Same experience here. I died 3 times the 1st week from infection, and that's never been the cause of my untimely demise before. While I was silently cursing Jax' name, I also decided I wouldn't let his evil programming break me. So on day 8 I raided the hospital and got some bandages. No antibiotics to be found, but they slowly started to trickle in after that. As for sinda's suggestion to fight more ranged, I picked the blades class and have to get a little up close and personal to progress, unless throwing knives gets introduced to the mod. Anyway, it got better and now I'm loving every second of it. I noticed in the hide armor quest it takes 65 animal hides to make the full set and not 60.