How a revive works
A teammate who goes down is not dead yet: they can be revived until they bleed out or give up. Reach them and use interact — F by default on PC. Three of the medical items say in their in-game text that they revive teammates faster, which implies a slower revive without one. Downed bodies can be dragged into cover first; players warn that a second medic grabbing the same body mid-heal drags it away and restarts the heal (12 September).
- 01
Get to the body
Drag it out of the line of fire if you can. The body, not you, is what counts as being in the zone.
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Interact to revive
F on PC. Carry a resuscitator or the Medical Bag to make it faster.
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Heal them up
Bandages, the First Aid Kit or the Medical Bag; Enox gives decaying extra health.
The Medic kit: nine items
From the game-file extraction, read 6 October. Price is per life; the unlock is the Medic level and one-time payment where the files record one. The quoted text is the game’s own item description.
All equipment in the database →
| Item | Price | Unlock | What the game says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Resuscitator | $0 | — | “1 Per Life Emergency Revive Item. Revives Teammates Faster.” |
| Bandages | $200 | — | 0.08 kg; the basic heal |
| Adrenaline Pen | $250 | Medic 14 · $25,000 | “Unlimited Tactical Sprint for Short Time.” |
| Enox | $450 | — | “A consumable item that grants decaying health.” |
| Field Resuscitator | $500 | Medic 2 · $10,000 | “Field Revive Item. Revives Teammates Faster.” |
| Individual First Aid Kit | $800 | Medic 9 · $25,000 | “Heals Back to Full Health.” |
| Defibrillator | $1,600 | Medic 11 · $50,000 | “Used to Revive Teammates Instantly. Requires Battery to Charge & Use.” |
| Medical Bag | $2,000 | Medic 24 · $75,000 | “Heal Self/Teammates Over Time. Costs More If Used On Self. Revive Teammates Faster.” |
| Resuscitation Mask | — | — | Seen in the beta; no price in the files |
What a revive pays
BULKHEAD’s store page says every teamplay action rewards cash, naming “reviving squadmates” first, but it has never published an amount. The only figures are the wardogs.zone Field Manual’s, dated 7 September, before launch:
wardogs.zone Field Manual: what everything pays →
- Revive: $400 in the open, $800 in the Control Zone, $1,600 in the Hot Zone — scored where the downed player is lying.
- Defibrillator revive: $600, $1,200 and $2,400 across the same three.
- Reviving the same player again pays about a quarter less each time.
- XP: 200 Medic XP per revive, 250 with a defibrillator, 80 per bandage.
- Every payout scales with the server’s player count: nothing under 10 players, full rate from 60.
Why a revive is worth more than a kill nearby
Two rules in the same manual make the medic matter. When a team revives a player you downed, your kill keeps one percent of its value — so a medic reaching the body all but cancels the enemy’s payout. And a revive puts a whole player back on the zone tick count. That is consistent with what BULKHEAD’s launch-weekend totals show players actually did: 60.7 million revives and 27.7 million heals over the launch weekend.
What BULKHEAD has changed
Update 0.1.2 on 30 September made “revive action validity checks” fully server-side, to stop revives being abused for cash and XP across the map. The Season 02 preview of 9 October promises “additional rewards for teamplay and logistics” without numbers. And one achievement belongs to medics in reverse: Do Not Resuscitate, for killing an enemy with the defibrillator charge, held by 4.1% of owners.
Common questions
How do you revive in WARDOGS?
Go to a downed teammate and interact — F by default on PC. A Field Resuscitator, Defibrillator or Medical Bag revives faster, and everyone gets one free Emergency Resuscitator per life.
How much does a revive pay in WARDOGS?
BULKHEAD has not said. A fan extraction of the game files, dated before launch, gives $400 in the open, $800 in the Control Zone and $1,600 in the Hot Zone, more with a defibrillator.
How do you unlock the defibrillator in WARDOGS?
The game files put it at Medic level 11 with a $50,000 unlock payment, then $1,600 per life. It needs a battery to charge.
Is there a medic class in WARDOGS?
Not a class you pick. Medic is a role track that levels from using medical items and SMGs, and its levels unlock the better medical kit.
Why do I get less for reviving the same teammate?
The game-file manual says each repeat revive of the same player pays about a quarter less than the one before.
Sources & verification
That reviving pays is BULKHEAD’s store copy; the launch-weekend totals are BULKHEAD’s. Item prices, unlocks and in-game text are wardogs.zone’s game-file extraction, read 6 October 2026. Payout figures are its Field Manual, dated 7 September — before launch — and BULKHEAD has published none of them. This site has not measured revive pay in the released build.
| Source | Type | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Steam · WARDOGS official store listing | Publisher stated | 2026-09-11 |
| BULKHEAD · WARDOGS Update 0.1.2, 30 September 2026Published at 06:57:06 UTC. Schedules an 08:00 UTC maintenance window estimated at one hour and publishes the complete 0.1.2 change list: a fix for the recent KB5124010-linked WD-L020 crash, named cash and XP exploit changes and enforcement, a four-way Deploy flow, browser/admin controls, stability, Havoc, buildable, throwable, crosshair and localisation fixes. The maintenance window is an announcement, not a live recovery signal. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-30 |
| BULKHEAD · WARDOGS Season 02 Preview, 9 October 2026Published through Steam at 16:00:14 UTC (Steam News API gid 1846018067933823). The complete announcement names four weapons, a Molotov, four vehicles, three buildables, rain behaviour, an experimental Wager Vendor, headline balance work and Season 02-only Lonestar bonuses. It repeats the 15 October release date, says full balance notes and a maintenance window will follow early the next week, and gives no start time, patch number, item prices, unlocks or numeric combat values beyond a 20% losing-team vendor discount that activates at least 40 points behind second place. | Publisher stated | 2026-10-09 |
| BULKHEAD · 2 Million Copies Sold and Early Access launch-weekend stats, 15 September 2026Published on Steam at 21:44:58 UTC after the same graphic appeared on @WARDOGS at 15:00:01 UTC. The attached official graphic reports rounded aggregate cash, combat, support and objective totals and the earned-XP split across six roles. A separate BULKHEAD and Team17 press release supplies a clock range and more precise values. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-15 |
| Valve · Global achievement percentages, app 1867240Returned all ten achievements with their internal identifiers and unlock rates at 13:02 UTC: ACH_TUTORIAL_COMPLETED 77.2, ACH_COMBAT_RICOCHET_KILL 20.1, ACH_ECONOMY_SINGLE_LIFE_PROFIT 16.1, ACH_TUTORIAL_PUNCH_KRISTOPHER 12.8, ACH_COMBAT_LONG_SHOT 7.6, ACH_ECONOMY_TOP_CASH_EARNER 7.5, ACH_SURVIVAL_CONTROL_ZONE_SURVIVOR 4.8, ACH_COMBAT_DEFIBRILLATOR_KILL 4.1, ACH_MATCH_CLEAN_SWEEP 2.7 and ACH_ECONOMY_LOADOUT_SPEND 0.0. The 2026-09-15 reading of the same endpoint returned 74.8, 14.8, 11.7, 12.1, 3.8, 5.7, 3.3, 1.7, 1.1 and 0.0 for the same identifiers: nine of the ten rose in six days, and two pairs swapped rank. The endpoint is live and these rates move daily; the page preserves the dated reading rather than implying a current one. | Publisher stated | 2026-09-21 |
| wardogs.zone · Field Manual, “Cash & The Economy”, updated 7 September 2026Fan site written from the game files, not BULKHEAD. Revive $400/$800/$1,600, defibrillator revive $600/$1,200/$2,400, repeat revives about a quarter less, 200/250 Medic XP per revive and 80 per bandage, and the player-count scaling. Dated before launch; not measured here. | Unverified | 2026-10-10 |
| wardogs.zone · item database (medical items), read 6 October 2026Prices, Medic unlock levels and payments, weights and in-game item text for the nine medical items, as carried in this site’s equipment database. | Unverified | 2026-10-06 |
| Steam · “Please prevent the body from being dragged away whilst healing”, 12 September 2026A second teammate helping drags the body away and restarts the heal. | Unverified | 2026-10-10 |
| Shacknews · “Wardogs PC keybindings & controls”, 10 September 2026Press keybind table; the source for F as the default interact key. | Unverified | 2026-10-10 |
