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=Virology 101=
The first, and most important, way to prevent 99% of infections is having proper hazard wear and knowing how to keep the infection from spreading.
 
==Viruses==
 
Every virus behaves differently, from created viruses to event spawned viruses. Most viruses can spread themselves to other humanoids near the host in one way or another. These types of spread are:
* Airborne - The most dangerous and quick spreading, if you are anywhere within the breathing area of the infected crew member, you have a chance to be infected. Wearing internals stops further infections.
* Direct Contact - Requires you to touch, been touched, or be extremely close to the source of the infection. The infection will be spread by the skin and bodily fluids of an infected person, but will not survive long in the air. Wearing protective clothing and avoiding infected are great ways of not getting infected yourself.
* Blood - The infection will be spread by blood from the infected person. Beneficial viruses usually fall under this category.
* Special - The disease is not normally contagious and the affected crewman has been infected by a non-human vector source. You can work with the infected without risk yourself unless they expose you to the same vector source that infected them.
 
All viruses that spread with blood or above mentioned transfer by giving humanoids an infected blood sample, using either a syringe, a pill or other types of food/drinks. Every virus or vaccine only requires any amount of units to infect or cure somebody, 0.1 unit will work.
 
Each virus will not be visible on the Medical HUD until they reach a later stage, meaning at least at the halfway point of the stages (rounded up). For example, the Brainrot virus has 4 stages. The virus will then be visible starting at the 2nd stage. Any advanced virus has 5 stages total and it can be visible on the HUD starting at the 3rd stage depending on the stealth stat.
 
Each virus also has their own chemical(s) that the infected needs to ingest for them to be cured.
The virus has a chance to be cured once the infected humanoid has the chemical(s) in their body. Once the victim is cured, they will be immune for that virus until they get resleeved or put in another body.
 
==Tools==
 
The following items will be used during researching:
 
* [[File:Beaker.png]] Beaker (to mix viruses and store diseases and chemicals)
* [[File:Dropper.png]] Dropper (to carefully measure the units, right click on the dropper to set the transfer amount)
* Pen (to label your beakers)
* Cold or Flu Culture Bottle (to start your virus, found in your refrigerated crates)
* Secure Vial Storage Box (Store and transportation of your viruses)
 
==Equipment==


Despite measures to sterilize its space stations, pathogens still make their way onto NanoTrasen Space Vessels. Below is a guide on how to deal with them.
Should a virus start spreading on the station (or should you work on something nasty and use the monkeys for it), you have to keep your workplace and sterile and yourself safe. For this, you will find these useful:


==Virology 101==
* Level-3 Bio Hood (against On-Contact viruses)
The first, and most important, way to prevent 99% of infections is having proper hazard wear and knowing how to keep the infection from spreading.
* Level-3 Bio Suit (against On-Contact viruses)
* Internals (against Airborne viruses)
* [[File:LGloves.png]] Latex Gloves (against On-Contact viruses)
* [[File:Face-sterile.png]] Sterile mask
 
==[[File:Pandemic.png|64px]]PanD.E.M.I.C 2200==
This is your best friend friend while you do your job. Not only can this bad boy tell you what is in a blood sample. It can also duplicate any virus in that sample for further research.
You can do the following with the machine
* See the statistics of a virus that is put into the machine.
* Make a new virus culture for later use (Use this when making advanced viruses)
* Make vaccines using blood from a patient that was cured from a virus prior.
* Name an advanced virus if it is not named yet
* Print a release form for named viruses


===The Clothes===
=Curing A Virus=
The following will protect you, from the dangerous infections of space, each giving more and more (till total) protection against infection:
So you are tasked with curing a virus that is harming the station's inhabitants? Well you are just a few steps away from being the unsung hero!
* Level-3 [[Bio Hood]]
* Level-3 [[Bio Suit]]
* [[Medical]] or [[White Jumpsuit]]
* [[Medical Items#Sterile Masks|Sterile Mask]]
* [[Latex Gloves]]
* [[Shoes]] (White shoes and [[Galoshes]] are the best)
* Private (clean) Air Flow System


For those not in the medical profession, the following commonly avaliable items will help reduce your chances of infection:
==Curing The First Infected==
Once you have the blood of a cured subject you can start mass producing the cure. To do this, you will need the [[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]].
# Put the blood in the [[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]].
# Click on the create vaccine button next to the virus you want to make the vaccine for. If the blood contains multiple antibodies to different viruses, you will have more than one option.
# Repeat till you have enough vaccine.
# Bring the bottles to the [[Chemist|Chemists]] so they can pill the vaccine into pills. Make sure that they call it a suiting name else it might get lost in a pile of pills without people knowing what it actually cures.


* Any internals hooked up to a tank
A vaccine spread just like a virus. So you can just take a sip from the bottle to cure yourself.
* Gloves
* Clothes


===Isolation===
==Spreading The Vaccine==
If you, or another crew member are infected, do not spread the infection further. Seek the isolation bay of the medical wing, or head to a room no one will enter but yourself and other infected.
Curing the infected will be easy once you have the vaccine. A single dose of, for example, 0.1 units will cure anybody and will make non-infected immune to the virus. However, the dosage amount does not matter, so you can use more or less than 0.1 units if you wish to. Be sure to get everybody cured otherwise bad things can happen.


===Cleanliness===
==Stealth Viruses==
Cleaning blood spills from the ground will prevent contact contamination, make sure blood is cleaned from the floor at all time. Any blood splatter out there could hold a dreaded space infection. Contact a [[janitor]] if you see blood on the floor, do not interact with the blood if you suspect possible infection chance.
An important thing to note about viruses with a high <i>Stealth</i> attribute:
* Any virus with a Stealth attribute of <b>2</b> or greater will be hidden from Medical HUDs, this includes Health Analyzers and [[File:Bscanner.gif]][[File:Bscanner console.gif]][[Guide_to_Medicine#Body_Scanner|Body Scanners]].
* Any virus with a Stealth attribute of <b>3</b> or greater will be hidden from the [[File:Pandemic.png|32px]][[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]].


Mucus caused by infected people sneezing also carries the same problem.
This means that if a crewmember comes to you showing you they are showing/experiencing symptoms and your [[File:Pandemic.png|32px]][[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]] is telling you <b><i>No diseases detected in provided sample</i></b>, that it's possible you are dealing with a really stealthy virus.


===Methods of Infection===
===Combating a Stealth Virus===
The following are the various ways a disease can spread, keep this in mind at all times:
Trying to defeat a virus with a high Stealth attribute (hence a "stealth virus") can be difficult, but the methodology to cure it can be simple.
* Airborne - The most dangerous and quick spreading, if you are anywhere within the breathing area of the infected crew member, you have a chance to be infected.
* Direct Contact - Requires you to touch, been touched, or be extremely close to the source of the infection. The infection could be from a blood spill (all blood spills containing contact, or airborne, infections can infect through blood contact).
* Direct Infection - The infection has been forced into the infected crew member, they are not infectious themselves. The only way to spread these infections, is through getting the patient's blood directly into another crew member.


== Equipment ==
Note: If you aren't wearing your bio-suit, you should put it on as soon as possible and get an oxygen tank (but you would never NOT wear your bio-suit and internals, right? RIGHT?!)
You have a number of machines around virology which help in the both analysing, curing, and research viruses.


===Isolation Centrifuge===
The first thing you want to do is to isolate the crew member in a patient room in the Virology wing of Medbay. Next, notify the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) that there is a possible stealth virus on the ship. If there is no CMO, notify the Captain as soon as possible. You may want to ask a doctor to fully suit up as well and begin interviewing the patient (who they were in contact with, where they were, what were they doing, etc.)
This machine takes vials filled with blood and isolates pathogens or antibodies. It will automatically detect whether a sample of blood contains either, and can be useful for telling which people are infected. It can then isolate the pathogen, producing a virus dish, or isolate the antibody, producing a vial of antibodies.


===Pathogenic Incubator===
Next, you are going to want to get a large sample of symptomatic blood by getting the following:
This machine takes virus dishes made by the centrifuge, or from the samples in your lab, and grows them. It requires diluted milk (virus food) to work, however, which you can get from the [[Chemist]], the [[Chef]], or the virus food dispenser in Virology. The machine will ping when the virus reaches a large enough size to be worked with. Radiating the machine may cause the virus to mutate and change one or more of its symptoms. You can also add a beaker of blood to the machine and infect it with whatever virus dish is currently in the machine.
* A clean, sterile beaker
* A syringe with 5u of the infected member's blood
* A blood bag (any type)
* Place 40u from the blood bag into the clean, sterile beaker and add in the infected member's blood. You can addition 5u of blood from the blood bag to completely fill the beaker. Next, place the beaker that contained the symptomatic blood in the [[File:Pandemic.png|32px]][[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]] and <b>Destroy</b> the blood sample. You can then eject and dispose of the beaker. This should give you at least 45u of blood without putting the patient in additional danger by drawing too much blood.


===Disease Analyser===
Methodology 1: If you have isolated strains of virus that have a very low stealth attribute (for example, <b>Choking</b>), you can attempt to splice that symptom into the stealth virus strain by taking 1u of the symptomatic blood and putting it in a clean beaker with 1u of the strain that has the low stealth value (-4 is the lowest stealth attribute). This <i>should</i> splice the two together and hopefully get a strain that you can see in the [[File:Pandemic.png|32px]][[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]]. However if the stealth virus has more than 4 attributes, the additional strain may overwrite one of the underlying symptoms, which is not ideal. This may need to be repeated multiple times.
Putting a sufficiently grown virus dish in here will analyse the virus and display the symptoms on a piece of paper and on examining the virus dish. Also allows the Disease Splicer to show what the symptoms you're splicing are. This will also add a virus to the virus database, allowing it to be named and detected by a medical scanner.


===Disease Splicer===
Methodology 2: This starts the same as Methodology 1, but instead of splicing in other viral strains, you are going to use Adranol to remove one symptom at a time until you ae left with multiple strains that have a stealth attribute lower than 3 so it can be analyzed by the [[File:Pandemic.png|32px]][[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]]. This may need to be repeated multiple times to get the full symptom list, as Adranol removes one symptom at random.
Each virus has four GNA strand which control which symptoms it causes. This splicer can isolate one of those strains and store it. This destroys the dish in the process however. You can then save the strand to a disk and transfer it to a different virus dish. This is how you can make your own viruses.


== Curing ==
With your Chief Medical Officer's approval, you could attempt to intervene by injecting a patient with a known virus with the <i>Anti-Bodies Metabolism</i> trait. This may help combat stealth virus.
If you're concerned about the monkeys and don't want to have a pen full of contagion conveniently sitting around, move a single monkey to one of your isolation rooms and treat/infect them there. You can also use this as an easy way to keep all your cures localized and in a single sample.


=== Getting a Virus Sample ===
Once you have compiled the full list of symptoms, you can the determine the cure.
Generally, this happens under two circumstances: when you have a virus dish in storage already, or during an outbreak.
You start the round with virus samples in the freezer crate in Virology, and you can get more samples by ordering a virus crate from the [[Cargo Office|Cargo Bay]].


==== During an Outbreak ====
==Infection Listings==
More often than not, you will be called upon to cure a disease that you do not already have a sample of. In this case, you'll need to follow a few steps to create a new virus dish:
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background-color:#EAFDE6"
# Find someone with the virus (shouldn't be too difficult as people like to complain).
|-
# Extract some blood and then put it in the Isolation Centrifuge.
! scope="col" | Disease Name
# Isolate the pathogen.
! scope="col" | Agent Name
# Retrieve the virus dish from the centrifuge.
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description
! scope="col" | Spread
! scope="col" | Cure
! scope="col" | Event
|-
| Beesease || Apidae Infection || A vicious disease which causes minor toxin damage followed by the host uncontrollably vomiting bees. || Contact || Sugar || ✔
|-
| Brainrot || Cryptococcus Cosmosis || An infection that causes mental degradation and will cause the host to collapse in its larger stages. || Contact || Alkysine || ✔
|-
|-
| Choreomania || TAP-DAnC3 || A disease that makes infects the mob's brain and makes them dance like a maniac, maniac.. || Airborne || Adranol || ✔
|-
| Engineered Cold || XY-rhinovirus || A weakened version of the common cold. It will cause the victims to start sneezing uncontrollaby. This is an advanced disease. || Airborne || Orange Juice || ✔
|-
| Cold || XY-rhinovirus || Still around since the dawn of man, this disease is relativity harmless, causing fatigue and a runny nose. Will progress to the Flu when untreated. || Airborne || Spaceacilin or chicken soup || ✔
|-
| Cold9 || ICE9-rhinovirus || A rare disease that will progressively lower the victim's body temperature in addition to respiratory syndromes such as sneezing and coughing. || Contact || Spaceacillin || ✔
|-
| Engineered Flu || H13N1 Flu Virion ||A weakened version of the flu that will cause the victim to have a nasty cough. This is an advanced disease. || Blood || Orange Juice || ✔
|-
| Food Poisoning || Salmonella || This illness is most commonly contracted by eating poorly prepared food and will cause weakness, stomach aches, and vomiting. This sickness will eventually pass on it's own without a cure but can be more quickly fixed with either chicken soup or bed rest. || Not Contagious || Rest or chicken soup || X
|-
| "GBS" || Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS- || A virus which has evolved to mimic the deadly GBS virus. Unlike the actual gibbing virus however, this virus causes no damage and will never be fatal to the host. || Contact || Adranol & Sulfur || ✔
|-
| GBS || Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS+ || An extremely dangerous illness caused by contagious micro-singularities that wil cause the host's body to be torn apart from the insie. The initial phase begins  in the lungs and mimics fly symptoms. || Contact || Adranol & Sulfur || X
|-
| Lycancoughy || Excess Snuggles || A fast spreading virus which makes subjects cough, and experience unexplained cravings for meat at earlier stages. At the last stage patients, will start regurgitating canines and start talking brute damage all over the body rapidly. || Contact || Ethanol or Alcohol || ✔
|-
| Magnitis || Fukkos Miracos || An infection of magnetic bacteria that build up in the body. As the disease progresses, any item not bolted down near the infected person will be pulled towards them, even objects as large as canisters. Ingested iron will draw the bacteria to it and allow them to be excreted normally. || Airborne || Iron || ✔
|-
| Severe Anxiety || Excess Lepidopticides || A mysterious disease which causes confusion and jitteriness. When fully matured, this vrus causes the host to cough up glitterflies. || Contact || Ethanol or Alcohol || ✔
|-
| Roanoake Syndrome || Xenochimera Cells || A strange disease, caused by the presence of xenochimera cells in the host's body. The xenochimera cells will consume and reproduce within the host, causing high fever and damage through all the body, eventually causing organ shutdown and death. Those who perish by this disease will become a hive composed of those same cells, called a "xenochimera". || Blood || Spaceacillin || X
|}


It would be wise to have spaceallin distributed; for not only does it stop a virus' progression, but might also cure it if the virus is in its early stages.
=Creating A Virus=
=== Producing Antibodies ===
You will be spending most of your time doing this part. Either for good or for worse.
Now that you have a virus sample, it's time to start producing antibodies!


# Take the Virus Dish and add it to the Pathogenic Incubator.
==Advanced Diseases==
# Add a beaker of blood from a monkey to the incubator.
An advanced virus works a bit different compared to a "normal" virus. The most significant differences are:
# 'Inject' the blood with the virus using the Pathogenic Incubator.
* You can only have one advanced virus per person
# Remove the beaker of blood from the incubator.
* You can mutate advanced viruses using chemicals
# Inject some of the blood into the same monkey to infect it with the pathogen.
* You can combine advanced viruses
# Inject the monkey with radium to start antibody production. This may take multiple injections and multiple attempts. A large and rapid amount of toxin damage is usually an indicator of antibodies. Using the antibody scanner also works.
# Wait for a minute or two. This part is the most important, if you take blood too early, there will be no antibodies.
# Take some blood from the monkey and add it to the Isolation Centrifuge. It should display some antibodies.
# Isolate the antibodies from the blood sample using the centrifuge.
# A vial of antibodies will be produced. This can be injected into other people to cure the disease. Note that isolating antibodies takes a long time and requires a body to produce antibodies to produce a very limited amount. Stocking up on antibodies in an outbreak is advisable. Even minuscule amount of pure antibodies is enough to start breeding in patient, so they can be diluted with any liquid to produce large amounts of vaccine


Optionally:
An advanced virus can have up to 6 symptoms. You do this by mixing two virus samples. By the powers of RNG, you can get the desired outcome.
# Put the Virus Dish into the Pathogenic Incubator and grow it until the machine pings.
A virus has statistics that all symptoms will influence, and some symptoms will be more effective with certain stats.
# Put the Virus Dish into the Disease Analyser to tell what the disease does.
Every symptom has these stats which have the following effect.
* Stealth, if the virus is visible to scanners or other devices
* Resistance, how hard it is to cure the virus
* Stage Speed, how fast the virus will reach its final stage making it act faster
* Transmittable, what the virus uses to spread to other victims
* Level, this is the level of the symptom. You will need different chemicals to generate symptoms with different levels. For example, the "Toxic Filter" symptom requires a chemical capable of generating level 6 symptoms.
Every symptom added will influence the statistics of the virus.
Having more symptoms will lower the Transmittable and Resistance statistic. Thus having more symptoms is not always better in some cases. See Understanding Stats for more info.


If it works, congratulations. You've found a cure. Make sure to inject all infected and anyone else to vaccinate them. It only take a few units per person to cure/vaccinate them, so try to be as efficient as possible. You can dilute the antibodies with water and as long as one unit of antibodies is injected the cure will still work.
==Engineering The Perfect Virus==
So you think you are ready to make a virus that can benefit the crew?
Before you start ensure that you have thought of a set of symptoms you want the virus to have. Once you have the symptoms you can begin.
The general method to get a symptom goes as follows.
# Get a virus sample in a beaker. Use the dropper for this.
# Add 1 unit of the chemical you need for the symptom to the beaker. This makes the virus mutate a new random symptom.
# Put the sample in the [[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]] and see if you got the symptom you need. If so, make a new culture. Naming your cultures accordingly will help you long term.
# Optional, remove the unwanted symptom using Adranol.


== Splicing ==
Doing this for each symptom in one virus sample will lead to a virus with a maximum of 5 symptoms, after the 4th symptom it will not be certain if the 5th will be generated or will replace an existing one. If you want to get the maximum out of your virus you can make two different virus samples with a combined symptom number of 6 and combine those till the result has all 6 symptoms.
To understand splicing, you must know that every virus has 4 GNA strands. Each strand has a respective symptom related to it in varying degrees of severity. (1) is the lowest, first symptom to manifest, and (4) is the highest, final symptom to manifest. The disease splicer allows you to replace GNA strands with other GNA strands of the same level.


The disease splicer has main three functions to allow you to modify viruses and define which GNA strands they contain. The first of these functions is the splicing function, which copies a GNA strand from an inserted virus tray to the disease splicer buffer. This is done by selecting the desired GNA strand under "Reverse Engineering". Doing so will destroy the virus tray in the process, so be aware of this fact.
===Paperwork===
Once you have your new designer virus you should get it approved by the CMO (Chief Medical Officer) as per Standard Operative Procedure. The [[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]] can make a form for you once you name the virus using the machine.
A virus that spreads should be approved by the captain and vaccines should be prepared prior to releasing for crew that does not want to be infected by the virus.


The disease splicer’s second function is to copy whatever strand it has stored in its buffer to a disk. These disks can be inserted into the disease splicer and upload their respective strand to the splicer's buffer immediately. Unlike in the case of virus trays, disks will remain intact upon uploading their strand to the buffer.
===Releasing The Virus===
So you got the approval of your superior? Perfect!
Now it's time to yell at the [[Chemist|Chemists]] once more. They will be able to put the virus samples you made into pills.
Be sure to remind them to name the virus! Else it will be called "Blood (1u)" which on it's own is not that appealing.


The final function of the disease splicer is to apply the strand stored within its buffer to a virus, replacing the current strand on the respective level of the buffer’s strand’s level. This is done by selecting the strand located in the buffer.
==Chemicals==
The chemicals listed below are used when creating an advanced virus. Spending the time to make the specialised chemicals (for example Sucrose Agar) will reward you kindly.
As stated in Advanced Diseases, each symptom has a level. The chemicals below will be able to generate symptoms with a certain level, indicated by the level field in the table.


With these functions in mind, the process in order for you to develop your own virus follows these steps:
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"; style="text-align: center;" style="background-color:#EAFDE6; width: 100%;"
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Level
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description
|-
| Virus Rations || 1 ||| Mix Virus Food and Adranol
|-
| Virus Food || 1/2 || Obtainable from the Virus Food Dispenser.
|-
| Unstable Mutagen || 2/3/4 || Created by [[Chemist|Chemists]].
|-
| Mutagenic Agar || 3 || Mix Virus Food and Unstable Mutagen.
|-
| Sucrose Agar || 4 || Mix Mutagenic Agar and Sugar. Alternatively, you can use Inaprovaline instead of Sugar to make it.
|-
| Phoron || 4/5/6 || Created by grinding Phoron Sheets (retrieved from Cargo) in your blender.
|-
| Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || 5 || Mix Phoronic Virus Food and Adranol
|-
| Uranium || 5/6 || Created by grinding Uranium (retrived from Cargo) in your blender or Chemistry.
|-
| Phoronic Virus Food || 6 || Mix Virus Food and Phoron.
|-
| Sizeoxadone Virus Food || - || Mix Phoronic Virus Food and Sizeoxadone. Has a specific set of symptoms.
|-
| Adranol - Created by [[Chemist|Chemists]]. || - || Removes one random symptom.
|-
| Antibodies || - || Antibodies in its pure state. Mix Inaprovaline with any vaccine.
|}


# Obtain a disk for each strand level that you wish to apply to a virus. This is where the incubator’s irradiating functions prove useful, as you can potentially generate every GNA strand you want by mutating a base virus.  
==Symptoms Table==
# Find a virus sample upon which you will apply your desired GNA strands. It does not matter what the original strands are, as you will be overwriting them with your desired strands.
Lested below are all the symptoms you can mutate into a virus with their stats noted. Chemicals has a list of all the chemicals that can be used to achieve this.
# Insert this dish into the splicer. Splice each strand from your disks by uploading them to the buffer one at a time and splicing them over the disease.


Once you have your final product, you can use the Pathogenic Incubator to create a beaker of blood containing the virus.
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"; || style="text-align: center;"
|-
! scope="col" | Symptom
! scope="col" | Stealth
! scope="col" | Resistance
! scope="col" | Stage speed
! scope="col" | Transmittable
! scope="col" | Level
! scope="col" | Required Raw Chemicals
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Effect
|-
!Anti-Bodies Metabolism
| -1 || -1 || -1 || -4 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#00aa00"| Cures all diseases (except itself) and creates anti-bodies for them until itself dies.
|-
!Alopecia
| -1 || -1 || -1 || 2 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#0000ff| Causes hair loss
|-
!Blob Spores
|1 ||5 || -2 || 1 || -1 || Unobtainable || style="color:#ff0000" | The host will cough up and erupt into blob spores upon death.
|-
!Bluespace Sneezing
| -2 || 3 || 0 || 1 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar ||style="color:#0000ff| Displaces the mob when sneezing
|-
!Choking
| -3 || -2 || -2 || -4 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Causes spikes of oxygen deprivation. Deals damage based on stage speed and stealth.
|-
!Confusion
| 1 || -1 || -3 || 0 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Makes the affected mob be confused for short periods of time.
|-
!Coughing
| -1 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 1 || Virus food || style="color:#ff0000"| Will force the affected mob to drop small items when coughing.
|-
!Deafness
| 1 || -2 || 1 || -3 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Causes intermittent loss of hearing.
|-
!Deoxyribonucleic Acid Restoration
| -1 || -1 || 0 || -3 || 5 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#00aa00"| Heals clone damage and treats radiation.
|-
!Dizziness
| 2 || -2 || -3 || -1 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#ff0000| Shakes the affected mob's screen for short periods.
|-
!Dwindling Malady
| -4 || 1 || 2 ||-2 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Shrinks the mob
|-
!Enlargement Disorder
| -4 || 1 || 2 ||-2 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Grows the mob
|-
!Fever
| 0 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 2 || Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Heats up your body, based on transmittability and stealth.
|-
!Flippinov
| 2 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || Virus food || style="color:#0000ff"| Makes the host FLIP
|-
!Hallucinogen
| -2 || -3 || -3 || -1 || 5 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Makes the affected mob be hallucinated for short periods of time.
|-
!Headache
| -1 || 4 || 2 || 0 || 1 || Virus food || style="color:#ff0000"| Gives the mob a headache.
|-
!Hematophagy
| 1 || -1 || -4 || 1 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Makes the mob thirsty for blood
|-
!Hyphema
| -1 || -4 || -4 || -3 || 5 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Inflicts eye damage over time. Causes blindness if left unchecked.
|-
!Itching
| 0 || 3 || 3 || 1 || 1 || Virus food || style="color:#0000ff"| Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease.
|-
!Lingual Disocation
| 3 || 2 || -2 || -1 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| The mob's language changes.
|-
!Longevity
| 3 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| After a certain amount of time the disease will cure itself. Will immensely buff your disease.
|-
!Macrophages
| -4 || -1 || -2 || 2 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| The virus grows and ceases to be microscopic. Deals brute damage as it bursts out of the host.
|-
!Mass Revectoring
| -4 || 1 || 2 ||-2 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Causes the host to change size
|-
!Mind Restoration
| -3 || -4 || -4 || -3 || 5 || Phoron <br> or <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#00aa00"| The body begins to create Alkysine and remove drugs.
|-
!Mlemington
| 0 || 3 || 3 || 1 || 1 || Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Mlem.
|-
!Necrotic Agent
| -2 || -3 || -3 || 0 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Allows the virus to thrive in corpses.
|-
!Necrotzing Fasciitis
| -3 || -4 || 0 || 4 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Causes brute damage over time, with more brute damage the less virus' stealth is. Fatal if left untreated.
|-
!Sensory Restoration
| -1 || -3 || -2 || -4 || 4 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Sucrose Agar || style="color:#00aa00"| The body starts to create it's own Imidazoline, healing eye damage.
|-
!Self-Respiration
| 1 || -3 || -3 || -4 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#00aa00"| Body starts to create it's own Dexalin, effectively making oxygen unnecessary.
|-
!Shivering
| 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Cools down your body based on stealth and resistance.
|-
!Sneezing
| -2 || 3 || 0 || 4 || 1 || Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Forces a spread type AIRBORNE with extra range.
|-
!Spyndrome
| 2 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Forces the mob to spin.
|-
!Spontaneous Combustion
| 1 || -4 || -4 || -4 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#ff0000"| Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on speed, minus stealth.
|-
!Synthetic Infection
| 1 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 5 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Allows the virus to infect synthetic lifeforms.
|-
!Overactive Adrenal Gland
| 0 || -1 || 2 || -3 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#00aa00"| Makes the mob faster and jittery
|-
!Photosensitivity
| -2 || 2 || 1 || -4 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus food || style="color:#ff0000| Causes burns on the skin when exposed to light
|-
!Pica
| 0 || -2 || 3 || 1 || 1 || Virus food || style="color:#0000ff" | The mob gets a hunger for inedible objects
|-
!Pineal Gland Decalcification
| 2 || -2 || -3 || -4 || 5 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Weakened Phoronic Virus Food ||style="color:#00aa00"| The mob gains telepathy.
|-
!Toxic Compensation
| 1 || -4 || -4 || -2 || 4 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#0000ff"| Slowly converts brute/fire damage to toxin.
|-
!Toxic Filter
| 1 || -4 || -4 || -4 || 6 || Phoron <br> OR <br> Phoronic Virus Food || style="color:#00aa00"| Heals toxins in the affected mob's blood stream, based on stage speed.
|-
!Viral Evolutionary Acceleration
| -2 || -3 || 5 || 3 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Useful for buffing viruses.
|-
!Viral Self-Adaptation
| 3 || 5 || -3 || 0 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#0000ff"| Useful for buffing viruses.
|-
!Vomiting
| -2 || -1 || 0 || 1 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Forces the affected mob to vomit. Makes the affected mob lose nutrition and heal toxin damage.
|-
!Weakness
| -1 || -1 || -2 || -2 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Weakens the host.
|-
!Weight Loss
| -3 || 5 ||-3 ||0 || 3 || Unstable Mutagen <br> OR <br> Mutagenic Agar || style="color:#ff0000"| Decreases the weight and nutrition of the mob.
|}


==Symptom Listings==
===Understanding Stats===
These are all the symptoms and their effects.
{| class="wikitable" border="1"; border="1"; || style="text-align: center;"
Symptoms may appear in any stage above their current stage; and are not restricted to one stage. (Except Stage 4 Symptoms). (E.g: Stage 1 Symptoms can appear in stages 1,2,3 or 4. Stage 3 in 3 or 4)
|-
Duplicate symptoms will not happen.
! scope="col" | Stealth
! scope="col" | Resistance
! scope="col" | Stage speed
! scope="col" | Transmittable
|-
| 0 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|}


===Stage 1===
After you are done mixing your disease, stats from the symptoms are added together to make disease stats. Here is what exactly they do:
* Coldingtons Effect: Causes sneezing and mucus spreading. Also makes disease airborne.
* Flemmingtons: Causes mucus to accumulate in the infected's throat.
* Saliva Effect: Causes drooling.
* Twitcher: Causes twitching.
* Headache: Causes headaches.
* Waiting Syndrome: Harmless, though prevents early detection.


===Stage 2===
* Stealth of 2 or higher will hide your disease from MedHUDs, Health Analyzers and Full Body Scanners. Stealth of 3 or higher will hide from [[#PanD.E.M.I.C 2200|PanD.E.M.I.C 2200]] machine.
* Loudness Syndrome: Causes screaming.
* Transmission is determined as follows: (disease's transmission - the amount of symptoms). 2 or less blood, 3-5 is contact (3 is by feet, 4 is by hands and 5 is touch in general), 6 or more is airborne. However, sneezing will allow the virus to spread airborne once it reaches stage 4.
* Automated sleeping syndrome: Causes drowsiness and sleeping.
* Chance of advancing a stage per tick is 2% or stage speed, whichever is higher.
* Resting syndrome: Causes collapsing.
* Cure depends on resistance and amount of symptoms: resistance - (amount of symptoms / 2)
* Blackout Syndrome: Makes you blind.
* Anima Syndrome: Causes coughing and mucus spreading. Also makes disease airborne.
* Appetizer Effect: Causes increased hunger.
* Refrigerator Syndrome: Causes shivering.
* Hair Loss: Causes hair loss.
* Adrenaline Extra: Makes the infected energetic and produce [[Guide to Chemistry|hyperzine]] inside his own body.


===Stage 3===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
* Hyperacid Syndrome: Causes lesser Toxin damage.
|1 or less||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9||10||11
* World Shaking syndrome: Vision shakes.
|12
* Telepathy Syndrome: Gives telepathy.
|13 or more
* Lazy mind syndrome: Causes brain damage.
|-
* Hallucinational Syndrome: Causes Hallucinations.
|Spaceacillin||Orange Juice||Ethanol||Glucose||Copper||Lead||Lithium||Radium||Mercury||Bliss||Mutagen
* Hard of hearing syndrome: Causes slight deafness.
|Phoron
* Uncontrolled Laughter Effect: Causes giggling.
|Sulphuric Acid
* Topographical Cretinism: Causes confusion.
|}
* DNA Degradation: Causes lesser clone damage.
* Groaning Syndrome: Causes groaning.
* Chemical Synthesis: Generates a random reagent in the infected person. Can be beneficial or harmful.


===Stage 4===
* Chance of it being cured every tick is 15 - resistance, but always between 10 and 20.
* Gibbingtons Syndrome: Gibs the infected person.
* Transmission affects how much protective gear you must have to protect yourself from it.
* Radian's syndrome: Build up of Radiation damage.
* Dead Ear Syndrome: Causes deafness.
* Monkism syndrome: Turns infected into monkey.
* Suicidal syndrome: Makes the infected person commit suicide.
* Toxification syndrome: Causes severe Toxin damage.
* Reverse Pattern Syndrome: Causes severe clone damage.
* Shutdown Syndrome: Causes the death of limbs and toxin damage.
* Longevity Syndrome: Makes the infected feel old and tired. Causes damage when cured.
* Fragile Bones Syndrome: Causes bone damage.
* Nil Syndrome: A paradoxical syndrome. It's lack of symptoms bring doubt to its mere existence.


===Special===
* Unidentified Foreign Body: Caused by an Alien Embryo. Requires [[Surgery]] to remove.


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Latest revision as of 14:18, 28 January 2025

Virology 101

The first, and most important, way to prevent 99% of infections is having proper hazard wear and knowing how to keep the infection from spreading.

Viruses

Every virus behaves differently, from created viruses to event spawned viruses. Most viruses can spread themselves to other humanoids near the host in one way or another. These types of spread are:

  • Airborne - The most dangerous and quick spreading, if you are anywhere within the breathing area of the infected crew member, you have a chance to be infected. Wearing internals stops further infections.
  • Direct Contact - Requires you to touch, been touched, or be extremely close to the source of the infection. The infection will be spread by the skin and bodily fluids of an infected person, but will not survive long in the air. Wearing protective clothing and avoiding infected are great ways of not getting infected yourself.
  • Blood - The infection will be spread by blood from the infected person. Beneficial viruses usually fall under this category.
  • Special - The disease is not normally contagious and the affected crewman has been infected by a non-human vector source. You can work with the infected without risk yourself unless they expose you to the same vector source that infected them.

All viruses that spread with blood or above mentioned transfer by giving humanoids an infected blood sample, using either a syringe, a pill or other types of food/drinks. Every virus or vaccine only requires any amount of units to infect or cure somebody, 0.1 unit will work.

Each virus will not be visible on the Medical HUD until they reach a later stage, meaning at least at the halfway point of the stages (rounded up). For example, the Brainrot virus has 4 stages. The virus will then be visible starting at the 2nd stage. Any advanced virus has 5 stages total and it can be visible on the HUD starting at the 3rd stage depending on the stealth stat.

Each virus also has their own chemical(s) that the infected needs to ingest for them to be cured. The virus has a chance to be cured once the infected humanoid has the chemical(s) in their body. Once the victim is cured, they will be immune for that virus until they get resleeved or put in another body.

Tools

The following items will be used during researching:

  • Beaker (to mix viruses and store diseases and chemicals)
  • File:Dropper.png Dropper (to carefully measure the units, right click on the dropper to set the transfer amount)
  • Pen (to label your beakers)
  • Cold or Flu Culture Bottle (to start your virus, found in your refrigerated crates)
  • Secure Vial Storage Box (Store and transportation of your viruses)

Equipment

Should a virus start spreading on the station (or should you work on something nasty and use the monkeys for it), you have to keep your workplace and sterile and yourself safe. For this, you will find these useful:

  • Level-3 Bio Hood (against On-Contact viruses)
  • Level-3 Bio Suit (against On-Contact viruses)
  • Internals (against Airborne viruses)
  • Latex Gloves (against On-Contact viruses)
  • File:Face-sterile.png Sterile mask

PanD.E.M.I.C 2200

This is your best friend friend while you do your job. Not only can this bad boy tell you what is in a blood sample. It can also duplicate any virus in that sample for further research. You can do the following with the machine

  • See the statistics of a virus that is put into the machine.
  • Make a new virus culture for later use (Use this when making advanced viruses)
  • Make vaccines using blood from a patient that was cured from a virus prior.
  • Name an advanced virus if it is not named yet
  • Print a release form for named viruses

Curing A Virus

So you are tasked with curing a virus that is harming the station's inhabitants? Well you are just a few steps away from being the unsung hero!

Curing The First Infected

Once you have the blood of a cured subject you can start mass producing the cure. To do this, you will need the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200.

  1. Put the blood in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200.
  2. Click on the create vaccine button next to the virus you want to make the vaccine for. If the blood contains multiple antibodies to different viruses, you will have more than one option.
  3. Repeat till you have enough vaccine.
  4. Bring the bottles to the Chemists so they can pill the vaccine into pills. Make sure that they call it a suiting name else it might get lost in a pile of pills without people knowing what it actually cures.

A vaccine spread just like a virus. So you can just take a sip from the bottle to cure yourself.

Spreading The Vaccine

Curing the infected will be easy once you have the vaccine. A single dose of, for example, 0.1 units will cure anybody and will make non-infected immune to the virus. However, the dosage amount does not matter, so you can use more or less than 0.1 units if you wish to. Be sure to get everybody cured otherwise bad things can happen.

Stealth Viruses

An important thing to note about viruses with a high Stealth attribute:

  • Any virus with a Stealth attribute of 2 or greater will be hidden from Medical HUDs, this includes Health Analyzers and Body Scanners.
  • Any virus with a Stealth attribute of 3 or greater will be hidden from the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200.

This means that if a crewmember comes to you showing you they are showing/experiencing symptoms and your PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 is telling you No diseases detected in provided sample, that it's possible you are dealing with a really stealthy virus.

Combating a Stealth Virus

Trying to defeat a virus with a high Stealth attribute (hence a "stealth virus") can be difficult, but the methodology to cure it can be simple.

Note: If you aren't wearing your bio-suit, you should put it on as soon as possible and get an oxygen tank (but you would never NOT wear your bio-suit and internals, right? RIGHT?!)

The first thing you want to do is to isolate the crew member in a patient room in the Virology wing of Medbay. Next, notify the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) that there is a possible stealth virus on the ship. If there is no CMO, notify the Captain as soon as possible. You may want to ask a doctor to fully suit up as well and begin interviewing the patient (who they were in contact with, where they were, what were they doing, etc.)

Next, you are going to want to get a large sample of symptomatic blood by getting the following:

  • A clean, sterile beaker
  • A syringe with 5u of the infected member's blood
  • A blood bag (any type)
  • Place 40u from the blood bag into the clean, sterile beaker and add in the infected member's blood. You can addition 5u of blood from the blood bag to completely fill the beaker. Next, place the beaker that contained the symptomatic blood in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 and Destroy the blood sample. You can then eject and dispose of the beaker. This should give you at least 45u of blood without putting the patient in additional danger by drawing too much blood.

Methodology 1: If you have isolated strains of virus that have a very low stealth attribute (for example, Choking), you can attempt to splice that symptom into the stealth virus strain by taking 1u of the symptomatic blood and putting it in a clean beaker with 1u of the strain that has the low stealth value (-4 is the lowest stealth attribute). This should splice the two together and hopefully get a strain that you can see in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200. However if the stealth virus has more than 4 attributes, the additional strain may overwrite one of the underlying symptoms, which is not ideal. This may need to be repeated multiple times.

Methodology 2: This starts the same as Methodology 1, but instead of splicing in other viral strains, you are going to use Adranol to remove one symptom at a time until you ae left with multiple strains that have a stealth attribute lower than 3 so it can be analyzed by the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200. This may need to be repeated multiple times to get the full symptom list, as Adranol removes one symptom at random.

With your Chief Medical Officer's approval, you could attempt to intervene by injecting a patient with a known virus with the Anti-Bodies Metabolism trait. This may help combat stealth virus.

Once you have compiled the full list of symptoms, you can the determine the cure.

Infection Listings

Disease Name Agent Name Description Spread Cure Event
Beesease Apidae Infection A vicious disease which causes minor toxin damage followed by the host uncontrollably vomiting bees. Contact Sugar
Brainrot Cryptococcus Cosmosis An infection that causes mental degradation and will cause the host to collapse in its larger stages. Contact Alkysine
Choreomania TAP-DAnC3 A disease that makes infects the mob's brain and makes them dance like a maniac, maniac.. Airborne Adranol
Engineered Cold XY-rhinovirus A weakened version of the common cold. It will cause the victims to start sneezing uncontrollaby. This is an advanced disease. Airborne Orange Juice
Cold XY-rhinovirus Still around since the dawn of man, this disease is relativity harmless, causing fatigue and a runny nose. Will progress to the Flu when untreated. Airborne Spaceacilin or chicken soup
Cold9 ICE9-rhinovirus A rare disease that will progressively lower the victim's body temperature in addition to respiratory syndromes such as sneezing and coughing. Contact Spaceacillin
Engineered Flu H13N1 Flu Virion A weakened version of the flu that will cause the victim to have a nasty cough. This is an advanced disease. Blood Orange Juice
Food Poisoning Salmonella This illness is most commonly contracted by eating poorly prepared food and will cause weakness, stomach aches, and vomiting. This sickness will eventually pass on it's own without a cure but can be more quickly fixed with either chicken soup or bed rest. Not Contagious Rest or chicken soup X
"GBS" Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS- A virus which has evolved to mimic the deadly GBS virus. Unlike the actual gibbing virus however, this virus causes no damage and will never be fatal to the host. Contact Adranol & Sulfur
GBS Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS+ An extremely dangerous illness caused by contagious micro-singularities that wil cause the host's body to be torn apart from the insie. The initial phase begins in the lungs and mimics fly symptoms. Contact Adranol & Sulfur X
Lycancoughy Excess Snuggles A fast spreading virus which makes subjects cough, and experience unexplained cravings for meat at earlier stages. At the last stage patients, will start regurgitating canines and start talking brute damage all over the body rapidly. Contact Ethanol or Alcohol
Magnitis Fukkos Miracos An infection of magnetic bacteria that build up in the body. As the disease progresses, any item not bolted down near the infected person will be pulled towards them, even objects as large as canisters. Ingested iron will draw the bacteria to it and allow them to be excreted normally. Airborne Iron
Severe Anxiety Excess Lepidopticides A mysterious disease which causes confusion and jitteriness. When fully matured, this vrus causes the host to cough up glitterflies. Contact Ethanol or Alcohol
Roanoake Syndrome Xenochimera Cells A strange disease, caused by the presence of xenochimera cells in the host's body. The xenochimera cells will consume and reproduce within the host, causing high fever and damage through all the body, eventually causing organ shutdown and death. Those who perish by this disease will become a hive composed of those same cells, called a "xenochimera". Blood Spaceacillin X

Creating A Virus

You will be spending most of your time doing this part. Either for good or for worse.

Advanced Diseases

An advanced virus works a bit different compared to a "normal" virus. The most significant differences are:

  • You can only have one advanced virus per person
  • You can mutate advanced viruses using chemicals
  • You can combine advanced viruses

An advanced virus can have up to 6 symptoms. You do this by mixing two virus samples. By the powers of RNG, you can get the desired outcome. A virus has statistics that all symptoms will influence, and some symptoms will be more effective with certain stats. Every symptom has these stats which have the following effect.

  • Stealth, if the virus is visible to scanners or other devices
  • Resistance, how hard it is to cure the virus
  • Stage Speed, how fast the virus will reach its final stage making it act faster
  • Transmittable, what the virus uses to spread to other victims
  • Level, this is the level of the symptom. You will need different chemicals to generate symptoms with different levels. For example, the "Toxic Filter" symptom requires a chemical capable of generating level 6 symptoms.

Every symptom added will influence the statistics of the virus. Having more symptoms will lower the Transmittable and Resistance statistic. Thus having more symptoms is not always better in some cases. See Understanding Stats for more info.

Engineering The Perfect Virus

So you think you are ready to make a virus that can benefit the crew? Before you start ensure that you have thought of a set of symptoms you want the virus to have. Once you have the symptoms you can begin. The general method to get a symptom goes as follows.

  1. Get a virus sample in a beaker. Use the dropper for this.
  2. Add 1 unit of the chemical you need for the symptom to the beaker. This makes the virus mutate a new random symptom.
  3. Put the sample in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 and see if you got the symptom you need. If so, make a new culture. Naming your cultures accordingly will help you long term.
  4. Optional, remove the unwanted symptom using Adranol.

Doing this for each symptom in one virus sample will lead to a virus with a maximum of 5 symptoms, after the 4th symptom it will not be certain if the 5th will be generated or will replace an existing one. If you want to get the maximum out of your virus you can make two different virus samples with a combined symptom number of 6 and combine those till the result has all 6 symptoms.

Paperwork

Once you have your new designer virus you should get it approved by the CMO (Chief Medical Officer) as per Standard Operative Procedure. The PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 can make a form for you once you name the virus using the machine. A virus that spreads should be approved by the captain and vaccines should be prepared prior to releasing for crew that does not want to be infected by the virus.

Releasing The Virus

So you got the approval of your superior? Perfect! Now it's time to yell at the Chemists once more. They will be able to put the virus samples you made into pills. Be sure to remind them to name the virus! Else it will be called "Blood (1u)" which on it's own is not that appealing.

Chemicals

The chemicals listed below are used when creating an advanced virus. Spending the time to make the specialised chemicals (for example Sucrose Agar) will reward you kindly. As stated in Advanced Diseases, each symptom has a level. The chemicals below will be able to generate symptoms with a certain level, indicated by the level field in the table.

Name Level Description
Virus Rations 1 Mix Virus Food and Adranol
Virus Food 1/2 Obtainable from the Virus Food Dispenser.
Unstable Mutagen 2/3/4 Created by Chemists.
Mutagenic Agar 3 Mix Virus Food and Unstable Mutagen.
Sucrose Agar 4 Mix Mutagenic Agar and Sugar. Alternatively, you can use Inaprovaline instead of Sugar to make it.
Phoron 4/5/6 Created by grinding Phoron Sheets (retrieved from Cargo) in your blender.
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food 5 Mix Phoronic Virus Food and Adranol
Uranium 5/6 Created by grinding Uranium (retrived from Cargo) in your blender or Chemistry.
Phoronic Virus Food 6 Mix Virus Food and Phoron.
Sizeoxadone Virus Food - Mix Phoronic Virus Food and Sizeoxadone. Has a specific set of symptoms.
Adranol - Created by Chemists. - Removes one random symptom.
Antibodies - Antibodies in its pure state. Mix Inaprovaline with any vaccine.

Symptoms Table

Lested below are all the symptoms you can mutate into a virus with their stats noted. Chemicals has a list of all the chemicals that can be used to achieve this.

Symptom Stealth Resistance Stage speed Transmittable Level Required Raw Chemicals Effect
Anti-Bodies Metabolism -1 -1 -1 -4 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Cures all diseases (except itself) and creates anti-bodies for them until itself dies.
Alopecia -1 -1 -1 2 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Causes hair loss
Blob Spores 1 5 -2 1 -1 Unobtainable The host will cough up and erupt into blob spores upon death.
Bluespace Sneezing -2 3 0 1 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Displaces the mob when sneezing
Choking -3 -2 -2 -4 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Causes spikes of oxygen deprivation. Deals damage based on stage speed and stealth.
Confusion 1 -1 -3 0 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Makes the affected mob be confused for short periods of time.
Coughing -1 3 1 2 1 Virus food Will force the affected mob to drop small items when coughing.
Deafness 1 -2 1 -3 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Causes intermittent loss of hearing.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Restoration -1 -1 0 -3 5 Phoron
OR
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
Heals clone damage and treats radiation.
Dizziness 2 -2 -3 -1 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Shakes the affected mob's screen for short periods.
Dwindling Malady -4 1 2 -2 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Shrinks the mob
Enlargement Disorder -4 1 2 -2 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Grows the mob
Fever 0 3 3 2 2 Virus Food Heats up your body, based on transmittability and stealth.
Flippinov 2 0 3 1 1 Virus food Makes the host FLIP
Hallucinogen -2 -3 -3 -1 5 Phoron
OR
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
Makes the affected mob be hallucinated for short periods of time.
Headache -1 4 2 0 1 Virus food Gives the mob a headache.
Hematophagy 1 -1 -4 1 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Makes the mob thirsty for blood
Hyphema -1 -4 -4 -3 5 Phoron
OR
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
Inflicts eye damage over time. Causes blindness if left unchecked.
Itching 0 3 3 1 1 Virus food Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease.
Lingual Disocation 3 2 -2 -1 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
The mob's language changes.
Longevity 3 4 4 4 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
After a certain amount of time the disease will cure itself. Will immensely buff your disease.
Macrophages -4 -1 -2 2 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
The virus grows and ceases to be microscopic. Deals brute damage as it bursts out of the host.
Mass Revectoring -4 1 2 -2 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
Causes the host to change size
Mind Restoration -3 -4 -4 -3 5 Phoron
or
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
The body begins to create Alkysine and remove drugs.
Mlemington 0 3 3 1 1 Virus Food Mlem.
Necrotic Agent -2 -3 -3 0 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Allows the virus to thrive in corpses.
Necrotzing Fasciitis -3 -4 0 4 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Causes brute damage over time, with more brute damage the less virus' stealth is. Fatal if left untreated.
Sensory Restoration -1 -3 -2 -4 4 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Sucrose Agar
The body starts to create it's own Imidazoline, healing eye damage.
Self-Respiration 1 -3 -3 -4 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Body starts to create it's own Dexalin, effectively making oxygen unnecessary.
Shivering 0 2 2 2 2 Virus Food Cools down your body based on stealth and resistance.
Sneezing -2 3 0 4 1 Virus Food Forces a spread type AIRBORNE with extra range.
Spyndrome 2 0 3 1 1 Virus Food Forces the mob to spin.
Spontaneous Combustion 1 -4 -4 -4 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on speed, minus stealth.
Synthetic Infection 1 2 0 1 5 Phoron
OR
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
Allows the virus to infect synthetic lifeforms.
Overactive Adrenal Gland 0 -1 2 -3 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Makes the mob faster and jittery
Photosensitivity -2 2 1 -4 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus food
Causes burns on the skin when exposed to light
Pica 0 -2 3 1 1 Virus food The mob gets a hunger for inedible objects
Pineal Gland Decalcification 2 -2 -3 -4 5 Phoron
OR
Weakened Phoronic Virus Food
The mob gains telepathy.
Toxic Compensation 1 -4 -4 -2 4 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Slowly converts brute/fire damage to toxin.
Toxic Filter 1 -4 -4 -4 6 Phoron
OR
Phoronic Virus Food
Heals toxins in the affected mob's blood stream, based on stage speed.
Viral Evolutionary Acceleration -2 -3 5 3 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Useful for buffing viruses.
Viral Self-Adaptation 3 5 -3 0 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Useful for buffing viruses.
Vomiting -2 -1 0 1 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Forces the affected mob to vomit. Makes the affected mob lose nutrition and heal toxin damage.
Weakness -1 -1 -2 -2 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Weakens the host.
Weight Loss -3 5 -3 0 3 Unstable Mutagen
OR
Mutagenic Agar
Decreases the weight and nutrition of the mob.

Understanding Stats

Stealth Resistance Stage speed Transmittable
0 1 1 1

After you are done mixing your disease, stats from the symptoms are added together to make disease stats. Here is what exactly they do:

  • Stealth of 2 or higher will hide your disease from MedHUDs, Health Analyzers and Full Body Scanners. Stealth of 3 or higher will hide from PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 machine.
  • Transmission is determined as follows: (disease's transmission - the amount of symptoms). 2 or less blood, 3-5 is contact (3 is by feet, 4 is by hands and 5 is touch in general), 6 or more is airborne. However, sneezing will allow the virus to spread airborne once it reaches stage 4.
  • Chance of advancing a stage per tick is 2% or stage speed, whichever is higher.
  • Cure depends on resistance and amount of symptoms: resistance - (amount of symptoms / 2)
1 or less 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 or more
Spaceacillin Orange Juice Ethanol Glucose Copper Lead Lithium Radium Mercury Bliss Mutagen Phoron Sulphuric Acid
  • Chance of it being cured every tick is 15 - resistance, but always between 10 and 20.
  • Transmission affects how much protective gear you must have to protect yourself from it.
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