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  |text=Welcome to genetics, brother! Are you feeling good? You SHOULD feel good! You are now like unto a tiny god! Are you prepared to be what you were born to be? Are you ready to save the station (or totally fuck it up)?
  |text=Welcome to [[Genetics]], brother! Are you feeling good? You SHOULD feel good! You are now like unto a tiny god! Are you prepared to be what you were born to be? Are you ready to save the station (or totally fuck it up)?
Chin up, buddy. It's not that hard. But before you start grabbing those monkeys from the pen, you should know the basics.
''Chin up, buddy. It's not that hard. But before you start grabbing those monkeys from the pen, you should know the basics.
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== The Department ==
== The Department ==
Welcome To Genetics. Just across the morgue lies a mystical realm where some of Nanotrasen's greatest minds entertain themselves by toying the Human Genome into knots.
[[File:Genetics.png|thumb|240px|right]]
Welcome to [[Genetics]].
 
This room has two [[Machines#DNA_Scanner|DNA Scanners]] and two DNA Scanner Access Consoles, along with some disk boxes and other supplies. The disks are extremely useful, as we will see later.
 
A nearby containment room holds your test subjects. These monkeys are going to be your guinea pigs. You are going to experiment on them, and make them suffer quite a bit. It's pretty inhumane. But such is life, and after a while it will all be worth it.
 
== [[File:scanner.gif|32px]][[File:Medcom.gif|32px]] DNA Modification ==
[[File:Unique_identifiers_tab.png|thumb|200px|right|This is the "Enzymes" tab. The "Radiation Emitter" function may randomize certain individual cosmetic features of the person inside, as well as damage their DNA. This menu can be used to transfer identities between people, but it can't be used to change a person's species. This information can also be stored on cloning data disks. Regarding the genetic research, listen to the direct orders of the [[Research Director]]]].
 
Now, let's get you acquainted with the DNA Scanner Access Console. It has a few things of note. First you need to learn some terms:
 
===Unique Enzymes===
* Unique Enzymes (UE) = '''Your name'''. Even if you mutate the UE it will have no effect on the name. What you can do however, is to transfer UE from one person to another, copying their name.
 
===Unique Identifiers===
* Unique Identifiers (UI) = '''Your cosmetic details''' - eye color, skin color, hair style, hair color and gender. <br>


The first thing you're going to see is that our department has two rooms. The first, the one you walk into as you enter from medbay, is the '''Cloning room.''' It has only one '''Cloning Console''', one '''Cloning Scanner''', and one '''Cloning Pod'''. More on this later.
In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Enzymes". This tab can be used to copy UE and UI between people.
*Click "Save" to save a person's UE + UI to the console. You can not save mutations this way (anymore).
*Click "Transfer" to copy the genes of the buffer to whoever is inside the scanner. You can choose between '''Enzymes''' (UE), '''Identity''' (UI) and '''Full Makeup''' (UE+UI).
*Click "Transfer (Delayed)" to copy the genes of the buffer to the next person who steps into the scanner and closes it (such as yourself). This option is only available if the scanner is empty.
*Click "Print" to print a DNA injector containing the genes of the saved buffer. Injecting this into a person will transfer the UE, UI or UE+UI to that person. Unlike mutation [[#Activators_and_Mutators|injectors]] however, these DNA injectors are not permanent, and will only last for a short while after injected.


The second room is the one where you're going to spend the most of your time. This is where things get done, where people go to become hulking supermutants, where you are going to do your job. This room has two '''DNA Modifiers''' and two '''DNA Modifier Access Consoles''', along with two diskette boxes and a few lockers. The '''medicine locker''' has a syringe box and anti-toxin bottles. This is quite useful, as any tampering with genetic code gives '''Toxin damage'''. The '''bio-hazard locker''' has pretty much what you expect it to have - a bio suit and bio hood. Useful if a disease breaks out. The '''diskettes''' are also extremely useful, as we will see later.
===Structural Enzymes===
* Structural Enzymes (SE) / Genetic Sequence = '''Your mutations'''. They contain data relevant to your genetic structure. This governs your race and mutations. The term "Structural Enzymes" is no longer used by the DNA scanner access console since it was replaced with "Genetic Sequence" (which is the same thing), but the term may still show up elsewhere.


The third room has your test subjects! These monkeys are going to be your guinea pigs, you are going to experiment on them, and make the suffer quite a bit. It's pretty inhumane. But such is life, and after a few seconds, it will all be worth it. They actually have it pretty easy, it's better than getting gibbed and eaten.
=== Genetic Sequencer ===
[[File:Genetic_Sequencer.png|thumb|200px|right|This is what the Sequencer tab may look like with a human in the scanner.]]
In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Sequencer". Here you will alter genes to find mutations. There are '''four''' types of blocks: A, T, C and G. Each pair of letters in the boxes are connected. '''A goes with T, and G goes with C.''' Order does not matter. Each pair has a correct combination of "AT, TG, CG or GC" that needs to be filled. If you see a an unmodified pair be X-T it means the right combination of that pair is A-T. When all 16 pairs have the right blocks, the mutation will activate and you will be able to store it. Monkeys can only have the ''monkified'' mutation unless [[#Humanizing_a_Monkey|humanized]]. Once you have found the name of a mutation, that mutation will be permanently identified in all DNA scanner access consoles. <br>


This is going to be your home, buddy. Get used to it. It grows on ya!
You might want to disable the monkey mutation by replacing one of the healthy pairs with another letter. How to do all this will be detailed in [[#Guide_to_finding_and_using_mutations|the guide below]]. <br>


== Cloning ==
====[[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] Genetic Sequence Scanner====
[[File:Gene_scanner_results.png|thumb|200px|right|What it looks like after clicking someone with the "Genetic Sequence Scanner" item, and then using the Genetic Sequence Scanner in hand and selecting "Mutation 39". Note that we now know that the first pair should be C-G. ]]
The more difficult mutations will have a lot of unknown (X-X) pairs. You cannot just randomly enter A-T, since it's predetermined what it's supposed to be. Knowing all this, you could whip out the genetic sequence scanner [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] from your pocket. If you're looking for the correct pairs of mutation 39, scan people until you find a person with mutation 39. Then use the scanner in your hand for a menu to pop up. In the menu, select "mutation 39". This gives you a reading which will likely give you more information about which pairs you need to finish mutation 39.
[[File:Genetic_Sequencer_solved.png|thumb|200px|right|What it looks like after correctly filling all pairs. Mutation 39 turned out to be ''monkified''. Since solving a mutation activates it, the subject in the scanner is now a monkey.]]<br>


Alright! Time to bring some bitches back from the dead!
You can use your Genetic Sequence Scanner [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] on a DNA scanner access console to permanently synch the item, which makes you see the names of discovered mutations when scanning people with it.<br>


First of all, you have to know that, for all things cloning, the '''CMO''' has a final say. He is your boss on this side of genetics. If he tells you to clone someone and not some other guy, you do it. The only person with higher say than him on these matters is the Captain.
More info about some of the other tabs can be found in the [[#Guide_to_finding_and_using_mutations|guide further below]].


On to the specifics! How does cloning work, you ask?
===[[File:Hulk.png]] List of Mutations===
Well, it's quite simple!
{{Anchor|Mutations and Their Consequences}}
Before we start splicing, you must know what possible monstrosities can be done to a human.
Normally unobtainable mutations are highlighted in red text.


Now, just put a grab on him/her and stuff that puppy up in the '''cloning scanner''' on the left, the one that can be opened. The cloned result will go out by the cloning pod on the right. If you want to remove someone from a cloning scanner, just click to open it, it works like a locker (unless the scanner has been locked).
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Mutation Name
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Description
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Indicators
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Message
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|How/Where to Obtain
! style='background-color:#FF7F56;'|Instability


After the scanner is occupied, interact with the console. You will see a few things. Now, the most important is the first. Click '''Scan''' to see if the person inside is actually not an empty husk! If there is no ghost inside the corpse, you will get a "Mental interface failure!" message, and you will not be able to clone that person. If that happens, just "speak" a few times (ghosts can hear globally). Attempting to scan their body will notify them via the chat log. If they still do not respond, however, take the corpse to the morgue and be done with it.
|-
!Telekinesis
|''"A strange mutation that allows the holder to interact with objects through thought."''
This power allows the subject to control things with their mind, from far away! It is the most sought after power, since it allows for incredible deeds, and makes a strong robuster nearly immortal. To use it, switch to an empty hand and click on an object (note that, if they can, your character/the game will prioritize picking up an object normally over picking it up telekinetically). A circle symbol will appear underneath the object and in your hand and you can now control the object. You can also use any console from a distance.
|Appears as a blue glow around the subject's head.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel smarter"''
|Genetic / [[Sects|Punished God sect]]
|30
|-
!Hulk
|''"A poorly understood genome that causes the holder's muscles to expand, inhibit speech and gives the person a bad skin condition."''
Subject becomes extremely strong, enough to punch through reinforced walls, and is unable to speak without yelling. The subject is also immune to stuns and slowdowns from stamina and normal damage, and cannot be pushed past. Breaking walls and machinery deals heavy brute damage to your arm. This mutation is lost when the subject falls to critical health.
* Can swing people by their tails. To do this, get your tailed victim in at least a neck grab (lvl 3 grab), enable throw mode, then click in the direction you want to throw.
* Makes you extra vulnerable to cold and take brute damage from it.
* Prevent you from using weapons [to confirm: and computers and tablets]
|Subject turns green and has red eyes.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your muscles hurt."''
|Radioactive + Strength
|40
|-
!Temperature Adaptation
|''"A strange mutation that renders the host immune to damage from extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. Does not protect from vacuums'' [or areas of high pressure]''."''


If there IS a ghost in that corpse, however, you will get a successful scan message. That means you now have that person's cloning data saved. You can use that at any time. But, after it's used, it's erased from the records. The only way you can save a person's genetic data is with a "'''Cloning Diskette'''", which is found in the DNA Modification room.
'''This mutation is mutually exclusive with Pressure Adaptation.'''
|Subject has a pulsating orange "aura".
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your body feels warm."''
|Genetic
|25
|-
!Pressure Adaptation
|''"A strange mutation that renders the host immune to damage from both low and high pressure environments. Does not protect from temperature, including the cold of space'' [or super hot gas]''."''


After you actually have DNA data from a person, click '''Check Records''', and then select the person who you want to have cloned. You will see a list of their UI+UE and their SEs, which are quite irrelevant. Click '''Clone'''. You will notice that the Cloning Pod is now fully active, with a shadow inside. That is the new body. Open the scanner, strip down the old corpse, and place it in the morgue. You don't have to worry about it anymore.
'''This mutation is mutually exclusive with Temperature Adaptation.'''
|Subject has a pulsating blue "aura".
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your body feels numb."''
|Genetic
|25
|-
!Thermal Vision
|''"The user of this genome can visually perceive the unique human thermal signature."''
Subject can see people even through walls and in darkness.
Deals 10 eye damage on use, and lasts 10 (seconds?).
|\
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You can see the heat rising off of your skin..."''
|Genetic
|25
|-
!Chameleon
|The subject becomes able to subtly alter light patterns to become invisible, as long as they remain still.
|Subject starts fading into the background.
|style='color:#0000ff'|"''You feel one with your surroundings.''"
|Genetic
|25
|-
!Dwarfism
|Turns the subject into a manlet, making them unusually shorter than the rest of the crew. Dwarfs can pass over tables without stopping.


The cloning process takes from 2 to 3 minutes. For whoever is getting cloned, it seems like a very long time. But it's not long for you. While the guy is getting his new body set up, take his belongings and stuff them '''all in the locker''' right by the cloning pod, so their stuff isn't scattered all over. Plus, cloning the captain and leaving his ID and other secure items on the floor sure is bad.
'''Mutually exclusive with Gigantism'''
|Subject looks smaller.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Everything around you seems to grow.."''
|Human Species
|5
|-
!Near Sightness
|''"The holder of this mutation has poor eyesight."''
Makes the subject's screen go hazy at about halfway from the edge of your whole vision. It's not THAT bad, and can be temporarily fixed by using prescription glasses.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You can't see very well."''
|Genetic
|-
!Epilepsy
|Subject starts to fall down and keeps shaking all the time.
|Subject suffers from seizures.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You get a headache."''
|Genetic
|-
!Coughing
|Makes the subject drop small items they're holding, like syringes. Pretty harmless, but has potential to be extremely annoying.
|Subject coughs.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You start coughing."''
|Genetic
|-
!Tourette's Syndrome
|The subject swears all the time. They may also experience paralysis that takes even longer than the seizures. Avoid.
|Subject curses out loudly and twitches.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You twitch."''
|Genetic
|-
!Nervousness
|Makes the subject stammer. Annoying at best.
|Subject stammers when they speak.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel nervous."''
|Genetic
|-
!Blindness
|Subject goes completely blind, becoming a part of a usually forgotten minority. How sad.
|Subject's eyes don't react to penlight.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You can't seem to see anything."''
|Genetic
|-
!Deafness
|Makes the subject deaf. Harmless at best, annoying at worst. You just don't hear anything, not even yourself.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You can't seem to hear anything..."''
|Genetic
|-
!Illiterate
|Subject becomes illiterate that stops them from using paper, pens, computers, and some electronics that require reading.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel unable to read or write."''
|Genetic
|-
!Clumsiness
|Inhibits certain brain functions, inducing clown-like clumsiness in subject. For those that have always wanted to be clowns. It makes the subject accidentally drop things they hold, unable to use tasers, handcuffs, guns exploding in their face etc.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel lightheaded."''
|Genetic/Clowns
|-
!Unintelligible
|Heavily corrupts the part of the brain responsible for forming spoken sentences, causing the subject to only be able to speak short sentences.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You can't seem to form any coherent thoughts!"''
|Genetic
|-
!Mute
|Completely shuts down the speech center of the subject's brain.
|\
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel unable to express yourself at all."''
|Genetic / [[Sects|Punished God sect]]
|-
!Wacky
|Forces the subject to talk in an odd manner. Makes your speech in chat use the Comic Sans font normally only seen with the clown's megaphone.
|\
|''"You feel an off sensation in your voicebox."''
|Genetic
|-
!Glowy
|Gives the subject a faint glow of random color.


After the pod is empty (it ejects automatically the clone when the process is complete), feel free to clone your next patient, the clone can get out of medbay by himself since there are handy door commands that anyone can access to. By the way, clones '''might have different genetic code''' than their original bodies - I suggest sticking new clones with a clean SE injection. I will teach you how to do this in later chapters.
''Mutually exclusive with Anti-Glow''
|Subject glows.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your skin begins to glow softly."''
|Genetic
|5
|-
!Anti-Glow
|Makes the subject absorb light in a radius around it.


== Hark! A Husk! ==
''Mutually exclusive with Glow; works for Ethereals and Luminescents''
|Subject has an aura of darkness. Emit a ring of white light in light-emitting races.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your skin seems to attract and absorb nearby light creating 'darkness' around you."''
|Glowy + Void Magnet
|5
|-
!Strength
|''"The user's muscles slightly expand."''
Subject feels stronger, but isn't. Combine with Radioactive to make the ''Hulk'' power.
|\
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel stronger"''
|Genetic
|-
!Fiery Sweat
|Subject "sweats '''liquid fire'''"[CITATION NEEDED] and randomly combusts, but grows more resistant to fire. Tests determined it takes twice the amount of time for the subjects to completely burn (x0.5 modifier on BURN). [[#Genetic_Instability|Stability]] decreases the chances of combusting.
|Subject will spontaneously combust
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel hot."''
|Genetic
|-
!Void Magnet
|"''A rare genome that attracts odd forces not usually observed.''"
You have the power to make yourself mostly invincible for a brief period at the cost of being unable to move. You will also enter this state randomly and against your will, genetic [[#Genetic_Instability|stability]] reduces how often it happens.
|Subject is periodically replaced with a hole in reality shaped like the subject.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel a heavy, dull force just beyond the walls watching you."''
|Genetic
|30
|-
!Radioactive
|''"A volatile mutation that causes the host to sent out deadly beta radiation. This affects both the hosts and their surroundings."''
One of the few radiation sources after the ''Radiation Modernization'' changes.
|Subject glows with a green aura
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel it in your bones"''
|Genetic
|5
|-
!Telepathy
|A mutation that allows the user to telepathically communicate to others.
|Subject is able to broadcast its thought directly to others.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You hear your thoughts echo in your mind"''
|Genetic / [[Sects|Punished God sect]]
|10
|-
!Fire Breath
|An ancient mutation that gives lizards breath of fire.
Enables the user to fire explosive fireballs, hotter the less it travels.
|Subject becomes able to breathe concentrated balls of fire.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel a heat built up in your throat"''
|Lizard Species
|30
|-
!Chav
|Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a more rudimentary manner.
|\
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Ye feel like a reet prat like, innit?"''
|Genetic
|-
!Swedish
|''"A horrible mutation originating from the distant past. Thought to be eradicated after the incident in 2037."''
Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a vaguely norse manner.
|\
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel Swedish, however that works."''
|Genetic
|-
!Medieval
|''"A horrible mutation originating from the distant past, thought to have once been a common gene in all of old world Europe."''
Forces the language center and primary motor cortex of the subject's brain to talk and act like a knight on a quest for the Holy Grail.
|\
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel like seeking the holy grail!."''
|Genetic
|-
!Pig Latin
|''"Historians say back in the 2020's humanity spoke entirely in this mystical language."''
Increase the level of skillchip' complexity the subject can handle.
|\
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"Omethingsay eelsfay offyay."''
|Genetic
|5
|-
!Insulated
|This makes you shock resistant, not unlike wearing a pair of insulated gloves, without the downsides.
|The subject does not conduct electricity.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your fingertips go numb."''
|Genetic
|25
|-
!Shock Touch
|''"The affected can channel excess electricity through their hands without shocking themselves, allowing them to shock others."''
This gives you a non-antag ''Mansus Grasp'' that shocks people, which will do burn damage and large amounts of jittering and confusion.
Does not protect the subject against shocks.
|Subject can electrocute other people with their bare hands.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel power flow through your hands."''
|Insulated + Radioactive
|30
|-
!Transcendent Olfaction
|''"Your sense of smell is comparable to that of a canine."''
This power lets you track people by scent. Hold something in your hand and use the power to look for a scent on it. Use the power without holding anything and you'll track the scent you previously found.
|\
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Smells begin to make more sense..."''
|Genetic
|30
|-
!Geladikinesis
|Allows the user to concentrate moisture and sub-zero forces into snow
|This mutation lets you create snow, used to build snowtiles, walls, balls and snowmen
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your hand feels cold"''
|Genetic
|10
|-
!Cryokinesis
|Draws negative energy from the sub-zero void to shoot freezing beams
|Lets the user shoot a bolt of cryokinesis to freeze people, objects and tiles
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your hand feels cold"''
|Genetic
|20
|-
!Antenna
|The affected person sprouts an antenna. This is known to allow them to access common radio channels passively.
|An antenna is visible on the user's head, and they basically have a built in station-bounced radio.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel an antenna sprout from your forehead."''
|Genetic
|5
|-
!Mind Reader
|The affected person can look into the recent memories of others.
They can read the minds of others. This will reveal the name of the target and some snippets of what the target has said in the past. Tin foil is known to block this power.
|An antenna is visible on the user's head, and the read-ee may feel something strange enter their mind.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You hear distant voices at the corners of your mind."''
|Antenna + Paranoia / [[Sects|Punished God sect]]
|40
|-
!Spatial Instability
|The victim of the mutation has a very weak link to spatial reality, and may be displaced. Often causes extreme nausea.
|Subject randomly teleports a short distance away and has a tendency to increase the janitor's workload.
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"The space around you twists sickeningly."''
|Genetic
|10
|-
!Paranoia
|''"Subject is easily terrified, and may suffer from hallucinations."''
|Subject screams frequently
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"You feel screams echo through your mind..."''
|Genetic
|-
!Gigantism
|The cells within the subject spread out to cover more area, making them appear larger.
Subjects show increased tackling abilities, both offensive and defensive.
''Mutually exclusive with Dwarfism''
|Subject is slightly larger than normal
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Everything around you seems to shrink.."''
|Genetic
|-
!Two Left Feet
|''"A mutation that replaces the right foot with another left foot. Symptoms include kissing the floor when taking a step."''
|Subject is randomly [[Status_Effects#Knockdown|knocked down]].
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"Your right foot feels... left."''
|Genetic
|-
!Tongue Spike
|Allows a creature to voluntary shoot their tongue out as a deadly weapon.
The tongue does not grow back, and remains embedded in the target until removed.
|Subject can shoot his tongue.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"Your feel like you can throw your voice."''
|Genetic
|15
|-
!Stimmed
|The user's chemical balance is more robust. (Does nothing.)
|\
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel stimmed."''
|Genetic
|-
!Chem Spike
|Allows a creature to voluntary shoot their tongue out as biomass, allowing a long range transfer of chemicals.
The tongue does not grow back, and remains embedded in the target until removed. As long as it is embedded, it allows you to transfer the chemical in your body into the target's, one single time. Much less harmful than ''Tongue Spike'' on its own.
|Subject can shoot his tongue, and inject you with chemicals.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"Your feel like you can really connect with people by throwing your voice."''
|Tongue Spike + Stimmed
|15
|-
!Webbing Production
|Allows the user to lay webbing, and travel through it.
Subject may grow psychologically attached to laying webs if used enough.
|Subject lays webbing, or can move through some without being slowed down.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"Your skin feels webby."''
|Genetic
|15
|-
!Internal Martyrdom
|''"A mutation that makes the body destruct when near death. Not damaging to others, but very, VERY disorienting."''
Harmful to witnesses' eyes. Paralyze silicons as well.
|Subject explodes in a bloody shower when in deep crit.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You get an intense feeling of heartburn."''
|Strong + Stimmed
|-
!H.A.R.S.
|A mutation that makes the body reject the head. Stands for Head Allergic Rejection Syndrome. Warning: Removing this mutation is very dangerous, though it will regenerate head organs.
|Subject loses their head, including eyes, ears, tongue etc.
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"Something feels off."''
|Genetic
|-
!Acidic Flesh
|''"Subject has acidic chemicals building up underneath the skin. This is often lethal."''
Those buildups end up as acidic cutaneous eruptions, burning the subject. Acid-resistant clothes have been shown to protect the subject from those.
|The subject's skin frequently bubbles and pops, burning the subject.
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"A horrible burning sensation envelops you as your flesh turns to acid."''
|Genetic
|-
!Spastic
|''"Subject suffers from muscle spasms."''
Subject may unintentionnally hit nearby people and machinery, and harm themselves.
|Subject frequently spasms.
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"You flinch."''
|Genetic
|-
!Monkified
|''"A strange genome, believing to be what differentiates monkeys from humans."''
Transforms subject into a monkey. Innate mutation in humans and monkeys.
|Subject frequently spasms.
|''"You feel unusually monkey-like."''
|Genetic
|-
!Autotomy
|''"Allows a creature to voluntary discard a random appendage."''
|Subject is able to discard its limbs without surgery.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"Your joints feel loose."''
|Genetic
|30
|-
!Biotech Compatibility
|''"Subject is more compatibile with biotechnology such as skillchips."''
Increase the level of skillchip' complexity the subject can handle.
|\
|No message
|Genetic
|5
|-
!Clever
|''"Causes the subject to feel just a little bit smarter. Most effective in specimens with low levels of intelligence."''
Allows some mobs, such as monkeys, to perform advanced actions like surgery, use computers and PDAs, and more.
|\
|style='color:#FF0000'|''"You feel a little bit smarter."''
|Genetic
|20
|-
!style='color:#ff0000'|Stoner
|''"A common mutation that severely decreases intelligence."''
Grants the Beach Bum language, revokes all the others.
|\
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel...totally chill, man!"''
|Beach Bum respawn
|}


So theres a husk on your floor, which means you can't clone that poor sod. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped.
==== [[Sects|Chaplain Religion]] exclusives ====
Mutations granted by some of the [[Chaplain]]'s [[Sects|religions]]. Their instability is set at 0.


First off, make sure its a husk. Throw the body into a Cloning scanner, if it says theres no genetic material, then you have yourself a husk, celebrate.  
''"Less of a genome and more of a forceful rewrite of genes. Nothing Nanotrasen supplies allows for a genetic restructure like this..."''


Take the body down to surgery, pester the CMO or a doctor to extract the brain, or do it yourself. Put that brain in the freezer, you'll need it soon. Run back to genetics and grab a humanized monkey, return to surgery and remove his brain too. Do whatever you want with that one, it isn't important. Now shove the husk brain into the monkeyman corpse and clone him.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Name
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Description
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Message
|-
!Honorbound
|''"The user feels compelled to follow supposed "rules of combat" but in reality they physically are unable to. Their brain is rewired to excuse any curious inabilities that arise from this odd effect."''
Disallows the subject to attack people unless they are attacked first.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel honorbound!"''
|-
!Burdened
|''"The user feels compelled to injure themselves in various incapacitating and horrific ways. Oddly enough, this gene seems to be connected to several other ones, possibly ready to trigger more genetic changes in the future."''
Grants ''Telepathy'' and ''Mute'', then ''Telekinesis'' and ''Mind Reader'' as the subject becomes increasingly burdened through disabilities and debuffs (traumas, missing limbs and organs, addictions, mutations, ...).
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel burdened!"''
|}


If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn, admittedly in a different body.
==== Admin-spawn only mutations ====


== DNA Modification ==
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Name
The basics from Cloning also apply here.
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Description
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Indicators
! style='background-color:#3BB9FF;'|Message
! style='background-color:#FF7F56;'|Instability
|-
!X-Ray Vision
|''"A strange genome that allows the user to see between the spaces of walls."''
Basically it gives the subject the ability to see everything that is beyond their normal vision: walls, furniture, even other people! This, combined with Telekinesis, is a deadly combination. Essentially replaced by the [[Research_items#X-Ray_Implant|X-Ray implant]].
|Subject's eyes ''"glow eerily"'' if looked at with a penlight.
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"The walls suddenly disappear."''
|35
|-
!Laser Eyes
|"Reflects concentrated light back from the eyes."
Enables to shoot laser beams (dmg 20).
|[to confirm] Subject's eyes glow
|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel pressure building up behind your eyes."''
|-
!Elvis
|Forces the language center and primary motor cortex of the subject's brain to talk and act like the King of Rock and Roll.
|A terrifying mutation named after its 'patient-zero'.
|style='color:#0000FF'|''"You feel pretty good, honeydoll."''
|-
!Unstable DNA
|Makes the subject randomly mutate. Very dangerous. Definitely be careful with this one.
|Strange mutation that causes the holder to randomly mutate.
|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel strange."''
|}


Oh, also? Your boss here is no longer the CMO. Do not feel forced to listen to his orders. I only listen to direct orders regarding research, obviously, from the '''Research Director''' as well as the Captain. I allow NO ONE ELSE in the Modification room. Simple as that.
=== Guide to finding and using mutations ===
This guide here shows you step by step how to find the powers from the mysterious blocks!


Let's get you your first test subject. Grab one of the monkeys from the pen. It doesn't matter which one, they are all genetically perfect, no disabilities. Much like cloning, Grab your intended monkey and stuff them in the DNA modifier of your choice. I always take the right one, but it doesn't matter, it's just personal preference.
==== First Steps ====
This guide will start with using a monkey, because they're in the pen for a reason.


Now, let's get you acquainted with the DNA Modifier Console. It has a few things of note. First of all, you're going to notice two clickable lines:<br/>
* Start by taking a '''monkey''' from the pen.
- Modify Unique Enzymes / Unique Identifiers<br/>
- Modify Structural Enzymes


You might ask yourself: What do they mean? Well, '''Unique Enzymes''' (UE) are just what identify who you are, your name. Even if you change them, it will have no effect. What does change stuff is you transfering them from one person to another, effectively changing their name.<br/>
* Shove it into a '''DNA Scanner''' next to the pen, by click dragging.
'''Unique Identifiers''' (UI) are merely your cosmetic details - eye color, skin color, hair style, hair color and gender. You don't really have to mess with any of these, and they are quite unimportant.


'''Structural Enzymes''' (SE), however, are extremely important. They contain data relevant to your genetic structure. This governs your race, and messing with it carelessly might give you disabilities. For those that handle genes with care, however, great benefits are to be had.
* Check the '''console''' next to it, you'll see a bunch of options. Find ''Genetic Sequencer''.


=== Structural Enzymes - This is important! ===
All mutations are randomized every round.


The first thing you will notice is that there are exactly 42 characters in a single line. Those are your subject's SEs. This long string is divided in 14 sub-blocks, with 3 pieces each. Blocks 1 through 13 control disabilities or powers, and block 14 controls race. The string is in Hexadecimal - which means base 16 in math terms. It means a number can range from 0 - as normally, zero - to F - equivalent of <strike>16</strike> 15. So, it can go like this, from lower to higher:
==== Humanizing a Monkey ====
Always humanize your monkey first, or their powers wont work or be savable.'''
# You and your geneticist buddy automatically share the mutations you've discovered, so work together to discover them all. Saved mutations have to be manually shared between computers using DNA Data Disks.
# Click through the mutations and find ''Monkified''. Then break a random pair by changing a letter to X with CTRL+Left Click.
# When you've done it, you'll see the name on the top has changed from "monkey" to a randomly generated name. Congratulations, you've got your very own monkey-person!
# If for any reason you got yourself some bad mutations and have no one to remove them, grab the [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] pill bottle in your lab. You usually have several 50u pills available, which is overkill. Dissolve a pill by pouring a tiny amount of water into a beaker (by using the beaker on a sink once), then drop a pill of [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into it and take a sip. It should instantly clear all your mutations.
# [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|Mutadone]] will also clear the ''monkified'' mutation from monkeys, instantly turning them human. Use a dropper set to 1u to squirt the dissolved [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into the eyes of monkeys to mass humanize them without needing any machinery. This will not make you "discover" the monkified mutation however.


<font color=#FF000>'''0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F'''</font>
==== Manifesting Mutations ====
Back to business! Now we'll try to make a mutation show itself to us:


That means that a result of F is higher than a result E. This is important, so remember this. If I say "keep this block below 8xx", it means you have to keep the first sub-block in a block below 8, and the subsequent sub-blocks don't matter. If I say "keep that block above DAC", it means that that block must have it's first sub-block equal to or higher than D, if it is equal, the second sub-block must be equal to or higher than A... and so forth.
# Find a mutation that has broken pairs.
# Start filling in the X's. This is fairly easy since most of them are connected to an A, T, C or G. So X-T would be A-T.
#* The left click increments from A to G (A>T>C>G>A) — the right click, the other way around.
# You will often find X-X pairs. Make sure the rest is fixed first and then guess it. There's 4 possibilities. AT, TA, GC and CG.
# If there's more than 2 double X-pairs, consider using the Genetic Scanner (as described [[#Genetic_Sequence_Scanner|above]]) by scanning the other monkeys, yourself, or random crew members, or the JOKER option when editing a letter, which finds the correct letter for you (on a very long cooldown—''20 minutes'' on unupgraded scanners).
# If completing all pairs didn't work, you may have messed up somewhere. Double check. Also make sure they're not still a monkey. If all else fails, move on to another mutation or [[#Scramble DNA|scramble]] their DNA.


The first number in each block is the most important one. It controls whether a disability is active or inactive, whether a power has a chance to activate or not, and the race of the subject.
==== Scramble DNA ====
Clicking the Scramble DNA button will blast the subject's DNA with damaging genetic pulses, and randomize which discoverable mutations it has. This also inflicts a large amount of genetic damage at once.


=== Mutations and their consequences ===
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==== [[File:DNA Injector.png|64px]] Activators and Mutators ====
After manifesting a mutation in the [[#Genetic_Sequencer|Genetic Sequencer]] tab, hit ''store'' to save it to the "Storage - Mutations" tab. You can print activators and mutators from both the Sequencer and the Storage - Mutations tab.


Before we start splicing, you must know what mutations can happen. Mutations could previously be present only on a certain type of blocks (species on block 14, disabilities on odd blocks, etc.). The latest update removed this somewhat reliable correlation: now '''ANY block can bring ANY mutation''' at random, exactly like the wires when you have to hack something. For example, the Hulk block can be the first block during a round, but the fourteenth, or the third, ... on the next round. Mutations can be approximately sorted in three categories.<br/>
*'''Activators:''' An activator will permanently activate specific mutation in a person who already has mutation dormant as shown with a [[#Genetic_Sequence_Scanner|Genetic Sequence Scanner]] [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]]. For example, since all humans have the ''monkified'' mutation dormant in them, a ''monkified'' activator will always work on humans. Using an activator will not increase [[#Genetic_Instability|genetic instability]]. Used activators can be recycled into the DNA scanner access console to produce [[#Chromosome_21|chromosomes]].
- <font color=#FF0000>Minor</font> mutations, that are all minor disabilities. When you make a cake, lumps will appear in the paste if you're not cautious ; when you're tinkering with DNA, you can way too quickly turn any space hero into a swearing, seizuring sad shadow of himself. Will only happen if the block gets higher than 8xx, so check "clean" SEs for blocks above that value. <br/>
*'''Mutators:''' A mutator will manifest a mutation in a person, regardless of if that person has that mutation dormant or not. This will inflict the mutation's [[#Genetic_Instability|instability]] (causes several bad effects if it reaches 100%). The mutation and its instability may then be removed by taking [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|Mutadone]].
- <font color=#FF0000>Major</font>  mutations, with four powers and four disabilities. These are a bit more work, which I'll explain in a bit.<br/>
<br>
- <font color=#FF0000>Species</font> mutations, as said before, governs the race of the subject. Keep it below 800 for human, and above 800 for monkey. Very easy to identifiy: look at a monkey's DNA, it's the only block higher than 800.
The DNA Scanner Access Console takes time to recharge after producing an activator or mutators. Activators have a much shorter cooldown.


Let's check the minor mutations first. As said before, the block will only manifest itself (that is to say making the subject swearing, coughing, etc) if its value is superior to 800. <br/>
==== [[File:DNA Injector.png|64px]] Advanced Injectors ====
<font color=#FF0000>Nearsightedness</font>. That means your screen goes hazy at about halfway from the edge of the screen. It's not THAT bad, and can be temporarily fixed by using prescription glasses.<br/>
[[File:Time-Green_advanced_injectors_first_screenshot.png|thumb|200px|right|This is the "Adv. Injectors" tab. ]]
<font color=#FF0000>Seizures</font>. They make you fall down and keep shaking all the time. They're horrible, and there's no easy cure short of fixing the block.<br/>
After discovering one or more mutations, you have the option to create advanced injectors. Advanced injectors will let you save multiple mutations in a single injector. The amount of mutations in a single "save" is limited to 50 [[#Genetic_Instability|instability]] or 10 mutations. Unlike activators or ordinary mutators, these can be named anything you want. To create an advanced injector, do the following:
<font color=#FF0000>Coughing</font>. It makes you drop small items you're holding, like syringes. Pretty harmless, but has potential to be annyoing.<br/>
#Go to either the "Storage - Adv. Injectors" tab. Click "Create new injector" and choose a name to crate a new slot for mutations to be stored in.
<font color=#FF0000>Tourette's Syndrome</font>. Swear all the time. You also may also experience paralysis, and that takes even longer than the seizures. Avoid.<br/>
#Go to the [[#Genetic_Sequencer|Sequencer]] tab or the "Storage - Mutations" tab and click on a stored or discovered and active mutation.
<font color=#FF0000>Nervousness</font>. It makes you stammer. Annoying at best.
#Click "Add to advanced injector". Select the name of the slot you made in step 1. Repeat with any other mutations you wish to save to the same advanced injector.
#Go back to the "Adv. Injectors". Click ''Print''. You will print an injector with named "Advanced (name) injector".


Major mutations are trickier to get. While going above 800 is enough to get a minor mutation, those ones have more specific, higher block values that are needed to appear. Worst of all, they can even not manifest themselves immediately on a subject, who will need several sub-block mutations to finally mutate (see below). They are:<br/>
==== Genetic Instability ====
<font color=#0000FF>'''Superpower: Telekinesis'''</font> - This power allows you to control things with your mind, from far away. It is the most sought after power, since it allows for incredible deeds, and makes a strong robuster nearly immortal. It is easy to spot, because it creates a blue "blob" around the person's head. You will know you have Telekinesis if you get the "You feel smarter" message. Requires a block of '''DAC''' or higher to manifest.<br/>
When you manifest a power, you may get a message like "It feels like your skin is moving." This is telling you that your genetic instability has gotten higher, and you'll need to be careful not to add too many more powers. All humans can withstand up to '''99 genetic instability''' before they start to bubble and melt. 100 instability would be too much. What happens when you suffer from a genetic breakdown is random and unpredictable, and draws from one of two lists of effects, ranging from 'Mostly Harmless' to 'Dead and Unrevivable'. Negative mutations generally don't give you instability, but powers do. As a rule of thumb, the stronger the power, the more instability it gives. Choose your powers wisely.
<font color=#0000FF>'''Superpower: Hulk'''</font> - This is pretty obvious. You become extremely strong, enough to punch through reinforced walls. You can also make people fly pretty far with those punches. It is easily spotted, because you, obviously, become green. The indicator is a "Your muscles ache!" message. Requires a block of '''DAC''' or higher to manifest.<br/>
==== Chromosome 21 ====
<font color=#0000FF>'''Superpower: Cold Resistance Resistance'''</font> - This makes you resistant to Cold, obviously, including the freezing depths of space (you still have to wear internals, however). This will not make you immune to fire. This is very easy to recognize. People with Cold Resistance have a pulsating orange "aura". The indicative message is "Your body feels warm". Requires a block of '''BEF''' or higher to manifest.<br/>
Every time you successfully use an ACTIVATOR on another person, the activator becomes filled with genetic data. Recycle/use it on your DNA console for a 60% chance to gain a random chromosome. The chromosome gets stored in the "Storage - Chromosomes" tab. Clicking on a chromosome gives you information about it. You can also eject it into its physical form. Physical chromosomes can only be used by inserting them into a DNA console. <br><br>
<font color=#0000FF>'''Superpower: X-Ray Vision'''</font> - Also a very good power. Basically, it gives you the combined awesome of both Thermal Goggles and Meson Goggles, both at the same time. Without even having to use the eyeglasses slot! Awesome! This, combined with Telekinesis, is a deadly combination. It's the hardest superpower to spot. You have to use a flashlight on people's eyes to spot it, and even then, you'll only get a message saying their eyes "glow eerily". The message you get after acquiring X-Ray Vision is "The walls suddenly disappear!". Requires a block of '''BEF''' or higher to manifest.  


'''-Quick addition here, from looking at the last set of code released, as said above, the value to trigger Cold res and X ray is BEF in hex, or 3050 in decimal, whereas Hulk and TK are DAC in hex, or 3500 in decimal. These, as well as all the other SE threshholds are subject to a random modifier chosen at the start of each round, which can be anywhere between -300 to 300. This modifier is global, so is the same for all SEs. So it could require as little as 2750 (ABD) or as much as 3350 (D16) for cold res and X ray. In the same way, it could be as low as 3200 (C80) or as high as 3800 (ED8) for TK and hulk. All of this is assuming that the code hasn't been changed since the last release of course - <font color=#009F08>[Raphael Mysterio]</font>'''
Each active mutation in a person has a single chromosome slot. You can only add chromosomes to people who are inside the connected DNA scanner. Do so by opening the ''Sequencer'' tab. Then click an activated mutation, or [[#Manifesting_Mutations|find one]] if none is active yet. You should see the line ''Select a chromosome'' followed by a list of chromosomes that mutation would be compatible with. Select a chromosome in the dropdown menu and you have now filled that mutation's chromosome slot. To delete the chromosome from a mutation you need to deactivate and reactivate the mutation by changing any letter and then back. <br>


This covers the powers. Now, the bad stuff - Disabilities! These, much like the other disabilities, will manifest if the block is over '''800''' (Note: Still checking on that. If anyone knows where I can find Genetics stuff on the code, let me know).
After you have added a chromosome to a mutation, you can ''store'' it to the ''Storage - mutations'' tab as normal (by clicking ''Save to console'' in the ''Sequencer'' tab). Mutations from mutators/activators printed from this stored entry will then contain that chromosome. The stored entry will retain its applied chromosome if saved to a Genetics data disk and transferred to a different DNA Scanner console.
<font color=#FF0000><br/>
Disability:Blindness</font> - The most serious of disabilities. You go completely blind. The screen goes dark, and you can't interact with ANYTHING. You're pretty much helpless, you can't even apply clean SE's on yourself. Be VERY careful here. The message you get is "You can't see!" or something to that effect. Detectable by using your penlight on the subject's eyes.
<font color=#FF0000><br/>
Disability:Deafness</font> - Harmless at best, annoying at worst. Really, very easy to cure. You just don't hear anything, not even yourself. No problem - a simple application of a clean SE injection will fix you right up. The message is "It's quiet...".
<font color=#FF0000><br/>
Disability:Clumsiness</font> - For those that have always wanted to be clowns. This gives you the clown's clumsiness. It makes you drop things you hold, it makes guns explode in your face. If makes you very clumsy! The message is "You feel lightheaded".
<font color=#FF0000><br/>
Disability:Strangeness</font> - Very dangerous. It makes you randomly mutate. Definitely be careful with this one. The message is "You feel strange".


=== Manhandling Genes! ===
These are the currently available chromosomes you can get (the chance for a chromosome to be of a specific type is listed next to that type in parenthesis):
* '''Synchronizer''' (5/16): Gives the mind more control over the mutation, reducing some downsides by 50%.
* '''Stabilizer''' (1/16): The rarest chromosome. Reduces [[#Genetic_Instability|instability]] gained from the mutation by 20%.
* '''Power''' (5/16): Boosts strength of certain mutations. Experiment with super sneeze or even deadlier fireballs!
* '''Energetic''' (5/16): Reduces cooldown on action based mutations.
* <s>'''Reinforcement''' (3/19): Makes the mutation immune to mutadone.</s> Removed Aug 2020.


Now that you are acquainted with your friends, the genes, you have to learn just how to mess with them! It's pretty simple, thankfully. After you're in the "Modify Structural Enzymes" screen, just select the block and sub-block you want to radiate, and click Radiate! After a few seconds, the screen will pop back up, and you will see if your modification had any effect. If it didn't, well, blast the subject with deadly rays again! Harmless!
Chromosomes aren't supposed to be addable to mutations that won't benefit from them. For example, you can't use the energetic chromosome on the monkey mutation.


In all seriousness, let's use an example. Let's say you have the following SE on your test subject:
=== What to do with your powers ===


<font color=#FF0000>3F3 5B1 4A7 391 7FF 102 07E 7B9 130 230 4E0 552 7A4 715</font>
* Export your best powers to a disk, as a backup. There's always the risk of an [[AI]] or someone else deleting them for any reason.
* Make injectors to give to <s>[[Assistant|the greytide]]</s> the [[Chain_of_Command#Heads_of_Staff|heads of staff]], the [[Security|security]], or the [[Engineer|Engineers]]. You can also sell them for money!
* Because injectors exist, geneticists may often be asked for powers by randoms. Use your best judgement to decide who gets powers and not, because nothing gets the station down like a herd of assistants with Hulk. Be ready to say "no" a lot. You are allowed to have powers, but if you run around the station while being a hulk don't go on a killing/destroying rampage as that's a bannable offense.
* Enjoy being the peak of human evolution! Use your powers for the greater good, or to make security's life hell by breaking down walls to high security areas and by being unstunnable. Remember that hulks are nonhuman to the AI, though, and when security can't stun someone they'll take out their lethals.


That means your (human) subject is genetically perfect - he has NO DISABILITY. That is great. From the round start, everyone (including the monkeys in the pen) is genetically perfect, so don't worry about that just yet. Begin by letting your monkey access the great mysteries of the human condition by decreasing the value of his species block (the only one at the start of the round that is superior to 800). Then check if no other block is above 800, and create a DNA injector containing this clean SE: it will be awfully useful for your studies, and to heal the mutations of that assistant who went hugging a particle accelerator for too long.
=== Healing your subjects and yourself ===
During your experiments, your subjects are likely to get hurt, whether from banging their heads on the tube, or negative mutations—most notably ''H.A.R.S.'' and ''Radioactive''. If unlucky, you may also be hurt. For that, there are several solutions:
* The [[Roboticist]] can build [[Guide_to_robotics#Medibot|medibots]]. The white ones will heal blunt damage, but there also are the green and yellow versions, able to heal tox/rads and burn damage, respectively.
* The [[Chemist|Chemists]] can provide you specific medicines, including [[Guide_to_chemistry#Potassium_Iodide|Potassium Iodide]] for radiations (and toxins in irradiated carbons), [[Guide_to_chemistry#Pentetic_Acid|Pentetic Acid]] for toxins and rads, and several others for burns, brute, or whatever else you may need.


Select the block you want to play with. I suggest starting either from 1, then working your way up (1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> ...) or starting from 14 and going the other way around. If you have a colleague, even better! Talk to him, and each take one. This will make progress go faster! You can either remember by heart the blocks (don't do it unless you have Rain Man's autistical memory, or you'll fuck up), note them with your "Add note" verb or write them on a piece of paper, using something like this :
Beware that Radioactive subjects may irradiate you and nearby items, so quickly remove that mutation once found.
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Let's say you took Block 1. Your block consists of 5B1. Now, personally, I always try to get a block above DAC - this ensures that I have a lock on said block, and that I am sure to find either a power or a disability.
Since your block is 5B1, it means it's much below the threshold of DAC it needs to activate the strongest powers. Let's go about fixing that. '''Select the first sub-block''', and radiate until you have D or up. It shouldn't take long. If you get an E, that's all you need. If not, however, move to the next sub-block. '''Don't ever bother with the third block''', not even if you get an A on the second sub-block. Just keep radiating until you have B or higher, it's much faster.


All powers have a ''chance'' of manifesting. So even if the block is high enough, you still need to pray to the RNG gods to give it to you. If you know ''for sure'' a block is a super power, just keep changing one of the sub blocks until the power manifests. Disabilities, on the other hand, will '''always manifest'''.
=== CRISPR Editing ===


=== Cleaning the Gene Pool ===
This allows you to swap out base mutations in a targeted way. Base mutations don't suffer from [[#Genetic_Instability|instability]]


Ok, so you tampered with genes. You discovered a few powers, but it comes along with a few disabilities, and you have no idea why. Time to learn why that happens, how to fix it and what to do after you're done.
==== Getting a CRISPR Charge ====
First, you'll need to collect a CRISPR charge. This is a sample of a virus with genetic abilities you can use to swap out base mutations.
* Get the Viro to make a virus with either [[Infections#Symptoms_Table|Dormant DNA Activator]] or [[Infections#Symptoms_Table|Viral Evolutionary Acceleration]] (Ideally otherwise benign)
* Have a containment protocol, get yourself scanned for diseases if you get symptoms, hope the cure is available if things go south
* Infect a contained monkey, use an Activator (not a Mutator) on it - it collects the charge when it collects chromosomes
* Feed the used activator to the console to add the charge to the console


You see, after a certain threshold of radiation, your test subject '''starts mutating of its own accord'''. This can only be avoided by injecting '''rejuvenators''' in them (every application injects 30 units, and the body can only take 90) and letting the subject "recover" for a while. In other words, this CANNOT BE AVOIDED! Screw recovering.


Work on a block until you are satisfied with it. When you're done, and you're ready to transfer the SE into an injector (see: IV. Buffers and Injectors - Handing Out Godhood), check the entire SE first, block by block. Go through the first sub-block of every block. Chances are you will find a few mutations that increase, say, block 3 to 9A7. This has to be '''removed'''. To clean a block, it's just like normal. Radiate the block until it goes below 8.
==== Using a CRISPR Charge ====
You'll need the top row of the sequence pairs of both the mutation you want to target and the mutation you want to replace it with. Here's the basic flow:
* Solve the mutation you want or just use a mutator on a humanized monkey
* Take note of the top row
* On the subject you want to swap mutations on, solve the mutation you want to swap
* Use a CRISPR charge on it
* Feed in a special CRISPR string instructing the virus to replace that mutation with the desired mutation


I cannot stress this enough. CLEAN YOUR SE BEFORE TESTING. It's a very big sign of an incompetent geneticist to hand out injectors that give you Telekinesis, but also make you stutter, swear all the time and have bad eyesight. Seriously people, this is a big one. CLEAN. YOUR. GENE. POOLS. To do that, inject a '''clean SE''' to the subject, either with a '''DNA injector''' or by simply transfering the clean SE data you put in the buffer previously (more details on that in the Practical Guide section).
===== Building the CRISPR String =====
For example, let's say Epilepsy is
* '''<code>A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G</code>'''
* '''<code>T A A T G C G C T A A T G C G C</code>'''


=== He's not reacting, triple the power! ===
And Telekinesis is
* '''<code>A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G</code>'''
* '''<code>T A T A G G C C T A A T G G C C</code>'''


Your DNA modification pod irradiates the DNA blocks to modify them. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. Sometimes it affects an other block, sometimes it affects the block you clicked on, but with little effects. Sure, you can use safe settings for a long and progressive ascension to augmented humans, but are we here to wait? Are we here to delay even more the race towards divinity? Nanotrasen and the captain wants results, and quick results, so we're going to have to fiddle with the radiation settings.
Take note of the first row of both
* Epilepsy is '''<code>A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G</code>'''
* Telekinesis is '''<code>A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G</code>'''


First of all, there's two different settings that you can modify on your console: Output and Accuracy.<br/>
You then need to weave these rows together, old-new-old-new-old-new like this:
- '''Output''' means how much the irradiated block's value will increase. The calculation for how much will actually change is absolutely fucktarded and the explanation for this calculation makes no more sense, so in simple terms, a mutated block can go higher or lower than his previous value. But it you set the output to 10 instead of 1, this variation will be wider. So if you want to turn a B block into a C block, set the output at 1. Otherwise, go up to 11. The bigger the output, the more irradiations, so watch out for your subject's health. If he's close to dying, go borrow a Medbot, who will be happy to desintoxicate your target.<br/>
* '''<code>_A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G :NEW (Telekinesis)</code>'''
- '''Duration''' means how long the radiation exposition will last. It actually increases the accuracy of the modification. Set it to a high level to be sure to actually mutate the block you clicked on. The Duration value is in seconds, so a Duration of 10 will make the irradiation last 10 seconds (plus lag). Set it to 3 if you feel lucky/if you want to fuck up as soon as possible the DNA of your prey, otherwise 6-10 are rather reliable settings.
* '''<code>AATTTAATCCGCCGGGAATTTTAACCGCCGGG :CRISPR String</code>'''
* '''<code>A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G_ :OLD (Epilepsy)</code>'''


Now, when you use CRISPR on the solved base mutation you intend to swap, feed in that string! It swaps ''Epilepsy'' out for ''Telekinesis''.
* '''<code> AATTTAATCCGCCGGGAATTTTAACCGCCGGG </code>'''


If your string is not the right length, nothing happens, but if the string is wrong, you may end up with ''Acid Flesh'' instead, but scrambled and with no guides - hope you've got activators! Careful not to be wrong multiple times, lest you overwrite multiple mutations to the same one and need to shuffle to get them back.


== Buffers and Injectors - Handing Out Godhood ==
Also, the CRISPR charge, being a repurposed virus, might sometimes go rogue and infect you randomly.


This is how you save your work. A very good geneticist once said: Save early, save often. His words are true. You have to save your every step in order to acquire a perfect serum. That means you have to be patient enough to bending the block to your will, dedicated enough to remove every disability, and responsable enough to save everything to make sure nothing goes wrong.
<br><br> Congratulations. If you read everything in this guide, you should now be a full-fledged Geneticist.


In the main '''DNA Modifier screen''', click the third option (first if the pod is empty). This is your buffer screen. You will notice there are THREE buffers there. More than enough. Each buffer can save either an UI, or an UI+UE, or, more importantly, a '''SE'''. Generally speaking, you will only ever bother with the SE part.
==DNA Infusion ==
Just settling with regular-old mutations not enough? Feel a need to TRANSCEND your human form? Maybe a little too into those weird Japanese cartoons? The brand new DNA infuser located genetics lets you become part BEAST, through... science! All you have to do is stick a corpse of a viable (or not) animal in and a live test subject, and the machine will destroy the corpse to replace one of the test subject's organs with a brand new mutant set. Enough mutant organs from the same type will make you a proper mutant of that type, possibly changing your species or conveying other positive or negative effects!
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Mutant Type
!Animals with Matching DNA
!Possible Mutant Organs
!Organs Required for Set Bonus
!Set Bonus
|-
|Rejected
|Any not listed here
|Fly eyes, proboscis, fly heart, fly lungs,fly liver, fly stomach, fly appendix.
|4
|Turns you into a fully fledged flyperson, like you can become from messing up teleportation. Why the hell would you want to do this?
|-
|Carp
|Space carp
|Carp lungs (Let you breathe in space but NOT on station),
Carp jaws (Stronger bites and can drop carp teeth, but can't wear anything in mask slot),


To '''fill a buffer''', once your pod is occupied, simply click what you want to save in the buffer screen, after the Save: part. For this example, save your subject's SE.
Carp brain (On a timer, gives you a negative moodlet advising you to 'go exploring', IE travel to a different Z-level),  
What you saved is now backed up by the console, and, if not overwritten, is now safe. Good stuff. You can '''relabel the buffer''' to make sure of what it is. For instance, calling your original test subject's SE something like "Clean Backup - Stevenson, F.", or calling an SE that has Hulk isolated something like "Hulk". Simple, but very helpful to not get lost.


Note: you can '''transfer''' a buffer's content into the pod's occupant, making it easier to transfer research data between subjects. Just stick a new guinea pi - I mean, test subject, in there, click Buffers, as usual, then click "Occupant", right after "Transfer To:".
Carp heart.
|4
|Allows you to move freely through space, like a carp can!
|-
|Rat
|Rodents
|Rat eyes (light sensitive but have night vision),  
rat stomach, rat heart, rat tongue.
|4
|Gain the ability to crawl through station ventilation, as long as your clothes don't get in the way.
|-
|Goliath
|Goliaths
|Goliath eyes (night vision),  
goliath lungs (lets you breathe on lavaland but
NOT on station),  


Make use of '''all three buffers'''. Assuming you have a human with clean SEs inside your pod, you can save his SE in the first buffer, and name it Clean Backup. I always do it. I use the last two buffers to find powers. Say, once you find your first power, you save it to the second buffer. Once you get your second power working with the first, save it to the third buffer. Once you get the third power working with the others, overwrite the second buffer, since it is now irrelevant. Same thing with fourth power.
goliath brain (no gloves but one of your arms becomes a


That covers buffers. But what are '''injectors''', you may ask yourself. Well, injectors are tiny one-shot needles, that contain buffer data, whatever it may be. That means you can now turn that sweet, sweet Hulk buffer into a small, awesome, orange/red injector! Good stuff. To turn a buffer into an injector, simply click Injector in the options below the buffer in question, after "Transfer To:". A small needle will spawn on top of the modifier. You can now stick his baby in anyone who stands around for enough time.
tendril hammer),  


Note: The DNA Modifier takes time to replicate an injector. Something like 90 seconds or close to it, I'm not sure. If anyone knows, do tell.
goliath heart (makes you immune to ash storms.)
|4
|Makes you immune to lava.
|-
|Cat
|Cat
|Cat ears, cat tail.
|N/A
|You're part cat now, just like in those cartoons with those girls you like so much.
|-
|Fox
|Fox
|Fox ears.
|N/A
|You have fox ears, just like that girl on that poster you keep on your wall.
|}


Because of injectors, geneticists are usually asked to give people superpowers. This is best judged by the geneticist, if you want to be like Marvel and give everyone superpowers, by all means, do so. But if you want to keep it to yourself and select others, go ahead, just be ready to say "No" a lot. Also, admins have confirmed that if people inject themselves with a needle they found lying around that says "Godhood" on it without even asking what is in it, '''you will NOT get punished''' by turning them into monkeys. Wink wink. Just make sure to answer truthfully if asked, and not to inject it yourself. If people are stupid enough to inject themselves with unknown content, let them.
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Cloning was removed from the game in Jan, 2020. This is only for historical reference.
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For a cloning process we need a dead body and cloning equipment, which can be found in your Cloning Room.


Remember how I told you about '''diskettes'''? You can use them to backup your work as well! With one in your hand, click the DNA Modifier console. Now enter the Buffer screen. Click "Save To" in there to save the data to the diskette. If the diskette is not write-protected, the data is going in there! From the main screen, you can eject the disk from the console. You can also load data from a diskette much the same way. Except you click in "Load From" in the buffer screen, instead of "Save To". Easy peasy. I always like to leave the station with all four powers in an SE stored in a diskette. FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND AND EVOLUTION!
# First of all, you have to know that for all things cloning, the [[Chief Medical Officer]] has a final say. He is your boss on this side of Genetics. If he tells you to clone someone and not some other guy, you do it. The only person with higher say than him on these matters is the Captain.
# On to the specifics! How to clone: Just '''grab or pull''' a body and stuff it '''into the [[DNA Scanner]] and close the door'''. If you want to remove someone from a Scanner, click on it to open the door. Unless the Scanner is locked, the person/monkey inside is going to pop right out. [[File:Cloning_console_scan_successful.png|thumb|200px|right|This is the cloning console menu.]]
# When the Scanner is occupied, '''interact with the Cloning Console'''. You will see a few options. The most important one is "scan". Click it. If they can be cloned, scanning will succeed regardless of whether they're in their body or not. There are several possible errors that can happen when you try to scan. See the [[#Cloning_Error|section about cloning errors]] for details.
# If scanning is successful, you will get a '''''Successful Scan'' -message'''. That means you now have that person's cloning data saved. You can use this record to steal their genetic data at any time, but cloning is more limited - if their last death happened after they got scanned, any attempts to clone using the scanned record will fail. [[File:Cloning_console_view_records.png|thumb|200px|right|This is what you see after clicking "View Records".]]
# After you actually have DNA data from a person, '''click Check Records''', and then '''click View Record''' of the person who you want to clone. You will see a list of their [[#Unique_Identifiers|UI]](Unique Identifiers) and their [[#Structural_Enzymes|SEs]] (Structural Enzymes). These can be copied and pasted with a cloning data disk (see one of the images to the right). '''Click Clone'''. You will notice that the Cloning Pod is now fully active, with a shadow inside. That is the new body. You can now '''take the old corpse out of the DNA Scanner''', '''strip it completely''' so the cloned person can have their stuff back, and '''place the old corpse inside a body bag in the morgue'''. You don't have to worry about the old corpse anymore. [[File:Cloning_console_view_record_with_disk.png|thumb|200px|right|This is what can you see after clicking a specific "View Record" under "View Records". If you have an ID with cloning access you can delete a record. Otherwise it will say "access denied" when trying to delete it. If you have inserted a "cloning data disk" you have additional options to save or load [[#Unique_Enzymes|UE]], [[#Unique_Identifiers|UI]] and [[#Structural_Enzymes|SE]] (dormant mutations) to and from that disk.]]
# The cloning process takes about 2 or 3 minutes depending on upgrades. For whoever is getting cloned, it may feel like a very long time. While the person is getting their new body formed, take their '''belongings and stuff them all into a locker''', so they're not scattered all over or stolen. Cloning the captain and leaving their ID or other secure items on the floor is bad.
#* '''Aborted cloning:''' Use this as [[traitor]] to screw with that assistant who talked smack to you earlier. During the cloning process, it is possible to eject the incomplete clone by unlocking the Cloning Pod with your ID and ejecting the unfinished clone (needs to be >40% done) or by getting an Engineer to unlock the Genetics APC so you can shut off the power temporarily, which also causes the clone to (instantly, no matter how done) eject. This will usually clone people without limbs or vital organs, making them die quickly.
# The cloned people often have cellular damage. If so, take them to cryo to fix it.
# After the pod is empty, feel free to '''clone your next patient''', and to let the old one out, since they most likely don't have clearance to open the door.
# If R&D has been doing their job, they might upgrade the cloner to a level where it can '''autoprocess'''. If this is the case, you only have to press the Autoprocess button on top of the window, and the cloner will scan and clone automatically. This is useful to process a large pile of bodies quickly. Scan them one at a time, and autoprocess will do the rest.


== All Together Now - A Practical Guide ==
=== [[File:Husk.png|64px|OH GOD OH FUCK]] Hark! A Husk! ===
So you've come across a [[husk]] (a grey corpse) on your floor, which means you can't clone that poor sod without upgrades. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped!


Ok. So you know how to brew super-strength. You know how to turn Force Power into a needle. You know how to transform that annoying asshole into a monkey. But this is only theory. Now you want to know how to put it all together! This is what this chapter covers.
# First off, make sure it's a husk. Throw the body into a DNA Scanner, if it says ''Subject no longer contains the fundamental materials required to create a living clone'', then you have yourself a husk (if your DNA Scanner had been [[Guide_to_advanced_construction#DNA_Scanner|updated]] to the max by the Scientists, you could clone the husk right now. So if you know they've been doing their R&D, ask them).
# Take the body down to [[Surgery]].
# Pester the CMO or a Medical Doctor to extract the brain, or do it yourself.
# Put the brain in the DNA scanner like you would a body.


First switch your target from torso to eyes and turn on the '''penlight''' stored in your suit storage. The penlight is going to be very useful for your work to find blindness / X-Ray, so be warned. To test someone's eyes, click the Eyes in the target area, then use the penlight with the subject. If you get a "<subject's name here>'s pupils narrow!", this means their vision is perfect. An "eerie glow" means X-Ray Vision, and "has no reaction" or something means the subject is blind! Fix that ASAP!
Optionally a husk can be unhusked with [[Guide_to_chemistry#Rezadone|rezadone]]. If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn. <br>


At this point it may be a good idea to visit Chemistry and order some '''Hyronalin''' for your genetic testing. I usually order 2 pillboxes full of Hyronalin pills with ten units per pill. These are extremely useful as they '''lower radiation levels''' almost instantaneously unlike Anti-Toxin, which cures the toxins damage caused by radiation but does little to the rads themselves, or '''Rejuvenative Chemicals''', which can be injected through the DNA scanner and slowly lowers radiation (also seems to make the patient's genome more resistant to change). This will help you keep your patients alive and allow you to use SE Syringes more often without the risk of getting Rad Poisoning and falling over due to weakness. Just eat a pill after every second or third syringe, or give it to your patients when their radiation levels are high (above 20%, due to how long it takes to just wait for it to go down) like when you have just applied a saved buffer to occupant. Use the two syringe rule when injecting other players, always have them eat a pill after every second syringe.  
====Changeling Victims====
If examining the husk shows "He/she is limp and unresponsive; there are no signs of life... " it means the body has a soul online. If the corpse still can't be scanned in fully upgraded cloning, it's possible it was someone who got absorbed by a [[Changeling|changeling]]. There appears to be no easy way to revive absorbed victims. Not even through brain transplants.


There are two methods of '''getting clean SEs''', however. One is, of course, getting a player to be a test subject. This is surprisingly easy, but bewarned, the guy might VERY easily be a traitor just out for getting an easy Hulk + TK. If you get a player to help you, simply save his SE before doing anything.
=== Helping the Headless ===
Sometimes you'll find a corpse whose head is separated from their body. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, this is not a problem!


The other method is the most common approach. Grab a monkey from the pen, stuff him in the modifier, and change his species block until he becomes a human. Of course, run through all of the blocks to make sure it's definitely clean, and save it.
#If you have a head or a brain, just chuck it into the cloner as normal. This may require the DNA scanner to be upgraded though. To clone a head or brain you must throw it into the DNA Scanner by activating throw with '''R''' and then clicking it, or by walking into the DNA scanner and dropping the head/brain. Then click the cloner to close it.
#If you don't have the head, but you have the body, not all hope is lost: take a blood sample and give it to the botanist to make a replica pod, and the deceased guy will be reborn as a podperson!
#If you have neither, he's dead for good.


After you have a definitely clean backup, rename the label to say so, and make an injector out of it. You never know when you're going to need it. After getting the injector and sticking it in your pocket, you are clear for working on your subject. I assume you took a monkey from the pen from now on, and will work on that assumption.
===Cloning Plasmamen===


Now, if you are working with a fellow geneticist, this is really simple. Decide which of you starts from block 1 and moves on and which of you starts from block 14 and moves down. Also Remember not to focus on following an orderly pattern, If another untested block raises to a high level, test it out, remember to share data with your fellow geneticist. When working with a partner communication is key to efficient work.
If the patient is a [[plasmaman]], cloning them will be complicated by the fact that the naked patient will burn in the station's atmosphere. This can be dealt with by using showers to keep the patient from catching fire, then dressing them in a plasma envirosuit.
# Put plasmaman into cloning scanner
# Scan them, start the cloning process
# Drag their dead body to cloning pod
# Undress them and leave their clothes in a pile
# Turn on shower near cloning pod
# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and wait for them to dress up


After you get your first block above DAC, MAKE SURE THE SE IS OTHERWISE CLEAN. Check every other block for mutations. If any, even the other possible power blocks, is above 800, remove it. After you are sure the rest of SE is clean, save your work. You have just isolated this block. Check to see if your subject is blind. If he is not, you can test the work on yourself. Simply make an injector, and use it on yourself.
If the patient is a naked or beheaded plasmaman, follow these additional steps:
# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and feed them a few [[Guide_to_chemistry#Salbutamol|Salbutamol]] pills (if available), or if desperate, keep a syringe of [[Guide_to_chemistry#Perfluorodecalin|Perfluorodecalin]] ready in case you need it. Plasmamen suffocate if they don't have plasma to breathe!
# Yell at [[Supply_crates|cargo]] to order plasmaman supplies. In the meantime, bug Engineering/Atmos for a filled plasma tank.


Now, what happens is important. If you get absolutely no message, this means the block you just isolated and tested on yourself is a '''latent power'''! Should that be the case, you now have made your first step into greatness. If the injector gives you either deafness, strangeness or lightheadedness (you DID check for blindness, didn't you?), this means the injector (and, thus, the buffer) is bad. Scrap that buffer, remove that block from the SE and work from the next on the list. Rinse and repeat, keep on doing this until you have all four powers, and no disability. Congratulations, you have found the Superhuman Serum / OmniSE / Demigod Vaccine / Whatever the hell you want to call it.
===Empty Cloning===
Cloners have the option to "Empty Clone" a record, creating a mindless replica of a person. To complement this function, cloners can do Body-Only scans, which can only be used to create empty clones but not real clones, and bypass the sentience restrictions that ordinary scans have. These body-only entries can be deleted without requiring access.


I will say this again, though, so you really remember it.
=== Cloning Errors ===


'''CLEAN.'''
{| class="wikitable"
'''THE.'''
|-
'''GENE.'''
! Error message
'''POOL.'''
! Cause
! Solution
|-
| Unable to locate valid genetic data.
| Whatever you put inside the scanner doesn't have valid (humanoid) DNA.
| Stop putting bees in the scanner.
|-
| Subject's brain is not responding to scanning stimuli.
| The person inside has suicided or signed an infernal contract. Cloning is impossible.
| Let the [[Cook]] take care of them or put the body in the morgue.
|-
| Subject no longer contains the fundamental materials required to create a living clone.
| You're trying to scan a body that's been husked or smashed by megafauna, but your scanner doesn't have a (tri-)phasic scanning module.
| Remove the brain and scan it. Yell at RnD to upgrade your scanner.
|-
| Mental interface failure.
| The corpse has no ghost associated with it.
| Try again in a few seconds - ghosts get notified when someone attempts to scan their body. No success? Let the [[Cook]] handle it.
|-
| Subject already in database.
| That person has already been scanned.
| Start the cloning process. Want to update the current clone scan? The CMO can delete scan files.
|-
| Initialisation failure.
| The patient is still alive.
| Try again when the patient is dead.
|-
| Unable to initiate cloning cycle.
| Cloning has been disabled in the server config.
| Yell at admins and hand the corpse over to the [[Chef]].
|-
| Corpse has no head.
| [[Changeling|Some asshole]] decapitated your guy - clone scanning is impossible without a brain.
| Draw a blood sample and ask [[Botany]] to clone them with the Replica Pod plant. Can't draw blood either? Your patient is out of luck.
|}


This is VERY VERY IMPORTANT, never forget about doing it.
Keep in mind that patching up a corpse with Synthflesh and then reviving it with Strange Reagent bypasses a lot of these issues.


Congratulations. If you read everything is this guide, you should now be a full-fledged geneticist! Welcome to the club, friend, hope you enjoy it! Pass on the knowledge to those in need. If you have any questions, say so, and I will update the guide to reflect it.
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== The Gene Genie - The Traitorous Geneticist ==
== The Gene Genie - The Traitorous Geneticist ==
Sorry for the bad chapter title. I wanted to use that for a very long time.
Sorry for the bad chapter title. I wanted to use that for a very long time.


So, you learned how to do your job successfuly, and how to be a credit to the station. You learned how to manipulate genes. Now you want to learn what the hell to do when the syndicate is the one writing your checks! Well, fret not! I will give you some pointers. But these are mostly tips - traitorous objectives differ wildly, and change your actions way too much for me to write a real guide on it.  
So, you learned how to do your job successfully, and how to be a credit to the station. You learned how to manipulate genes. Now you want to learn what the hell to do when the syndicate is the one writing your checks! Well, fret not! I will give you some pointers. But these are mostly tips - traitorous objectives differ wildly, and change your actions way too much for me to write a real guide on it.


=== Rev head ===
=== [[Revolutionary]] ===
Simple. Flash colleagues. If the RD or the CMO come check on you, say you have a good set of powers, but the replicator is offline. Ask for him / her to strip and get in the modifier. Lock him / her in, have your way with them, they can't leave nor can they talk. Let them enjoy their slow, painful death. If someone wants to clone the captain, that too is pretty simple. Just don't do it. As soon as the guy leaves, stuff the captain in a locker, take his stuff and call it a day. You could also eat until you get fat, transform people in monkeys and eat them. Fun for all.
If you managed to kill a head of staff, copy their identity with a DNA scanner and apply it to yourself. Impersonating a head of staff during a revolution is useful since they are usually exempt from implanting.


=== Traitor ===
=== [[Traitor]] ===
Depends on your objective. If it's a hard one, like stealing the AI... well, you're fucked. Keep working on those powers! As soon as you have Hulk + TK, go for it as you wish. No tips here.
Depends on your objective. If it's a hard one, like stealing the AI... well, you're fucked. Keep working on those powers! As soon as you have Hulk + TK, go for it as you wish. No tips here.


If your objective is a simple one, though, like stealing the captain's jumpsuit, there are more approaches to this. As the above tip, you can just break the walls with TK Hulk, but that is rather crass. There's a more roundabout, but classier way to tackle this. I have done this myself, so I am proof that it works. Take a monkey from the pen, transform it in a human. Take it's UI+UEs, make an injector, stuff it in your pocket with a label like "Clean Backup - Alexa White".<br/>Now get your own UI+UEs and name it "Clean Backup - Original" or something. Avoid using your name. Now, go hide somewhere close to the item's location, stick yourself with the monkey injector, spawn emag, stick ID and PDA in your backpack. For added stealth, get a different outfit. Emag your way to the captain's room, get his jumpsuit, RUN RUN RUN. The AI might see you, so it would also be good if you spawned an agent card so you can't be tracked. If anyone sees you, they're not going to see your actual name, only the humanized monkey's name. Hide, stick yourself with your own stuff, change clothes, walk away smoothly.
If your objective is a simple one, though, like stealing the hand tele, there are more approaches to this. As the above tip, you can just break the walls with TK Hulk, but that is rather crass. There's a more roundabout, but classier way to tackle this. Take a monkey from the pen, transform it in a human. Take its UI+UEs, make an injector, stuff it in your pocket with a label like "Clean Backup - Alexa White".<br/>Now get your own UI+UEs and name it "Clean Backup - Original" or something. Avoid using your name. Now, go hide somewhere close to the item's location, stick yourself with the monkey injector, spawn doorjack, stick ID and PDA in your backpack. For added stealth, get a different outfit. doorjack your way to the captain's room, get his hand tele, RUN RUN RUN. The AI might see you, so it would also be good if you spawned an agent card so you can't be tracked. If anyone sees you, they're not going to see your actual name, only the humanized monkey's name. Hide, stick yourself with your own stuff, change clothes, walk away smoothly.


If you have to kill someone, same stuff from rev.
If you have to kill someone, same stuff from rev.
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Also, never forget identity theft. Since you can take someone's complete identity, including looks, you can have some fun with that.
Also, never forget identity theft. Since you can take someone's complete identity, including looks, you can have some fun with that.


=== Wizard ===
=== [[Changeling]] ===
Well... Stealth wizard? Several things you can do, mostly involving UI+UE stuff. Not worth it, really. One thing you can do is taking identities and belongings, but you have to expose yourself to mess with the console. Your choice.
You can DNA sting humanized monkeys to quickly gather stored genomes. Similarly, once people start coming for mutations, you will have plenty of DNA to collect.
 
=== Returning to Monke ===
If you're looking for combat or stealth bonuses, you may use ''Monkified'' to get the monkeys', as well as several useful mutations (e.g., ''Telekinesis'', ''Shock Touch'', ''Chameleon'', ''Gigantism'' and ''Dwarfism'').  
Monkeys have the ability to steal items from people's hands, ventcrawl, and several other benefits. The transformation is unexpensive and available extremely early in the round (unlike the [[Scientist|Xenobiologist's]] slime transformation).
 
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Alternatively, there are [[Critters#Gorilla|gorillas]]. Since the [https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/62265 radiation modernization changes (Oct, 2021)], you have a nearly-exclusive access to gorillas. You may transform monkeys into gorillas, including yourself, other crewmembers or antagonists.
 
Given their status as a ''simplemob'', gorillas are immune to wounds and most chemicals—essentially the ''Hulk'''s weaknesses. They are additionally immune to stuns and shoves (like Hulks), viruses, and mutations. Unlike Hulks, they are unable to destroy reinforced walls.
* Note that gorillas are thus also immune to the benefits of those, and to surgeries. Healing is going to be more complicated than for hulks, and someone may Lazarus their carcasses to assist against the other gorillas.
 
The gorilla AI is extremely hostile, keeping aggro until their target is dead, and have a tendency to delimb corpses people that are unconscious (incl. hard crit).
 
To transform a monkey into a gorilla, you have two options:
* ''Genetic bombing:'' once above 2500 genetic damage, monkeys have a 25% chance per second to transform.
* ''Mind-Magnification Helmets:'' when removing MM helmets, the sentient monkey has a slight chance (2.5%) to turn into an equally sentient gorilla.
Additionally, the [[Traitor]] geneticist's uplink offers [[Syndicate_Items#Box_of_Gorilla_Cubes|Gorilla Cubes]] and [[Syndicate_Items#Magillitis_Serum_Autoinjector|an autoinjector]] turning them into a gorilla.
 
 


=== Changeling ===
FUCKING REJOICE, your work is cut out for you! Have fun eating the lifeless corpses you clone.
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Ruth McVork говорит:
"Welcome to Genetics, brother! Are you feeling good? You SHOULD feel good! You are now like unto a tiny god! Are you prepared to be what you were born to be? Are you ready to save the station (or totally fuck it up)?

Chin up, buddy. It's not that hard. But before you start grabbing those monkeys from the pen, you should know the basics."


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Welcome to Genetics.

This room has two DNA Scanners and two DNA Scanner Access Consoles, along with some disk boxes and other supplies. The disks are extremely useful, as we will see later.

A nearby containment room holds your test subjects. These monkeys are going to be your guinea pigs. You are going to experiment on them, and make them suffer quite a bit. It's pretty inhumane. But such is life, and after a while it will all be worth it.

Файл:Scanner.gifФайл:Medcom.gif DNA Modification[править | править код]

This is the "Enzymes" tab. The "Radiation Emitter" function may randomize certain individual cosmetic features of the person inside, as well as damage their DNA. This menu can be used to transfer identities between people, but it can't be used to change a person's species. This information can also be stored on cloning data disks. Regarding the genetic research, listen to the direct orders of the Research Director

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Now, let's get you acquainted with the DNA Scanner Access Console. It has a few things of note. First you need to learn some terms:

Unique Enzymes[править | править код]

  • Unique Enzymes (UE) = Your name. Even if you mutate the UE it will have no effect on the name. What you can do however, is to transfer UE from one person to another, copying their name.

Unique Identifiers[править | править код]

  • Unique Identifiers (UI) = Your cosmetic details - eye color, skin color, hair style, hair color and gender.

In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Enzymes". This tab can be used to copy UE and UI between people.

  • Click "Save" to save a person's UE + UI to the console. You can not save mutations this way (anymore).
  • Click "Transfer" to copy the genes of the buffer to whoever is inside the scanner. You can choose between Enzymes (UE), Identity (UI) and Full Makeup (UE+UI).
  • Click "Transfer (Delayed)" to copy the genes of the buffer to the next person who steps into the scanner and closes it (such as yourself). This option is only available if the scanner is empty.
  • Click "Print" to print a DNA injector containing the genes of the saved buffer. Injecting this into a person will transfer the UE, UI or UE+UI to that person. Unlike mutation injectors however, these DNA injectors are not permanent, and will only last for a short while after injected.

Structural Enzymes[править | править код]

  • Structural Enzymes (SE) / Genetic Sequence = Your mutations. They contain data relevant to your genetic structure. This governs your race and mutations. The term "Structural Enzymes" is no longer used by the DNA scanner access console since it was replaced with "Genetic Sequence" (which is the same thing), but the term may still show up elsewhere.

Genetic Sequencer[править | править код]

This is what the Sequencer tab may look like with a human in the scanner.

In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Sequencer". Here you will alter genes to find mutations. There are four types of blocks: A, T, C and G. Each pair of letters in the boxes are connected. A goes with T, and G goes with C. Order does not matter. Each pair has a correct combination of "AT, TG, CG or GC" that needs to be filled. If you see a an unmodified pair be X-T it means the right combination of that pair is A-T. When all 16 pairs have the right blocks, the mutation will activate and you will be able to store it. Monkeys can only have the monkified mutation unless humanized. Once you have found the name of a mutation, that mutation will be permanently identified in all DNA scanner access consoles.

You might want to disable the monkey mutation by replacing one of the healthy pairs with another letter. How to do all this will be detailed in the guide below.

Genetic Sequence Scanner[править | править код]

What it looks like after clicking someone with the "Genetic Sequence Scanner" item, and then using the Genetic Sequence Scanner in hand and selecting "Mutation 39". Note that we now know that the first pair should be C-G.

The more difficult mutations will have a lot of unknown (X-X) pairs. You cannot just randomly enter A-T, since it's predetermined what it's supposed to be. Knowing all this, you could whip out the genetic sequence scanner from your pocket. If you're looking for the correct pairs of mutation 39, scan people until you find a person with mutation 39. Then use the scanner in your hand for a menu to pop up. In the menu, select "mutation 39". This gives you a reading which will likely give you more information about which pairs you need to finish mutation 39.

What it looks like after correctly filling all pairs. Mutation 39 turned out to be monkified. Since solving a mutation activates it, the subject in the scanner is now a monkey.


You can use your Genetic Sequence Scanner on a DNA scanner access console to permanently synch the item, which makes you see the names of discovered mutations when scanning people with it.

More info about some of the other tabs can be found in the guide further below.

Файл:Hulk.png List of Mutations[править | править код]

Before we start splicing, you must know what possible monstrosities can be done to a human. Normally unobtainable mutations are highlighted in red text.

Mutation Name Description Indicators Message How/Where to Obtain Instability
Telekinesis "A strange mutation that allows the holder to interact with objects through thought."

This power allows the subject to control things with their mind, from far away! It is the most sought after power, since it allows for incredible deeds, and makes a strong robuster nearly immortal. To use it, switch to an empty hand and click on an object (note that, if they can, your character/the game will prioritize picking up an object normally over picking it up telekinetically). A circle symbol will appear underneath the object and in your hand and you can now control the object. You can also use any console from a distance.

Appears as a blue glow around the subject's head. "You feel smarter" Genetic / Punished God sect 30
Hulk "A poorly understood genome that causes the holder's muscles to expand, inhibit speech and gives the person a bad skin condition."

Subject becomes extremely strong, enough to punch through reinforced walls, and is unable to speak without yelling. The subject is also immune to stuns and slowdowns from stamina and normal damage, and cannot be pushed past. Breaking walls and machinery deals heavy brute damage to your arm. This mutation is lost when the subject falls to critical health.

  • Can swing people by their tails. To do this, get your tailed victim in at least a neck grab (lvl 3 grab), enable throw mode, then click in the direction you want to throw.
  • Makes you extra vulnerable to cold and take brute damage from it.
  • Prevent you from using weapons [to confirm: and computers and tablets]
Subject turns green and has red eyes. "Your muscles hurt." Radioactive + Strength 40
Temperature Adaptation "A strange mutation that renders the host immune to damage from extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. Does not protect from vacuums [or areas of high pressure]."

This mutation is mutually exclusive with Pressure Adaptation.

Subject has a pulsating orange "aura". "Your body feels warm." Genetic 25
Pressure Adaptation "A strange mutation that renders the host immune to damage from both low and high pressure environments. Does not protect from temperature, including the cold of space [or super hot gas]."

This mutation is mutually exclusive with Temperature Adaptation.

Subject has a pulsating blue "aura". "Your body feels numb." Genetic 25
Thermal Vision "The user of this genome can visually perceive the unique human thermal signature."

Subject can see people even through walls and in darkness. Deals 10 eye damage on use, and lasts 10 (seconds?).

\ "You can see the heat rising off of your skin..." Genetic 25
Chameleon The subject becomes able to subtly alter light patterns to become invisible, as long as they remain still. Subject starts fading into the background. "You feel one with your surroundings." Genetic 25
Dwarfism Turns the subject into a manlet, making them unusually shorter than the rest of the crew. Dwarfs can pass over tables without stopping.

Mutually exclusive with Gigantism

Subject looks smaller. "Everything around you seems to grow.." Human Species 5
Near Sightness "The holder of this mutation has poor eyesight."

Makes the subject's screen go hazy at about halfway from the edge of your whole vision. It's not THAT bad, and can be temporarily fixed by using prescription glasses.

\ "You can't see very well." Genetic
Epilepsy Subject starts to fall down and keeps shaking all the time. Subject suffers from seizures. "You get a headache." Genetic
Coughing Makes the subject drop small items they're holding, like syringes. Pretty harmless, but has potential to be extremely annoying. Subject coughs. "You start coughing." Genetic
Tourette's Syndrome The subject swears all the time. They may also experience paralysis that takes even longer than the seizures. Avoid. Subject curses out loudly and twitches. "You twitch." Genetic
Nervousness Makes the subject stammer. Annoying at best. Subject stammers when they speak. "You feel nervous." Genetic
Blindness Subject goes completely blind, becoming a part of a usually forgotten minority. How sad. Subject's eyes don't react to penlight. "You can't seem to see anything." Genetic
Deafness Makes the subject deaf. Harmless at best, annoying at worst. You just don't hear anything, not even yourself. \ "You can't seem to hear anything..." Genetic
Illiterate Subject becomes illiterate that stops them from using paper, pens, computers, and some electronics that require reading. \ "You feel unable to read or write." Genetic
Clumsiness Inhibits certain brain functions, inducing clown-like clumsiness in subject. For those that have always wanted to be clowns. It makes the subject accidentally drop things they hold, unable to use tasers, handcuffs, guns exploding in their face etc. \ "You feel lightheaded." Genetic/Clowns
Unintelligible Heavily corrupts the part of the brain responsible for forming spoken sentences, causing the subject to only be able to speak short sentences. \ "You can't seem to form any coherent thoughts!" Genetic
Mute Completely shuts down the speech center of the subject's brain. \ "You feel unable to express yourself at all." Genetic / Punished God sect
Wacky Forces the subject to talk in an odd manner. Makes your speech in chat use the Comic Sans font normally only seen with the clown's megaphone. \ "You feel an off sensation in your voicebox." Genetic
Glowy Gives the subject a faint glow of random color.

Mutually exclusive with Anti-Glow

Subject glows. "Your skin begins to glow softly." Genetic 5
Anti-Glow Makes the subject absorb light in a radius around it.

Mutually exclusive with Glow; works for Ethereals and Luminescents

Subject has an aura of darkness. Emit a ring of white light in light-emitting races. "Your skin seems to attract and absorb nearby light creating 'darkness' around you." Glowy + Void Magnet 5
Strength "The user's muscles slightly expand."

Subject feels stronger, but isn't. Combine with Radioactive to make the Hulk power.

\ "You feel stronger" Genetic
Fiery Sweat Subject "sweats liquid fire"[CITATION NEEDED] and randomly combusts, but grows more resistant to fire. Tests determined it takes twice the amount of time for the subjects to completely burn (x0.5 modifier on BURN). Stability decreases the chances of combusting. Subject will spontaneously combust "You feel hot." Genetic
Void Magnet "A rare genome that attracts odd forces not usually observed."

You have the power to make yourself mostly invincible for a brief period at the cost of being unable to move. You will also enter this state randomly and against your will, genetic stability reduces how often it happens.

Subject is periodically replaced with a hole in reality shaped like the subject. "You feel a heavy, dull force just beyond the walls watching you." Genetic 30
Radioactive "A volatile mutation that causes the host to sent out deadly beta radiation. This affects both the hosts and their surroundings."

One of the few radiation sources after the Radiation Modernization changes.

Subject glows with a green aura "You feel it in your bones" Genetic 5
Telepathy A mutation that allows the user to telepathically communicate to others. Subject is able to broadcast its thought directly to others. "You hear your thoughts echo in your mind" Genetic / Punished God sect 10
Fire Breath An ancient mutation that gives lizards breath of fire.

Enables the user to fire explosive fireballs, hotter the less it travels.

Subject becomes able to breathe concentrated balls of fire. "You feel a heat built up in your throat" Lizard Species 30
Chav Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a more rudimentary manner. \ "Ye feel like a reet prat like, innit?" Genetic
Swedish "A horrible mutation originating from the distant past. Thought to be eradicated after the incident in 2037."

Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a vaguely norse manner.

\ "You feel Swedish, however that works." Genetic
Medieval "A horrible mutation originating from the distant past, thought to have once been a common gene in all of old world Europe."

Forces the language center and primary motor cortex of the subject's brain to talk and act like a knight on a quest for the Holy Grail.

\ "You feel like seeking the holy grail!." Genetic
Pig Latin "Historians say back in the 2020's humanity spoke entirely in this mystical language."

Increase the level of skillchip' complexity the subject can handle.

\ "Omethingsay eelsfay offyay." Genetic 5
Insulated This makes you shock resistant, not unlike wearing a pair of insulated gloves, without the downsides. The subject does not conduct electricity. "Your fingertips go numb." Genetic 25
Shock Touch "The affected can channel excess electricity through their hands without shocking themselves, allowing them to shock others."

This gives you a non-antag Mansus Grasp that shocks people, which will do burn damage and large amounts of jittering and confusion. Does not protect the subject against shocks.

Subject can electrocute other people with their bare hands. "You feel power flow through your hands." Insulated + Radioactive 30
Transcendent Olfaction "Your sense of smell is comparable to that of a canine."

This power lets you track people by scent. Hold something in your hand and use the power to look for a scent on it. Use the power without holding anything and you'll track the scent you previously found.

\ "Smells begin to make more sense..." Genetic 30
Geladikinesis Allows the user to concentrate moisture and sub-zero forces into snow This mutation lets you create snow, used to build snowtiles, walls, balls and snowmen "Your hand feels cold" Genetic 10
Cryokinesis Draws negative energy from the sub-zero void to shoot freezing beams Lets the user shoot a bolt of cryokinesis to freeze people, objects and tiles "Your hand feels cold" Genetic 20
Antenna The affected person sprouts an antenna. This is known to allow them to access common radio channels passively. An antenna is visible on the user's head, and they basically have a built in station-bounced radio. "You feel an antenna sprout from your forehead." Genetic 5
Mind Reader The affected person can look into the recent memories of others.

They can read the minds of others. This will reveal the name of the target and some snippets of what the target has said in the past. Tin foil is known to block this power.

An antenna is visible on the user's head, and the read-ee may feel something strange enter their mind. "You hear distant voices at the corners of your mind." Antenna + Paranoia / Punished God sect 40
Spatial Instability The victim of the mutation has a very weak link to spatial reality, and may be displaced. Often causes extreme nausea. Subject randomly teleports a short distance away and has a tendency to increase the janitor's workload. "The space around you twists sickeningly." Genetic 10
Paranoia "Subject is easily terrified, and may suffer from hallucinations." Subject screams frequently "You feel screams echo through your mind..." Genetic
Gigantism The cells within the subject spread out to cover more area, making them appear larger.

Subjects show increased tackling abilities, both offensive and defensive. Mutually exclusive with Dwarfism

Subject is slightly larger than normal "Everything around you seems to shrink.." Genetic
Two Left Feet "A mutation that replaces the right foot with another left foot. Symptoms include kissing the floor when taking a step." Subject is randomly knocked down. "Your right foot feels... left." Genetic
Tongue Spike Allows a creature to voluntary shoot their tongue out as a deadly weapon.

The tongue does not grow back, and remains embedded in the target until removed.

Subject can shoot his tongue. "Your feel like you can throw your voice." Genetic 15
Stimmed The user's chemical balance is more robust. (Does nothing.) \ "You feel stimmed." Genetic
Chem Spike Allows a creature to voluntary shoot their tongue out as biomass, allowing a long range transfer of chemicals.

The tongue does not grow back, and remains embedded in the target until removed. As long as it is embedded, it allows you to transfer the chemical in your body into the target's, one single time. Much less harmful than Tongue Spike on its own.

Subject can shoot his tongue, and inject you with chemicals. "Your feel like you can really connect with people by throwing your voice." Tongue Spike + Stimmed 15
Webbing Production Allows the user to lay webbing, and travel through it.

Subject may grow psychologically attached to laying webs if used enough.

Subject lays webbing, or can move through some without being slowed down. "Your skin feels webby." Genetic 15
Internal Martyrdom "A mutation that makes the body destruct when near death. Not damaging to others, but very, VERY disorienting."

Harmful to witnesses' eyes. Paralyze silicons as well.

Subject explodes in a bloody shower when in deep crit. "You get an intense feeling of heartburn." Strong + Stimmed
H.A.R.S. A mutation that makes the body reject the head. Stands for Head Allergic Rejection Syndrome. Warning: Removing this mutation is very dangerous, though it will regenerate head organs. Subject loses their head, including eyes, ears, tongue etc. "Something feels off." Genetic
Acidic Flesh "Subject has acidic chemicals building up underneath the skin. This is often lethal."

Those buildups end up as acidic cutaneous eruptions, burning the subject. Acid-resistant clothes have been shown to protect the subject from those.

The subject's skin frequently bubbles and pops, burning the subject. "A horrible burning sensation envelops you as your flesh turns to acid." Genetic
Spastic "Subject suffers from muscle spasms."

Subject may unintentionnally hit nearby people and machinery, and harm themselves.

Subject frequently spasms. "You flinch." Genetic
Monkified "A strange genome, believing to be what differentiates monkeys from humans."

Transforms subject into a monkey. Innate mutation in humans and monkeys.

Subject frequently spasms. "You feel unusually monkey-like." Genetic
Autotomy "Allows a creature to voluntary discard a random appendage." Subject is able to discard its limbs without surgery. "Your joints feel loose." Genetic 30
Biotech Compatibility "Subject is more compatibile with biotechnology such as skillchips."

Increase the level of skillchip' complexity the subject can handle.

\ No message Genetic 5
Clever "Causes the subject to feel just a little bit smarter. Most effective in specimens with low levels of intelligence."

Allows some mobs, such as monkeys, to perform advanced actions like surgery, use computers and PDAs, and more.

\ "You feel a little bit smarter." Genetic 20
Stoner "A common mutation that severely decreases intelligence."

Grants the Beach Bum language, revokes all the others.

\ "You feel...totally chill, man!" Beach Bum respawn

Chaplain Religion exclusives[править | править код]

Mutations granted by some of the Chaplain's religions. Their instability is set at 0.

"Less of a genome and more of a forceful rewrite of genes. Nothing Nanotrasen supplies allows for a genetic restructure like this..."

Name Description Message
Honorbound "The user feels compelled to follow supposed "rules of combat" but in reality they physically are unable to. Their brain is rewired to excuse any curious inabilities that arise from this odd effect."

Disallows the subject to attack people unless they are attacked first.

"You feel honorbound!"
Burdened "The user feels compelled to injure themselves in various incapacitating and horrific ways. Oddly enough, this gene seems to be connected to several other ones, possibly ready to trigger more genetic changes in the future."

Grants Telepathy and Mute, then Telekinesis and Mind Reader as the subject becomes increasingly burdened through disabilities and debuffs (traumas, missing limbs and organs, addictions, mutations, ...).

"You feel burdened!"

Admin-spawn only mutations[править | править код]

Name Description Indicators Message Instability
X-Ray Vision "A strange genome that allows the user to see between the spaces of walls."

Basically it gives the subject the ability to see everything that is beyond their normal vision: walls, furniture, even other people! This, combined with Telekinesis, is a deadly combination. Essentially replaced by the X-Ray implant.

Subject's eyes "glow eerily" if looked at with a penlight. "The walls suddenly disappear." 35
Laser Eyes "Reflects concentrated light back from the eyes."

Enables to shoot laser beams (dmg 20).

[to confirm] Subject's eyes glow "You feel pressure building up behind your eyes."
Elvis Forces the language center and primary motor cortex of the subject's brain to talk and act like the King of Rock and Roll. A terrifying mutation named after its 'patient-zero'. "You feel pretty good, honeydoll."
Unstable DNA Makes the subject randomly mutate. Very dangerous. Definitely be careful with this one. Strange mutation that causes the holder to randomly mutate. "You feel strange."

Guide to finding and using mutations[править | править код]

This guide here shows you step by step how to find the powers from the mysterious blocks!

First Steps[править | править код]

This guide will start with using a monkey, because they're in the pen for a reason.

  • Start by taking a monkey from the pen.
  • Shove it into a DNA Scanner next to the pen, by click dragging.
  • Check the console next to it, you'll see a bunch of options. Find Genetic Sequencer.

All mutations are randomized every round.

Humanizing a Monkey[править | править код]

Always humanize your monkey first, or their powers wont work or be savable.

  1. You and your geneticist buddy automatically share the mutations you've discovered, so work together to discover them all. Saved mutations have to be manually shared between computers using DNA Data Disks.
  2. Click through the mutations and find Monkified. Then break a random pair by changing a letter to X with CTRL+Left Click.
  3. When you've done it, you'll see the name on the top has changed from "monkey" to a randomly generated name. Congratulations, you've got your very own monkey-person!
  4. If for any reason you got yourself some bad mutations and have no one to remove them, grab the mutadone pill bottle in your lab. You usually have several 50u pills available, which is overkill. Dissolve a pill by pouring a tiny amount of water into a beaker (by using the beaker on a sink once), then drop a pill of mutadone into it and take a sip. It should instantly clear all your mutations.
  5. Mutadone will also clear the monkified mutation from monkeys, instantly turning them human. Use a dropper set to 1u to squirt the dissolved mutadone into the eyes of monkeys to mass humanize them without needing any machinery. This will not make you "discover" the monkified mutation however.

Manifesting Mutations[править | править код]

Back to business! Now we'll try to make a mutation show itself to us:

  1. Find a mutation that has broken pairs.
  2. Start filling in the X's. This is fairly easy since most of them are connected to an A, T, C or G. So X-T would be A-T.
    • The left click increments from A to G (A>T>C>G>A) — the right click, the other way around.
  3. You will often find X-X pairs. Make sure the rest is fixed first and then guess it. There's 4 possibilities. AT, TA, GC and CG.
  4. If there's more than 2 double X-pairs, consider using the Genetic Scanner (as described above) by scanning the other monkeys, yourself, or random crew members, or the JOKER option when editing a letter, which finds the correct letter for you (on a very long cooldown—20 minutes on unupgraded scanners).
  5. If completing all pairs didn't work, you may have messed up somewhere. Double check. Also make sure they're not still a monkey. If all else fails, move on to another mutation or scramble their DNA.

Scramble DNA[править | править код]

Clicking the Scramble DNA button will blast the subject's DNA with damaging genetic pulses, and randomize which discoverable mutations it has. This also inflicts a large amount of genetic damage at once.

Файл:DNA Injector.png Activators and Mutators[править | править код]

After manifesting a mutation in the Genetic Sequencer tab, hit store to save it to the "Storage - Mutations" tab. You can print activators and mutators from both the Sequencer and the Storage - Mutations tab.

  • Activators: An activator will permanently activate specific mutation in a person who already has mutation dormant as shown with a Genetic Sequence Scanner . For example, since all humans have the monkified mutation dormant in them, a monkified activator will always work on humans. Using an activator will not increase genetic instability. Used activators can be recycled into the DNA scanner access console to produce chromosomes.
  • Mutators: A mutator will manifest a mutation in a person, regardless of if that person has that mutation dormant or not. This will inflict the mutation's instability (causes several bad effects if it reaches 100%). The mutation and its instability may then be removed by taking Mutadone.


The DNA Scanner Access Console takes time to recharge after producing an activator or mutators. Activators have a much shorter cooldown.

Файл:DNA Injector.png Advanced Injectors[править | править код]

This is the "Adv. Injectors" tab.

After discovering one or more mutations, you have the option to create advanced injectors. Advanced injectors will let you save multiple mutations in a single injector. The amount of mutations in a single "save" is limited to 50 instability or 10 mutations. Unlike activators or ordinary mutators, these can be named anything you want. To create an advanced injector, do the following:

  1. Go to either the "Storage - Adv. Injectors" tab. Click "Create new injector" and choose a name to crate a new slot for mutations to be stored in.
  2. Go to the Sequencer tab or the "Storage - Mutations" tab and click on a stored or discovered and active mutation.
  3. Click "Add to advanced injector". Select the name of the slot you made in step 1. Repeat with any other mutations you wish to save to the same advanced injector.
  4. Go back to the "Adv. Injectors". Click Print. You will print an injector with named "Advanced (name) injector".

Genetic Instability[править | править код]

When you manifest a power, you may get a message like "It feels like your skin is moving." This is telling you that your genetic instability has gotten higher, and you'll need to be careful not to add too many more powers. All humans can withstand up to 99 genetic instability before they start to bubble and melt. 100 instability would be too much. What happens when you suffer from a genetic breakdown is random and unpredictable, and draws from one of two lists of effects, ranging from 'Mostly Harmless' to 'Dead and Unrevivable'. Negative mutations generally don't give you instability, but powers do. As a rule of thumb, the stronger the power, the more instability it gives. Choose your powers wisely.

Chromosome 21[править | править код]

Every time you successfully use an ACTIVATOR on another person, the activator becomes filled with genetic data. Recycle/use it on your DNA console for a 60% chance to gain a random chromosome. The chromosome gets stored in the "Storage - Chromosomes" tab. Clicking on a chromosome gives you information about it. You can also eject it into its physical form. Physical chromosomes can only be used by inserting them into a DNA console.

Each active mutation in a person has a single chromosome slot. You can only add chromosomes to people who are inside the connected DNA scanner. Do so by opening the Sequencer tab. Then click an activated mutation, or find one if none is active yet. You should see the line Select a chromosome followed by a list of chromosomes that mutation would be compatible with. Select a chromosome in the dropdown menu and you have now filled that mutation's chromosome slot. To delete the chromosome from a mutation you need to deactivate and reactivate the mutation by changing any letter and then back.

After you have added a chromosome to a mutation, you can store it to the Storage - mutations tab as normal (by clicking Save to console in the Sequencer tab). Mutations from mutators/activators printed from this stored entry will then contain that chromosome. The stored entry will retain its applied chromosome if saved to a Genetics data disk and transferred to a different DNA Scanner console.

These are the currently available chromosomes you can get (the chance for a chromosome to be of a specific type is listed next to that type in parenthesis):

  • Synchronizer (5/16): Gives the mind more control over the mutation, reducing some downsides by 50%.
  • Stabilizer (1/16): The rarest chromosome. Reduces instability gained from the mutation by 20%.
  • Power (5/16): Boosts strength of certain mutations. Experiment with super sneeze or even deadlier fireballs!
  • Energetic (5/16): Reduces cooldown on action based mutations.
  • Reinforcement (3/19): Makes the mutation immune to mutadone. Removed Aug 2020.

Chromosomes aren't supposed to be addable to mutations that won't benefit from them. For example, you can't use the energetic chromosome on the monkey mutation.

What to do with your powers[править | править код]

  • Export your best powers to a disk, as a backup. There's always the risk of an AI or someone else deleting them for any reason.
  • Make injectors to give to the greytide the heads of staff, the security, or the Engineers. You can also sell them for money!
  • Because injectors exist, geneticists may often be asked for powers by randoms. Use your best judgement to decide who gets powers and not, because nothing gets the station down like a herd of assistants with Hulk. Be ready to say "no" a lot. You are allowed to have powers, but if you run around the station while being a hulk don't go on a killing/destroying rampage as that's a bannable offense.
  • Enjoy being the peak of human evolution! Use your powers for the greater good, or to make security's life hell by breaking down walls to high security areas and by being unstunnable. Remember that hulks are nonhuman to the AI, though, and when security can't stun someone they'll take out their lethals.

Healing your subjects and yourself[править | править код]

During your experiments, your subjects are likely to get hurt, whether from banging their heads on the tube, or negative mutations—most notably H.A.R.S. and Radioactive. If unlucky, you may also be hurt. For that, there are several solutions:

  • The Roboticist can build medibots. The white ones will heal blunt damage, but there also are the green and yellow versions, able to heal tox/rads and burn damage, respectively.
  • The Chemists can provide you specific medicines, including Potassium Iodide for radiations (and toxins in irradiated carbons), Pentetic Acid for toxins and rads, and several others for burns, brute, or whatever else you may need.

Beware that Radioactive subjects may irradiate you and nearby items, so quickly remove that mutation once found.


CRISPR Editing[править | править код]

This allows you to swap out base mutations in a targeted way. Base mutations don't suffer from instability

Getting a CRISPR Charge[править | править код]

First, you'll need to collect a CRISPR charge. This is a sample of a virus with genetic abilities you can use to swap out base mutations.

  • Get the Viro to make a virus with either Dormant DNA Activator or Viral Evolutionary Acceleration (Ideally otherwise benign)
  • Have a containment protocol, get yourself scanned for diseases if you get symptoms, hope the cure is available if things go south
  • Infect a contained monkey, use an Activator (not a Mutator) on it - it collects the charge when it collects chromosomes
  • Feed the used activator to the console to add the charge to the console


Using a CRISPR Charge[править | править код]

You'll need the top row of the sequence pairs of both the mutation you want to target and the mutation you want to replace it with. Here's the basic flow:

  • Solve the mutation you want or just use a mutator on a humanized monkey
  • Take note of the top row
  • On the subject you want to swap mutations on, solve the mutation you want to swap
  • Use a CRISPR charge on it
  • Feed in a special CRISPR string instructing the virus to replace that mutation with the desired mutation
Building the CRISPR String[править | править код]

For example, let's say Epilepsy is

  • A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G
  • T A A T G C G C T A A T G C G C

And Telekinesis is

  • A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G
  • T A T A G G C C T A A T G G C C

Take note of the first row of both

  • Epilepsy is A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G
  • Telekinesis is A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G

You then need to weave these rows together, old-new-old-new-old-new like this:

  • _A T A T C C G G A T T A C C G G :NEW (Telekinesis)
  • AATTTAATCCGCCGGGAATTTTAACCGCCGGG :CRISPR String
  • A T T A C G C G A T T A C G C G_ :OLD (Epilepsy)

Now, when you use CRISPR on the solved base mutation you intend to swap, feed in that string! It swaps Epilepsy out for Telekinesis.

  • AATTTAATCCGCCGGGAATTTTAACCGCCGGG

If your string is not the right length, nothing happens, but if the string is wrong, you may end up with Acid Flesh instead, but scrambled and with no guides - hope you've got activators! Careful not to be wrong multiple times, lest you overwrite multiple mutations to the same one and need to shuffle to get them back.

Also, the CRISPR charge, being a repurposed virus, might sometimes go rogue and infect you randomly.



Congratulations. If you read everything in this guide, you should now be a full-fledged Geneticist.

DNA Infusion[править | править код]

Just settling with regular-old mutations not enough? Feel a need to TRANSCEND your human form? Maybe a little too into those weird Japanese cartoons? The brand new DNA infuser located genetics lets you become part BEAST, through... science! All you have to do is stick a corpse of a viable (or not) animal in and a live test subject, and the machine will destroy the corpse to replace one of the test subject's organs with a brand new mutant set. Enough mutant organs from the same type will make you a proper mutant of that type, possibly changing your species or conveying other positive or negative effects!

Mutant Type Animals with Matching DNA Possible Mutant Organs Organs Required for Set Bonus Set Bonus
Rejected Any not listed here Fly eyes, proboscis, fly heart, fly lungs,fly liver, fly stomach, fly appendix. 4 Turns you into a fully fledged flyperson, like you can become from messing up teleportation. Why the hell would you want to do this?
Carp Space carp Carp lungs (Let you breathe in space but NOT on station),

Carp jaws (Stronger bites and can drop carp teeth, but can't wear anything in mask slot),

Carp brain (On a timer, gives you a negative moodlet advising you to 'go exploring', IE travel to a different Z-level),

Carp heart.

4 Allows you to move freely through space, like a carp can!
Rat Rodents Rat eyes (light sensitive but have night vision),

rat stomach, rat heart, rat tongue.

4 Gain the ability to crawl through station ventilation, as long as your clothes don't get in the way.
Goliath Goliaths Goliath eyes (night vision),

goliath lungs (lets you breathe on lavaland but NOT on station),

goliath brain (no gloves but one of your arms becomes a

tendril hammer),

goliath heart (makes you immune to ash storms.)

4 Makes you immune to lava.
Cat Cat Cat ears, cat tail. N/A You're part cat now, just like in those cartoons with those girls you like so much.
Fox Fox Fox ears. N/A You have fox ears, just like that girl on that poster you keep on your wall.

Файл:Scanner.gifФайл:Medcom.gifФайл:Clone.gif Cloning[править | править код]

Cloning was removed from the game in Jan, 2020. This is only for historical reference.

Expand for the old guide to cloning.

For a cloning process we need a dead body and cloning equipment, which can be found in your Cloning Room.

  1. First of all, you have to know that for all things cloning, the Chief Medical Officer has a final say. He is your boss on this side of Genetics. If he tells you to clone someone and not some other guy, you do it. The only person with higher say than him on these matters is the Captain.
  2. On to the specifics! How to clone: Just grab or pull a body and stuff it into the DNA Scanner and close the door. If you want to remove someone from a Scanner, click on it to open the door. Unless the Scanner is locked, the person/monkey inside is going to pop right out.
    This is the cloning console menu.
  3. When the Scanner is occupied, interact with the Cloning Console. You will see a few options. The most important one is "scan". Click it. If they can be cloned, scanning will succeed regardless of whether they're in their body or not. There are several possible errors that can happen when you try to scan. See the section about cloning errors for details.
  4. If scanning is successful, you will get a Successful Scan -message. That means you now have that person's cloning data saved. You can use this record to steal their genetic data at any time, but cloning is more limited - if their last death happened after they got scanned, any attempts to clone using the scanned record will fail.
    This is what you see after clicking "View Records".
  5. After you actually have DNA data from a person, click Check Records, and then click View Record of the person who you want to clone. You will see a list of their UI(Unique Identifiers) and their SEs (Structural Enzymes). These can be copied and pasted with a cloning data disk (see one of the images to the right). Click Clone. You will notice that the Cloning Pod is now fully active, with a shadow inside. That is the new body. You can now take the old corpse out of the DNA Scanner, strip it completely so the cloned person can have their stuff back, and place the old corpse inside a body bag in the morgue. You don't have to worry about the old corpse anymore.
    This is what can you see after clicking a specific "View Record" under "View Records". If you have an ID with cloning access you can delete a record. Otherwise it will say "access denied" when trying to delete it. If you have inserted a "cloning data disk" you have additional options to save or load UE, UI and SE (dormant mutations) to and from that disk.
  6. The cloning process takes about 2 or 3 minutes depending on upgrades. For whoever is getting cloned, it may feel like a very long time. While the person is getting their new body formed, take their belongings and stuff them all into a locker, so they're not scattered all over or stolen. Cloning the captain and leaving their ID or other secure items on the floor is bad.
    • Aborted cloning: Use this as traitor to screw with that assistant who talked smack to you earlier. During the cloning process, it is possible to eject the incomplete clone by unlocking the Cloning Pod with your ID and ejecting the unfinished clone (needs to be >40% done) or by getting an Engineer to unlock the Genetics APC so you can shut off the power temporarily, which also causes the clone to (instantly, no matter how done) eject. This will usually clone people without limbs or vital organs, making them die quickly.
  7. The cloned people often have cellular damage. If so, take them to cryo to fix it.
  8. After the pod is empty, feel free to clone your next patient, and to let the old one out, since they most likely don't have clearance to open the door.
  9. If R&D has been doing their job, they might upgrade the cloner to a level where it can autoprocess. If this is the case, you only have to press the Autoprocess button on top of the window, and the cloner will scan and clone automatically. This is useful to process a large pile of bodies quickly. Scan them one at a time, and autoprocess will do the rest.

OH GOD OH FUCK Hark! A Husk![править | править код]

So you've come across a husk (a grey corpse) on your floor, which means you can't clone that poor sod without upgrades. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped!

  1. First off, make sure it's a husk. Throw the body into a DNA Scanner, if it says Subject no longer contains the fundamental materials required to create a living clone, then you have yourself a husk (if your DNA Scanner had been updated to the max by the Scientists, you could clone the husk right now. So if you know they've been doing their R&D, ask them).
  2. Take the body down to Surgery.
  3. Pester the CMO or a Medical Doctor to extract the brain, or do it yourself.
  4. Put the brain in the DNA scanner like you would a body.

Optionally a husk can be unhusked with rezadone. If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn.

Changeling Victims[править | править код]

If examining the husk shows "He/she is limp and unresponsive; there are no signs of life... " it means the body has a soul online. If the corpse still can't be scanned in fully upgraded cloning, it's possible it was someone who got absorbed by a changeling. There appears to be no easy way to revive absorbed victims. Not even through brain transplants.

Helping the Headless[править | править код]

Sometimes you'll find a corpse whose head is separated from their body. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, this is not a problem!

  1. If you have a head or a brain, just chuck it into the cloner as normal. This may require the DNA scanner to be upgraded though. To clone a head or brain you must throw it into the DNA Scanner by activating throw with R and then clicking it, or by walking into the DNA scanner and dropping the head/brain. Then click the cloner to close it.
  2. If you don't have the head, but you have the body, not all hope is lost: take a blood sample and give it to the botanist to make a replica pod, and the deceased guy will be reborn as a podperson!
  3. If you have neither, he's dead for good.

Cloning Plasmamen[править | править код]

If the patient is a plasmaman, cloning them will be complicated by the fact that the naked patient will burn in the station's atmosphere. This can be dealt with by using showers to keep the patient from catching fire, then dressing them in a plasma envirosuit.

  1. Put plasmaman into cloning scanner
  2. Scan them, start the cloning process
  3. Drag their dead body to cloning pod
  4. Undress them and leave their clothes in a pile
  5. Turn on shower near cloning pod
  6. Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and wait for them to dress up

If the patient is a naked or beheaded plasmaman, follow these additional steps:

  1. Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and feed them a few Salbutamol pills (if available), or if desperate, keep a syringe of Perfluorodecalin ready in case you need it. Plasmamen suffocate if they don't have plasma to breathe!
  2. Yell at cargo to order plasmaman supplies. In the meantime, bug Engineering/Atmos for a filled plasma tank.

Empty Cloning[править | править код]

Cloners have the option to "Empty Clone" a record, creating a mindless replica of a person. To complement this function, cloners can do Body-Only scans, which can only be used to create empty clones but not real clones, and bypass the sentience restrictions that ordinary scans have. These body-only entries can be deleted without requiring access.

Cloning Errors[править | править код]

Error message Cause Solution
Unable to locate valid genetic data. Whatever you put inside the scanner doesn't have valid (humanoid) DNA. Stop putting bees in the scanner.
Subject's brain is not responding to scanning stimuli. The person inside has suicided or signed an infernal contract. Cloning is impossible. Let the Cook take care of them or put the body in the morgue.
Subject no longer contains the fundamental materials required to create a living clone. You're trying to scan a body that's been husked or smashed by megafauna, but your scanner doesn't have a (tri-)phasic scanning module. Remove the brain and scan it. Yell at RnD to upgrade your scanner.
Mental interface failure. The corpse has no ghost associated with it. Try again in a few seconds - ghosts get notified when someone attempts to scan their body. No success? Let the Cook handle it.
Subject already in database. That person has already been scanned. Start the cloning process. Want to update the current clone scan? The CMO can delete scan files.
Initialisation failure. The patient is still alive. Try again when the patient is dead.
Unable to initiate cloning cycle. Cloning has been disabled in the server config. Yell at admins and hand the corpse over to the Chef.
Corpse has no head. Some asshole decapitated your guy - clone scanning is impossible without a brain. Draw a blood sample and ask Botany to clone them with the Replica Pod plant. Can't draw blood either? Your patient is out of luck.

Keep in mind that patching up a corpse with Synthflesh and then reviving it with Strange Reagent bypasses a lot of these issues.

The Gene Genie - The Traitorous Geneticist[править | править код]

Sorry for the bad chapter title. I wanted to use that for a very long time.

So, you learned how to do your job successfully, and how to be a credit to the station. You learned how to manipulate genes. Now you want to learn what the hell to do when the syndicate is the one writing your checks! Well, fret not! I will give you some pointers. But these are mostly tips - traitorous objectives differ wildly, and change your actions way too much for me to write a real guide on it.

Revolutionary[править | править код]

If you managed to kill a head of staff, copy their identity with a DNA scanner and apply it to yourself. Impersonating a head of staff during a revolution is useful since they are usually exempt from implanting.

Traitor[править | править код]

Depends on your objective. If it's a hard one, like stealing the AI... well, you're fucked. Keep working on those powers! As soon as you have Hulk + TK, go for it as you wish. No tips here.

If your objective is a simple one, though, like stealing the hand tele, there are more approaches to this. As the above tip, you can just break the walls with TK Hulk, but that is rather crass. There's a more roundabout, but classier way to tackle this. Take a monkey from the pen, transform it in a human. Take its UI+UEs, make an injector, stuff it in your pocket with a label like "Clean Backup - Alexa White".
Now get your own UI+UEs and name it "Clean Backup - Original" or something. Avoid using your name. Now, go hide somewhere close to the item's location, stick yourself with the monkey injector, spawn doorjack, stick ID and PDA in your backpack. For added stealth, get a different outfit. doorjack your way to the captain's room, get his hand tele, RUN RUN RUN. The AI might see you, so it would also be good if you spawned an agent card so you can't be tracked. If anyone sees you, they're not going to see your actual name, only the humanized monkey's name. Hide, stick yourself with your own stuff, change clothes, walk away smoothly.

If you have to kill someone, same stuff from rev.

Also, never forget identity theft. Since you can take someone's complete identity, including looks, you can have some fun with that.

Changeling[править | править код]

You can DNA sting humanized monkeys to quickly gather stored genomes. Similarly, once people start coming for mutations, you will have plenty of DNA to collect.

Returning to Monke[править | править код]

If you're looking for combat or stealth bonuses, you may use Monkified to get the monkeys', as well as several useful mutations (e.g., Telekinesis, Shock Touch, Chameleon, Gigantism and Dwarfism). Monkeys have the ability to steal items from people's hands, ventcrawl, and several other benefits. The transformation is unexpensive and available extremely early in the round (unlike the Xenobiologist's slime transformation).

Alternatively, there are gorillas. Since the radiation modernization changes (Oct, 2021), you have a nearly-exclusive access to gorillas. You may transform monkeys into gorillas, including yourself, other crewmembers or antagonists.

Given their status as a simplemob, gorillas are immune to wounds and most chemicals—essentially the Hulk's weaknesses. They are additionally immune to stuns and shoves (like Hulks), viruses, and mutations. Unlike Hulks, they are unable to destroy reinforced walls.

  • Note that gorillas are thus also immune to the benefits of those, and to surgeries. Healing is going to be more complicated than for hulks, and someone may Lazarus their carcasses to assist against the other gorillas.

The gorilla AI is extremely hostile, keeping aggro until their target is dead, and have a tendency to delimb corpses people that are unconscious (incl. hard crit).

To transform a monkey into a gorilla, you have two options:

  • Genetic bombing: once above 2500 genetic damage, monkeys have a 25% chance per second to transform.
  • Mind-Magnification Helmets: when removing MM helmets, the sentient monkey has a slight chance (2.5%) to turn into an equally sentient gorilla.

Additionally, the Traitor geneticist's uplink offers Gorilla Cubes and an autoinjector turning them into a gorilla.