Guide to genetics

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The Department

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.

DNA Modification

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

• 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.
  

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

• 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

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

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.

List of Mutations

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.	\	"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 combust, 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 shocking 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
Autonomy	Allows a creature to voluntarily discard a random limb, to help it escape from predators.	\	"Your joints feel loose."	Genetic	30
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

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

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

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

First Steps

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

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 togheter to discover them all.
2. Click through the mutations and find Monkified. Then break a random pair by changing a letter to X.
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

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 crewmembers, 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

Clicking the Scramble DNA button will blast the subject's DNA with damaging genetic pulses, and randomize which discoverable mutations it has.

Activators and Mutators

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 death 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. The activator has a much shorter cooldown.

Advanced Injectors

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

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. 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

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

• 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 cover knives), Carp brain, 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.

Cloning

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.