Psychite dependency

[Nox]

Hello,
is there a way to get rid of / cure psychite dependency?

I "saved" two raiders and turned them into colonists, but I wonder if there's a way to cure the dependency instead of using psychite stuff, possibly putting my healthy pawns in risk of creating an addiction.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

You can alter drug access to pawns in the same way as apparel or meals, easy enough to forbid your colonists from taking drugs if they don't need to.

As for removing the dependency... Wasters have a genetic need for psychite and it cannot be removed without giving a custom xenotype that overrides the dependency (and accounts for the metabolism changes), iirc they are the only germline that has a drug dependency while hussars also need a drug but any xenotype implant will remove that (and everything that comes with the hussar xenotype).

[Veylox]

Psychite dependency is one of the best genes in the game so you may want to just keep it and produce a little psychite instead. Psychite dependency gives you a huge metabolism bonus, allowing you to use OP genes, and is somehow a buff in itself because psychite tea is the best/safest drug in the game to begin with so you should be using it with or without the gene, AND the dependency stops addiction and overdose chances entirely, giving you free access to yayo/flake abuse.

If you're worried about addictions, don't be ; wasters can't get addicted, and your pawns won't take psychite if you remove it from their schedule (they can't get addicted if you allow them to take it once every two days either). The only risk of addiction from psychite being in your colony is if you have a chemically interested pawn, but you can just beat him up before he starts indulging.

As for removing it, I'm guessing implanting a custom xenotype yeah, although I don't remember how it interacts with different races, whether it keeps the waster genes or if it treats any pawn as baseliner

[Nox]

Originally posted by Veylox:

Psychite dependency is one of the best genes in the game so you may want to just keep it and produce a little psychite instead. Psychite dependency gives you a huge metabolism bonus, allowing you to use OP genes, and is somehow a buff in itself because psychite tea is the best/safest drug in the game to begin with so you should be using it with or without the gene, AND the dependency stops addiction and overdose chances entirely, giving you free access to yayo/flake abuse.

If you're worried about addictions, don't be ; wasters can't get addicted, and your pawns won't take psychite if you remove it from their schedule (they can't get addicted if you allow them to take it once every two days either). The only risk of addiction from psychite being in your colony is if you have a chemically interested pawn, but you can just beat him up before he starts indulging.

As for removing it, I'm guessing implanting a custom xenotype yeah, although I don't remember how it interacts with different races, whether it keeps the waster genes or if it treats any pawn as baseliner

Okay thanks a bunch!

Got really attached to a pawn that was sent to raid me, turned out she was music idol turned prostitute in her clan / tribe I guess, which made me kind of feel bad for her, so I wanted to help her no matter what.

I found out way too late I can grow psychite so Lu will be in coma for a few days...