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Formaldehyde will neuter one random symptom when mixed with a virus. This disables its effects while keeping the attributes intact. This is useful for meeting threshold values without making the virus deadly. '''NEUTER YOUR STAT SYMPTOMS, ALWAYS. UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING WITH AN EFFECT YOU ACTIVELY USE, ALL AN UNNEUTERED STAT SYMPTOM WILL DO, EVEN IF THE DISEASE IS INTENTIONALLY DEADLY, IS MAKE THE DISEASE GET NOTICED FASTER, AND, SCARE PEOPLE IF YOUR DISEASE IS GOOD, PROBABLY GETTING YOU LYNCHED. NEUTER YOUR FUCKING SYMPTOMS. YES, FEVER AND ITCHING CAN DO SLIGHT DAMAGE. NEUTER THEM ANYWAYS, DAMMIT'''
Formaldehyde will neuter one random symptom when mixed with a virus. This disables its effects while keeping the attributes intact. This is useful for meeting threshold values without making the virus deadly. '''NEUTER YOUR STAT SYMPTOMS, ALWAYS. UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING WITH AN EFFECT YOU ACTIVELY USE, ALL AN UNNEUTERED STAT SYMPTOM WILL DO, EVEN IF THE DISEASE IS INTENTIONALLY DEADLY, IS MAKE THE DISEASE GET NOTICED FASTER, AND, SCARE PEOPLE IF YOUR DISEASE IS GOOD, PROBABLY GETTING YOU LYNCHED. NEUTER YOUR FUCKING SYMPTOMS. YES, FEVER AND ITCHING CAN DO SLIGHT DAMAGE. NEUTER THEM ANYWAYS, DAMMIT'''


==Tips and Techniques==
{{Speech
|name=Eyre I, the Virologist
|text=Psst, hey kid. Over here. Look at you, still fresh off the arrivals shuttle. Take the biosuit off, it'll only slow you down. Listen up- I'm here to teach ya exactly how to get robust at Virology, provided you can wrap your head around some simple concepts. I've hijacked this outdated nanotrasen standard-issue virology guide to teach YOU how to be a better Virologist than those Nanotrasen quacks!
|image=[[File:Viro action.png|64px|right]]
==BABBY'S FIRST VIRUS==
Alright, since most people can't seem to grasp it: Virology is fucking SLOW! So this means you're gonna want to do a few things to make it faster!
 
1. Know what virus you want to make! I cannot fucking stress this enough. Random symptom isolation will never get you anywhere fast. The best way to pick a virus, especially as an antagonist, is to use your Highly Unstable Virus Food, and see what symptom you got. If you can work with it (Non antags can typically only work with beesease), you should base your disease off of it. Otherwise, have a set recipe ready! If you're new to viro, it doesnt hurt to experiment- Start by isolating a few level six (or three if you're into that kinda thing) symptoms. they're the most potent symptoms available at roundstart. After you decide on your active symptom(s), usually no more than two, you can get to work on stats- remember a virus can only have SIX symptoms! After you've experimented a bit, you may want to branch into level seven, eight, nine, and zero symptoms- these are a bit harder to get, but they tend to be a bit more potent.
 
2. You'll need five beakers when you get started making your virus:
*Fill the first beaker to the brim with virus food and put it on the table. This is for level one and two symptoms.
*Fill the second beaker with thirty units of virus food, and dump your entire mutagen bottle in. This is for level three symptoms.
*There is no beaker for level four symptoms. Four is an unlucky number or some shit, and, more importantly, all level four symptoms suck
*Fill the third beaker with ten units virus food, ten units Plasma, and then ten units of Synaptazine. This is for level five symptoms. '''THE ORDER IS IMPORTANT. PUT SYNAPTAZINE IN BEFORE PLASMA AND YOU'LL GET A BEAKER OF VIRUS RATIONS AND PLASMA, WASTING YOUR CHEMS. DONT DO IT.'''
*Fill the fourth beaker with ten units virus food and ten units of Plasma. This is for level six symptoms
*If you have the clown's can of laughter, you can fill a fifth beaker with ten units of virus food and the entire can of laughter for level zero symptoms
 
3. Lay out your Formaldehyde, Synaptazine, and Unstable Virus Food.
 
4. Finally, set an empty beaker out, and either Rhinovirus or the Cold. The Cold's symptom is Coughing, and Rhinovirus is Sneezing. I am a plasmaman, so all my diseases need high transmission- I prefer to set out rhinovirus.
 
5. Whichever symptom you choose to start with, drop a drop of formaldehyde in immediately! this neuters the symptom so your plague doesnt alert and scare people, which is bad regardless of your antag status. '''Remember to use your dropper, after setting it to one unit!'''


===Dropper===
6. After you lay out your beakers on the table near the pandemic, situate yourself on a tile adjacent to the tables containing the reagents and your PANDEMIC machine. You will never have to move during this procedure- which saves valuable time.
When you're adding a chemical to a virus, '''you only need to add a single unit of it'''. This means you can use a dropper to add a single unit at a time, instead of using a syringe and wasting 5 units at a time. Since Liquid Plasma and Mutagen are in limited supply, it is a smart move to conserve your chemicals.
Remember, you have to use the dropper in your hand once to set its transfer value to 1 unit.


===Mixing in Beakers===
7. With your recipe in mind, begin placing one unit of your starting symptom culture and one unit of the virus chem corresponding to your disease into the '''empty beaker'''. Do NOT place your virus chem into your culture, or your culture into your chem- it will set you back by an insane amount!. After you make ONE reaction, place the empty beaker in the pandemic-You never need to pick any beakers but this empty beaker up during the process- and check the symptoms. If you got what you wanted, create a culture, save your previous culture if it's the starter, you will need it later, or get rid of it if it's a random step in the process, and repeat with the chem for the next symptom, doing symptoms you will neuter first and neutering them as you get them. Repeat until you reach a total of four symptoms. '''To reiterate step five, ALWAYS use a one unit dropper! it makes you far more efficient with chem usage- if you use a dropper, your starting chems will usually last an entire round!'''
While your first instict may be to create a new culture bottle, adding a chemical to it and scrapping the whole bottle if it's not the symptom you want, it is a slow process due to the Pandemic's cooldown. A better way is to instead keep a culture bottle, an empty beaker, and a bottle of your desired chemical; add one unit of culture to the beaker and then mutate it with the chemical, and check the result. Then repeat until you have to replicate the culture bottle: this allows for 20 uninterrupted tries before having to make a copy.


===Isolating Symptoms===
8. Upon reaching four symptoms, a virus has a chance to lose symptoms on gaining new ones. To avoid this, make a culture of your four symptoms, name it, and put it aside. Take your starter culture out, and begin the step 7 process. Once you get the fifth symptom, use the step seven process with synaptazine to remove the starter symptom, and finally repeat the step seven process one last time to get the last symptom. By now, you should have two cultures- one with four symptoms, and one with two (or one, five symptom diseases exist)
When you get the symptom you want, you can choose to isolate it, by making a new culture bottle with the symptom's name on and storing it in your fridge. You can then move 1 unit of the blood containing the isolated symptom into your work mix to add it. Doing this can make it much easier to build different viruses with the symptoms you have, instead of being locked in a single combination. Even better is if you use synaptizine to remove the base symptom, so you have the pure symptom ready to use.


===Multiple symptoms===
9. Finally, repeat the step seven process one more time, but using the two cultures, instead of a chem and a culture. There is no reaction sound for this mixing! Once you reach the desired number of symptoms (yes, adding symptoms via mixing can delete symptoms just like adding them via chems does), name the virus, and make a culture! you're done! yay!
A virus can have up to six symptoms. Having more symptoms can sometimes make the virus less resistant and less likely to spread. The more symptoms you have, the higher chance a there is for a new symptom to randomly delete one or more old symptoms when added.


==Understanding stats==
==Understanding stats==
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==Symptoms Table==
==Symptoms Table==
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{{Speech
|name=Eyre I, the Virologist
|name=Eyre I, the Virologist
|text=Psst, hey kid. Over here. Look at you, still fresh off the arrivals shuttle. Take the biosuit off, it'll only slow you down. Listen up- I'm here to teach ya exactly how to get robust at Virology, provided you can wrap your head around some simple concepts. I've hijacked this outdated nanotrasen standard-issue virology guide to teach YOU how to be a better viro!
|text=Mouse over the names of some of the symptoms- I've left you some advice and useful info. I've also left some similar advice on certain aspects of symptoms that either dont work properly, or need elaboration.
<i>Mouse over the names of some of the symptoms- I've left you some advice and useful info. I've also left some similar advice on certain aspects of symptoms that either dont work properly or need elaboration</i>
|image=[[File:Viro action.png|64px|right]]
|image=[[File:Viro action.png|64px|right]]
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| 0 || 2 || 2 || -1 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff" | The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by enhancing their replication cycle.||<span title="Increases the replication boost.">Stage Speed 7</span>, <span title="Increases the virus' growth rate while nanites are present.">Transmission 5</span>
| 0 || 2 || 2 || -1 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff" | The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by enhancing their replication cycle.||<span title="Increases the replication boost.">Stage Speed 7</span>, <span title="Increases the virus' growth rate while nanites are present.">Transmission 5</span>
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!Narcolepsy
!<span title="Very infrequent, with horrible stats. I recommend Confusion or Ducatopod to disable a crew far more effectively">Narcolepsy</span>
| -1 || -2 || -3 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Makes the host drowsy and prone to falling asleep randomly.||<span title="Also relaxes the muscles, weakening and slowing the host">Transmission 7</span>, <span title="Causes narcolepsy more often, increasing the chance of the host falling asleep">Resistance 10</span>
| -1 || -2 || -3 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Makes the host drowsy and prone to falling asleep randomly.||<span title="Also relaxes the muscles, weakening and slowing the host">Transmission 7</span>, <span title="Causes narcolepsy more often, increasing the chance of the host falling asleep">Resistance 10</span>
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!Necrotic Metabolism
!<span title="Incredibly niche. Decent if you want to do romerol memes, though? the stats make it hard to work with.">Necrotic Metabolism</span>
| 2 || -2 || 1 || 0 || 5 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Weakened Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#0000ff"| The virus becomes able to affect corpses and undead races, instead of lying dormant. || None
| 2 || -2 || 1 || 0 || 5 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Weakened Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#0000ff"| The virus becomes able to affect undead races. || None
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!<span title="The lesser form of Autophageocytosis necrosis. it's okay in its own right, with the stamina damage threshold making it at least somewhat unique">Necrotizing Fasciitis</span>
!<span title="The lesser form of Autophageocytosis necrosis. it's okay in its own right, with the stamina damage threshold making it at least somewhat unique">Necrotizing Fasciitis</span>
| -3 || -4 || 0 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Causes brute damage over time, with more brute damage the less the virus' stealth is. Fatal if left untreated.||<span title="Host will bleed profusely during necrosis">Resistance 7</span>, <span title="Causes extreme pain to the host, dealing stamina damage twice that of the normal damage">Transmission 8</span>
| -3 || -4 || 0 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Causes brute damage over time. Fatal if left untreated.||<span title="Host will bleed profusely during necrosis">Resistance 7</span>, <span title="Causes extreme pain to the host, dealing stamina damage twice that of the normal damage">Transmission 8</span>
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!<span title="A decent damage symptom, especially with how difficult brain damage is to heal, and it's under level nine.">Neural Decay</span>
!<span title="A decent damage symptom, especially with how difficult brain damage is to heal, and it's under level nine.">Neural Decay</span>
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| -1 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Anomalous Virus Food|Anomalous Virus Food]] || style="color:#00aa00"| The host honks occasionally||<span title="The host occasionally spreads the disease by honking">Transmission 10</span>, <span title="The host grows a clown mask">Resistance 10</span>, <span title="The host becomes clumsy, like a clown">Resistance 15</span>
| -1 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Anomalous Virus Food|Anomalous Virus Food]] || style="color:#00aa00"| The host honks occasionally||<span title="The host occasionally spreads the disease by honking">Transmission 10</span>, <span title="The host grows a clown mask">Resistance 10</span>, <span title="The host becomes clumsy, like a clown">Resistance 15</span>
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!Plasma Fixation
!<span title="Breathing plasma in doesn't trigger the symptom- the reagent and being in a plasma filled room does. Sorry, plasmemen">Plasma Fixation</span>
| 0 || 3 || -2 || -2 || 8 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Stable Uranium Gel|Stable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#00aa00"| The host absorbs plasma in the air and in their bloodstream, using it to stabilize their temperature and heal brute, burn, and toxin damage.||<span title="Increases temperature adjustment rate">Transmission 6</span>, <span title="Increases healing speed">Stage Speed 7</span>
| 0 || 3 || -2 || -2 || 8 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Stable Uranium Gel|Stable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#00aa00"| The host absorbs plasma in the air and in their bloodstream, using it to stabilize their temperature and heal brute, burn, and toxin damage.||<span title="Increases temperature adjustment rate">Transmission 6</span>, <span title="Increases healing speed">Stage Speed 7</span>
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| 0 || 4 || -1 || 1 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff" | The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by attacking and consuming them.||<span title="Increases the virus' growth rate while nanites are present.">Stage Speed 5</span>, <span title="Severely increases the rate at which the nanites are destroyed.">Resistance 7</span>
| 0 || 4 || -1 || 1 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff" | The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by attacking and consuming them.||<span title="Increases the virus' growth rate while nanites are present.">Stage Speed 5</span>, <span title="Severely increases the rate at which the nanites are destroyed.">Resistance 7</span>
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!Sneezing
!<span title="The symptom with the highest transmission, and a starter symptom at that.">Sneezing</span>
| -2 || 3 || 0 || 4 || 1 || [[Virus Food]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Rations|Virus Rations]] || style="color:#0000ff" | Causes the mob to occasionally sneeze.||<span title="Spreads the virus as if it were airborne when the host sneezes">Transmission 9</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 4</span>
| -2 || 3 || 0 || 4 || 1 || [[Virus Food]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Rations|Virus Rations]] || style="color:#0000ff" | Causes the mob to occasionally sneeze.||<span title="Spreads the virus as if it were airborne when the host sneezes">Transmission 9</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 4</span>
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| 1 || -4 || -4 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000" | Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on stage speed, minus stealth.||<span title="Increases the intensity of the flames">Stage Speed 4</span>, <span title="Further increases flame intensity">Stage Speed 8</span>, <span title="Host will spread the virus through skin flakes when bursting into flame">Transmission 8</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 4</span>
| 1 || -4 || -4 || -4 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000" | Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on stage speed, minus stealth.||<span title="Increases the intensity of the flames">Stage Speed 4</span>, <span title="Further increases flame intensity">Stage Speed 8</span>, <span title="Host will spread the virus through skin flakes when bursting into flame">Transmission 8</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 4</span>
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!Starlight Condensation
!<span title="The only all-around heal symptom with a positive transmission. Can be fit into most beneficial diseases">Starlight Condensation</span>
| -1 || -2 || 0 || 1 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#00aa00"| Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while exposed to starlight. Heals toxin more efficiently. Actually being in space intensifies the effect. || <span title="Increases healing speed">Stage Speed 6</span>, <span title="Removes penalty for only being close to space">Transmission 6</span>
| -1 || -2 || 0 || 1 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#00aa00"| Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while exposed to starlight. Heals toxin more efficiently. Actually being in space intensifies the effect. || <span title="Increases healing speed">Stage Speed 6</span>, <span title="Removes penalty for only being close to space">Transmission 6</span>
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| 0 || -2 || -2 || -2 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff"| Purges all chemicals at a fast rate from the bloodstream.||<span title="Increases chem removal speed">Resistance 7</span>, <span title="Consumed chemicals nourish the host">Stage Speed 6</span>
| 0 || -2 || -2 || -2 || 7 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]] || style="color:#0000ff"| Purges all chemicals at a fast rate from the bloodstream.||<span title="Increases chem removal speed">Resistance 7</span>, <span title="Consumed chemicals nourish the host">Stage Speed 6</span>
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!Viral Evolutionary Acceleration
!<span title="Despite the high transmission, this is actually usually the first of the three high-transmission stats to be dropped on an unorthodox disease, due to the low resistance">Viral Evolutionary Acceleration</span>
| -2 || -3 || 5 || 3 || 3 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Mutagen|Unstable Mutagen]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutagenic Agar|Mutagenic Agar]] || style="color:#00aa00"| Massively buffs the evolutionary cycle of viruses, causing it to be faster acting, better at infecting, but more easily detected and cured.||None
| -2 || -3 || 5 || 3 || 3 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Mutagen|Unstable Mutagen]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutagenic Agar|Mutagenic Agar]] || style="color:#00aa00"| No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Self-Adaptation in your disease.||None
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!Viral Self-Adaptation
!<span title="Despite what it may claim, this symptom has a transmission score of zero- it's pretty good if your disease needs to meet a resistance threshold">Viral Self-Adaptation</span>
| 3 || 5 || -3 || 0 || 3 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Mutagen|Unstable Mutagen]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutagenic Agar|Mutagenic Agar]] || style="color:#00aa00"| Massively buffs the adaptation of viruses, causing it to be stealthier, harder to cure but slower acting.||None
| 3 || 5 || -3 || 0 || 3 || [[Guide_to_chemistry#Unstable Mutagen|Unstable Mutagen]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutagenic Agar|Mutagenic Agar]] || style="color:#00aa00"|No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Evolutionary Acceleration in your disease.||None
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!Vitiligo
!Vitiligo
| 2 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 5 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Weakened Virus Plasma|Weakened Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#0000ff"| Makes the mob lose skin pigmentation.||None
| 2 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 5 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Weakened Virus Plasma|Weakened Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#0000ff"| Makes the mob lose skin pigmentation.||None
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!Voice Change
!<span title="A bit impractical, but it can be fun if you dont want to hurt the station as a traitor">Voice Change</span>
| -1 || -2 || -2 || 2 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Changes the voice of the affected mob. Causing confusion in communication. Available in [[Supply_crates#Virus_crate|Virus Crates]].||<span title="The host's language center of the brain is damaged, leading to complete inability to speak or understand any language, permanently. Even after cured.">Transmission 14</span>, <span title="Changes voice more often">Stage Speed 7</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 3</span>
| -1 || -2 || -2 || 2 || 6 || [[Plasma]]/[[Guide_to_chemistry#Virus Plasma|Virus Plasma]] || style="color:#ff0000"| Changes the voice of the affected mob. Causing confusion in communication. Available in [[Supply_crates#Virus_crate|Virus Crates]].||<span title="The host's language center of the brain is damaged, leading to complete inability to speak or understand any language, permanently. Even after cured.">Transmission 14</span>, <span title="Changes voice more often">Stage Speed 7</span>, <span title="The symptom remains hidden until active">Stealth 3</span>
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===General Tips===
===General Tips===


* If you happen to run out of plasma, chemistry sometimes has an extra bar you can ask for.
* You can get plasma and uranium from the medical autolathe if mining has picked it up. No need to waste time going to the ORM.
* Sugar can be hard to find, but you can use Saline-Glucose from any NanoVend Plus for Sucrine Agar.
* The clown will typically be happy to give you his canned laughter for Anomalous Virus Food
* Wearing protective clothing is not necessary during virology research, but you should wear it in event of an outbreak or while experimenting on monkeys.
* Never make sucrine agar unless you absolutely need a level four symptom for some ungodly reason
* If you're dealing with a virus too stealthy to analyze, you can try making a very infective virus to override it.
* If you wear the biosuit, you're an idiot. The only time you need to wear that is when working with patients or monkeys, and it slows you down. If you release a disease as a traitor, you should have immunized yourself beforehand- a biosuit sticks out like a sore thumb
* Have in mind the disease you want to make before you start searching for symptoms: knowing the level of the symptom you're looking for may save you time and materials.
*'''ALWAYS make your diseases beforehand. Have a recipe ready to work with any given symptom. This is the MOST IMPORTANT part of being good at virology.'''
* While it's possible, you should refrain from using only plasma to get the symptoms you need, as it can run out very quickly, and without it you can only beg mining for more plasma bars.
* Never use pure mutagen or pure plasma. Always make virus chems, it doubles your efficiency.
*If you want to kill a single person instead of the whole station, use chemicals instead of viruses- they're more effective than a single-host virus. Unless you rolled Bee Infection- release a resistance 14 bee plague , and inject your mark with mint toxin a few minutes later!
*Single person oriented beneficial diseases are superior to beneficial diseases with high transmission, as they can have higher stats without worrying about transmission. Unless you're a Plasmaman.
*Stealth below 2 is useless. Stealth above 2 is largely unecessary unless you need to meet a threshold or you don't want to be valided- If you neuter your symptoms properly, your disease will not be noticed by anyone other than doctors with medhuds.  


===The Black Death===
===<span title="Neutered Fever, Neutered Sneezing, Inorganic Biology, Viral Evolutionary Acceleration, Revitiligo, Necrotizing Fasciitis. That was my first truly engineered death plague, and it's a pun to boot!">The Black Death</span>===


Being a traitor virologist opens you up to a whole variety of cruel and interesting ways to create chaos on the station. Here's some tips to allow you to spread your worst creations.
Being a traitor virologist allows you to finally come out of your shell and release those negative recipes you've been aching to test, and put those level nine symptoms to the true test!


* Here is where statistics become important: you need Resistance to avoid the cure being salt, you want Transmittability so your virus can spread, Stage Speed so it acts before the victim is cured, and Stealth to avoid it being noticed too quickly. You won't have them all on a single virus, so choose the direction you want to go with.
** A high stealth will allow the virus to incubate before the victim notices.
** A high resistance will make the cure so rare that it won't realistically be available to everyone. Beware of vaccines, though.
** A high stage speed will cause your virus to progress at extreme speed, giving targets less warning before acting.
** A high transmittability will allow you disease to spread itself without your help; it will also make it so you need more clothing to protect from infection.
* While it might seem a good idea to put many harmful symptoms on a virus, its stats will be lowered to the point it won't act before it is cured. Stick to one or two harmful symptoms, and add neutral ones to buff its statistics.
* All symptoms give out messages to the infected before they reach the stage where they activate. People will be aware of what is hindering/killing them. Consider investing in stealth to prevent this.
* Going around outside of virology with a biosuit will alert people that you don't trust your own virus: you might want to infect yourself with a harmless resistant virus, so people can see that you're infected as well, while you'll be immune.
* Remember that live and walking infected spread more than corpses. Consider making a disease that hinders many instead of one that kills a few. Although dead people can't work on a cure.
* A syringe gun filled with infected blood is a good way to spread viruses if you can't trick the crew.
* Sabotaging the Pandemic is usually a good idea, as it can create a vaccine for a cured virus which is cheap and easy to distribute, even if the virus is extremely resistant.
* Sabotaging the Pandemic is usually a good idea, as it can create a vaccine for a cured virus which is cheap and easy to distribute, even if the virus is extremely resistant.
* Sabotaging the holodeck computer is also a good idea because its Emergency Medical simulation also contains a Pandemic.
* Sabotaging the holodeck computer is also a good idea because its Emergency Medical simulation also contains a Pandemic.
* Sabotaging chemistry can stop them from making most of the chems that can cure viruses.
* Sabotaging chemistry can stop them from making most of the chems that can cure viruses.
* Adding your virus to food the chef has cooked is a good way to spread your virus.
* A dropper works as a 1-5 unit hypospray when used on a target not wearing any eye protection.
 
* An infected monkey in medbay is another easy way to spread a disease
= Virology Rework =
* Immunize yourself before releasing your death plague!
 
Virology has been reworked to add threshold bonuses to symptoms. If the specified statistic goes over the threshold, the symptom will gain the relative bonus.
 
=== Neutering ===
You can now neuter symptoms, making them inactive, but still able to affect statistics. Use them to empower positive viruses without killing your patients. Adding formaldehyde (now in the smartfridge) will neuter a random symptom.
 
=== Stealth ===
Stealth no longer hides viruses from the Pandemic, but it will hide many early warning of infection instead.
 
=== Maximum Symptoms ===
Maximum amount of symptoms is now 6.
 
 
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Revision as of 15:50, 6 December 2019

There are many diseases that can affect you in space! The following will come in handy for virologists, traitors, or any unfortunate soul who's come down with a case of brain rot.

Virology 101

Virology
Virology is sealed from the rest of the station. You are not on the disposals network, nor do you share the same atmos system

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

The Clothes

The following will protect you, from the dangerous infections of space, each giving more and more (till total) protection against infection:

Isolation

If you or another crew member is 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.

Sterilization

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. Any object or floor that has infected blood on it can infect anyone who handles or touches it.

Methods of Infection

The following are the various ways a disease can spread, keep this in mind at all times:

  • 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 will be spread by the skin and bodily fluids of an infected person, but will not survive long in the air.
  • Blood - The infection will be spread by the bodily fluids of the infected person.
  • 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.

Curing an infection

Every infection is vulnerable to one substance (or combination of two). To find it, you can put an infected blood sample in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 machine or use a health analyzer on an infected patient. Administering the substance to the patient (may require multiple injections) should cure him. Alternatively, if you have produced a vaccine, a simple injection should cure the patient.

PanD.E.M.I.C 2200

This machine creates vaccines from the blood of people who have been cured.

Use:

  1. Take a blood sample with a syringe.
  2. Place sample into a beaker or bottle.
  3. Load beaker into machine.
  4. Select vaccine you wish to have.
  5. Take vaccine bottle it produces.

Additional uses:

  • Reveals the cure to any infected blood sample without needing to inject a living creature.

Infection Listings

Thankfully, humanity has managed to cure and eliminate almost all of the diseases that plagued its infancy. However, the vast reaches of space have been found to harbor new illnesses that can affect the unprepared staff on Nanotrasen research stations.

Disease Name Vector Name Source Description Spread Cure
Alien Parasite Xenomorph Alien rape A facehugger has implanted an embryo inside of the body of the victim, which will grow until it kills and destroys the body while spawning a larva. Special Surgery
Zombie Infection Romerol Syndicate Uplink A rare infection, which lies dormant in the victim. If the victim dies before it is cured, it will rise as an aggressive zombie, who will then transfer the infection to anyone it manages to scratch. The infection consists in a tumor located inside the head. Special Surgery
Brain Rot Cryptococcus Cosmosis Virus crate, random events An infection that causes mental degradation. Contact Mannitol
Cold XY-Rhinovirus Virology, random events Still around since the dawn of man, this disease is relatively harmless, causing fatigue and a runny nose. Will progress to the Flu when untreated. Airborne Rest and Spaceacillin
Cold 9 ICE9-Rhinovirus Admin fuckery A rare disease that will progressively lower the victim's body temperature in addition to respiratory symptoms. Contact Spaceacillin
Flu H13N1 Flu Viron Virology, random events A common illness, causes fatigue, high fever, and muscle toxicity. Rarely fatal, quickly spread. Airborne Spaceacillin
Anxiety Excess Lepidopticides Virus crate Will cause feelings of anxiety and cause the victim to cough butterflies. Contact Ethanol
GBS Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS+ Admin fuckery An extremely dangerous illness caused by contagious micro-singularities that will cause the human body to be torn apart from the inside. The initial phase begins in the lungs and mimics flu symptoms. Contact Sulfur and Synaptizine
Jungle Fever Kongey Vibrion M-909 Admin fuckery One of the most feared diseases in the galaxy, this is a disease carried by primates. A single bite or scratch is enough to fully infect a human. The result is spontaneous genetic reversion, and the affected individual will also become a monkey. Special Bananas, Death Squad
Magnitis Fukkos Miracos Virus crate, random events An infection of magnetic bacteria that build up in the body. As the disease progresses any metallic items not bolted down near the infected person will be pulled toward them, even objects as large as canisters. Ingested iron will draw the bacteria to it and allow them to be excreted normally. Contact Iron
Pierrot's Throat H0NI<42 Virus Virus crate, random events A brain disease that was brought back with the original explorers of Clown Planet that damages the basal ganglia, victims will have an uncontrollable urge to HONK. Airborne Bananas
Retrovirus N/A Admin fuckery A DNA-altering retrovirus that will constantly mutate the genetic code of the host. Symptoms vary wildly from blindness to incredible fits of strength and green skin. Contact Rest or Mutadone
Space Retrovirus S4E1 Retrovirus Random events A DNA-altering retrovirus that will copy the DNA of the first infected and apply it to every other infected. Contact Mutadone
Robotic Transformation R2D2 Nanomachines Roburgers, odd pizzas A rare infection that slowly transforms the infected into a cyborg. Special Copper
Spanish Flu 1nqu1s1t10n Flu Viron Admin fuckery A rare and deadly form of flu that causes an incredibly high fever. Those infected will die of internal burns without treatment or religious conversion. Airborne Spaceacillin
Wizarditis Rincewindus Vulgaris Hacked MagiVend A rare illness, causes spontaneous robe growth, randomly speaking incantations, and finally random teleportation. Airborne Manly Dorf
Xenomorphic Transformation Rip-LEY Alien Microbes Admin fuckery A rare infection caused by xeno-microbes, changing the infected's DNA to that of a xenomorph. Symptoms include severe pain and progressive insanity. Special Glycerol and Spaceacillin
Heart Disease N/A Random event The game categorizes it as a virus, and it progresses in stages, like a virus, so it's listed here. N/A Corazone, Electric Shocks, Heart Replacement Surgery
Fungal Tuberculosis Fungal Tubercle bacillus Cosmosis Nuke Ops Uplink, Strange Seeds A rare highly transmittable virulent virus. Few samples exist, rumoured to be carefully grown and cultured by clandestine bio-weapon specialists. Causes fever, vomiting, lung damage, weight loss, and fatigue. Airborne Salbutamol and Spaceacillin
Gondola Transformation Tranquility Raw Gondola meat Consuming the flesh of a Gondola comes at a terrible price. Produces Pax within the victims body resulting in pacifism, lessened motor control of the arms, and eventually turning the victim into a Gondola. Special Condensed Capsaicin

Advanced Diseases

You are able to create your own advance disease with different symptoms, which will have buffs, debuffs and bonuses!

You will start out with two advance diseases, the cold and the flu. The cold will have the sneeze symptom and the flu will have the cough symptom. They have almost no effect if they infect people, but you need them to acquire more symptoms.

The Pandemic can create culture bottles (basically copies) of existing viruses, so you won't run out while experimenting.

Modifying Symptoms

To obtain a new symptom you need to mutate an existing virus. This involves adding a chemical to the virus, which will generate a new symptom. Rarer and harder to acquire chemicals will yield more potent symptoms. You will start with enough chemicals to create a powerful disease, as long as you use them carefully. You can also insert an isolated symptom into your main virus, by moving 1 unit of the isolated culture to the main mix with a dropper. It will not work every time and may need to be repeated a few times.

Basic chemicals

These are the basic chemicals for virus mutation. These can be added to a culture to gain a symptom from a large pool- but it's about half as efficient as mixing advanced chemicals.

  • Virus Food: You can make virus food with Water and Milk. Virology lab has its own Virus Food Dispenser. Mixing this with a disease will give that disease a symptom of level 1 to 2. Pure virus food is the only way to get level 2 symptoms, so, unlike plasma and mutagen, it is useful alone.
  • Unstable Mutagen: You can use mutagen to mutate your disease and give it a symptom of level 2 to 4. Virology starts with a 30u bottle of mutagen.
  • Liquid Plasma: Plasma can be used to mutate your disease to give it a symptom of level 4 to 6. Plasma in liquid form is generally in very limited supply, unless mining and chemistry cooperates with you. Virology starts with a 30u bottle of liquid plasma, and in some station layouts with extra plasma bars.

Advanced Chemicals

Using these will allow you to both save time and resources when trying to acquire the symptoms you want.

  • Anomalous Virus Food: Anomalous Virus Food can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 0 symptom. It is made by combining pure Laughter with virus food. Level 0 symptoms tend to be statistically similar to other symptoms, but have an unusual effect- good for gimmicks!
  • Virus rations: Virus rations can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 1 symptom. It is made by depleting Virus food with Synaptizine. Level 1 symptoms almost universally boost stats, but have very little effect. Level 2 symptoms tend to be a bit better, so it's wise to leave virus food as-is.
  • Mutagenic Agar: Mutagenic agar can be used to mutate your disease to give it a level 3 symptom. It is made by mixing Unstable mutagen and virus food together. Level three symptoms tend to be either decent stat-boosters, or subpar active symptoms.
  • Sucrose Agar: Sucrose agar can be used to mutate your disease to give it a level 4 symptom. It is made by mixing Sugar or Saline Glucose Solution and Mutagenic agar together. Level four symptoms are quite weak, so there is very little point to mixing this.
  • Weakened Virus Plasma: Weakened virus plasma can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 5 symptom. It is made by weakening virus plasma using Synaptizine. Level 5 symptoms tend to be some of the strongest stat symptoms
  • Virus Plasma: Virus plasma can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 6 symptom. It is made by mixing liquid plasma with virus food. Level 6 symptoms are the strongest active symptoms available without uranium or Highly Unstable Virus Food
  • Highly Unstable Virus Food: Highly Unstable Virus Food can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 9 symptom. You only get one unit, but every single level nine symptom is insanely powerful in its own way. If you are a traitor, or you get Bee Infection, the symptom you get will likely define the disease you make on any given round

Uranium Gels

These chemicals require large quantities of liquid uranium (obtained by grinding uranium bars). You'll require the help of mining to make these.

  • Decaying Uranium Gel: Decaying Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 6 or 7 symptom. It is made by combining 1 virus food with 1 liquid Uranium. Efficient compared to Unstable gel, but slower to use.
  • Unstable Uranium Gel: Unstable Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 7 symptom. It is made by combining 1 virus plasma with 5 liquid Uranium. Level 7 symptoms contain potent stat symptoms, and several esoteric symptoms.
  • Stable Uranium Gel: Stable Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 8 symptom. It is made by combining 1 plasma with 10 parts liquid Uranium and 10 parts liquid silver or gold. Level 8 symptoms contain some of the most potent healing symptoms, as well as some very difficult to deal with deadly symptoms.

Synaptizine

Synaptizine, aside from being a base chemical, will remove one random symptom to any virus it comes in contact with. It's important if you intend to isolate a specific symptom. For example, if you mutate your Cold virus and it acquires the Toxic Filter symptom, you can try and add synaptizine to it to create a virus which only has the Toxic Filter symptom.

Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde will neuter one random symptom when mixed with a virus. This disables its effects while keeping the attributes intact. This is useful for meeting threshold values without making the virus deadly. NEUTER YOUR STAT SYMPTOMS, ALWAYS. UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING WITH AN EFFECT YOU ACTIVELY USE, ALL AN UNNEUTERED STAT SYMPTOM WILL DO, EVEN IF THE DISEASE IS INTENTIONALLY DEADLY, IS MAKE THE DISEASE GET NOTICED FASTER, AND, SCARE PEOPLE IF YOUR DISEASE IS GOOD, PROBABLY GETTING YOU LYNCHED. NEUTER YOUR FUCKING SYMPTOMS. YES, FEVER AND ITCHING CAN DO SLIGHT DAMAGE. NEUTER THEM ANYWAYS, DAMMIT

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BABBY'S FIRST VIRUS

Alright, since most people can't seem to grasp it: Virology is fucking SLOW! So this means you're gonna want to do a few things to make it faster!

1. Know what virus you want to make! I cannot fucking stress this enough. Random symptom isolation will never get you anywhere fast. The best way to pick a virus, especially as an antagonist, is to use your Highly Unstable Virus Food, and see what symptom you got. If you can work with it (Non antags can typically only work with beesease), you should base your disease off of it. Otherwise, have a set recipe ready! If you're new to viro, it doesnt hurt to experiment- Start by isolating a few level six (or three if you're into that kinda thing) symptoms. they're the most potent symptoms available at roundstart. After you decide on your active symptom(s), usually no more than two, you can get to work on stats- remember a virus can only have SIX symptoms! After you've experimented a bit, you may want to branch into level seven, eight, nine, and zero symptoms- these are a bit harder to get, but they tend to be a bit more potent.

2. You'll need five beakers when you get started making your virus:

  • Fill the first beaker to the brim with virus food and put it on the table. This is for level one and two symptoms.
  • Fill the second beaker with thirty units of virus food, and dump your entire mutagen bottle in. This is for level three symptoms.
  • There is no beaker for level four symptoms. Four is an unlucky number or some shit, and, more importantly, all level four symptoms suck
  • Fill the third beaker with ten units virus food, ten units Plasma, and then ten units of Synaptazine. This is for level five symptoms. THE ORDER IS IMPORTANT. PUT SYNAPTAZINE IN BEFORE PLASMA AND YOU'LL GET A BEAKER OF VIRUS RATIONS AND PLASMA, WASTING YOUR CHEMS. DONT DO IT.
  • Fill the fourth beaker with ten units virus food and ten units of Plasma. This is for level six symptoms
  • If you have the clown's can of laughter, you can fill a fifth beaker with ten units of virus food and the entire can of laughter for level zero symptoms

3. Lay out your Formaldehyde, Synaptazine, and Unstable Virus Food.

4. Finally, set an empty beaker out, and either Rhinovirus or the Cold. The Cold's symptom is Coughing, and Rhinovirus is Sneezing. I am a plasmaman, so all my diseases need high transmission- I prefer to set out rhinovirus.

5. Whichever symptom you choose to start with, drop a drop of formaldehyde in immediately! this neuters the symptom so your plague doesnt alert and scare people, which is bad regardless of your antag status. Remember to use your dropper, after setting it to one unit!

6. After you lay out your beakers on the table near the pandemic, situate yourself on a tile adjacent to the tables containing the reagents and your PANDEMIC machine. You will never have to move during this procedure- which saves valuable time.

7. With your recipe in mind, begin placing one unit of your starting symptom culture and one unit of the virus chem corresponding to your disease into the empty beaker. Do NOT place your virus chem into your culture, or your culture into your chem- it will set you back by an insane amount!. After you make ONE reaction, place the empty beaker in the pandemic-You never need to pick any beakers but this empty beaker up during the process- and check the symptoms. If you got what you wanted, create a culture, save your previous culture if it's the starter, you will need it later, or get rid of it if it's a random step in the process, and repeat with the chem for the next symptom, doing symptoms you will neuter first and neutering them as you get them. Repeat until you reach a total of four symptoms. To reiterate step five, ALWAYS use a one unit dropper! it makes you far more efficient with chem usage- if you use a dropper, your starting chems will usually last an entire round!

8. Upon reaching four symptoms, a virus has a chance to lose symptoms on gaining new ones. To avoid this, make a culture of your four symptoms, name it, and put it aside. Take your starter culture out, and begin the step 7 process. Once you get the fifth symptom, use the step seven process with synaptazine to remove the starter symptom, and finally repeat the step seven process one last time to get the last symptom. By now, you should have two cultures- one with four symptoms, and one with two (or one, five symptom diseases exist)

9. Finally, repeat the step seven process one more time, but using the two cultures, instead of a chem and a culture. There is no reaction sound for this mixing! Once you reach the desired number of symptoms (yes, adding symptoms via mixing can delete symptoms just like adding them via chems does), name the virus, and make a culture! you're done! yay!

Understanding stats

After you're done mixing your disease, stats from the symptoms are added together to make disease stats. Viruses have a default of 0 in every stat.

  • Stealth: If stealth is 2 or higher your disease will be hidden from medHUD and scanners. Generally it will also hide the warning signs of symptoms before they activate.
  • Transmission: Improves the chance each tick to spread the virus, increases the amount of protection you need to prevent infection, determines the infection vector, and is needed to override other viruses.
    • The infection vector is calculated with (disease's transmission - amount of symptoms). 2 or less is blood, 3 is fluid contact, 4 is skin contact, 5 is airbone. The Sneezing symptom forces sporadic airborne spreads, but does not otherwise affect this.
    • When infecting someone who already has a virus, if the infecting virus' Transmission is higher than the other virus' Resistance, the latter will be overridden by the former.
  • Stage speed: Increases the chance of advancing a stage each tick. It will be 2% or stage speed, whichever is higher.
  • Resistance: Makes the virus harder to cure; determines the required chemical to cure, decreases the chance of it being cured each tick when in contact with the cure, and defines how resistant the virus is to being overridden by other viruses.
  • Severity: A hidden statistic. The symptom with the highest severity defines the virus' severity; it affects the color of the medHUD icon, ranging from blue for positive viruses, to flashing red for extremely deadly diseases.
    • The chance of it being cured every tick is 15 - resistance, but always between 10 and 20.
    • The cure is determined by [resistance - (amount of symptoms / 2)].
1 or less 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 or more
Table Salt Sugar Orange juice Spaceacillin Saline-Glucose Solution Ethanol Leporazine Synaptizine Lipolicide Silver Gold

Symptoms Table

 
Eyre I, the Virologist says:
"Mouse over the names of some of the symptoms- I've left you some advice and useful info. I've also left some similar advice on certain aspects of symptoms that either dont work properly, or need elaboration."

Hover over the thresholds to see the effects of each.

Symptom Stealth Resistance Stage speed Transmission Level Required Chemical Effect Threshold (hover mouse over for details)
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -2 0 -1 -2 9 Highly Unstable Virus Food Causes heavy suffocation damage, while giving a small chance of heart attacks. Becomes even more lethal if the mob has more than 120 suffocation damage. Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8
Alopecia 0 1 2 2 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Causes rapid hair loss. None
Alkali perspiration 2 -2 -2 -2 9 Highly Unstable Virus Food Causes the affected mob to burst into flames periodically. !Makes victims explode on contact with water. Resistance 9, Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8
Autophageocytosis Necrosis -2 -2 1 -2 9 Highly Unstable Virus Food Causes the mob's cells to decay rapidly, causing brute damage, constant bleeding and elevated hunger. Stage Speed 7, Stealth 5
Bee Infestation -2 2 1 1 9 Highly Unstable Virus Food Infests the host's stomach with bees, causing minor toxin damage and bee-filled coughs. Resistance 14
Choking -3 -2 -2 -4 3 Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar Causes spikes of oxygen deprivation. Deals damage based on stage speed and stealth. Stage Speed 8, Stealth 4
Coughing -1 3 1 2 1 Virus Food/Virus Rations Causes coughing. Spreads the virus if it's airborne. Resistance 3, Resistance 10, Stage Speed 6, Stealth 4
Confusion 1 -1 -3 0 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Makes the affected mob be confused for short periods of time, making them walk in random directions. Resistance 6, Transmission 6, Stealth 4
Deafness -1 -2 -1 -3 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Causes intermittent loss of hearing. Resistance 9, Stealth 4
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Saboteur -2 -3 0 -3 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Gives a random disability. The disabilities are cured when the disease is cured. Stage Speed 10, Resistance 8, Stealth 5
Dizziness 0 -2 -3 -1 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Shakes the affected mob's screen for short periods. (Bugged: Currently only displays an annoying message) Transmission 6, Stealth 4
Ducatopod -4 -2 4 2 9 Highly Unstable Virus Food Causes the host to secrete industrial grade lubricant from their feet. Transmission 10, Resistance 12
Eternal Youth 3 4 4 -4 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma Makes you never physically older than young adulthood and prevents death by old age. !Should be used for buffing your disease. None
Facial Hypertrichosis 0 3 2 1 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Makes you grow a massive beard, regardless of gender. None
Fever 0 3 3 2 2 Virus Food Heats up your body. Will not reach damaging levels of heat unless resistance thresholds are met. Resistance 5, Resistance 10
Hallucigen -2 -3 -3 -1 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma Makes the affected mob have hallucinations for short periods of time. Available in Virus Crates. Stage Speed 7, Stealth 4
Headache -1 4 2 0 1 Virus Food/Virus Rations Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease. Stage Speed 6, Stage Speed 9, Stealth 4
Inorganic Biology -1 4 -2 3 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma The virus becomes able to affect inorganic species, such as Golems or Plasmamen. Infecting them with blood transmission will still not work though since they don't have blood. The disease must have a transmission of at least fluids to be spread to them, and must be spread by either eating, touch, or, for plasmamen, breathing. None
Hyphema -1 -4 -4 -3 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma Inflicts eye damage over time. Causes blindness if left unchecked. Resistance 12, Stealth 4
Irradiant Cells -3 2 -1 -1 8 Stable Uranium Gel The host's cells destabilize, causing them to become radioactive and take radiation damage Transmission 12Stage Speed 8
Itching 0 3 3 1 1 Virus Food/Virus Rations Displays an annoying message. Should be used for buffing your disease. Can do slight brute damage if the stage speed threshold is met. Transmission 6, Stage Speed 7
Metabolic Boost -1 -2 2 1 7 Unstable Uranium Gel Doubles the host's metabolism speed, making them process chems much faster than normal, but also increasing their hunger tenfold. Stealth 3, Stage Speed 10
Mind Restoration -1 -2 1 -3 5 Plasma/Virus Plasma The virus strengthens the bonds between neurons, reducing the duration of any ailment of the mind. Heals brain damage, and can cure mild and heavy traumas if upgraded. Resistance 6, Resistance 9, Transmission 8
Nano-symbiosis 0 2 2 -1 7 Unstable Uranium Gel The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by enhancing their replication cycle. Stage Speed 7, Transmission 5
Narcolepsy -1 -2 -3 -4 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Makes the host drowsy and prone to falling asleep randomly. Transmission 7, Resistance 10
Necrotic Metabolism 2 -2 1 0 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma The virus becomes able to affect undead races. None
Necrotizing Fasciitis -3 -4 0 -4 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Causes brute damage over time. Fatal if left untreated. Resistance 7, Transmission 8
Neural Decay 1 -2 -3 -1 8 Stable Uranium Gel The host's brain begins to die, dealing high brain damage Resistance 10
Nocturnal Regeneration 2 -1 -2 -1 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Heals brute and burn damage if the host is not currently exposed to light. Heals brute damage more quickly than burn damage. Stage Speed 8
Pierrot's Throat -1 3 1 2 0 Anomalous Virus Food The host honks occasionally Transmission 10, Resistance 10, Resistance 15
Plasma Fixation 0 3 -2 -2 8 Stable Uranium Gel The host absorbs plasma in the air and in their bloodstream, using it to stabilize their temperature and heal brute, burn, and toxin damage. Transmission 6, Stage Speed 7
Radioactive Resonance -1 -2 0 -3 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while the host is irradiated. Higher radiation levels increase the healing speed. Transmission 6, Increases healing speed
Regenerative Coma 0 2 -3 -2 8 Stable Uranium Gel Causes the host to fall into a death-like coma when heavily damaged, then rapidly cures their wounds. Stealth 2, Stage Speed 7
Revitiligo 1 2 1 2 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma Makes the host black. Every virologist's first joke plague. No one finds it funny anymore. None
Self-Respiration 1 -3 -3 -4 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Quickly heals oxygen damage, negating the need for air. Resistance 8
Sensory Restoration 0 1 -2 2 4 Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar Restores mob's senses by fixing eye and ear damage and curing hallucinations. None
Shivering 0 2 2 2 2 Virus Food Cools down your body. Won't reach damaging levels unless thresholds are met. Stage Speed 5, Stage Speed 10
Silicolysis 0 4 -1 1 7 Unstable Uranium Gel The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by attacking and consuming them. Stage Speed 5, Resistance 7
Sneezing -2 3 0 4 1 Virus Food/Virus Rations Causes the mob to occasionally sneeze. Transmission 9, Stealth 4
Spontaneous Combustion 1 -4 -4 -4 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on stage speed, minus stealth. Stage Speed 4, Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8, Stealth 4
Starlight Condensation -1 -2 0 1 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while exposed to starlight. Heals toxin more efficiently. Actually being in space intensifies the effect. Stage Speed 6, Transmission 6
Tissue Hydration 0 -1 0 -1 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Heals brute and burn damage if the host drank water recently, or if they're wet. Heals burn damage more efficiently. Resistance 5, Stage Speed 7
Toxolysis 0 -2 -2 -2 7 Unstable Uranium Gel Purges all chemicals at a fast rate from the bloodstream. Resistance 7, Stage Speed 6
Viral Evolutionary Acceleration -2 -3 5 3 3 Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Self-Adaptation in your disease. None
Viral Self-Adaptation 3 5 -3 0 3 Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Evolutionary Acceleration in your disease. None
Vitiligo 2 0 3 1 5 Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma Makes the mob lose skin pigmentation. None
Voice Change -1 -2 -2 2 6 Plasma/Virus Plasma Changes the voice of the affected mob. Causing confusion in communication. Available in Virus Crates. Transmission 14, Stage Speed 7, Stealth 3
Vomiting -2 -1 0 1 3 Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar Forces the affected mob to vomit! Makes the affected mob lose nutrition and heal toxin damage. Vomit can transmit the virus to people stepping on it. Resistance 7, Transmission 7, Stealth 4
Weight Loss -2 2 -2 -2 3 Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar The virus mutates the host's metabolism, making it almost unable to gain nutrition from food. Stealth 4
Wizarditis 1 -2 -3 -1 0 Anomalous Virus Food The host believes themselves to be a wizard Transmission 14, Stage Speed 7


General Tips

  • You can get plasma and uranium from the medical autolathe if mining has picked it up. No need to waste time going to the ORM.
  • The clown will typically be happy to give you his canned laughter for Anomalous Virus Food
  • Never make sucrine agar unless you absolutely need a level four symptom for some ungodly reason
  • If you wear the biosuit, you're an idiot. The only time you need to wear that is when working with patients or monkeys, and it slows you down. If you release a disease as a traitor, you should have immunized yourself beforehand- a biosuit sticks out like a sore thumb
  • ALWAYS make your diseases beforehand. Have a recipe ready to work with any given symptom. This is the MOST IMPORTANT part of being good at virology.
  • Never use pure mutagen or pure plasma. Always make virus chems, it doubles your efficiency.
  • If you want to kill a single person instead of the whole station, use chemicals instead of viruses- they're more effective than a single-host virus. Unless you rolled Bee Infection- release a resistance 14 bee plague , and inject your mark with mint toxin a few minutes later!
  • Single person oriented beneficial diseases are superior to beneficial diseases with high transmission, as they can have higher stats without worrying about transmission. Unless you're a Plasmaman.
  • Stealth below 2 is useless. Stealth above 2 is largely unecessary unless you need to meet a threshold or you don't want to be valided- If you neuter your symptoms properly, your disease will not be noticed by anyone other than doctors with medhuds.

The Black Death

Being a traitor virologist allows you to finally come out of your shell and release those negative recipes you've been aching to test, and put those level nine symptoms to the true test!

  • Sabotaging the Pandemic is usually a good idea, as it can create a vaccine for a cured virus which is cheap and easy to distribute, even if the virus is extremely resistant.
  • Sabotaging the holodeck computer is also a good idea because its Emergency Medical simulation also contains a Pandemic.
  • Sabotaging chemistry can stop them from making most of the chems that can cure viruses.
  • A dropper works as a 1-5 unit hypospray when used on a target not wearing any eye protection.
  • An infected monkey in medbay is another easy way to spread a disease
  • Immunize yourself before releasing your death plague!