¶ Important Information
Living mice contain viruses, so no need to kill them its useful to keep them to breed them to have a steady source of virus dishes, using a syringe on a mouse will get some of the infected blood.
Wear a Bio-Suit. Contact diseases spread like wildfire just touching items can spread it, wear a bio suit or you and everything you hold dear will become infected.
Use science goggles for seeing who and whats infected
Chemistry's job is no longer to cure viruses its now entirely up to you the pathologist.
¶ Why?
¶ Major Changes
- Chemistry no longer cures viruses directly, they can help with chemicals like spaceacillian, but vaccines are made by the pathologist.
- Spacemen now have Immune Systems which directly interact with diseases.
- Diseases now have 2 specific Antigens that are needed to Cure them.
- Health Scanners no longer reveal diseases, thats handled by the Antibody Scanner.
- Living mice have and can pass around diseases, its no longer just eating dead mice.
¶ Disease spread types and you
| Image | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Blood Contact | Blood pools, Injecting blood, bloodied items, bloodied surgery tools, ingesting blood, eating infected meats. |
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Skin Contact | Touching items and mobs will spread the disease. |
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Airborne Spread | Breathing these clouds in will spread it, infection chance increases lifespan of clouds. |
¶ Your New Machines
| Image | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Disease Analyzer | Anaylzes Virus Dishes if their growth is at 100%, adds disease to database. Parts: 3 Scanning Modules, 1 Micro Laser, 1 Manipulator |
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Disease Splicer | This is responsible for creating disease disks and splicing them into diseases |
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Centrifuge | Creates vaccines and isolates diseases to a dish the better version of the isolator. Parts: 3 Manipulators |
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Incubator | Incubates Disease dishes to grow or hinder diseases Parts: 2 Scanning Module, 1 Matter Bin, 2 Micro Lasers |
¶ How to Virus
First things first, you are going to want to find some infected blood, people with dormant diseases (look purple with goggles), late joins and mice have these. To see whos infected take your science goggles and refer the the disease spread types and you to see whos infected
Expect to be tried as a war criminal if you make your disease airborne spread, for good viruses blood spread is what you want.
Bring the blood sample back to your lab and throw it into the centrifuge and isolate this may take some time, so its best advised to go find more diseases in the mean time.
Bring the disease to the incbuator after giving it some virus food to grow, afterwards bring it to the analyzer to analyze it
You now have an analyzed disease, it splits into two sections from here. Modification and Curing.
¶ Disease Types
There are a total of 4 different diseases you can find and harness. Each has it's own unique properties.
Strenght and Robustness generally affect how difficult it is to cure said disease.
When multiple diseases are introduced in the same body, an internal war can begin where they will try to attack each other. The winner is decided based on it's strength stat.
| Disease Type | Description | Attack |
|---|---|---|
| Virus | Balanced disease. Only loses 1 stage in newly infected hosts. | Parasites |
| Parasites | Slower infection rate. Stage preserved for newly infected hosts. | Bacteria |
| Bacteria | Faster infection rate and progression, but only 3 stages max, and reset to stage 1 in newly infected hosts. | Virus |
| Prion | Very fast progression, but very slow infection rate and resets to stage 1 in newly infected hosts. | None |
While multiple diseases can infest an individual, only the equivalent of one disease will ever apply it's effects.
¶ Modification
You will need a sample of this virus for every symptom you want to extract, using a syringe on the virus dish will let you get 2 syringes of blood out of it once fully grown.
Take the symptoms you want out of the virus using the splicer and create some disease disks for later.
The extrapolator is also used to extract symptoms. More on this below!
Using the disease we want to spread slot the symptoms into the stage you want.
Incubating the disease will raise or lower its strength robustness and infectability
| Chemicals in Dish | Effect | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Virus Food | Increases Growth, can advance disease stages in living people. | 5u Milk + 5u Water = 15U Virus Food |
| Mutagenic Agar | Randomizes symptoms. | 1u Unstable Mutagen + 1u Virus food = 1u Mutagenic Agar |
| Sucrose Agar | Increases symptom trigger chance. | 1u Sugar + 1u Mutagenic Agar = 2u Sucrose Agar |
| Unstable Uranium Gel | Randomizes the diseases antigens needed to cure. | 5u Uranium +1u Virus Plasma = 1u Unstable Uranium Gel |
| Stable Uranium Gel | Increases disease Robustness. | 10u Uranium + 10u Gold + 1u Plasma = 1u Stable Uranium Gel |
| OR 10u Uranium + 10u Silver + 1u Plasma = 1u Stable Uranium Gel | ||
| Decaying Uranium Gel | Decreases disease Robustness | 1u Uranium + 1u Virus Food = 1u Decaying Uranium Gel |
| Virus Rations | Increases disease Strength. | 1u Synaptizine + 1u Virus Food = 1u Virus Rations |
| Virus Plasma | Increases symptom Strength. | 1u Plasma +1u Virus Food = 1u Virus Plasma |
| Spaceacillin | Decreases disease and symptom Strength. | 1u Cryptobiolin + 1u Epinephrine = 2u Spaceallin |
Some chemicals require regrants only avaible in the pharmacy
| Regrant Chemical | Recipe |
|---|---|
| Unstable Mutagen | 1u Radium + 1u Phosphorus 1u Chlorine = 3u Unstable Mutagen |
| Synaptizine | 1u Sugar + 1u Lithium + 1u Water = 3u Synaptizine |
| Cryptobiolin | 1u Sugar + 1u Oxygen + 1u Potassium = 3u Cryptobiolin |
| Epinephrine | 1u Phenol + 1u Acetone + 1u Diethylamine + 1u Oxygen + 1u Chlorine + 1u Hydrongen = 6u Epinephrine |
Be mindful of strenghtening symptom effects with Virus Plasma! Certain symptoms that are otherwise helpful can actually become harmful! For example ones that release adrenaline can lead to exhaustion and heart attacks! Too much of something can lead to unexpected results!
If you aren't an antag re-analyze your virus so its in the database and medical knows what it is, or you will have a mob at your door
Mutagenic Agar will have a chance to roll new symptoms when a stage focus in the Incubator has been set.
You've now made a virus, and are ready to release it into the world!
¶ Curing
In the virus label there will be something called the virus antigens, if you are using the Antibody Scanner it will look like this.
Each notch represts a stage in the virus hitting each notch means that stage won't trigger, IE: the first notch is the first symptom.
Assuming the virus is analyzed you will see the notches over antigens those are what is needed to cure the virus.
If you just see a line its not analyzed and will need to be analyzed
You will need to raise the antigens to the topmost line in order to cure it, there are a few ways to do this.
- Vaccines
- Medication
- Rest
- Burn it
- Chicken Noodle Soup
Medication is spaceacillian and other antipathogenics.
Chicken Noodle Soup acts as a really low level anti-pathogenic so it most likely won't cure anything except low level viruses.
| Medication | Effect |
|---|---|
| Spaceacillian | Increases relevant antigens up to a threshold. |
| Chicken Noodle Soup | Similar to Spaceacillin, but much weaker. |
| Aluxive | Used to counteract immunodeficiency, restoring the Immune System. |
| Aetericilide | Boosts Immune System up to 5 times it's starting level. |
| Radiohydrate | Suppresses Immune System, useful to stop benevolent pathogens from curing themselves. |
Its advised to raise your antigens to a certain point like 35-45 and than getting virology to create a vaccine, this wont take nearly as long and will help cure other people aswell.
If you followed any of the steps before this you should have cured the disease, but be careful other diseases will lower antigens, and can make you vulnerable to this disease again!
Proper Vaccination will require at least 5 units of the right vaccine, and the antigens from it will dissipate after about 30 minutes.
¶ Tools
Here I will talk about some of the tools you will be using.
¶ Virus Extrapolator
The Extrapolator is a tool that you start with as soon as you enter the shift. It's an incredibly vital tool in modifying diseases, as you can extract symptoms without getting into the hustle and bustle of extracting each one individually from the splicer. It also gives you time to interact with people outside your lab!
To use it, simply press on someone with it on your hand. You will see a selection of symptoms to choose from. You can only extract each one once, when successful.
You can use it on non-players too, like monkeys. But the symptoms gotten from it are significantly stronger when used on real players! They have to be humanoid though.
After selecting a symptom, you have to complete a mini-game. It's simple, you just have to match the letters in the order that is listed on the left, from top to bottom.
But you can only select the same letters on the same grid that you are on. Meaning, on your first press, you can only select everything on a vertical row, then it switches to horizontal on the next... etc. So plan ahead!
¶ Varients
The Extrapolator is your main tool in manipulating varients. These are addons that can be grafted onto symptoms individually that modify them EVEN further! These are obtained when successfully gathering symptoms with the extrapolator, and the chance to gain them on success increases when you upgrade it with a better scanning module.
Here are some varients you might come across:
| Varient | Effect |
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| Reflexive | Automatically takes effect when the host is damaged. |
| Recursive | Triggers a symptom 3 extra times 2 seconds apart from eachother. |
| Clockwork | Like clockwork this symptom triggers every 10 seconds. |
| Strengthen | Raises a symptoms strength. |
| Quantumly Entangled | The cloning process seems to have caused genes to communicate through hosts. |
To insert varients into symptoms, simply right click your extrapolator in your hand, and press on it against an infected host, or a dish.
¶ Immunity Scanner
This vital tool is one of the first things you should seek out once you start. It allows you to scan bodies for all types of info about their diseases. You will still need to have the disease analyzed prior to this for a more detailed scan, but regardless it will allow you to check a person's immune system and make progress in curing them using the information that is displayed within.
¶ Machines
¶ Disease Incubator
The disease incubator as the name implies incubates diseases.
Growth is how much our virus dish has grown, at 100% it can be analyzed
Volume is the amount of reagents inside the virus dish.
The Mutate variables are how much the dishes symptoms are mutated every process
Virus Food increases dish and virus growth, water on the other hand lowers growth and lowers multipliers.
Upgrading the Incubator also upgrades the Minor Mutate Effects, speeding it up drastically!
The Incubator has a focus feature on the top right. This feature is vital when using reagents in dishes that affect symptoms specifically like virus plasma, as you can focus a specific stage, which will select all symptoms with the same stage.
¶ Disease Splicer
The disease is made up of a few parts
- Disease Dish, when its inserted you use the Targeted Stage and extract effect to extract that specific effect
- Memory Bank, thats the current stored symptom. It can be burned to a disk to save for later like botany's plant DNA disk
If a disease isn't analyzed the symptom extracted will show as unknown, so make sure to analyze the disease.
Using the symptom in your memory bank you can burn the symptom onto the disease as the target stage.
You do not need to burn it into the same stage you took it from, you can have a disease with 4 of the same symptom.
Every stage has it's own chance to trigger. As an example, if someone is at disease stage 4, every symptom before it will also still have a chance to trigger.
¶ Centrifuge
This is the machine that you should be getting virus dishes from its faster than the isolator can do four at once and can be upgraded.
Unlike other machines the centrifuges processing speed is entirely dependant on the vial count and volumes of the vials, it performs best with all vials having the same reagent count.
The centrifuge is where you create vaccines, you can also isolate a specific virus from a blood sample.
To make a vaccine the blood sample in question needs to have a certain amount of the specific antigen in the blood, the amount of time to create the vaccine varies greatly and if at low concentrations can take upwards of 20 minutes to create a vaccine.
¶ Disease Analyzer
This machine only analyzes diseases, it requires the dish to be 100% grown so you may need to use the incubator. After doing so it will attach a label to the dish that when examined will give details about the virus, as well as adding it to the Database. That looks like this.
Changes made to the virus will not auto update you will need to re-analyze the virus for the effects to update in the database.
¶ Symptom Charts
¶ Stage 1
| Stage | Name | Description | Overall Effect | Restricted? |
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| 1 | Waiting Syndrome | A self-defeating symptom that doesn't seem to do anything in particular. | Helpful | No |
| 1 | Coldingtons Effect | Makes the infected sneeze every so often, leaving some infected mucus on the floor. | Annoying | No |
| 1 | Flemmingtons | Causes a sensation of mucous running down the infected's throat. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Saliva Effect | Causes the infected to drool. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Twitcher | Causes the infected to twitch. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Headache | Gives the infected a light headache. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Drained Feeling | Gives the infected a drained sensation. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Watery Eyes | Causes the infected's tear ducts to overact. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Wheezing | Inhibits the infected's ability to breathe slightly, causing them to wheeze. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Melisso-Emeto Syndrome | Converts the lungs of the infected into a bee-hive. | Annoying | No |
| 1 | Myalgia Syndrome | Makes the infected more perceptive of their aches and pains. | Flavor | No |
| 1 | Fullness Syndrome | An unusual symptom that causes the infected to feel hungry, even after eating. | Annoying | No |
| 1 | Visions of the End-Times | UNKNOWN | Annoying | No |
| 1 | Itching | Makes you itch! | Annoying | No |
| 1 | Tissue Hydration | Absorption of water healing the body. Better with burns and holy water. | Helpful | No |
| 1 | Plasma Fixation | Absorb Plasma to heal and stabilize temperature. | Helpful | No |
| 1 | Human Transformation | Turns the target into a human | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Robotic Transformation | Turns the target into a cyborg | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Xenomorph Transformation | Turns the target into a xenomorph | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Advanced Mutation Transformation | Turns the target into a slime | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | The Barkening | Turns the target into a corgi | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Gluttony's Blessing | Turns the target into a morph | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Gondola Transformation | Turns the target into a gondola | Harmful | YES |
| 1 | Severe Anxiety | Causes the host to suffer from severe anxiety | Annoying | YES |
| 1 | Death Sandwich | You ate it wrong, and now you will die. Cure: Anacea | Deadly | YES |
¶ Stage 2
| Stage | Name | Description | Overall Effect | Restricted? |
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| 2 | Facial Hypertrichosis | Causes the infected to spontaneously grow a beard, regardless of gender. Only affects humans. | Flavor | No |
| 2 | Automated Sleeping Syndrome | Makes the infected feel more drowsy. | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Anima Syndrome | Causes the infected to cough rapidly, releasing pathogenic clouds | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Appetiser Effect | Starves the infected | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Refridgerator Syndrome | Causes the infected to shiver at random | Flavor | No |
| 2 | Hair Loss | Causes rapid hairloss in the infected | Flavor | No |
| 2 | Adrenaline Extra | Causes the infected to synthesize artificial adrenaline | Helpful | No |
| 2 | Vermouth Syndrome | Causes the infected to synthesize pure ethanol | Harmful | No |
| 2 | Intranasal Hemorrhage | Causes the infected's nasal pathways to hemorrhage, causing a nosebleed, potentially carrying the pathogen | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Lantern Syndrome | Causes the infected to glow. Color is based on Reagents in the infected unless they consume space cleaner | Helpful | No |
| 2 | Vitreous Resonance | Causes the infected to shake uncontrollably, at the same frequency that is required to break glass | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Porokeratosis Acanthus | Causes the infected to generate keratin spines along their skin | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Faminous Potation | The infected emanates a field that kills off plantlife. Lethal to species descended from plants | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Oleum Syndrome | Causes the infected to internally synthesize oil and other inorganic material | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Dysplasia Syndrome | Rapidly restructures the body of the infected, causing them to shrink in size. | Flavor | No |
| 2 | Gastrointestinal Inflammation | Inflames the GI tract of the infected, causing relentless vomiting | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Antioxidantisation Syndrome | A very real syndrome beloved by Super-Food Fans and Essential Oil Enthusiasts; encourages the production of anti-toxin within the body | Helpful | No |
| 2 | Hemoptysis | Causes the infected to cough up blood. | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Choking | The virus causes infmallation of the host's air conduits, leading to intermittent choking | Hindrance | No |
| 2 | Disfiguration | The virus liquefies facial muscles, disfiguring the host. | Annoying | No |
| 2 | Hyphema | Sufferers exhibit dangerously low levels of frames per second in the eyes, leading to damage and eventually blindness | Harmful | No |
| 2 | Aurora Snorealis | The virus causes a hormone inbalance, making the host sleepy and narcoleptic | Annoying | Yes |
| 2 | Starlight Condensation | The virus reacts to direct starlight, producing regenerative chemicals. Works best against toxin-based damage. | Helpful | Yes |
¶ Stage 3
| Stage | Name | Description | Overall Effect | Restricted? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Hyperacidity | Inhibits the infected's ability to process natural toxins, producing a buildup of said toxins | Harmful | No |
| 3 | World Shaking Syndrome | Attacks the infected's motor output, giving them a sense of vertigo. | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Abductor Syndrome | Repurposes a portion of the users brain, making them incapable of normal speech but allows you to talk to a hivemind. | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Lazy Mind Syndrome | Rots the infected's brain. | Harmful | No |
| 3 | Hallucinational Syndrome | Induces hallucination in the infected | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Uncontrolled Laughter Effect | Gives the infected a sense of humor | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Chicken Pox | Causes the infected to begin coughing up eggs of the poultry variety. | Annoying | No |
| 3 | Topographical Cretinism | Attacks the infected's ability to differentiate left and right | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Groaning Syndrome | Causes the infected to groan randomly | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Hyper-perspiration Effect | Causes the infected's sweat glands to go into overdrive | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Elvisism | Makes the infected the king of rock and roll | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Pierrot's Throat | Overinduces a sense of humor in the infected, causing them to be overcome by the spirit of a clown | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Horse Throat | Inhibits communication from the infected through spontaneous generation of a horse mask | Hindrance | No |
| 3 | Pro-tagonista Syndrome | Causes the infected to believe they are the center of the universe. Outcome may vary depending on the symptom strength | Annoying | No |
| 3 | Epidermolysis Bullosa | Inhibits the strength of the infected's skin, causing it to tear on contact. | Harmful | No |
| 3 | Hyper-fibrinogenesis | Causes the infected to oversynthesize coagulant, as well as rapidly restore lost blood. | Helpful | No |
| 3 | Teratoma Syndrome | Causes the infected to oversynthesize stem cells engineered towards organ generation. Said generated organs are expelled from the body upon completion | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Toxic Compensation | Stimulates cellular growth within the body, causing it to regenerate tissue damage. Repair done by these cells causes toxins to build up in the body. | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Supermatter Syndrome | Causes the infected to experience engineering-related hallucinations | Annoying | No |
| 3 | Eldrich Mind Syndrome | UNKNOWN | Harmful | No |
| 3 | Wizarditis | Some speculate that this virus is the cause of the Space Wizard Federation's existence. Subjects affected show the signs of brain damage, yelling obscure sentences or total gibberish. On late stages subjects sometime express the feelings of inner power, and, cite, 'the ability to control the forces of cosmos themselves!' A gulp of strong, manly spirits usually reverts them to normal, humanlike, condition. | Harmful | No |
| 3 | Chroma Imbalance | The virus replaces the melanin in the skin with reactive pigment | Flavor | No |
| 3 | Metabolic Boost | The virus causes the host's metabolism to accelerate rapidly, making them process chemicals twice as fast but also causing increased hunger. | Helpful | No |
| 3 | Mind Restoration | Repairs the bonds between neurons, reversing some damage to the mind | Helpful | No |
| 3 | Nocturnal Regeneration | The virus is able to mend the host's flesh when in conditions of low light, repairing physical damage. More effective against brute damage. | Helpful | No |
| 3 | Regenerative Coma | The virus causes the host to fall into a death-like coma when severely damaged, then rapidly fixes the damage. | Helpful | No |
| 3 | Bad Adrenaline | If left untreated, the subject will suffer from lethargy, dizziness and periodic loss of consciousness. | Annoying | Yes |
| 3 | DNA Degradation | Attacks the infected's DNA, causing it to break down. | Deadly | Yes |
¶ Stage 4
| Stage | Name | Description | Overall Effect | Restricted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Space Adaptation Effect | Heals the infected from the effects of space exposure, should they remain in a vacuum | Helpful | No |
| 4 | Creosote Syndrome | Causes the infected to synthesize a wafer thin mint | Harmful | No |
| 4 | Dead Ear Syndrome | Kills the infected's aural senses | Hindrance | No |
| 4 | Toxification Syndrome | A more advanced version of Hyperacidity, causing the infected to rapidly generate toxins. | Deadly | No |
| 4 | Reverse Pattern Syndrome | Attacks the infected's DNA, causing rapid spontaneous mutation, and inhibits the ability for the infected to be affected by cryogenics | Deadly | No |
| 4 | Longevity Syndrome | Grants functional immortality to the infected so long as the symptom is active. Heals broken bones and healing external damage. Creates a backlash if cured. | Helpful | No |
| 4 | Fragile Person Syndrome | Attacks the infected's body structure, making it more fragile. | Hindrance | No |
| 4 | Fizzle Effect | Causes an ill, though harmless, sensation to the infected's throat. | Flavor | No |
| 4 | Delightful Effect | A more powerful version of Full Glass. Makes the infected feel delightful. | Helpful | No |
| 4 | Arachnogenesis Effect | Causes the infected's stomach to begin producing creatures of the arachnid variety. | Harmful | No |
| 4 | Blattogenesis Effect | Causes the infected's stomach to begin producing creatures of the blattid variety. | Hindrance | No |
| 4 | Gregarious Impetus | Infests the social structures of the infected's brain, causing them to feel better in crowds of other potential victims, and punishing them for being alone | Hindrance | No |
| 4 | Magnitis | This disease disrupts the magnetic field of the body, making it act as if a powerful magnet. | Harmful | No |
| 4 | Retrotransposis | This symptom transplants the genetic code of the initial vector into new hosts | Harmful | Yes |
| 4 | Retrovirus | A DNA-altering retrovirus that scrambles the structural and unique enzymes of a host constantly | Annoying | No |
| 4 | The Rhumba Beat | Chick Chicky Boom! | Deadly | No |
| 4 | Inorganic Biology | The virus can survive and replicate even in an inorganic environment, increasing its resistance and infection rate. | Flavor | No |
| 4 | Necrotic Metabolism | The virus is able to thrive and act even within dead hosts. | Flavor | No |
| 4 | Self-Respiration | The virus synthesizes oxygen, which can remove the need for breathing at high symptom strength. | Helpful | No |
| 4 | Myocardial Infarction | If left untreated, the subject will die. | Deadly | Yes |
| 4 | Sneezing? | The virus causes irritation of the nasal cavity, making the host sneeze occasionally. Sneezes from this symptom will spread the virus in a 4 meter cone in front of the host. | Harmful | Yes |
| 4 | Fungal Tubererculosis | Rumoured to be carefully grown and cultured by clandestine bio-weapon specialists. Causes fever, blood vomiting, lung damage, weight loss, and fatigue. | Deadly | Yes |