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Penoxycyline is a drug that prevents users from catching malaria, sleeping sickness, and plague

Acquisition[edit]

Penoxycylines can be crafted at a drug lab once the penoxycyline production research project has been completed. Each requires 2 Neutroamine and 600 ticks (10 secs) of work modified by the drug synthesis speed of the crafter. Note that Neutroamine can only be obtained from traders or found in cargo pods.

It can also be bought from orbital, Outlander, or Empire traders, as well as Outlander and Empire faction bases.

Summary[edit]

Penoxycyline completely prevents users from catching any of the following diseases while its "high" is active:

Despite the wording of the description, it does nothing to prevent or treat infections, or any other diseases or ailments besides the three above.

When the Disease event occurs, pawns that were protected from getting the disease by penoxycyline will be specifically noted as such. Penoxycyline does nothing to treat pre-existing diseases.

Penoxycyline is not addictive and has no direct side effects. Penoxycyline can contribute to overdoses, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14 per dose consumed. This severity is not enough to cause any health effect on its own. However, it can cause minor overdoses when taken along with hard drugs.

Analysis[edit]

Diseases usually aren't a fatal problem by the time you can get a good supply of neutroamine and have the Penoxycyline production research. For an otherwise healthy colonist: a decent doctor, in a clean hospital, using herbal medicine or medicine is usually enough to treat the disease (so long as the colonist rests for the duration). However, this drug can still be helpful.

Penoxycyline can reduce the time spend resting in bed, especially in tropical biomes where disease is prevalent and sleeping sickness is possible. If you don't want to use penoxycyline on every colonist, you can reserve it for your doctors. This prevents your doctors from getting sick when a disease outbreak occurs. It can also be used on sickly pawns for obvious reasons. If you can afford the neutroamine cost (and won't be using it for medicine, wake-up, or go-juice), then this drug is a net positive.

While the in-game description says to "Take every five days", the effect actually lasts just over than a half-day longer. This gives pawns some leeway, in case colonists don't consume the pills promptly. Set a drug policy to tell the pawns to take one every 5 days and keep one in the inventory to take as soon as possible, or be cheap, set it to "6 days" and live dangerously.

Gallery[edit]

One penoxycyline
Stack of penoxycyline

Version history[edit]

0.15.1279 - Added as Malari-block, and only prevents Malaria
0.16.1393 - Reworked. Renamed from Malari-block to Penoxycyline and now prevents a wide variety of infections. Cost decreased from 5 neutroamine to 3.
Alpha 17 - Cost is further reduced from 3 to 2 neutroamine. It also received an overhaul, such that instead of instantly boosting disease immunity to 61%, it now provides true immunity and cannot reactively increase immunity against a disease that is already in progress.

Drugs

Social drugs: Ambrosia • Beer • Psychite tea • Smokeleaf joint

Hard drugs: Flake • Go-juice • Wake-up • Yayo

Medical drugs: Luciferium • Penoxycyline

Serums: Ghoul resurrection serum • Juggernaut serum • Metalblood serum • Mind-numb serum • Voidsight serum

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+| name = Penoxycyline
+| image = Penoxycyline b.png
+| description = A drug for preventing infections before they take hold. Blocks malaria, sleeping sickness, plague.{{Sic}} Must be taken every five days to remain effective.<br/>This drug only prevents new infections. It does not cure existing infections - even those that are not yet discovered.
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+'''Penoxycyline''' is a [[drug]] that prevents users from catching malaria, sleeping sickness, and plague
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+== Acquisition ==
+{{Acquisition}} Note that [[Neutroamine]] can only be obtained from traders or found in cargo pods.
-==Gameplay Overview==
+It can also be [[Trade|bought]] from orbital, [[Outlander]], or [[Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} traders, as well as Outlander and Empire [[faction base]]s.
-Penoxycyline is a medical drug in RimWorld which was introduced in Alpha 16, and succeeds Malari-Block. Unlike its predecessor, Penoxycyline blocks against 3 diseases: [[malaria]], [[sleeping Sickness|sleeping sickness]], and the dreaded [[plague]] - whereas Malari-block only blocked against malaria.
-Like Malari-Block; Penoxycyline can either be purchased from traders, or crafted at a [[drug lab]] - but for a mere 3 [[neutroamine]] as opposed to the 5 which Malari-block took. However, in order to make Penoxycyline, you need to have [[research#PenoxycylineProduction|penoxycyline production]] researched, which in turn requires [[research#DrugProduction|drug production]], and Neutroamine has to either be purchased from traders, or found in cargo pods.
+== Summary ==
+Penoxycyline completely prevents users from catching any of the following [[disease]]s while its "high" is active:
-Contrary to its description, Penoxycyline '''cannot fully prevent disease'''. Instead, it provides immunity against them.
+* [[Malaria]]
+* [[Plague]]
+* [[Sleeping sickness]]
-===Functioning===
+Despite the wording of the description, it does nothing to prevent or treat [[infection]]s, or any other diseases or ailments besides the three above.
-Administering Penoxycyline instantly boosts the immunity of the diseases it protects against to 61% if it's lower than that.
+When the [[Events#Disease (Type)|Disease event]] occurs, pawns that were protected from getting the disease by penoxycyline will be specifically noted as such. Penoxycyline does nothing to treat pre-existing diseases.
-As diseases cannot be acquired at 60%+ immunity, and Penoxy sets it to 61%, this means that Penoxycycline offers true immunity to plague & sleeping sickness for 12 hours, and malaria for 8 hours. After that period, it reduces the probably of that particular pawn getting sick. There is a brief time before it decays below the threshold.
+Penoxycyline is not addictive and has no direct side effects. Penoxycyline ''can'' contribute to [[overdose]]s, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14 per dose consumed. This severity is not enough to cause any health effect on its own. However, it can cause minor overdoses when taken along with [[hard drugs]].
-The weird part is that the game first picks how many pawns will get sick, regardless of immunity, and then next picks which pawns get sick, weighted by immunity. If only one of your pawns has taken penoxy, and took it 24 hours ago, that pawn is 1/50th as likely to get sick as the other pawns. But if all of your pawns have taken it 24 hours ago, they're all just as likely to get sick and the same number of pawns total will get sick. But they'll still be starting at 59% immunity, pretty much guaranteeing survival, and a very short period of actual sickness. (A young, healthy pawn will be at 90%+ immunity when the plague/sleeping sickness is revealed; malaria never revealed at all).
+== Analysis ==
+Diseases usually aren't a fatal problem by the time you can get a good supply of [[neutroamine]] and have the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research. For an otherwise healthy colonist: a decent doctor, in a clean hospital, using [[herbal medicine]] or [[medicine]] is usually enough to treat the disease (so long as the colonist rests for the duration). However, this drug can still be helpful.
-===Usage===
+Penoxycyline can reduce the time spend resting in bed, especially in tropical biomes where disease is prevalent and sleeping sickness is possible. If you don't want to use penoxycyline on every colonist, you can reserve it for your doctors. This prevents your doctors from getting sick when a disease outbreak occurs. It can also be used on sickly pawns for obvious reasons. If you can afford the neutroamine cost (and won't be using it for [[medicine]], [[wake-up]], or [[go-juice]]), then this drug is a net positive.
-For plague & sleeping sickness, Penoxycycline prophylaxis may be useful for all healthy pawns; it can be taken reactively and still add 30%+ immunity, eliminating the need for bed rest or treatment to survive (and if treatment is provided it won't reach serious stages).
+While the in-game description says to ''"Take every five days"'', the effect actually lasts just over than a half-day longer. This gives pawns some leeway, in case colonists don't consume the pills promptly. Set a [[drug policy]] to tell the pawns to take one every 5 days and keep one in the inventory to take as soon as possible, or be cheap, set it to "6 days" and live dangerously.
-Malaria does need proactive Penoxycycline. A healthy pawn will develop 55% immunity in the 4.6 days it takes to reveal itself, so reactive penoxy only adds 5%, though more will be added if the pawn has a weakened immune system.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Penoxycyline a.png|One penoxycyline
+Penoxycyline b.png|Stack of penoxycyline
+</gallery>
-Penoxy taken every 5 days will maintain a minimum of 46% immunity to malaria, so healthy pawns will never have a visible Malaria infection. But taken every 9 days, a healthy pawn will still develop immunity before malaria hits Major severity without any treatment or bed rest. A solo jungle explorer looking to conserve their supply might stretch it out to every 12 days (which will avoid extreme without any treatment or bed rest), or if they're particularly brave/desperate, every 15 days (but then there is a small risk that bed rest will be necessary). Taken every 20 days, Penoxy offers no guaranteed immunity, but on average will cut off 2.5 days before immunity is acquired.
+== Version history ==
-</noinclude>
+* [[Version/0.15.1279|0.15.1279]] - Added as '''Malari-block''', and only prevents [[Malaria]]
+* [[Version/0.16.1393|0.16.1393]] - Reworked. Renamed from '''Malari-block''' to '''Penoxycyline ''' and now prevents a wide variety of infections. Cost decreased from 5 [[neutroamine]] to 3.
+* [[Alpha 17]] - Cost is further reduced from 3 to 2 neutroamine. It also received an overhaul, such that instead of instantly boosting disease immunity to 61%, it now provides true immunity and cannot reactively increase immunity against a disease that is already in progress.
-===Notes===
+{{Nav/drugs}}
-*Penoxycyline can contribute to overdose, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14; this is uncommon, however, and you will either have to take a few other drugs beforehand, or binge on Penoxycyline.
-<noinclude>
+[[Category:Drug]] [[Category:Medical Drug]]
-{{nav/drugs}}
-</noinclude>