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A shivering Pango.
Villagers in Animal Forest e+, Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf can develop an ailment for a day to several days, depending on the game. While they are sick they may shiver or have the "depressed" emotion, until the last day of sickness, where they'll seem fine and not depressed, but they'd still shiver. Villagers can be recovered from being sick for the remainder of the day (up until midnight) if they are given medicine from Tom Nook's shop. The sickness lasts a variable amount of days, from one day to two weeks. While villagers are sick, they will not react positively and new options appear at the interaction menu, named "Need medicine?", accompanied by another option named "Are you OK?". Selecting the "Need medicine?" option will prompt anger if the player does not actually have any medicine in their pockets, but it will open the pockets if she or he does have medicine. After receiving the medicine, the villager will thank the player. After the sickness passes, the villager will give the player an item if they took care of the villager while they were sick.
If one player gave the medicine to a sick villager already, and another player talks to that villager, then the sick villager may be implying things like "<player who gave medicine to villager's name> is my hero!!" followed by an angry emotion, or maybe "I've got one person to thank for my health: <player who gave medicine to villlager's name>!" appearing with two different options like "Take care!", "G-R-O-S-S!" "Uh, adios!", even though if the player selects "Take care!", then the sick villager might say things like "Hey, thanks for worrying! You're a true-blue bud, <catchphrase>!" followed by a blushing emotion, even if that player was not the actual player who gave the medicine to the sick villager. Because of this, only one player may give the sick villager medicine.
Sick villagers usually send the player a letter of thanks once they are better. However, some villagers may send the player a letter even if they are still unwell and have only received medicine once.
Sickness in New Leaf
Screenshot of Kiki midsneeze.
In New Leaf, symptoms of sickness are more cold-based, and are actually referred to as colds. On occassions, a villager may be sick for more than one day. The emotions "depression" and "fear" are still used, additionally with the new emotion "sneeze". Sneezing is slightly more frequent in conversation. Prior games did not have this emotion, but instead, made do with a brief burst of the "anger" emote overtop the Animalese vocalization of a sneeze, which would shake the dialogue box. Also, if someone in town is sick, other villagers will know, and will sometimes tell the player that "<villager with cold> has a cold" and that they should go see how they're doing.
Broffina has the chills...
Additionally, if stung by a bee while a villager is sick, talking to uchi villagers will result in some of them giving the player medicine.
Glitches associated with sickness
The sign on a sick villager's house
- Main article: Glitch
In Wild World, if the player is to open their town gate and have a guest come while a villager is sick, then that villager is instantly better. This was fixed in City Folk and later games, as the character will lock their house, leaving a sign saying that they are feeling ill. Sick villagers do not appear in dream towns; whilst their houses display a note preventing the player from going in, they do not mention sickness.