected please post here! If you see another Ryu that is infected and not admitted to the Ryu Health Center please post about them here so we can keep our census up to date.
3) The virus is so contagious that it does not need direct contact to be made, it can be spread by being in the same area as an infected user.
Originally Posted by Bat
Infection isn't tied to who's pressing your Ryugotchi's buttons. You don't need to be touched to catch something from somebody. The same is true with Ryugotchis.
Originally Posted by Bat
If a contagious Ryugotchi on the same page as yours, then there's a chance your Ryugotchi will be infected when that Ryugotchi's owner visits this thread.
4) To get better your Ryu needs rest as well as love from the community. This means that any visitors your Ryu had have gone home to stay safe.
Originally Posted by Bat
Something like that! If you see a sick Ryugotchi, then make sure to give them some love. You might be the one to pull them out of their funk!
Originally Posted by Bat
Sick Ryugotchis will need bed rest and love from members of the community to heal! They'll be better on their own in a few days, but showing some love can speed up the process.
5) If you have Ryu visitor perks when your Ryu becomes sick it's visitor will leave. However, if your Ryu is sleeping the visitor may return! Also those with visitors when sleeping may have a little extra love to help them heal up!
Originally Posted by Bat
That's right. Sick Ryugotchis don't want to play. Just eat and mope when they're not busy sleeping or getting cleaned up after.
Originally Posted by Bat
The concept was too cute to pass up. I've reverted back the change that I made to stop sick Ryugotchi from sleeping with visitors, and I've added a condition to the in-game clock that has a chance of healing either visitor faster when they're sick.
6) Your Ryu can get better on, it's own but heals faster with help. HOWEVER! Just because you are healed, doesn't mean you are immune! You CAN get sick again!
Originally Posted by Bat
Taking care of sick Ryugotchis heals them faster, but they'll heal on their own after a few days of being sick. There's a grace period after that where a previously sick Ryugotchi can no longer get sick again with the same strain of illness, but all bets are off if a new strain comes along. It's possible for the community to completely kill the strain with rigorous care and quarantining! It's also possible for the community to keep their Ryugotchi sick by removing it from their stack, then reintroducing the outbreak later if they please. Who knows what will happen!
Originally Posted by Bat
Sick Ryugotchis are no longer contagious after a couple of days, even if their symptoms persist, and they can be healed even faster after some time passes. You can also cure them completely at any point if you're diligent with providing care. It's possible for the community to completely eradicate the outbreak quite quickly that way.
7) If you re-roll your Ryu it will heal, no longer be contagious and become immune...for a bit.
Originally Posted by Bat
Hatching will cause your Ryugotchi to fully recover, they will no longer be contagious, and they will become immune to the illness for an extended period of time.
8) When your Ryu becomes infected you can choose to isolate them by putting them into their stack. They will still recover. It may take longer however since they till not receive care from the community.
Originally Posted by Bat
The recovery clock is an absolute time, but the in-game clock has to tick in order to clear status effects. The in-game clock is suspended when your Ryugotchi is put away, which means a tick would have to occur for your visuals to be updated, but the contagiousness period will still be measured from the recovery clock.
9) As of 28 Jan 2024 you can now look after sleeping ryus that are sick of you are friends with the Ryu owner! Yay!
Originally Posted by Bat
Time to start adding friends! You can wake a friend's sleeping Ryugotchi to feed and clean up after it.
☣️ Next Steps ☣️
It is up to us as a community to get our sick Ryus healthy and keep our healthy Ryus infection free! This means providing care by feeding and playing with our infected Ryus to get them better. For our healthy Ryu population you have the option to isolate in the settings home and stay out of the stack, or avoid threads that may have infected Ryus on them. Hopefully as time goes on we can move our Ryus from infected status to cured!
Typically viruses need hosts in which to incubate, make the host contagious and then spread onto more hosts and continue to multiply. To keep your Ryu safe you could isolate and have them stay at home by removing them from your stack. In doing so in theory you should be able to explore clraik without worry about spreading more Ryuvirus or catching another strain. This is great if you want to "do your part" but also help other Ryus without fear of getting sick yourself. To test this theory....yes test...it is not confirmed....the idea is to create a Ryu Rescue Crew 🚑 full of clraik members who are going to isolate their Ryus and help the infected.
If you wish to join you will need to do a couple of things:
1) Go to your settings and tuck your Ryu bar away out of your stack.
2) Alert me that you want to join the crew. 🚑
3) Start caring for those sick Ryus!
There is new userbar out there related to this outbreak! It appears to be related to healing Ryus. When interacting with a sick Ryu they may give a heart reaction. This shows that they are now cured.
After healing at least 3 Ryus you unlock this lovelt bar! So get out there with cuddles, soup and scoop dat poop! Nurse mode activate!💞
Yuumi's
team rocket's
Were low on hearts so I nursed them back to full health!
Shinx's
Siebenschlaefer's
Were also low but didn't seem sick, which is weird.. Shinx's was also asleep and I was able to wake them up to feed them (I thought this wasn't possible so just wanted to report)