/tg/Station 13

NOTE: THIS IS SUBJECT TO UPDATES AS THE CODE TO VIROLOGY IS CHANGED AND I FIND BETTER WAYS TO DO THINGS AND UPDATES.

First off this is based on my extensive experience playing as a virologist, and what I have found to be the fastest, easiest, most efficent way to be a GOOD virologist.

The Job: Virus Stats: Symptoms: Healing Viruses: Guide To Making The Virus: Healing Virus Samples: Plague Samples:

Alipheese wrote: 10 - Silver, lets hope the miners are idiots.

Chemistry can also produce silver.

Here's my personal guide of how to make the best healing virus within 15 to 20 minutes, based on RNG and mining.

Round start, quickly run out of viro, grab a bottle of Saline-Glucose Solution from a vending machine (Use this as a Sugar substitute for Viro Recipes) then hide back in Virology.

Your ultimate aim is to get the following symptoms: Apoptoxin Filter, Flesh Mending, Heat Resistance, Self-Respiration, Sensory Restoration, Deoxyribonucleic Acid Restoration, Weight Even and either Sneezing or Ocular Restoration (depending on if you want extra healing or if you want your virus to spread naturally)

Get a Rhinovirus Bottle and make two culture bottles, toss one into your vendor in case you fuck up.

Get a bottle of synaptazine and toss it in your pocket, use a dropper on 1 unit transfer on a culture bottle to get rid of one random symptom.

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Time to get the Level 6 Symptoms


Get a Plasma Bottle from your vending machine and leave it within reach.

Grab a syringe, get five units of liquid plasma and five units of Virus Food (from the wall), this makes 'Virus Plasma' which gives you Level 6 Symptoms only.

Using a dropper set to 1 unit transfer, add a unit to a Rhinovirus Culture Bottle, then check what new symptom you got.

You are aiming to get: Self-Respiration (to breath in no air environments)
If you get : Regeneration, Tissue Regrowth or Toxic Filter, save a copy for later just in case, don't bother trying to isolate the symptom

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Time to get the Level 5 Symptoms

With a syringe, get 5 units of plasma and 5 units of virus food. Then add 5 units of synaptazine. This makes 'Weakened Virus Plasma' which gives you Level 5 Symptoms only. Use any remaining Virus Plasma from earlier.

You are aiming to get: Sensory restoration (fix hearing loss, make you immune to smashing bar bottle on your head, etc) and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Restoration (Heal brain damage, heal radioation, get rid of non-power SE mutations)

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Time to get the Level 4 Symptom

With a syringe, get 5 units of Unstable Mutagen and 5 units of Virus food. Then add 5 units of Saline-Glucose Solution. This makes 'Sucrose Agar' which gives you Leve 4 Symptoms only.

You are aiming to get: Weight Even (To never have to eat again)
Optional you want to get: Ocular Restoration (Get this if you don't intend to add 'sneezing' to your virus, this heals eye damage)

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Time to get finally get the LEVEL 8 SYMPTOMS!

Level 8 symptoms are funny enough the easiest symptoms to get, the only difficulty is getting the resources.

Get six 50 unit beakers from Virology. Get exactly 8 sheets of Uranium from Mining. Go to Chemistry and ask them to fill three of the beakers with uranium (for 150 Uranium) and the other three with silver (for 150 Silver), bonus points for getting 20 units of extra liquid plasma.

Go to virology and grab your 100 unit beaker from the back room grinder. With a syringe, fill the 100 Unit beaker with 5 units of plasma. Then start adding 15 units of Silver, then Uranium, to the beaker. This will produce 15 units of Stable Uranium Gel, which is how you'll get your symptoms.

Take your beaker. SET THE FUCKING BEAKER TO 5 UNIT TRANSFER!!!, then grab one of your health viruses, then pour in 5 units at a time into the same culture bottle.

If you followed my steps, you'll get the following: Heat Resistance (rapidly heals burn damage and makes you space proof), Flesh Mending (rapidly heals brute damage) and Apoptoxin Filter (rapidly heals toxin damage).

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Grab all your health viruses, make backup copies of each, and start adding them to a empty beaker. Once you've got six viruses in one beaker, take that and save a culture bottle of it.

Now add a seventh virus to that breaker, if it sticks and does not delete any other virus (33% chance) then save a culture bottle as a backup. Now add the final eighth virus to that beaker, if it sticks and does not delete anything else as well (66% chance) then CONGRATULATIONS, WINNER ARE YOU!

You have created the most powerful healing virus in the game, now go give it to the crew or hoard it for yourself.

I prefer to use 1u of the base virus, then do 5 x 1u drops of virus plasma (or whatever) into it, rather than checking and reseting after each individual symptom. It speeds up searching for specific symptoms, especially in the levels that only have a few. You can't have duplicate symptoms in a single virus, so the odds of finding what you're looking for increase per drop you add. Once you get something you want, just use synaptizine to get rid of the unwanted symptoms until you're left with the one (or more) you wanted from that batch.

I stand by what i said for nonscaling healing symptoms.

I'll post a guide later on how to get full healing suite in 5-10 minutes; it's become far easier with more max symptoms and a nicer stealth threshold for the pandemic.

TribeOfBeavers wrote:I prefer to use 1u of the base virus, then do 5 x 1u drops of virus plasma (or whatever) into it, rather than checking and reseting after each individual symptom. It speeds up searching for specific symptoms, especially in the levels that only have a few. You can't have duplicate symptoms in a single virus, so the odds of finding what you're looking for increase per drop you add. Once you get something you want, just use synaptizine to get rid of the unwanted symptoms until you're left with the one (or more) you wanted from that batch.

I understand why you would do this, but fuck I hate synaptizine. My issue with what you're doing is you have to fight RNG once for the symptoms (if you don't add them all), then again to remove them.

My personal preference is

Leave the beakers in the box.

Fill 5x1 with the base sample.
Add 1 to each of the 5.
Check if they have something good, eject/empty otherwise.

You get some duplicates, but I personally find the doing it in patches and switching between mixing and checking less makes it faster.

Plague Samples

Nabski wrote: I understand why you would do this, but fuck I hate synaptizine. My issue with what you're doing is you have to fight RNG once for the symptoms (if you don't add them all), then again to remove them.

That's fair. I've always had terrible luck with the last symptom never showing up when I do them individually, so I prefer this way. The rng isn't that bad with the synaptizine, it usually ends up being a 1/3 chance or so to hit the one you want by the end as you'll generally have multiple beneficial symptoms. I rarely use more than 20u total when making a basic healing virus.

TribeOfBeavers wrote:

Nabski wrote: I understand why you would do this, but fuck I hate synaptizine. My issue with what you're doing is you have to fight RNG once for the symptoms (if you don't add them all), then again to remove them.

That's fair. I've always had terrible luck with the last symptom never showing up when I do them individually, so I prefer this way. The rng isn't that bad with the synaptizine, it usually ends up being a 1/3 chance or so to hit the one you want by the end as you'll generally have multiple beneficial symptoms. I rarely use more than 20u total when making a basic healing virus.

I typically use about 15 units of virus plasma to make the default heals each type (I typically just make sneezing, brute, burn, toxin, oxygen). Sometimes I'll get lucky and get it in the first round or two of my 5 sized batches.

The fact that you have a base virus that you can't roll those symptoms on again is really what makes it happen in a timely manner.

Looking at 3 sets of virus in a row where it removed sneezing instead of necro is just frustrating to me and I swear it feels like synap is rigged against you.

It's BYOND RNG.

BYOND RNG is really noticeable when spamming a single level, you'll almost always have one or two symptoms that just don't appear even if you drop 30u straight while another one or two keep appearing.