Kuru mod

Kuru Mod

So, you are eating human meat. Well, that's not without risk, and not funny.

Features

• New mental break: "Laughing Fit"
• Kuru disease, a nigh-untreatable infection that spreads through eating human meat.
• Raiders from cannibalism-positive cultures may arrive already suffering Kuru infection.
• Natural cannibal gene: an archite gene providing resistance to Kuru (and minor other benefits to make it less awful if you are not a full cannibal).

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Kuru, the Laughing Sickness

Kuru causes mood instability, giving pawns a chance of various mental breaks, including severe Laughing Fits. It also debilitates pawns, making ordinary tasks a bit more difficult. But most importantly, it literally eats the brain. It causes brain damage over time, causing both pain and loss of consciousness. Eventually, it kills pawns because their brain is just not there anymore.

Spread Vectors

Of course, if

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you eat an actual, known, Kuru carrier, you will be

infected. But

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meat from any human who partakes in cannibalism or has an ideologion that permits eating humans

is not out of the question: Kuru is endemic to cultures practicing cannibalism. Some pawns will tell you

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they only have cravings and would like a taste, but did they already? A pawn with the Cannibal trait or has ever eaten human meat can rarely be a vector.

One might not want to risk that. Kuru is a prion infection, so

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cooking meat will not prevent transmission

. Be careful about

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human meat kibble

. Prion diseases are known to skip

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species

. Do not feed long

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pigs

to short

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pigs

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Treatment Options

If you can

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be on top of brain damage

, your pawn can lead a long, productive life full of laughter. Use

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any method that can heal permanent scars

. You can also just

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destroy the brain completely and revive the pawn

. To quote: Any time I had a problem and I

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took luciferium

. Boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

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Luciferium will remove Kuru, eventually.

Decide for yourself which condition is more manageable. The natural cannibal gene does provide resistance, if you can find it.

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Mod compatibility

Compatible with features from

• Allergies: extra gene effect.
• Character Development: wants related to being infected with Kuru

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Source Code My Other Mods

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Thanks

Many thanks to the RimWorld Modding Discord for their help.