Editing Blood (section)

==Overview==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="5" |Blood
|-
! colspan="2" |Range
!UI Indicator
!Blood Amount
!Effects
|- style="text-align: center;"
! rowspan="2" |Maximum
| rowspan="2" |5,000
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:iconBlood0.png|center|50x50px]]
| style="background-color: #228B22;" |4,501 - 5,000
|None
|- style="text-align: center;"
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:iconBlood1.png|center|50x50px]]
| style="background-color: #9ACD32;" |4,001 - 4,500
|slightly gray vision (less color saturation)
|- style="text-align: center;"
! rowspan="2" |Minimum
| rowspan="2" |0
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:iconBlood2 WARNING_PLUS.png|center|50x50px]]
| style="background-color: #FFFF00; color: black;" |3,501 - 4,000
|even more gray vision
|- style="text-align: center;"
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:iconBlood3 CRITICAL_PLUS.png|center|50x50px]]
| style="background-color: #FF4500;" |3,001 - 3,500
|very gray vision
|- style="text-align: center;"
! rowspan="2" |Starting
| rowspan="2" |5,000
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:iconBlood4 BLINKING_PLUS.gif|center|50x50px]]
| style="background-color: #8B0000; color: white;" |2,501 - 3,000
|~5.9 [[Shock]] Damage/second<br /><small>Until [[Unconsciousness|Unconscious]]</small>
|- style="text-align: center;"
| style="background-color: #000000;" |[[File:DeadTemp.png|75px|center]]
| style="background-color: #000000; color: white;" |0 - 2,500
|Death
|}

<onlyinclude>'''Blood''', a core stat in [[DayZ]], is second only to [[Health]] in terms of importance. Representing the amount of blood in a character's body, losing too much Blood can result in [[unconsciousness]] or even death.

All [[Survivors]] start with '''5000''' Blood, the maximum that can be had, and lose Blood from injury. While a small amount of Blood is initially lost when a character suffers certain injuries, the primary method of blood loss is bleeding from wounds sustained when a character is injured. Although individual wounds typically do not result in much blood loss, multiple wounds, with varying degrees of severity, can occur in moderate to severe injuries resulting in a high amount of blood loss very quickly. 

Blood is a unique stat in a few of ways. First, the effects of blood loss don't happen when it gets close or drops to its minimum value of 0. Instead, the serious effects of blood loss begin to occur around 3,000 Blood, wherein a survivor will begin to take [[Shock]] damage until they either fall [[Unconsciousness|unconscious]] or regain enough Blood. Second, Blood is one of only two stats, the other being [[Health]], that cause death to occur when it falls below a specific value. With Blood, a character only needs to lose ~2,500 Blood for death to occur. Finally, Blood is unique in that every character has a '''blood type''', which is randomly determined when the character is first spawned. A character's [[Blood#Blood Type|blood type]] is unique to that character and does not transfer when a new character is spawned. 

As long as a [[Survivors|Survivor]] remains moderately fed and hydrated, they will regenerate lost Blood automatically. While the natural recovery process is faster than it is with [[Draft/Temporary2|Health]], the larger amount of Blood a character has makes the recovery time approximately the same. Unlike [[Draft/Temporary2|Health]], there are medical treatments a character can receive to increase recovery speed, via [[IV Saline Bag|Saline Bag IV]], or even instant restore lost Blood, via [[Blood Bag IV]]. Caution is advised, however, as an improper Blood Transfusion can result in the Hemolytic Reaction.</onlyinclude>