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Diseases Restored

Restores diseases to their former glory, making sanitation an important part of a successful colony. Food poisoning is more of a nuisance and slimelung is lethal once more, and piping germy water into your main water reservoir is no longer a viable tactic.


Common

• Diseases tend to make dupes stressed
  
• A brand-new Germ Integration system makes dupes that get exposed to more germs more likely to get sick. A dozen Food Poisoning germs aren't going to hurt, but exposure to a couple thousand is definitely going to get Liam sick.
  
• Some diseases now have Symptoms, cured by different methods. Check the table in the preview!

Food poisoning

• Causes new Symptom "Vomiting"
  
• Bathroom use speed greatly decreased (20% -> 100%)
  
• Curative Tablet increases recovery speed by 500% instead of instantly curing

Food poisoning symptom: Vomiting

• Dupe vomits germy Polluted Water every 120s
  
• Loses 500 kcal every vomit
  
• -50% stamina per cycle
  
• Cured with a Curative Tablet

Slimelung

• Now causes Symptom "Lethal"
  
• Now causes Symptom "Coughing", instead of directly causing coughing
  
• Lasts 6 cycles (up from 4)
  
• Medical Pack increases recovery speed by 200% instead of instantly curing

Slimelung symptom: Lethal

• Dupe dies after 6 cycles
  
• Cured with Medical Pack

Slimelung symptom: Coughing

• Coughing every 20s that spreads Slimelung germs
  
• Cured with Curative Tablet

Scalding: The hotter it is, the more it hurts! (+ 1 damage per second per 5 C, meaning lava is liable to instantly incapitate a dupe that ventures into it)

Frostbite: A cold equivalent to Scalding! Don't touch anything that's too cold (under -20 C) or you'll take similar damage to scalding-hot things.

Farming: Feed plants germy water, get germy crops. One more reason not to feed sieved bathroom water into your coveted Bristle Berry farm. (The other reason being that it's gross.)

Plumbing: Dupes that wash their hands with germy water in Sinks or Showers will get some of the germs on them. Make sure to wash with clean water.

Zombie Spores: These hardy spores can spread through solids, though they still slowly die off in them. That tile of Igneous Rock isn't going to keep you safe from the wrath of the Sporechids.

Rather than being forced to rely on chlorine for degerming, you can now use the UV Cleaner! Unlocked with Pathogen Diagnostics and built with some Refined Metal, these handy machines consume 480 W of power to purify 95% of the germs from the water fed to it, 5 kg at a time. Keep your dupes away from it, though, because wandering near a UV Cleaner in motion is going to give them a bad case of Sunburn, which is no fun.


Make sure to check out the other Reimagination Series mods if you want to freshen up the game, or give yourself extra challenge, or just plain want things to make more sense. Decor Reimagined gives dupes the ability to appreciate variety in decor, rather than being satisfied with a dozen identical statues in a row. Traits Reworked makes the "bad traits" have their own redeeming factors, and makes the so-called good traits have some not-so-nice aspects.


Diseases Restored is the product of over a month of intense collaboration between myself, Peter Han, and Annie. This mod could not have been made without all of us, and I like to think that the passion we put into this mod shows. Annie's all-custom UV Cleaner art is a fantastic, Klei-like addition to the game, too.

2025-08-09 v1.13.0: Updated by Peter to fix a Bionic crash
2024-12-06 v1.12.0: Updated by Peter for November QOL
2024-09-20 v1.9.2: Updated for Frosty Planet Pack.
2024-03-16 v1.9.1: Fixed for 2024 Feb update. Changes contributed by llunak.
2023-10-04 v1.9.0: Recompiled for QoL patch.
2022-12-22 v1.8.0: Thanks to Peter, updated for Hot Shots.
2022-11-17 v1.7.0: Update PLib, update for Sweet Dreams via Peter
2022-03-22 v1.6.0: Update PLib, Klei API.
2022-03-21 v1.5.1: Allow for compatibility with other diseases
2020-03-09 v1.4.0: Works for Banhi's Automation Update.
2020-02-25 v1.3.0: Update to Net 4.0 & most recent PLib (3.2). Possibly fixed sub-diseases being re-added on save load.
2020-02-03 v1.2.2: Fix transpiler crashes on new patch.
2019-11-21 v1.2.1: Attempt to address slimelung not killing dupes as it rightfully should.
2019-11-17 v1.2.0: Fix vomiting not being cured sometimes. Fix Ugly Crier triggering frostbite.
2019-11-16 v1.1.1: Fix missing strings in Research screen. UV Cleaner only sunburns while active.


If you encounter any issues with the mod, please open an issue on the Github repository[github.com]. I do not guarantee that I will act on any reports made through Steam Comments. If you do not provide steps to reproducing the issue, the issue will likely not be acted on.