Editing Penoxycyline

{{Infobox main|drug
| name = Penoxycyline
| image = Penoxycyline b.png
| 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
| tech level = Industrial
| 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
<!-- Unused -->
| 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
| thing class = Drugs
| use hit points = true
<!--- Drug Parameters -->
| prevents infection = malaria, sleeping sickness, plague
}}
'''Penoxycyline''' is a [[drug]] that prevents users from catching a select following of [[disease]]s.

== 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.

==Summary==
Penoxycyline completely prevents users from catching any of the following [[disease]]s.

* [[Malaria]]
* [[Plague]]
* [[Sleeping sickness]] 

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. 

When the [[Events#Disease (Type)|Disease event]] occurs, pawns that were protected from getting the disease by penoxycyline will be specifically noted as such. Penoxycyline does nothing to treat pre-existing diseases, including diseases which have been acquired but have not yet presented symptoms.

Penoxycyline is not addictive and has no direct side effects. Penoxycyline ''can'' contribute to [[overdose]]s, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14 per dose consumed. This severity is not enough to cause any health effect on its own. However, it can cause minor overdoses when taken along with [[hard drug]]s.

== Analysis ==
While the in-game description says to ''"Take every five days"'', the effect actually lasts just over than a half-day longer. This gives pawns some leeway, in case colonists don't consume the pills 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.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Penoxycyline a.png|One penoxycyline
Penoxycyline b.png|Stack of penoxycyline
</gallery>

== 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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