Drugs
Drugs can be used to gain temporary benefits of various sorts at the risk of addiction, negative side effects, and even overdose resulting in death. Most drugs are crafted using either Psychoid leaves or Neutroamine, however beer requires Hops and has an intermediate stage before fermenting called Wort.
The Drugs in the game are:
Go-juice
Go-juice
A synthetic performance-enhancing drug developed for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare. Go-juice blocks pain, increases movement speed, and improves the user's melee and shooting abilities. The military chemists who created it were never able to remove its addictiveness. Some saw this as a downside; others saw it as a benefit.
Base Stats
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 53
- Stack Limit
- 150
- Mass
- 0.1 kg
- HP
- 50
- Deterioration Rate
- 2
- Flammability
- 100%
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 14 (48%)
Ingestion
- Recreation Offset
- 40%
- Recreation Kind
- Chemical
- Addictiveness
- 2.6%
- Maximum To Ingest
- 1
- Ingestion Time
- 80 ticks (1.33 secs)
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Go-juice production
- Work To Make
- 600 ticks (10 secs)
- Work Speed Stat
- Drug Synthesis Speed
- Resources to make
2 + 
1
- defName
- GoJuice
- Preferability
- NeverForNutrition
- Food Preference
- NeverForFood
- Drug Category
- Hard
- Is Pleasure Drug
- true
- Bulk Product Amount
Go-juice is a potent hard combat drug that almost completely blocks pain and significantly improves a pawn's capabilities, at the risk of addiction and overdose.
Acquisition
s can be crafted, each requiring and Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter.
It can also be found on raiders and purchased.
Summary
Go-juice is a potent combat stimulant that has a variety of effects. These can be broken into effects that occur:
- Instantaneously and one time upon using the drug.
- While high on the drug.
- While addicted to the drug.
- While withdrawing from the drug.
Upon injection
A pawn taking go-juice will do so right where it stands without looking for a place to sit first. Go-juice is taken by injection, taking Expression error: Unexpected < operator.. It has the following one time effects:
- +Expression error: Missing operand for *.% recreation
- If the pawn has the chemical interest or chemical fascination trait:
- +30% Chemical need
- +40% Rest
- +15% Psyfocus
- 0.5% Chance for a major overdose
- +18% to +35% Overdose severity
- +50% Go-juice high severity (see "Go-juice high" below)
- Expression error: Missing operand for *.% Addiction chance
- If the pawn has an addiction already:
- +90% Go-juice need (see "Addiction" below)
- −20% Addiction progress (see "Withdrawal" below)
Go-juice high
"Go-juice in the bloodstream. It supercharges combat-related abilities, and instantly increases psyfocus when first injected."
While each go-juice injection increases the severity of the go-juice high by 50% (see "Upon injection" above), it decreases by 75% per day again, meaning that the high of a single dose lasts 16 hours. The maximum severity of a go-juice high is 100% which is reached with 2 go-juice. Regardless of the go-juice high severity, the effects are always the same. Only their duration changes accordingly:
- +5 Mood ("I feel pumped but steady. I am the bullet in flight, ready to cut through you.")
- ×10% Pain (meaning all pain will be divided by ten)
- +20% Consciousness
- +35% Sight
- +50% Moving
Tolerance
As of version 1.2.3005, go-juice no longer gives a pawn any tolerance at all when taken, despite the effects of tolerance still existing in-game. This has been confirmed as intended behaviour.[1]
Addiction
"A chemical addiction to go-juice. Long-term presence of go-juice has caused neurological adaptations at the cellular level, so the brain can no longer function properly without the drug. Without regular doses of go-juice, withdrawal symptoms will begin. However, extended abstinence will force the brain to adapt back to its normal state, resolving the addiction."
— Addiction description
Each dose of go-juice carries a Expression error: Missing operand for *.% chance of addiction. There is therefore no safe dose interval.
The addiction progresses by 4.5% per day from the initial 50%. Once it reaches 100% the addiction is healed, meaning it takes about 11.1 days to overcome the addiction. Consuming go-juice during an addiction will reduce the addiction progress by 20% again (see "Upon injection" above).
Developing an addiction means a pawn has a go-juice need. The need for go-juice falls by 33.3% per day, consuming go-juice satisfies the need by 90% (see "Upon injection" above), meaning the pawn will need to consume go-juice at least every 2.7 days to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
Withdrawal
"Because of a go-juice addiction, this person needs to regularly consume the drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms."
— Need description
As soon as the go-juice need reaches 0%, the pawn suffers from the following symptoms:
- −22 Mood ("I'm all fuzzy and can't think straight. My limbs feel heavy, I'm tired and hungry, everything hurts. And why won't my eyes focus properly?")
- ×300% Pain (meaning all pain will be tripled)
- −20% Consciousness
- −50% Moving
- −20% Sight
- −20% Blood pumping
- −10% Manipulation
- +30% Sleep Fall Rate (meaning the pawn needs to sleep about a 30% sooner)
- +50% Hunger rate factor (meaning the pawn needs to eat about 50% sooner)
- Mental break chances:
- Hard drug binge: on average every 40 days. This averages to 0.3 hard drug binges during each withdrawal.
- Psychotic wandering: on average every 10 days. This averages to 1.1 wanderings during each withdrawal.
Analysis
Go-juice is a stimulant and pain-killer, with a significant impact on combat performance. Barring wake-up and luciferium, no other drug helps much with combat - reducing pain and with a slight movement increase at most. There is no real comparison to wake-up; go-juice is made for combat and movement, and wake-up is made for work speed. Luciferium comes with a permanent addiction, and in any case, works with go-juice.
Combat
Increases to Sight and Consciousness boosts accuracy, both ranged and melee. Increased Moving helps with all forms of kiting tactics and makes it easier to retreat. Increased medical tend speed can save a pawn that's bleeding out quickly. Like the painstopper, the large reduction in pain allows a pawn to stand up far longer and win more fights. But they will continue fighting until very close to death - or when physically made unable.
Finally, go-juice provides slight boosts to mood, recreation, and rest. While weaker in this regard than most other drugs, they can still help prevent mental breaks.
The risk of addiction and overdose is always present, but addiction is better than death. For example, a miner digging out far away from your base will appreciate carrying go-juice, for when a raid or manhunter pack spawns near them. Withdrawal symptoms are harsh, but its 11.1 day withdrawal (assuming no future doses are taken) can be managed by arresting the addict in question. Go-juice has the second shortest withdrawal, behind ambrosia.
Misc work
Besides combat, the increase in Moving can make pawns much faster at hauling and somewhat quicker at other tasks. Usually this is not worth the risk of addiction unless you need to repair your defenses. But if you have a pawn you don't care about, like an unwanted wanderer or some desperate refugees, then you can use go-juice to expedite your work.
Go-juice's consciousness boost also improves the odds of successful surgery. Useful for surgeries with a reduced chance to succeed, such as carcinoma removal. Otherwise, surgery success chance can usually be capped at 98%, with a sterile room, hospital bed, and a good doctor.
- Tip: Unless you need an immediate and significant boost in chemical recreation, rest or psyfocus it is recommended to wait at least 4.8 hours between the first and the second dose of go-juice. Otherwise the overdose severity might build up resulting in a minor overdose (this is unrelated to the 0.5% chance for a major overdose that comes with each injection). Be particularly careful when using go-juice in combination with other drugs! The third dose and any dose after that shouldn't be taken earlier than 16 hours after the second to last dose. Otherwise some hours of the go-juice high will be wasted.
Stats
Assuming a healthy, but otherwise unaugmented pawn, the bonuses from consuming go-juice translates to:
- A +50% increase to Move Speed, equivalent to an increase of 2.3 c/s on a healthy, unencumbered pawn.
- A +20% increase in General Labor Speed.
- A +30% increase in Medical Tend Quality at Medical skill 10. At Medical 20, this is a 27% increase, at Medical 5, a 32% increase
- A 1.2× multiplier to Medical Surgery Success Chance.
- An increase in Shooting Accuracy equivalent to +4.2 extra levels of Shooting.
- An increase in Melee Hit Chance equivalent to +6.6 extra levels of Melee.
- An increase in Melee Dodge Chance equivalent to +11.8 extra levels of Melee.
Drug dependency
The Go-juice dependency gene,
found in hussars, completely removes the chance of normal addiction and overdose. But at 5 days without the drug, the pawn will incur severe penalties. At the least, dependency is less severe than actual addiction or withdrawal.
Each dose of go-juice requires to create. A stack of 50 neutroamine, worth 300 before Trade Price Improvement and difficulty, can last a single pawn for 125 days, or just over 2 years. With 0 Social skill in Losing is Fun, this price increases to 504. In practice, this supply will end up being somewhat shorter if you want to use go-juice for combat or work purposes. Meanwhile, psychoid/yayo can be grown inside your colony. A drug-dependent pawn will survive for up to 60 days without the drug, usually more than enough time to form a caravan or find an orbital trader.
Overall, go-juice dependency is very affordable; you'll just need [[Research#|]] and Psychite refining researched, and some form of trade. In exchange, a dependent pawn can get all the benefit of go-juice at any time, with 0% chance of any health problems whatsoever.
Gallery
One Go-juice
Stack of go-juice
Version history
- 0.15.1279 - Added.
- 1.1.2647 - Rebalanced. Addiction risk and effects reduced, safe dose interval removed. Now instantly gives psyfocus when taken by psycasters.
References
- ↑ Rejected bug report: "[1.2.2753] Wake-up and go-juice do not cause tolerance". Unused tolerance effects: "A built-up tolerance to go-juice. The more severe this tolerance is, the more go-juice it takes to get the same effect." Starting at 45% tolerance the pawn could get moderate chemical damage in the brain reducing part efficiency by 50%, impairing the pawn in all jobs from combat to daily work. The chemical damage would be applied in a curve with the following points: a) At 45% tolerance on average every 99999 days. b) At 50% tolerance on average every 120 days. c) At 100% tolerance on average every 90 days. All values in between are calculated with linear interpolation. The go-juice tolerance would decrease by 1.5% per day.
Luciferium
Luciferium
A concoction of mechanites that dramatically improve the body's functioning in all respects. Over time, it can even heal old scarred-over wounds or brain damage, though it cannot regenerate lost limbs. Unfortunately, without the moderating effects of regular doses every five or six days, the mechanites lose cohesion, causing continuous berserk rages and, eventually, death.
After the first dose, there is no way to get the mechanites out, ever.
On the urbworlds, they call Luciferium the 'Devil's Bargain'. Many have been forced to kill friends when no more of the seductive red pills could be found.
Base Stats
- Type
- Drug – Medical Drug
- Tech Level
- Ultra
- Market Value
- 70
- Stack Limit
- 150
- Mass
- 0.01 kg
- HP
- 50
- Deterioration Rate
- 2
- Flammability
- 100%
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 14 (48%)
Ingestion
- Addictiveness
- 100%
- Maximum To Ingest
- 1
- defName
- Luciferium
- Preferability
- NeverForNutrition
- Food Preference
- NeverForFood
- Drug Category
- Medical
- Is Pleasure Drug
- false
Luciferium is a rare, powerful, expensive and dangerous drug that can heal permanent injuries, chronic health conditions, and helps fight disease, but will kill its user if not taken regularly.
Acquisition
Luciferium cannot be crafted, and must be either acquired through trade, as a quest reward, found in ancient shrines, or looted from pirate Raiders.
Summary
Luciferium provides a variety of enhancing effects. It always causes addiction. These can be broken into effects that occur:
- While addicted to the drug.
- While withdrawing from the drug.
Luciferium Addiction
- Improved blood filtration (+70%)
- Improved digestion (+20%)
- Improved blood pumping (+15%)
- Improved sight (+15%)
- Improved consciousness (+10%)
- Improved breathing (+10%)
- Improved moving (+5%)
- Reduced pain (×80%)
- 1 Scar/permanent injury or ailment removed every 900,000 to 1,800,000 ticks (15 - 30 in-game days) (Also included but not limited to Alzheimer's, Asthma, Cataracts, Carcinoma, Dementia, Frail, Hearing Loss and Blindness)[Purely random?]
- If a pawn is not addicted: +100% luciferium need
- If a pawn is already addicted: +90% lucifierium need (scaled by body size)
Luciferium addiction is unique in that it is permanent - there is no waiting it out. If not taken regularly, luciferium will eventually kill. Pawns will remain addicted even after applying healer mech serum or resurrector mech serum. The only possible way to save someone going through a luciferium withdrawal is to give them more luciferium.
Developing an addiction forms a luciferium need. This need falls by 15% every day, consuming luciferium satisfies the need by +90%. Therefore, an adult human would need to take 1 dose of luciferium every 6 days exactly. Only the first dose sets luciferium need to 100%.
Withdrawal
As soon as the luciferium need reaches 0%, the pawn suffers from the following symptoms:
- Intense pain (+40%) (−15 mood normally, +7 mood with the Ideoligion meme Pain: Idealized and +15 with Masochist trait)
- Impaired consciousness (80% Max)
- Berserk mental breaks (MTB of 0.4 days)
- Death (MTB of 10 days)
Death is caused by the brain being instantly destroyed, meaning that the Deathless gene does not protect against it.
Healing method table
Some injuries and health conditions will not naturally heal or cannot be immediately cured by treatment. In these cases, transplantation, artificial body parts, healer mech sera, luciferium or biosculpter pods
may help, but each has its own unique list of what it can and cannot cure.
The full comparison table between healing methods is collapsed due to length. Expand to view.
- ^Both Heals both relevant organs if condition is present in both.
- ^One Heals only one organ, even if condition is present in both.
- ^Prev This option prevents the acquisition of new cases of this condition, independent of whether or not it cures existing cases.
- ^IGS While this option does not outright cure these diseases, the increase to Immunity Gain Speed can hasten their healing and/or help prevent fatal cases.
- ^Note 1 This only heals the pawn it is applied to. The other pawn that gained duplicate sickness with this pawn must be separately healed.
- ^Note 2 This condition can only be cured before it reaches its final stage, "crumbled mind". Once it has, it becomes permanently incurable.
Analysis
Luciferium is useful for treating permanent injuries and conditions. Curing many of these would otherwise require the much rarer healer mech serum or DLC-exclusive options such as the biosculpter pod , the Scarless gene , or the Unnatural healing ability.
Some other ailments require long-term and potentially ineffective medicial treatment, or a surgery with an unavoidable chance of instant death. The increase in blood filtration also increases Immunity Gain Speed, which can help fight off otherwise fatal diseases (whenever from old age or poor treatment). For a breakdown of what can be cured by which method, see the healing method table or the page of the ailment in question.
In addition to its medical properties, luciferium provides a small but permanent buff to many tasks a pawn can perform, in combat or out. Other than that, luciferium is useful for the ship launch or the Royal Ascent quest . Once you've left the planet, addiction doesn't matter - at least for gameplay purposes.
Lucifierium isn't too expensive. 10 doses of luciferium costs a market value of Expression error: Unexpected * operator. silver and can sustain a human for a year. If you can get a consistent source of trade and income, luciferium can be tolerated even if you don't need its medical properties.
Keeping many colonists addicted is difficult, as faction bases and traders only come with so many doses per restock. However, an extensive trade network can support into the double digits.
Luciferium can be administered to animals via the operations menu, substantially improving their combat effectiveness. Sometimes, animals may also take Luciferium randomly by themselves if it is within their allowed zone.
Luciferium management
Luciferium has to be taken every 6 days on the dot, or the withdrawal risks killing them. However, due to the mechanics of a fixed drug schedule, setting their drug assignment to take one pill every 6 days does NOT work. If this is set, pawns will only begin to take luciferium 6 days after they have taken their last drug. Therefore, even the slightest delay (e.g. the small time spent walking to an open tile to take the drug) will cause the need to slowly decay, potentially killing the pawn.
Instead, for all adult pawns that take luciferium, players should use the "take for addiction" setting in the drug policy. This has pawns take the drug as soon as their need level hits 10%, which is both self-correcting in the event a dose is delayed, and avoids all waste. Players should also ensure that the pawn's drug policy has them carry at least one dose of the drug, to ensure that it's taken in as timely a manner as possible. For pawns younger than 18, "take for addiction" can be used for safety, though note that it can waste a small amount of dosage.
When creating a caravan with addicted pawns, remember to either bring luciferium manually or have the pawns set up to carry several doses. For long trips or maximum safety, having transport pods available to launch additional doses in an emergency is also advisable.
Putting a pawn into a cryptosleep casket or a biosculpter pod will suspend their luciferium needs until they are let out. This can be a way to save their life in case the drug runs out. If you run out of luciferium before researching or building them, you can look for ancient shrines, as they have ancient cryptosleep caskets.
Raider farming
It is possible to give prisoners luciferium to make them addicted, if the prisoner leaves the map title safely, they may reappear in future raids and bring two or three doses of luciferium with them.
Trivia
- Luciferium is considered to be in the "Ultra" tech level.
- Luciferium is named after Lucifer; the personification of evil in Christian theology. Its nickname, "The Devil's Bargain," is a further hint to this; and, indeed, addicting a pawn to luciferium is quite like a deal with the devil: unparalleled power at the cost of a lifelong race against the death-clock.
Gallery
One luciferium
Stack of luciferium
Version history
- 0.15.1279 - Added.
- 1.1.0 - Fixed Luciferium not removing Frail. Now, lucifierum can remove all chronic health conditions.
- 1.1.2610 - Reduced market value from 120 to 70.
- 1.4.3523 - Luciferium now causes death from brain destruction, meaning the deathless gene cannot stop it.
Malari-block
A drug for blocking malaria. Take every five days to keep malaria away.
| Drug info | |
|---|---|
| Addictiveness | 0.00% |
| Market value | $40.00 |
| Hit points | 50 |
| Work to make | 9 |
| Drug effects | |
|---|---|
| Prevents infection | Malaria |
Flake
A flaky substance that can be smoked to induce a short but powerful euphoric state. While it is cheap to produce, it is exceptionally addictive.
| Drug info | |
|---|---|
| Addictiveness | 19% |
| Market value | $11.00 |
| Hit points | 50 |
| Work to make | 5 |
| Drug effects | |
|---|---|
| Joy | 70.00% |
| Pain | x50% |
| Rest | 20% |
| Tiredness | x33% |
Yayo
A fine white powder snorted to produce a euphoric high. Yayo reducing the user's need for rest, and suppresses pain. It is, however, addictive.
| Drug info | |
|---|---|
| Addictiveness | 5% |
| Market value | $18.00 |
| Hit points | 50 |
| Work to make | 9 |
| Drug effects | |
|---|---|
| Joy | 80.00% |
| Moving | +15% |
| Pain | x50% |
| Rest | 40% |
| Tiredness | x33% |
Smokeleaf joint
Smokeleaf leaves prepared in small rolls for smoking. The drug improves mood, but also increases appetite, reduces focus, and slows movement. Smokeleaf use can produce a dependency. Can be produced without equipment, at a crafting spot.
| Drug info | |
|---|---|
| Addictiveness | 1% |
| Market value | $13.00 |
| Hit points | 50 |
| Work to make | 4 |
| Drug effects | |
|---|---|
| Consciousness | -30% |
| Hunger rate | x130% |
| Joy | 80.00% |
| Moving | -30% |
| Pain | -20% |
| Rest | -10% |
Wake-up
An addictive stimulant. Fills the need for rest, and allows users to work for extended periods without getting tired. Addiction causes reduced mental performance and, sometimes, psychotic breaks with reality.
| Drug info | |
|---|---|
| Addictiveness | 10% |
| Market value | $26.00 |
| Hit points | 50 |
| Work to make | 14 |
| Drug effects | |
|---|---|
| Consciousness | +10% |
| Global work speed | +50% |
| Joy | 40.00% |
| Moving | 10% |
| Rest | 100% |
| Tiredness | x80% |