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Gloves and boots
Hands and feet are meters
Short answer
Cuts, cold, wet. Empty hands on a carcass is salmonella. Empty feet in snow is frostbite.
Also: gloves · boots
How it works
Gloves protect from cuts and cold. Boots from wet and cold. Holes dump both.
What to do
Loot them early. Repair them.
Don't
Don't punch glass bare-handed as a bit.