Wake-up

Wake-up is a powerful but dangerous non-combat stimulant. It greatly increases a pawn's working speed, and also gives a minor boost to surgery success chance, among many other things, via its 10% boost to Consciousness, and accordingly Manipulation. However, it cannot be used safely - any use carries the risk of an instant addiction, and of an instant overdose. There is also a low risk of heart attack for the duration of the high.

It also fully fills the rest need immediately upon use, but despite its in-game description, it has only a minor effect on the rate of tiredness increase during the high.

Acquisition

Go-juice can be manufactured at a drug lab for 2 neutroamine taking 900 ticks (15 secs). It requires wake-up production to be researched. Its synthesis speed is dependent on the [[Skills#|]] skill.

It can also be found on raiders and purchased.

Gameplay overview

Wake-up is a highly addictive drug that can be manufactured at a drug lab, purchased from traders that deal in such, or occasionally found on raiders.

It is a powerful stimulant that fully satisfies one's need for rest, slows the tiredness progression rate, and boosts consciousness, movement, and global work speed. The high for wake-up typically lasts 12 in-game hours from 75% severity (one pill), but can last as long as 16 hours from 100% severity (multiple pills).

As there is no minimum tolerance to become addicted, there is no safe usage interval, with each dose carrying a 2% chance of addiction.

A surgeon can take Wake-up to improve their surgery success chance due to the consciousness enhancement, so it may not be the worst of ideas to have them take a pill beforehand. Taking a hit of Go-juice stacks with it as well for better buffs, though you risk a drug overdose this way, ruining the stat buffs.

If maximum increase in surgery success chance with a single drug is desired, and working speed is not a concern, Go-juice is superior to Wake-up due to its 20% boost to consciousness, compared to Wake-up's 10%.

Detailed effects

Upon consumption

A pawn taking wake-up will do so right where it stands without looking for a place to sit first. It takes 100 ticks (1.67 secs) to swallow the pill. It has the following one time effects:

+40% Chemical recreation
+75% Wake-up high severity (see "Wake-up high" below)
+100% Rest
2% Addiction chance
0.5% Chance for a major overdose
+18 to +35% Overdose severity
If the pawn has an addiction already:
- +90% Wake-up need (see "Addiction" below)
- +20% Addiction severity (see "Withdrawal" below)

Wake-up high

"Wake-up in the bloodstream. It fills the need for rest by stimulating the brain, and increases focus, allowing faster work. It also increases the psyfocus gains from meditation."

While each wake-up injection increases the severity of the wake-up high by 75% (see "Upon injection" above), it decreases by 150% per day again, meaning that for one wake-up the high lasts 12 hours. The maximum severity of a wake-up high is 100% which is reached with 1.33 wake-up. Regardless of the wake-up high severity the effects are always the same, only their duration changes accordingly:

+10% Consciousness
+10% Moving
+50% Global work speed
+20% Psyfocus meditation rate
Ailment chance:
- Heart attack: on average every 120 days.

Tolerance

As of version 1.2.3005, wake-up 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 wake-up. Long-term presence of wake-up has caused neurological adaptations at the cellular level, so the brain can no longer function properly without the drug.
Without regular doses of wake-up, withdrawal symptoms will begin. However, extended abstinence will force the brain to adapt back to its normal state, resolving the addiction."

"Because of a wake-up addiction, this person needs to regularly consume the drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms."

Developing an addiction means a pawn has a wake-up need. The need for wake-up 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 wake-up at least every 2.7 days to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

Withdrawal

As soon as the wake-up need reaches 0%, the pawn will develop a wake-up withdrawal. From then on the addiction severity falls by 4.5% per day from the initial 100%, meaning it takes about 22.2 days to overcome the addiction. Consuming a wake-up during a withdrawal will increase the severity by 20% (see "Upon injection" above). During the withdrawal the pawn suffers from the following symptoms:

−22 Mood ("I feel all fuzzy and unfocused. And I'm so tired.")
−30% Consciousness
−25% Manipulation
−20% Moving
+30% Rest fall factor (meaning the pawn needs to sleep about a 30% sooner)
×200% Social fight chance (meaning the pawn is twice as likely to start a social fight)
Mental break chances:
- Hard drug binge: on average every 40 days.
- Psychotic wandering: on average every 10 days.

Version history

0.15.1279 - Added.

References

↑ Rejected bug report: "[1.2.2753] Wake-up and go-juice do not cause tolerance". Unused tolerance effects: "A built-up tolerance to wake-up. The more severe this tolerance is, the more wake-up it takes to get the same effect." Starting at 45% tolerance the pawn could get severe chemical damage in the kidney reducing the part efficiency by 80%. 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 180 days. c) At 100% tolerance on average every 135 days. All values in between are calculated with linear interpolation. The wake-up tolerance would decrease by 1.5% per day.

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