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## About The Pull Request Before PR: Giving mutadone to a monkey turns it into a human Giving mutadone to a human does nothing about its human status After PR: Giving mutadone to a monkey created from a monkey cube does nothing about its monkey status Giving mutadone to a monkey which was originally a human restores it to being a human Giving mutadone to a human who has never been a monkey does nothing about its human status Giving mutadone to a human who was originally a monkey returns it to being a monkey I couldn't think of any better way to achieve this than putting a trait on the monkey typepath but if anyone has one, I'd love to hear it (actually, maybe I could just typecheck the mob... but that seems equally gross) ## Why It's Good For The Game Treating "being a monkey" as a mutation makes sense from the perspective of the DNA console but not from the perspective of certain other game mechanics. A chemical which "removes all mutations" should _intuitively_ restore people to the state they were in at the start of the round (so monkeys turned into humans should return to monkey, and vice versa) rather than unilaterally enact rapid evolution upon monkeys. At least, I don't _think_ it's meant to be a lore implication that all test apes on the station are transformed humans... This has a couple of side effects, both of which I think are desirable. Firstly- some mechanics work on humans but not monkeys (see #83698), and can be circumvented by spraying mutadone gas into a monkey pen. This will now only be achievable by individually mutating each monkey, which requires more effort for whatever your desired result is. Secondly- this adds a downside to the common "cure-all" surgical method of turning a monkey into a human and transplanting a brain into it. This new body will still genetically remember being a monkey, adding some element of risk to this otherwise undramatic means of curing basically any ailment in the game. Thirdly- Some people have admitted to using mutadoned monkeys to create a large number of humans to kill for Heretic and Changeling progression, which I also don't want them to do, so making this take longer is a positive. ## Changelog 🆑 balance: Mutadone restores your originally monkey status, rather than always turning monkeys into humans /🆑