How to Make Pills

Welcome to the official exhaustive Neurotrauma Pharmacy guide. Before making pills, you’re going to need ingredients. Each ingredient will have different effects, such as increasing capacity or potency, or applying an effect on consumption.

Unlike when using pill ingredients as medicines, all effects are instantly applied by pills. There is no building up of afflictions.

Note: If you’re using the “BetterHealthUI” mod, a lot of afflictions are halved to fit inside a 100% maximum cap for the “H” menu UI. If you’re only seeing half the amount of medicine you’re expecting when administering it, that’s probably why. All associated numbers listed in this guide do not take this into account. Example: analgesia affliction numbers from opioids are halved in the health menu, but still give the same effect.

Hint: There may be hidden combinations of items with special effects. Have fun experimenting!

Pill Properties

• Capacity: How many active ingredients the pill can contain.
• Potency: The strength of the active ingredients’ effects.
• Yield: The quantity of pills manufactured.

Unless otherwise specified and without any additional modifiers, every pill craft makes 2 pills at half the potency of the ingredients.

Ingredients

Every pill recipe requires 2 types of ingredients:

• Base: determines the capacity of a pill & affects potency
• Binder: affects yield & can add minor effects to pills

And up to 3 types of additional ingredients to add effects:

• Filler: up to 2, optional. Affects potency & yield. Some can change the icon of the pill
• Dyes: up to 3, optional. Changes the color of the pill
• Active ingredients: up to 3 allowed depending on the base used, optional. Adds most of the major effects a pill can have.

Crafting Skill Requirement

Every ingredient in a pill has a skill requirement that works like regular Barotrauma skill checks. Pill crafting has a scaling chance to produce less effective or altered effects in the pill if attempting to craft without the required skill level.