Penoxycyline

Penoxycyline is a medical drug for preventing disease. It protects against catching malaria, sleeping sickness, and the 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.
Penoxycylines can be bought from the following traders: Orbital bulk goods trader, Orbital combat supplier, Orbital exotic goods trader, Outlander base trader, Outlander bulk goods trader, Outlander slaver, Outlander visitor, Slave ship, Empire base trader , Imperial trader caravan , Orbital imperial trader . 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, use it on sickly pawns first, then doctors. This prevents your doctors from getting sick when a disease outbreak occurs, so they are able to treat the rest of the colony. Super immune pawns should be last priority due to their faster recovery rate. 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 half a 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.

Doses per prevented disease[edit]

The table below shows the average number of doses of penoxycyline necessary to prevent one disease. The table assumes the next dose is taken after exactly five days. The values in brackets are for sickly pawns.

Biome	Disease MTB (days)	Difficulty setting [Disease interval multiplier]
Biome	Disease MTB (days)	Peaceful [×3]	Community builder [×2.5]	Adventure story [×1.3]	Strive to survive [×1]	Blood and dust [×0.95]	Losing is fun [×0.9]
Arid shrubland	65	222.3 (29.6)	185.2 (28.9)	96.3 (25.2)	74.1 (23.4)	70.4 (23)	66.7 (22.6)
Boreal forest	60	205.2 (29.3)	171 (28.5)	88.9 (24.7)	68.4 (22.8)	65 (22.4)	61.6 (22)
Cold bog	45	172.1 (31.3)	143.4 (30.2)	74.6 (25.3)	57.4 (22.9)	54.5 (22.5)	51.6 (22)
Desert	90	371.2 (37.1)	309.4 (36.4)	160.9 (32.8)	123.7 (30.9)	117.6 (30.5)	111.4 (30.1)
Extreme desert	90	330.7 (33.1)	275.6 (32.4)	143.3 (29.2)	110.2 (27.6)	104.7 (27.2)	99.2 (26.8)
Ice sheet	90	290.2 (29)	241.9 (28.5)	125.8 (25.7)	96.7 (24.2)	91.9 (23.9)	87.1 (23.5)
Sea ice	90	290.2 (29)	241.9 (28.5)	125.8 (25.7)	96.7 (24.2)	91.9 (23.9)	87.1 (23.5)
Temperate forest	50	100.5 (16.7)	83.7 (16.2)	43.5 (13.8)	33.5 (12.6)	31.8 (12.3)	30.1 (12.1)
Temperate swamp	40	80.4 (16.1)	67 (15.5)	34.8 (12.7)	26.8 (11.5)	25.5 (11.2)	24.1 (11)
Tropical rainforest	35	48.8 (10.9)	40.7 (10.4)	21.2 (8.4)	16.3 (7.5)	15.5 (7.3)	14.6 (7.1)
Tropical swamp	30	41.9 (10.5)	34.9 (10)	18.1 (7.9)	14 (7)	13.3 (6.8)	12.6 (6.6)
Tundra	80	306 (34)	255 (33.3)	132.6 (29.7)	102 (27.8)	96.9 (27.4)	91.8 (27)
Glacial plain	90	337.5 (33.8)	281.3 (33.1)	146.3 (29.8)	112.5 (28.1)	106.9 (27.8)	101.3 (27.4)
Glowforest	50	69.8 (11.6)	58.1 (11.3)	30.2 (9.5)	23.3 (8.7)	22.1 (8.6)	20.9 (8.4)
Grassland	50	100.5 (16.7)	83.7 (16.2)	43.5 (13.8)	33.5 (12.6)	31.8 (12.3)	30.1 (12.1)
Lava field	90	318.6 (31.9)	265.5 (31.2)	138.1 (28.2)	106.2 (26.5)	100.9 (26.2)	95.6 (25.8)
Scarlands	50	100.5 (16.7)	83.7 (16.2)	43.5 (13.8)	33.5 (12.6)	31.8 (12.3)	30.1 (12.1)

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.