How to deal with slimelung?

[draco_maiden]

I haven't played in a bit and with the new updates I am at a bit of a loss. I got a good hold on the food poisoning, but not I am expanding and getting to the areas with the slimelung. Anyone got some good tips for me?

[AquaX]

chlorine kills germs that are not in their natural tile state. Best if find a chlorine geyser and pump it towards the slime biome you want to dig through. With the high pressure vent, it should be easy to keep polluted o2 at bay.

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by AquaX:

chlorine kills germs that are not in their natural tile state. Best if find a chlorine geyser and pump it towards the slime biome you want to dig through. With the high pressure vent, it should be easy to keep polluted o2 at bay.

And what if you are not able to locate the Chlorine Geyser? Or enough Weezeworts to chill it to death?

[AquaX]

Originally posted by PhailRaptor:

And what if you are not able to locate the Chlorine Geyser? Or enough Weezeworts to chill it to death?

For those that lack common gaming sense, there is a technique call Save, explore then reload. From my exp so far, chlorine geysers are always spawn somewhere inside the chlorine biomes that are touching the start biome. Just explore every cranny.

[CoolNitro]

Limit your exposure either via suits and limited door access or simply restricting access for dups with above 100k slimelung germs it dies off in their system fairly quickly as long as they stay indoors so to speak and as long as no one goes much above 100k germs they will never lose immunity or get sick.

[Simon]

DON'T go into germy places without an exo suit often. I've found that they can go there occassionally but letting them go there without an exo suit all the time is a certified way of getting slime lung. Though actually getting slime lung is quite easy to handle, just have a pharma chamber (ideally in a med bay) and put them inside it. If you want to always go in that slimy and germy place, just put an exo suit dock, it's inexpensive.

Regarding chlorine and bleach stone, I never use them. Never will until they get more useful.

[Gate Keeper]

I was terrified by slimelung at the beginning, but it's not THAT bad. Let's start from the beginning:

# Where does Slimelung thrive?

It infests slime tiles and is capable of infesting nearby tiles.
It thrives in polluted oxygen, but also likes other gases EXCEPT oxygen.

# Where does Slimelung not thrive?

While it can infest nearby tiles, it does not thrive in them.
It simply doesn't like oxygen.
Chlorine kills it almost instantly.
I have never seen it in any liquid ever.

What this ends up meaning, it CAN pass trough one base tile, reach an area with no oxygen and spread! But it also means a water-locked room with chlorine is your best bet for exploring the swamp biome.

# How does slimelung affect dupes ?

At the top you can see your dupes immune system, as long as it's above 0% or don't have an illness, such as hypothermia (which doesn't care about your immune system) , you are fine. So if you send dupes into slimelung, what happens is that they get germs. Their immune system will fight off the germs for a while, slowly killing the germs; however if you have too many germs (300,000 for example) they will deteriorate your immune system faster than it will kill the germs off.

When you get infected with slimelung, that is to say, immune system has reached 0, and at the vitallity screen, you see "has slimelung", now you have 10 cycles to treat the illness or the dupe will die, this is the interesting part!

# Treating Slimelung!

Once a dupe has the illness, he/she will start coughing, which spreads germs. They will also have a buncha minus on stats and are not suited for work. You need to be prepared for this, it will happen eventually if you go into swamps without exosuits.

First of all, let's take advantage of the new room system, build some medbays. To do so, have a small-ish room with maximum of 64 (I believe) tiles; remember to have this room closed off with a door. In this room have a medical bed, a latrine, a food-box with maximum of 4kg of food, a table, and a wash basin. This way your dupe won't leave the room, other dupes won't go into the room (you can make sure with door permissions) and they will be cured within 3 cycles without spreading the disses.


Lastly

# How to prevent base infection and how to expand in swamps?

This is kinda easy, but it is limiting. Until you have a water-lock (google it) on both sides of a room filed with chlorine, simply NEVER EVER GO NEAR SLIME! Expand in non swamp directions, find some chlorine, you don't need much, fill a room with the stuff, maybe even have an ore scrubber in there, or your gold amalgam will infect your base, and you're good to go!

Expanding into swamps means cleaning a portion of swamp, make sure you have no infected tiles touching your new base outline, fill the room with oxygen and you're good to go.

If you can't get rid of infected slime you had dug out to make the room for whatever reason, make some, IDK what they're called, stuff locker deposit thing, put them on higher priority, have them gather slime, clay and whatever else may be infected, close that room off and fill it with chlorine.

[Tech Enthusiast]

It is actually pretty easy to get good dupe stats that include 6+ immunity values.
Did not think this would make such a dramatic difference, but it really does.

Each point gives 1% immunity per cycle. Dupes have a base of 15%,so having 20% and more is a pretty significant change. With that i could work in a slime biome, without caring about the slime at all(!) for a few cycles. Just make sure you watch the notifications once the immunity drops to 60%ish. As soon as a dupe shows up as loosing his fight against slimelung, you should close the operation and have them work on other things for 2-3 cycles. After that they should be good to go again.

Obviously this is the easiest, but not the best option you have. Id only advice to go for this in the beginning as it is basically zero effort. Later on just use chlorine, suits and whatever else you fancy to be sure.

[draco_maiden]

Thank you guys for the help. I am getting close to a chlorine bio so I think I will try to pump some into the slime bio

[ulzgoroth]

It's really easy to get slimelung in water, actually, if you produce it with an algae distiller plus a water distiller. My main water cistern often has a few thousand (or even a few tens of thousands) of slimelung germs per tile.

That's not a huge problem though, since it slowly dies off in any environment other than slime or poluted oxygen, and duplicants can trivially shrug off several thousand germs worth of infection. Having it in the water supply can cause it to wind up in the food supply in significant amounts, but refrigeration kills the germs too.


My main tool against the occasional heavily-infected duplicant is simply taking away their access permissions into the biohazard areas until they recover. In extreme cases, a vitamin is extremely effective for shoring up a collapsing immune system.

[Bellringer]

I don't bother with exo suits unless I'm going into the oil biome, chlorine works, but I don't need it.
I set up some storage in water for the slime and 3 or 4 hand sanitisers in front of the base entrance then strip mine the entire biome in a couple cycles. Never had anyone get slime lung, I think one dupe actually got below 100% immunity once, for 1/3 of a cycle before it went back up. I do use a lot of dupes (I have 30 in the base I'm running now) so the work is spread around a bit which helps but other than that I just spam ladders in a grid and mine the lot.

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Originally posted by AquaX:

chlorine kills germs that are not in their natural tile state. Best if find a chlorine geyser and pump it towards the slime biome you want to dig through. With the high pressure vent, it should be easy to keep polluted o2 at bay.

Chlorine Geyser? Where have I been?!

[Flydo]

I never use exosuit to go into the slime biome, only for very hot or unbreathable place. To go to slime biome, just overpressurized tthe place with pure oxygen and never construct a tile near a place infected

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Originally posted by Flydo:

I never use exosuit to go into the slime biome, only for very hot or unbreathable place. To go to slime biome, just overpressurized tthe place with pure oxygen and never construct a tile near a place infected

I believe just breathing polluted oxygen with Slimelung in it will lower ones Immunity. Exosuits prevent that.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Not Birthday Boy (Alfons):

Originally posted by Flydo:

I never use exosuit to go into the slime biome, only for very hot or unbreathable place. To go to slime biome, just overpressurized tthe place with pure oxygen and never construct a tile near a place infected

I believe just breathing polluted oxygen with Slimelung in it will lower ones Immunity. Exosuits prevent that.

It will infect your dupe with slimelung germs, which produce a negative change in immunity.

But duplicants normally have a substantial baseline positive change in immunity, so they can have a pretty substantial infection before their immunity score actually goes down at all. And they constantly reduce the population of germs, and only get sick if they actually hit zero immunity...

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by Not Birthday Boy (Alfons):

I believe just breathing polluted oxygen with Slimelung in it will lower ones Immunity. Exosuits prevent that.

It will infect your dupe with slimelung germs, which produce a negative change in immunity.

But duplicants normally have a substantial baseline positive change in immunity, so they can have a pretty substantial infection before their immunity score actually goes down at all. And they constantly reduce the population of germs, and only get sick if they actually hit zero immunity...

Its still considerable, a Duplicant once lost 30% slimelung from breathing it. And since the base Immunity is 15%, its still a big chunk lost.