Editing Penoxycyline

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| name = Penoxycyline
| image = Penoxycyline.png|Penoxycyline
| description = A drug for preventing infections before they take hold. Blocks malaria, sleeping sickness, plague.{{Sic}} Must be taken every five days to remain effective.<br>This drug only prevents new infections. It does not cure existing infections - even those that are not yet discovered.
<!-- Base Stats -->
| type = Drug
| type2 = Medical Drug
| marketvalue = 18
| stack limit = 150
| mass base = 0.005
| beauty = -4
| hp = 50
| deterioration = 2
| flammability = 0.7
| rotatable = false
| path cost = 15
<!-- Ingestion -->
| addictiveness = 0
| max num to ingest at once = 1
<!-- Creation -->
| production facility 1 = Drug lab
| research = Penoxycyline production
| work to make = 600
| resource 1 = Neutroamine
| resource 1 amount = 2
<!-- Technical -->
| defName = Penoxycyline
| drug category = medical
| food preference = NeverForFood
| is pleasure drug = false
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| always haulable = true
| draw gui overlay = true
| graphic class = Graphic_StackCount
| graphic path =  Things/Item/Drug/Penoxycyline
| label = penoxycyline
| parent name = MakeableDrugPillBase
| resource readout priority = Last
| selectable = true
| social properness matters = true
| tech level = industrial
| thing class = Drugs
| use hit points = true
<!--- Drug Parameters -->
| prevents infection = malaria, sleeping sickness, plague
}}
'''Penoxycyline''' is a [[drug]] that prevents users from catching any of the following potentially deadly [[disease]]s:
* [[malaria]]
* [[plague]]
* [[sleeping sickness]] 

'''Note:''' Despite the wording of the description, it does nothing to prevent or treat [[infection]]s, or any other diseases or ailments besides the three above. Penoxycyline also does nothing to treat pre-existing diseases, including diseases which have been acquired but have not yet presented symptom.

== Acquisition ==
Penoxycyline can be crafted at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]] once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed. Each dose require {{Required Resources}} and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work. Its [[Drug Synthesis Speed|synthesis speed]] is dependent on the [[Skills#Intellectual|Intellectual]] skill, and crafting experience is attributed to Intellectual. Note that [[Neutroamine]] can only be obtained from traders or found in cargo pods.

It can also be [[Trade|bought]] from orbital, [[Outlander]], or [[Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} traders, as well as Outlander and Empire [[faction base]]s.

== Usage ==
Administering Penoxycyline provides true immunity against [[malaria]], [[plague]], and [[sleeping sickness]] over its ~5.556 day duration, preventing the protected pawn from catching the protected diseases. When the [[Events#Disease (Type)|Disease event]] occurs, pawns that were protected from getting the disease by penoxycyline will be specifically noted as such.

It does '''nothing''' to stop a disease that has started and is already in progress. Since diseases have a hidden latent stage, taking penoxycyline during this stage will still allow the disease to take its course.

Similarly, it does '''nothing''' to prevent or treat any other disease or ailment beyond the three listed above. 

While the in-game description says to ''"Take every five days"'', the effect actually lasts just over than a half-day longer, giving colonists some leeway to take the pills without acquiring a disease during the downtime of the effect as would happen if the duration were in fact 5.000 days and the colonist could not consume it promptly. Set a [[drug policy]] to tell the pawns to take one every 5 days and keep one in the inventory to take as soon as possible, or be cheap, set it to "6 days" and live dangerously.

Penoxycyline is not addictive and has no direct side effects. However Penoxycyline ''can'' contribute to [[overdose]]s, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14 per dose consumed. In comparison, [[hard drugs]] increase severity by 0.18-0.35. Overdose due to Penoxycyline are uncommon, as a pawn would have to consume a lot of it, however, it can increase the risk to overdoses when combined with hard drugs.  

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.15.1279|0.15.1279]] - Added as '''Malari-block''', and only prevents [[Malaria]]
* [[Version/0.16.1393|0.16.1393]] - Reworked. Renamed from '''Malari-block''' to '''Penoxycyline ''' and now prevents a wide variety of infections. Cost decreased from 5 [[neutroamine]] to 3.
* Alpha 17 - Cost is further reduced from 3 to 2 neutroamine. It also received an overhaul, such that instead of instantly boosting disease immunity to 61%, it now provides true immunity and cannot reactively increase immunity against a disease that is already in progress.

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