List of mutations
Below follows a list of mutations, for a more advanced enquiry about mutations click here
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Once a mutation is selected, you will begin to mutate towards it. If any mutations you currently have conflict with this mutation, then one of the conflicting mutations is randomly removed. If you have no conflicting mutations, but don't have any of the prerequisites, you will begin to mutate towards a random prerequisite. If you already have a prerequisite mutation and no conflicting mutations, you gain the selected mutation immediately.
Starting traits are underlined. However, initial traits do not increase respective categories strength, unless you gain them later via actual mutation! On the upside, this does mean that you can take Robust Genetics without placing yourself into the rather undesirable slime category.
Basic traits
Starting traits can sometimes be gained (or rarely lost) through mutation; if you gain one via mutation, you can lose it as normal. If you start with one of them, Purifier will attempt to set you back to it should it be changed.
As with all mutations, they can jump out as part of your evolution to a further mutation (if this further mutation is rolled too early and cannot be gained by itself), or as part of mutation category-enforcement.
Please see the Traits page for a full list.
Mutation-only traits
In addition to a points value, mutations have a visibility value and an ugliness value. Positive visibility means that the mutation is prominent. This will visibly identify the player as a mutant, resulting in discrimination from mutant-haters and trust with mutants/mutant-lovers. Positive ugliness means that the mutation is grotesque. This will result in a negative reaction from NPCs, even those who are themselves mutated, unless the NPC is a mutant-lover.
"Good" mutations
Changes to: Scales, Feathers, Lightly Furred, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your skin is slightly rough. This has no gameplay effect." |
Requires: Night Vision Cancels: Fey Vision, Fey Nightsight, Feline Vision Changes to: Full Night Vision Point cost: 3 |
"You can see incredibly well in the dark!" |
+4 squares to sight radius in darkness.
Requires: High Night Vision Cancels: Fey Vision, Fey Nightsight, Feline Vision Leads to: Infrared Vision Point cost: 5 |
"You can see in pitch blackness as if you were wearing night-vision goggles." |
Allows reading and crafting without any source of light.
Requires: Elf-a mutagen only Cancels: Reptilian Eyes, Feline Eyes Leads to: Fey Vision Point cost: 1 |
"Your eyes have turned...green. It's tough to tell the exact shade as it seems to shift. The effect is ...pleasant." |
Mostly cosmetic but provides a small bonus to most social encounters.
Requires: Fey Eyes Cancels: Reptilian IR, Feline Vision, High Night Vision, Full Night Vision Changes to: Fey Nightsight Point cost: 3 |
"The shadows don't seem as dark now." |
Substantially similar to High Night Vision.
Requires: Fey Nightsight Cancels: Reptilian IR, Feline Vision, High Night Vision, Full Night Vision Point cost: 5 |
"You can see clearly, even in the darkest caves and under moonless skies." |
Allows reading and crafting without any source of light.
Cancels: Reptilian Eyes, Fey Eyes Leads to: Feline Vision Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your eyes have mutated, now having a slitted pupil and glittering in light, much like those of cats. This is visually striking, but it isn't helping you see at night." |
Requires: Feline Eyes Cancels: Reptilian IR, Fey Vision, Fey Nightsight, High Night Vision, Full Night Vision Point cost: 4 |
"Your optic nerves and brain caught up with your eyes. Now you can see pretty well at night." |
Cancels: Reptilian Eyes, Fey Eyes, Feline Vision Leads to: Avian Eyes Point cost: 5 / Visibility: 1 |
"Your vision has become particularly acute: you suspect you could pick out zombies much farther away. Perception +4." |
Requires: Infrared Vision Cancels: Fey Nightsight Point cost: 5 |
"Your eyes have mutated to pick up radiation in the infrared spectrum." |
Cancels: Feline Eyes, Fey Eyes Leads to: Reptilian IR Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your eyes have mutated, with a brilliant iris and slitted pupil similar to that of a lizard. This is visually striking, but doesn't seem to affect your vision." |
Requires: Reptilian Eyes Cancels: Feline Vision, Fey Vision, Fey Nightsight, Infrared Vision Point cost: 5 |
"Your optic nerves and brain have mutated to catch up with your eyes, allowing you to see in the infrared spectrum." |
Requires: Fast Healer Cancels: Weakening, Deterioration, Disintegration Changes to: Regeneration Point cost: 5 |
"Your flesh regenerates slowly, and you will regain HP even when not sleeping." |
Every 30 minutes, there's a 20% chance you'll heal 1 hit point in each wounded area.
Requires: Very Fast Healer Cancels: Weakening, Deterioration, Disintegration Point cost: 10 |
"Your flesh regenerates from wounds incredibly quickly." |
Every 30 minutes , there's a 50% chance you'll heal 1 hit point in each wounded area.
Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak Changes to: Saber Teeth Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your teeth have grown into two-inch-long fangs, allowing you to make an extra attack when conditions favor it." |
Requires: Bulging Eyes Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a second set of clear eyelids which lower while underwater, allowing you to see as though you were wearing goggles." |
Point cost: 3 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You've grown a set of gills in your neck, allowing you to breathe underwater." |
Requires: Rough Skin Changes to: Thick Scales, Sleek Scales Point cost: 6 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"A set of flexible green scales have grown to cover your body, acting as a natural armor." |
+2 to cut protection.
Requires: Scales Cancels: Sleek Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm, Furry, Sleek Fur, Grey Fur, Shaggy Fur Point cost: 6 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 4 |
"A set of heavy green scales have grown to cover your body, acting as a natural armor. It is very difficult to penetrate, but also limits your flexibility, resulting in a -2 penalty to Dexterity." |
+4 to cut protection.
Requires: Scales Cancels: Thick Scales, Feathers Point cost: 8 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 4 |
"A set of very flexible and slick scales have grown to cover your body. These act as a weak set of armor, improve your ability to swim, and make you difficult to grab." |
It gives additional 100 moving points while swimming. +1 to cut protection.
Changes to: Hollow Bones Point cost: 2 |
"Your bones are very light. This enables you to run and attack 10% faster, but also reduces your carrying weight by 20% and makes bashing attacks hurt a little more." |
It increases bashing damage you receive by 40%.
Requires: Rough Skin Cancels: Thick Scales, Sleek Scales Changes to: Down Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Iridescent feathers have grown to cover your entire body, providing a marginal protection against attacks and minor protection from cold. They also provide a natural waterproofing." |
It reduces bashing damage by 1 and protects you from getting Drenched in the rain, preventing morale loss.
Requires: Rough Skin Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm Changes to: Furry, Sleek Fur, Grey Fur Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Light fur has grown to coveryour entire body, providing slight protection from cold." |
Currently provides a noticeable temperature boost; roughly half that of Furry.
Requires: Lightly Furred Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm, Sleek Fur, Grey Fur Changes to: Shaggy Fur Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Thick black fur has grown to cover your entire body, providing a marginal protection against attacks, and considerable protection from cold." |
+1 to bash protection. It reduces bashing damage by 1.
Requires: Lightly Furred Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm, Sleek Fur, Grey Fur Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your thick fur has grown out, providing noticeable protection from attacks in addition to its considerable insulation." |
Requires: Lightly Furred Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm, Sleek Fur, Furry Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Dense grey fur has grown to cover your entire body, providing a marginal protection against attacks, and considerable protection from cold." |
Requires: Lightly Furred Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Chitinous Skin, Phelloderm, Furry, Grey Fur Leads to: Lynx Fur Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You've grown sleek brown fur, providing some protection from cold." |
Requires: Sleek Fur Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your fur's grown out significantly around your cheeks and neck. It provides minor protection against attacks." |
Cancels: Scales, Feathers, Lightly Furred, Phelloderm Changes to: Chitinous Armor Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your epidermis has turned into a thin, flexible layer of chitin. It provides minor protection from cutting wounds." |
+2 to bash & cut protection. It reduces cutting damage by 2.
Requires: Chitinous Skin Changes to: Chitinous Plate Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You've grown a chitin exoskeleton, much like that of an insect. It provides considerable physical protection, but reduces your dexterity by 1." |
+4 to cut protection. It reduces bashing damage by 1 and cutting damage by 4.
Requires: Chitinous Armor Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 5 |
"You've grown a chitin exoskeleton made of thick, stiff plates, like that of a beetle. It provides excellent physical protection, but reduces your dexterity by 1 and encumbers all body parts but your eyes and mouth." |
+8 to cut protection. It reduces bashing damage by 2 and cutting damage by 8.
Changes to: Quills Point cost: 1 |
"Your skin is covered with fine spines. Whenever an unarmed opponent strikes a part of your body that is not covered by clothing, they will receive moderate damage." |
Requires: Spines Point cost: 3 |
"Your body is covered with large quills. Whenever an unarmed opponent strikes a part of your body that is not covered by clothing, they will receive significant damage." |
Cancels: Feathers, Lightly Furred, Furry, Chitinous Skin, Chitinous Armor, Chitinous Plate, Scales Changes to: Bark Leads to: Thorns, Leaves Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your skin is light green and has a slightly woody quality to it. This provides a weak armor, and helps you retain moisture, resulting in less thirst." |
Every five minutes of in-game time, thirst counter increments. This mutation adds 20% chance to not increment the counter, thereby reducing the amount you need to eat, as well as reduces bashing damage by 1.
Requires: Phelloderm Point cost: 5 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your skin is coated in a light bark, like that of a tree. This provides resistance to bashing and cutting damage and minor protection from fire." |
It reduces bashing damage by 2.
Requires: Bark Point cost: 6 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your skin is covered in small, woody thorns. Whenever an unarmed opponent strikes a part of your body that is not covered by clothing, they will receive minor damage. Your punches may also deal extra damage." |
Requires: Bark Point cost: 6 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 3 |
"All the hair on your body has turned to long, grass-like leaves. Apart from being physically striking, these provide you with a minor amount of nutrition while in sunlight." |
Changes to: Claws, Large Talons Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 1 |
"Your fingernails are long and sharp. If you aren't wearing gloves, your unarmed attacks deal a minor amount of cutting damage." |
Requires: Long Fingernails Changes to: Retractable ClawsCANCELS=Large Talons Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have claws on the ends of your fingers. If you aren't wearing gloves, your unarmed attacks deal a minor amount of cutting damage." |
Requires: Claws Cancels: Large Talons Point cost: 2 / Ugliness: 1 |
"You have claws on the ends of your fingers, and can retract them if desired. If you aren't wearing gloves, your unarmed attacks deal a minor amount of cutting damage." |
Requires: Long Fingernails Cancels: Claws, Retractable Claws Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your index fingers have grown into huge talons. After a bit of practice, you find that this does not affect your dexterity, but allows for a deadly unarmed attack. They also prevent you from wearing gloves." |
This mutation will destroy your currently equipped gloves
Point cost: 3 |
"Your system has adapted to radiation. While irradiated, you will actually heal slowly, converting the radiation into hit points." |
Every five minutes (50 turns), the character consumes ten points of body irradiation and heals all body parts by one point.
Requires: Very Smelly Cancels: Mammal Pheromones Point cost: 8 |
"Your body produces low-level pheromones, identifying you as a friend to many species of insects. Insects will attack you much less." |
Requires: Very Smelly Cancels: Insect Pheromones Point cost: 8 |
"Your body produces low-level pheromones which puts mammals at ease. They will be less likely to attack or flee from you." |
Requires: Disease Resistant Point cost: 6 |
"Your body is simply immune to diseases. You will never catch an ambient disease." |
Affects only common cold and flu diseases, and health condition can be ignored with it.
Requires: Disease Resistant, Infection Resistant Point cost: 4 |
"Your body is unusually inhospitable to parasitic lifeforms. You will never become infested with internal parasites." |
Requires: Poison Resistant Changes to: Venomous Leads to: Intestinal Fortitude Point cost: 8 |
"Your body produces a potent venom. Any special attacks from mutations have a chance to poison your target." |
Requires: Slimy Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 4 |
"The skin on your hands is a mucous membrane and produces a thick, acrid slime. Attacks using your hand will cause minor acid damage." |
Requires: Bulging Eyes Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 9 / Ugliness: 5 |
"Your eyes are compound, like those of an insect. This increases your perception by 2 so long as you aren't wearing eyewear." |
Cancels: Hooves, Leg Tentacles. Toe Talons Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 1 |
"The bottoms of your feet are strongly padded. You receive no movement penalty for not wearing shoes, and even receive a 10% bonus when running barefoot." |
Cancels: Hooves, Leg Tentacles, Padded Feet Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have grown large, curved, and wickedly sharp talons in place of your big toes. Fortunately, they don't get in the way of your walking. Unfortunately, they do prevent you from wearing footgear, which does cause some problems." |
This mutation will destroy your currently equipped footwear.
Cancels: Padded Feet, Leg Tentacles, Toe Talons Point cost: -4 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your feet have fused into hooves. This allows kicking attacks to do much more damage, provides natural armor, and removes the need to wear shoes; however, you can not wear shoes of any kind." |
It reduces cutting damage to feet by 1. This mutation will destroy your currently equipped footwear.
Requires: Carnivore Cancels: Herbivore, Ruminant Point cost: 4 |
"Your digestive system is specialized to allow you to consume decaying material. You can eat rotten food, albeit for less nutrition than usual." |
Character with this mutation will not gain food poisoning or lose 3 points of health from consuming spoiled food (though they'll still get poisoned by poisonous food and bad water), and will gain a varying amount of nutrition (from maximal to nothing).
Requires: Herbivore Cancels: Carnivore, Saprovore Changes to: Grazer Point cost: 5 |
"Your digestive system is capable of digesting cellulose and other rough plant material. You can eat underbrush by standing over it and pressing E." |
Requires: Head Bumps Cancels: Antennae Changes to: Curled Horns, Pointed Horns, Antlers Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 1 |
"You have a pair of small horns on your head. They allow you to make a weak piercing headbutt attack." |
Requires: Horns Cancels: Antennae, Pointed Horns, Antlers Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a pair of large curled horns, like those of a ram. They allow you to make a strong bashing headbutt attack, but prevent you from wearing any headwear." |
Requires: Horns Cancels: Antennae, Curled Horns, Antlers Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a pair of long, pointed horns, like those of an antelope. They allow you to make a strong piercing headbutt attack, but prevent you from wearing any headwear that is not made of fabric." |
Requires: Horns Cancels: Antennae, Curled Horns, Pointed Horns Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have a huge rack of antlers, like those of a moose. They prevent you from wearing headwear that is not made of fabric, but provide a weak headbutt attack." |
Requires: Head Bumps Cancels: Horns, Curled Horns, Pointed Horns, Antlers Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 9 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have a pair of antennae. They allow you to detect the presence of monsters up to a few tiles away, even if you can't see or hear them, but prevent you from wearing headwear that is not made of fabric." |
Characters with Antennae can always "see" every monster in three tile radius from them.
Requires: Fleet-Footed Cancels: Ponderous, Very Ponderous, Extremely Ponderous Point cost: 4 |
"Your legs are extremely limber and fast-moving. You run 30% faster on flat surfaces." |
Works on any ground with a movement cost of 100.
Changes to: Long Tail, Tail Fin, Rat Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a short, stubby tail, like a rabbit's. It serves no purpose." |
Requires: Stubby Tail Cancels: Long Tail, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail, Rat Tail, Cattle Tail Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a fin-like tail. It allows you to swim more quickly." |
It gives 100+strength*10 moving points while swimming.
Requires: Stubby Tail Cancels: Tail Fin Changes to: Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Rat Tail, Cattle Tail Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a long, graceful tail, like that of a big cat. It improves your balance, making your ability to dodge higher." |
+4 to dodge skill.
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Tail Fin, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail, Rat Tail Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a long tail with a tuft on the end. You find yourself instinctively swatting away flies with it, though it's not as effective at balancing you as you'd like." |
Requires: Long Tail, OR Stubby Tail Cancels: Tail Fin, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail, Cattle Tail Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have a long but hairless tail. It's a pretty effective balancing aid, but does look, uh, ratty." |
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Tail Fin, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Rat Tail, Raptor Tail, Cattle Tail Point cost: 3 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a long, thick, lizardlike tail. It helps you balance a bit but also makes a serviceable whip." |
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Tail Fin, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Rat Tail, Thick Tail, Cattle Tail Point cost: 3 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a long and semi-stiff lizardlike tail. You can't effectively lash it in combat, but it significantly improves your balance." |
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Spiked Tail, Club Tail, Tail Fin, Rat Tail, Thick Tail, Cattle Tail, Raptor Tail Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 7 |
"You have a long, fluffy-furred tail. It greatly improves your balance, making your ability to dodge much higher." |
+8 to dodge skill.
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Fluffy Tail, Club Tail, Tail Fin, Rat Tail, Thick Tail, Cattle Tail, Raptor Tail Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have a long tail that ends in a vicious stinger, like that of a scorpion. It does not improve your balance at all, but allows for a powerful piercing attack." |
Requires: Long Tail Cancels: Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Tail Fin, Rat Tail, Thick Tail, Cattle Tail, Raptor Tail Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a long tail that ends in a heavy, bony club. It does not improve your balance at all, but allows for a powerful bashing attack." |
Changes to: Quick Pain Recovery Point cost: 3 |
"You recover from pain slightly faster than normal." |
Requires: Pain Recovery Changes to: Very Quick Pain Recovery Point cost: 5 |
"You recover from pain faster than normal." |
Requires: Quick Pain Recovery Point cost: 8 |
"You recover from pain much faster than normal." |
Requires: Wing Stubs Cancels: Bat Wings, Insect Wings Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a pair of large, feathered wings. Your body is too heavy to be able to fly, but you can use them to slow your descent during a fall, and will not take falling damage under any circumstances." |
Requires: Wing Stubs Cancels: Bird Wings, Bat Wings Point cost: 3 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have a pair of large, translucent wings. You buzz them as you run, enabling you to run faster." |
+15 to movement points, that negates default penalty for being barefoot.
Requires: Mouth Flaps Cancels: Mandibles Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 5 |
"A set of tentacles surrounds your mouth. They allow you to eat twice as fast." |
Requires: Mouth Flaps Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Fangs, Reptilian Muzzle, Mouth Tentacles Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 6 |
"A set of insect-like mandibles have grown around your mouth. They allow you to eat faster and provide a slicing unarmed attack, but prevent you from wearing mouthwear." |
This mutation will destroy your currently equipped mouthgear.
Cancels: Feline Ears, Ursine Ears, Pointed Ears, Changes to: Lupine Ears Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your ears have extended into long, pointed ones, like those of a canine. They enhance your hearing, allowing you to hear at greater distances." |
Canine Ears increase volume of noises in 1.5 times.
Cancels: Feline Ears, Ursine Ears, Canine Ears, Pointed Ears, Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your hearing has evolved further and is now on par with wolves. You can hear things significantly farther away." |
Cancels: Lupine Ears, Ursine Ears, Canine Ears, Pointed Ears, Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 |
"Your ears have extended into long, pointed, velvety ones, like those of a feline. You find it easier to tune in on sounds from afar." |
Cancels: Feline Ears, Lupine Ears, Canine Ears, Pointed Ears, Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your ears have grown longer and rounder, much like those of a bear. You can hear things a little farther away." |
Cancels: Feline Ears, Ursine Ears, Canine Ears, Lupine Ears, Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your upper earlobes have grown noticeably higher. Fortunately, they don't get in the way of your headgear, much. Unfortunately, they also don't seem to help your hearing any." |
Leads to: Web Weaver Point cost: 3 |
"Your body excretes very fine amounts of a chemical which prevents you from sticking to webs. Walking through webs does not affect you at all." |
Requires: Web Walker Cancels: Slimy Changes to: Web Weaver Point cost: 3 |
"Your body excretes very fine amounts of a chemcial which prevents you from sticking to webs. Walking through webs does not affect you at all." |
Requires: Web Walker Cancels: Slimy Point cost: 3 |
"Your body produces webs. As you move, there is a chance that you will leave webs in your wake." |
Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 1 |
"You have a set of prominent rodent-like whiskers around your mouth. These make you more aware of vibrations in the air, and improve your ability to dodge very slightly." |
+1 to dodge skill
Requires: Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong, Changes to: Large, Freakishly Huge Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 1 |
"You have grown noticeably taller and broader. Much of it is useful muscle mass (Strength +2), but you find it throws off your balance and you get in your own way (+1 Torso and Arm Encumbrance)." |
Requires: Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong,Inconveniently Large, Large Changes to: Huge Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have grown even more massive, to the point where you cannot usefully fit into human-sized clothing or vehicles. Much of it is powerful muscle mass (Strength +4), but it's a real pain to haul around." |
Changes to: Very Strong Point cost: 1 |
"Your muscles are a little stronger. Strength + 1" |
Requires: Strong Changes to: Extremely Strong Point cost: 2 |
"Your muscles are stronger. Strength + 2" |
Requires: Very Strong Changes to: Insanely Strong Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 1 |
"Your muscles are much stronger. Strength + 4" |
Requires: Extremely Strong Point cost: 7 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2 |
""Your muscles are noticeably bulging. Strength + 7" |
Changes to: Very Dextrous Point cost: 1 |
"You are a little nimbler. Dexterity + 1" |
Requires: Dextrous Changes to: Extremely Dextrous Point cost: 2 |
"You are nimbler. Dexterity + 2" |
Requires: Very Dextrous Changes to: Insanely Dextrous Point cost: 3 |
"You are nimble and quick. Dexterity + 4" |
Requires: Extremely Dextrous Point cost: 4 |
"You are much nimbler than before. Dexterity + 7" |
Changes to: Very Smart Point cost: 1 |
"You are a little smarter. Intelligence + 1" |
Requires: Smart Changes to: Extremely Smart Point cost: 2 |
"You are smarter. Intelligence + 2" |
Requires: Very Smart Changes to: Insanely Smart Point cost: 3 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 1 |
"You are much smarter, and your skull bulges slightly. Intelligence + 4" |
Requires: Extremely Smart Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your skull bulges noticably with your impressive brain. Intelligence + 7" |
Changes to: Very Perceptive Point cost: 1 |
"Your senses are a little keener. Perception + 1" |
Requires: Perceptive Changes to: Extremely Perceptive Point cost: 2 |
"Your senses are keener. Perception + 2" |
Requires: Very Perceptive Changes to: Insanely Perceptive Point cost: 3 |
"Your senses are much keener. Perception + 4" |
Requires: Extremely Perceptive Point cost: 4 |
"You can sense things you never imagined. Perception + 7" |
"Bad" mutations
Not all of these are completely Bad, but most have more downs than ups.
Changes to: Horns, Antennae Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have a pair of bumps on your skull." |
Requires: Horns Cancels: Antennae, Curled Horns, Pointed Horns Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have a huge rack of antlers, like those of a moose. They prevent you from hearing headwear that is not made of fabric, but provide a weak headbutt attack." |
Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have a flattened nose and thin slits for nostrils, giving you a lizard-like appearance. This makes breathing slightly difficult and increases mouth encumbrance by 1." |
Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your tongue is forked, like that of a reptile. This has no effect." |
Changes to: Compound Eyes Leads to: Nictitating Membrane Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your eyes bulge out several inches from your skull. This does not affect your vision in any way." |
Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 6 |
"Skin tabs and odd flaps of skin surround your mouth. They don't affect your eating, but are unpleasant to look at." |
Changes to: Bird Wings, Bat Wings, Insect Wings Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2 |
"You have a pair of stubby little wings projecting from your shoulderblades. They can be wiggled at will, but are useless." |
Requires: Wing Stubs Cancels: Bird Wings, Insect Wings Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 9 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have a pair of large, leathery wings. You can move them a little, but they are useless, and in fact put you off balance, reducing your ability to dodge slightly." |
-3 to dodge skill.
Changes to: Albino Leads to: Light Sensitive Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 1 |
"Your skin is rather pale." |
Changes to: Sores Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 6 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your skin is covered in a pattern of red spots." |
Requires: Smelly Leads to: Insect Pheromones, Mammal Pheromones Point cost: -4 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 5 |
"You smell awful. Monsters that track scent will find you very easily, and humans will react poorly." |
It sets your scent to 1200 points (500 is normal).
Requires: Ugly Cancels: Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorious Changes to: Badly Deformed Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You're minorly deformed. Some people will react badly to your appearance." |
-4 to talk skill (-one and third level of speech skill)
Requires: Deformed Cancels: Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorious Changes to: Grotesque Point cost: -4 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 7 |
"You're hideously deformed. Some people will have a strong negative reaction to your appearance." |
-6 to talk skill (-two levels of speech skill), +3 to intimidation (like additional 1.5 of strength)
Requires: Badly Deformed Cancels: Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorious Point cost: -7 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 10 |
"Your visage is disgusting and liable to induce vomiting. People will not want to interact with you unless they have a very good reason to." |
Has no effect yet.
Changes to: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Bovine Snout, Lupine Muzzle, Ursine Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 3 |
"Your face and jaw have begun...changing. Masks and such fit OK, but you're noticeably mutated." |
Requires: Snout Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Lupine Muzzle, Ursine Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 6 |
"Your face resembles that of a bull, with a significant snout. It looks fearsome but prevents you from wearing mouthgear." |
Requires: Snout Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Bovine Snout, Ursine Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your jaw and nose have extended into a wolfish muzzle. It lends itself to biting in combat and looks impressive, but prevents you from wearing mouthgear." |
Requires: Snout Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Bovine Snout, Lupine Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your jaw and nose have extended into a bearish muzzle. You could bite with it, and it looks impressive, but it prevents you from wearing mouthgear." |
Requires: Snout Cancels: Beak, Hummingbird Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Proboscis, Bovine Snout, Lupine Muzzle, Ursine Muzzle, Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 8 |
"Your face and jaws are a shorter version of those found on alligators. They look NASTY-as do the bite wounds they can inflict-but prevent you from wearing mouthgear." |
Requires: Light Bones Point cost: -6 |
"You have Avian Bone Syndrome--your bones are nearly hollow. Your body is very light as a result, enabling you to run and attack 20% faster, but also frail; you can carry 40% less, and bashing attacks injure you more." |
It increases bashing damage by 80%.
Requires: Weak Stomach Changes to: Vomitous,Intestinal Fortitude Point cost: -3 |
"You feel nauseous almost constantly, and are more liable to throw up from food poisoning, alcohol, etc." |
Requires: Nausea Changes to: Intestinal Fortitude Point cost: -8 |
"You have a major digestive disorder, which causes you to vomit frequently." |
Cancels: Light Eater Changes to: Very Fast Metabolism Point cost: -2 |
"You require more food than most people." |
As of 0.9 Experimental: Hunger increases 50% faster.
Requires: Fast Metabolism Cancels: Light Eater Changes to: Extreme Metabolism Point cost: -3 |
"You find yourself hungry. A lot. You need about twice as much food as the average human." |
Requires: Very Fast Metabolism Cancels: Light Eater Point cost: -6 |
"You burn calories like gasoline-soaked tinder. You consume three times as much food as the average human." |
Changes to: Very Thirsty Point cost: -3 |
"Your body dries out easily; you need to drink a lot more water." |
As of 0.9 Experimental: Thirst increases 50% faster.
Requires: High Thirst Changes to: Extremely Thirsty Point cost: -4 |
"Ugh, out of water already? You need about twice the fluids of an average human." |
Requires: VVery Thirsty Point cost: -8 |
"You dry out seriously quickly, requiring three times as much liquid to stay hydrated." |
Requires: Heavy Sleeper Point cost: -3 |
"You could probably sleep through a firefight." |
Requires: Sleepy Point cost: -3 |
"You find yourself needing to sleep quite often. You'll spend about half your time in or around bed." |
Cancels: Fast Healer, Very Fast Healer, Regeneration Changes to: Deterioration Point cost: -6 |
"You feel as though you are slowly weakening, but it's so slight a feeling that it does not affect you at all." |
Requires: Weakening Cancels: Fast Healer, Very Fast Healer, Regeneration Changes to: Disintegration Point cost: -8 |
"Your body is very slowly wasting away." |
Every 30 minutes with 20% chance all body parts can be hurt by one hit-point.
Requires: Deterioration Cancels: Fast Healer, Very Fast Healer, Regeneration Point cost: -10 |
"Your body is slowly wasting away!" |
Every 30 minutes with 50% chance all body parts can be hurt by one hit-point.
Requires: Pale Skin Changes to: Solar Sensitivity Point cost: -2 |
"Your skin lacks pigment, and is nearly transparent. You suffer serious burns in direct sunlight." |
Requires: Albino, Very Light Sensitive, Troglobite Point cost: -3 |
"Your skin simply cannot handle ultraviolet radiation, such as sunlight. It will seriously burn you." |
Requires: Spots Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 6 |
"Your body is covered in painful sores. The pain is worse when they are covered in clothing." |
Cancels: Sunlight Dependent Changes to: Very Light Sensitive Point cost: -2 |
"Sunlight makes you uncomfortable. If you are outdoors and the weather is Sunny, you suffer -1 to all stats." |
Requires: Light Sensitive Cancels: Sunlight Dependent Changes to: Troglobite Point cost: -3 |
"Sunlight makes you very uncomfortable. If you are outdoors during the day, you suffer -1 to all stats; -2 if the weather is Sunny." |
Requires: Very Light Sensitive Cancels: Sunlight Dependent Point cost: -5 |
"Sunlight makes you extremely uncomfortable, resulting in large penalties to all stats." |
Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your hands and feet are heavily webbed, reducing your dexterity by 1 and preventing you from wearing gloves. However, you can swim much faster." |
It gives 60+strength*5 moving points while swimming.
Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your hands have fused into quasi-paws. Fine manipulation is a challenge: permanent hand encumbrance of 1, difficulty with delicate craftwork, and your gloves don't fit. But they handle water better." |
Cancels: Fangs, Mandibles Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 4 |
"You have a beak for a mouth. You can occasionally use it to peck at your enemies, but it is impossible for you to wear mouthgear." |
This mutation will destroy your currently equipped mouthgear.
Point cost: -4 |
"Your DNA has been damaged in a way that causes you to continually develop more mutations." |
Changes to: Radioactivity Point cost: -4 |
"Your body has become radioactive! You continuously emit low levels of radiation, some of which will be absorbed by you, and some of which will contaminate the world around you." |
Character with 2% chance pollutes current tile by one point for each turn. Effect stops when there is ten points of radiation.
Requires: Minor Radioactivity Changes to: Severe Radioactivity Point cost: -4 |
"Your body has become radioactive! You continuously emit moderate levels of radiation, some of which will be absorbed by you, and some of which will contaminate the world around you." |
Character with 4% chance pollutes current tile by one point for each turn. Effect stops when there is twenty points of radiation.
Requires: Radioactivity Point cost: -4 |
"Your body has become radioactive! You continuously emit heavy levels of radiation, some of which will be absorbed by you, and some of which will contaminate the world around you." |
Character with 10% chance pollutes current tile by one point for each turn. Effect stops when there is thirty points of radiation.
Changes to: Viscous Leads to: Slime Hands Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 6 |
"Your body is coated with a fine slime, which oozes off of you, leaving a trail." |
Cancels: Carnivore, Saprovore Leads to: Ruminant Point cost: -3 |
"Your body's ability to digest meat is severely hampered. Eating meat has a good chance of making you vomit it back up; even if you manage to keep it down, its nutritional value is greatly reduced." |
Not just meat - eggs will also trigger it. Some products made from eggs aren't actually made of eggs (for example broth) and can be safely eaten by herbivores. What matters is if the "Material" field contains flesh or eggs.
Even if you vomit it all up, you still get morale bonus from eating it. Note that vomiting removes what you recently ate (and drank) instead of just causing hunger.
Cancels: Herbivore, Ruminant Leads to: Saprovore Point cost: -3 |
"Your body's ability to digest fruits, vegetables and grains is severely hampered. You cannot eat anything besides meat." |
You can still eat products that contain both meat and plants (such as pizza), but you get only half the effects (nutrition, health etc.). This is explained as the character picking out the "edible" parts and discarding everything else.
Cancels: Fleet-Footed, Road-Runner Changes to: Very Ponderous Point cost: -3 |
"Your muscles are generally slow to move. You run 10% slower." |
Requires: Ponderous Cancels: Fleet-Footed, Road-Runner Changes to: Extremely Ponderous Point cost: -5 |
"Your muscles are quite slow to move. You run 20% slower." |
Requires: Very Ponderous Cancels: Fleet-Footed, Road-Runner Point cost: -8 |
"Your muscles are very slow to move. You run 30% slower." |
Cancels: Light Sensitive, Very Light Sensitive, Troglobite Point cost: -5 |
"You feel very sluggish when not in direct sunlight. You suffer a 5% drop in speed when in shade, and a 10% drop in speed when in the dark." |
Changes to: Very Heat Dependent Point cost: -2 |
"Your muscle response is dependent on ambient temperatures. You lose 1% of your speed for every 5 degrees below 65 F." |
Trait effect trigger when temperature is below 60 F.
Requires: Heat Dependent Changes to: Cold Blooded Point cost: -3 |
"Your muscle response is highly dependent on ambient temperatures. You lose 1% of your speed for every 3 degrees below 65 F." |
Trait effect trigger when temperature is below 60 F.
Requires: Very Heat Dependent Point cost: -5 |
"You are cold-blooded and rely on heat to keep moving. Your lose 1% of your speed for every 2 degrees below 65 F." |
Trait effect trigger when temperature is below 60 F.
Changes to: Snarling Voice Point cost: -1 |
"You have a growling, rough voice. Persuading NPCs will be more difficult, but threatening them will be easier." |
Point cost: -1 |
"You hiss when speaking. Persuading NPCs will be more difficult, but threatening them will be easier." |
Requires: Growling Voice Point cost: -2 |
"You have a threatening snarl in your voice. Persuading NPCs will be near impossible, but threatening them will be much easier." |
Requires: Shouter Changes to: Howler Point cost: -3 |
"You sometimes scream uncontrollably." |
Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 2 |
"Your arms have grown vibrantly colored feathers. They effectively waterproof your arms and take the edge off hits, but really get in the way. They're simply too small to help you in the air." |
Changes to: 4 Tentacles Point cost: -5 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your arms have transformed into tentacles. Though they are flexible and increase your dexterity by 1, the lack of fingers results in a permanent hand encumbrance of 3, and prevents the wearing of gloves." |
Requires: Tentacle Arms Changes to: 8 Tentacles Point cost: -3 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 5 |
"Your arms have transformed into four tentacles, resulting in a bonus of 1 to dexterity, permanent hand encumbrance of 3, and preventing you from wearing gloves. You can make up to 3 extra attacks with them." |
Requires: 4 Tentacles Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 9 / Ugliness: 6 |
"Your arms have transformed into eight tentacles, resulting in a bonus of 1 to dexterity, permanent hand encumbrance of 3, and preventing you from wearing gloves. You can make up to 7 extra attacks with them." |
Requires: Chitinous Skin Cancels: Chitinous Plate Point cost: -6 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 3 |
"You have grown a thick shell over your torso, providing excellent armor. You find you can use the empty space as 16 storage space, but cannot wear anything on your torso." |
Shell gives additional 6 bash and 14 cut defense. This mutation will destroy clothes that currently equipped on torso.
Cancels: Padded Feet, Hooves Point cost: -3 / Visibility: 8 / Ugliness: 4 |
"Your legs have transformed into six tentacles. This decreases your speed on land by 20%, but makes your movement silent. However, they also increase your swimming speed." |
-20% on land actually mean solid -20 movement points. Swimming bonus is 60 points.
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