Overdose

Overview

The only cause of Overdose is to consume an excess amount of 'drugs' in a short time period, before Blood Filtration has the time to deal with it.

The severity of a Drug Overdose is determined by what drugs are consumed; with social drugs (i.e. Beer, Smokeleaf) and Luciferium not contributing to overdoses, hard drugs (i.e. Go-Juice, Flake, Yayo, Wake-up) increasing the severity by 0.18-0.35 per drug consumed, and malari-block being an outsider with a severity increase by 0.08-0.14.

Stages

There are technically four stages of Drug Overdose...

• Hidden (severity: 0.01-0.59)
  • Doesn't affect the 'overdosing' pawn
    • This is because this is within tolerable levels of hard drug consumption
  • Doesn't show on the health tab of colonists
• Minor (severity: 0.6-0.74)
  • Reduces the affected pawn's consciousness by 50%
    • Note this isn't 'Consciousness max: 50%'
  • May immediately progress to fatal if severity is at least 0.65 and a hard drug increases it to 1
    • This is somewhat unlikely however
• Major (severity: 0.75-0.99)
  • Pawn will lose consciousness (Consciousness max: 10%)
  • May become fatal if the pawn regains consciousness and immediately consumes another drug
    • This is somewhat luck-based, as the severity gain will have to be at least 0.26
• Fatal/Extreme (severity: 1)
  • Overdosing pawn's body is unable to handle extreme drug levels, and succumbs
  • Still shows up as 'Major' in health tab

Information

For the most recent info, go straight to the XML. The relevant files are \Mods\Core\Defs\HediffDefs\Hediffs_Global_Misc.xml and everything in Mods\Core\Defs\Drugs\.