Radiation Sickness

Radiation Sickness is a disease caused by prolonged exposure to Radiation or Radioactive Contaminant, and comes in two stages.

For Regular Duplicants:

Severity	Rad threshold	Effect	Description
Minor Radiation Sickness	100 Rads	-20% Stamina/cycle -30% Bathroom use speed	A bit of Radiation exposure has made this Duplicant feel sluggish.
Major Radiation Sickness	300 Rads	- 4 Athletics -50% Stamina/cycle -30% Bathroom use speed Duplicant will vomit up to 5 times a cycle	Significant Radiation exposure has left this Duplicant totally exhausted.
Extreme Radiation Sickness	600 Rads	- 6 Athletics -75% Stamina/cycle -30% Bathroom use speed Duplicant will vomit up to 10 times a cycle	Dangerously high Radiation exposure is making this Duplicant wish they'd never been printed
	900 Rads		Extreme Radiation exposure has incapacitated this Duplicant

For Bionic Duplicants:

Severity	Rad threshold	Effect	Description
Minor Radiation Sickness	100 Rads	-1 Athletics	A bit of Radiation exposure has made this Duplicant feel sluggish.
Major Radiation Sickness	300 Rads	- 4 Athletics Duplicant will vomit up to 5 times a cycle	Significant Radiation exposure has left this Duplicant totally exhausted.
Extreme Radiation Sickness	600 Rads	- 6 Athletics Duplicant will vomit up to 10 times a cycle	Dangerously high Radiation exposure is making this Duplicant wish they'd never been printed
	900 Rads		Extreme Radiation exposure has incapacitated this Duplicant

A Duplicant suffering from major or extreme Radiation sickness will not go to minor or major Radiation Sickness if they fall under 300 absorbed Rads, but either severity of Radiation Sickness gets healed once the Absorbed Rad Dose in a Duplicant sinks below 100 rads.

Exploits:

• If a Duplicant emerges from an Escape Pod or Trialblazer Pod their absorbed rads (along with many other properties) will be reset. "Exploding rocket therapy" is an effective way to heal a duplicant with severe radiation sickness.
• Radiation sickness status is not saved, so saving and loading the game will recalculate a Duplicant's radiation sickness based on their absorbed rads dose, which can heal severe or major radiation sickness faster than waiting for it to drop all the way to 100 rads.

See also

• Basic Rad Pill
• Apothecary