Mutations

In the wonderful world of HellMOO, there are powers that allow you to have unnatural abilities. These powers are called mutations. There are many mutations available in the game. Their locations are documented in Injection Junction in Freedom City, also marked IJ on your map. The mutations can be acquired in specific locations that are hidden or a little difficult to reach. When you find a mutation, something similar to this will appear:

 You realize you could mutate here.
 Type 'mutate' to develop the 'snakeskin' mutation.

Will you mutate?

If no, then just continue with what you are doing. If you don't type the exact command mutate snakeskin, you will not gain this mutation. If yes, then something will happen, very similar to this next example.

 [ Your slashing resistance increased by 2 - 4! ]
 [ Your stabbing resistance increased by 1 - 3! ]
 Creature's body twists and shudders...
 [ You've developed the 'snakeskin' mutation! ]

Before you mutate, think it over. Removing mutations is costly. So, make each choice wisely. There are mutations that are obviously better than others in terms of their gameplay benefits, those will not be singled out here. Your mutations are a part of what makes your character unique. It is up to you to decide which mutations make the most sense for your character.

Mutations can be pretty useful but they also have their downfalls. The soak/focus/other distinction does not exist in-game, and is merely for convenience.

Generally, if not always, mutation areas are slightly irradiated; since radiation has no (currently known) permanent or particularly dangerous side-effects, hanging around for a while will probably not do you any harm. As your rad count automatically goes down on its own, probably faster than the mutation areas will raise it, gaining radiation mutations from a mutation area is, ironically, fairly hard.

Soak mutations

Soak mutations (or "Skin mutations") are now limited to three per player. Level 2 mutations are all upgrades to level 1 mutations and require their level 1 counterpart. You can only get 3 soak mutations total.

Level 1

Mutation	Description	Location
Snakeskin	2-4 slash and 1-3 stab resistance	the underground mine
Rubberskin	3-6 electric and 1-3 acid resistance	Maas Neotek
High Density	3-5 beat and 1-4 bullets resistance	Maas Neotek
Firewalker	5-8 burn, 1-4 radiation, and 1-4 acid resistance	Sharpton Projects
Yeti Skin	Increases cold resist by 8-10. Makes you immune to the cold status effect.	Mountain Pass

Level 2

Mutation	Description	Location
Eelskin	+3 Swim, +2-2 electric, +2-2 stabbing and +1-2 slashing resistance. Greatly increases chances of breaking out of a hold. You need to pee 50% less, but you get thirsty 50% faster.	Outside the Kraken's cave.
Silicone Skin	2-4 acid, 2-6 laser, 2-6 explode resistance, and your body becomes unhackable and ungibbable. Trauma kits become 40% less effective.	the oasis in the Glass Mesa
Lithodermis	1-2 beat and 2-2 bullet resistance, as well as resistance to brain damage, broken limbs, and knockouts. -3 to swim and climb, and since you're heavier you can carry less.	Adamant Canyon
Solar Sponge	Burn +1-3, irradiation +2, laser +2-3. Heal when hot/on fire (not by much though) Mutually exclusive with Vampirism.	ground zero in the Wasteland
Yeti Fur	5 - 5 cold and 1 - 2 beat resistance, +1 to brawn, -1 - -3 to fire resistance, yetis will not attack you.	Weezer Dam

Focus mutations

Mutation	Description	Location
Writhing Smoke	+2 focus, gives you the ability to exhale, which allows you to fill the room with black smoke, making it easier to flee.	Abandoned Highway
Screech	+2 focus, gives the ability to screech. Stuns your enemies and has the possibility of damaging them.	Chemical Plant
Salamander	+4 to swim, +4 to climb, -1 to craft, +1 to focus. Allows you to mend broken limbs. mend relies on a focus check and can heal damage.	Behind Gator Boy in the Shoreline
Fuck machine	+1 cool, -1 climb, +4 fuck, +1 focus. Gives you the fantasize command, which allows you to get horny on command. You can attempt to accelerate your orgasm, or orgasm spontaneously, with the cum command. There is also the engorge command which will cause a character without a dick to grow one, which will remain until death. This works for females, neuters, and guys who fuck up with the RDCD and get their dicks ripped off.	Maas Neotek
Carrie	-1 Cool. Allows you to set people (who you are in combat with) and light items (such as joints) on fire using your mind, with damage being determined by a Focus roll.	Open Prairie

Movement mutations

These mutations are mutually exclusive with the other mutations of their level. In other words, you can pick Phaser, Clairvoyance, or Leapfrog, plus its respective upgrade, and none of the others. The Leapfrog/Flight path is exclusive to Lithodermis, but now you can have High Density and still fly, making flight somewhat feasible.

Level 1

Mutation	Description	Location
Phaser	+1 Focus, gives the ability to memorize any outdoor spot, and then phase to it as long as nobody is watching you or standing in your phase spot	the Wasteland, south east at the very bottom
Clairvoyance	+3 Focus, gives you the ability to leave your body and travel around HellMOO, without actually traveling. You are able to see psi shimmers while projected, and if there is too much psi in the room you can take damage. You can sweep to check for other clairs in the same room, and if you can find them, you can pulse to damage them. You can also listen to conversations in the room if you pass a focus roll for each time someone says something.	The Cave of All Souls
Leapfrog	-1 brawn, -1-3 beat resistance, +1 dodge, lets you leap up/down stuff. leaping lets you instantly move in any direction that would normally require a climb. Leapfrog is dependent on Reflexes. Success allows you to instantly move in the chosen direction. Failure causes damage similar to a fall, including the possibility for broken limbs.	Mt. Fisty

Level 2

Mutation	Description	Location
Blink	Upgrade to Phaser, gives you the ability to blink to a random place using focus. If your focus is high enough, you can also successfully blink <area> for quicker transportation. If you fail the focus, you run the risk of telefragging or blinking to an undesired location. If someone else is in the tile you blink to, you will also telefrag.	The Labrynth (Heart of Necropolis)
Medium	Upgrade to Clairvoyance, allows you to seek out other players. +1 to Focus. The higher your focus, the more accurate the roll. If your focus is high enough, you will accurately pinpoit the area that they currently reside. However, if their focus is high enough, they will be able to either detect that someone is seeking them, detect who is seeking them, or even detect where they are being sought from. Seek your targets with care!	top of dike (Stormfront Island)
Flight	Upgrade to Leapfrog. Gives you the ability to fly,climb,dive and land. The downsides to fly are the cold that affects you while in the air, and the chupacabras which will attack you while flying.	skies above the necropolis gate.

Game Changing Mutations

Mutation	Description	Location
Hideous Freak	You're a horribly deformed homicidal outcast who kills for relaxation. Everyone hates and fears you. Gives you the ability to scare people, giving them fear. -3 to cool, +4 to senses, +1 to endurance, +3 sneak, -2 persuade, +4 torture, +3 focus. Makes shopkeepers fear you, disabling your ability to buy/sell. FCPD will kill you on sight. All stress effects are reversed. Now with acid blood! Incompatible with: vampire and zombie.	the necropolis gate
Abomination	You're a hideous freak who's all grown up. Into a truly hideous abomination. Your mother must be very proud...if you ever had one. Of course, wearing clothes or armour might be tricky with such a mishappen body, not to mention getting people to touch you. Gives -2 brains, -2 cool, +1 endurance, +1 brawn, +3 fish, -2 pistols, -2 rifles, -6 persuade, 4-10 beat, 6-9 slash, 4-10 stab, 8-10 bullet, and 1-4 acid resist, inability to wear regular armor (low thickness limit), can devour corpses for healing, burrow allows you to log out in outdoor type rooms safely, acid jizz/piss, as well as a claws upgrade that gives them radiation damage on top of more damage. Anyone in the same room with you will be irradiated (You cannot be irradiated yourself), you can breathe underwater, drugs do not get you addicted, nanites are only 40% as effective, food will only fill you 20% as much as it did. Once you die, your corpse will explode shortly after, causing damage to anyone in the room. Requires: hideous freak, ripper, and fuck machine.	Sealab
Vampire	Turns you into a permanent vampire. +4 to brawn, cool, endurance, and senses. -4 to brains. You will take damage from the sun if you are outside during the day, but only half as much as those who have the vampirism disease. You do not gain sustenance from normal food, and will have to drink the blood from your victims, using feed from. Typically you will have to hold them for this to work, though people can willingly allow you to feed from them. Whenever you kill something, usually blood will splatter, and you can feed from this by using lick blood or taste blood. Incompatible with: hyperimmune, hideous freak, solar sponge, zombie, and billygoat.	slagtown cemetary
Zombie	Become a shambling, undead brain-sucker. Zombies love you as one of their own. Mmmmhrhmmhmmmbraaaanes... Gives -6 brains, -2 brawn, +2 endurance, -10 sneak, +50 disease resistance, +100 zombie rot stage I resistance, +50 bleeding resistance, +25 burning resistance, -25 cold resistance, +75 addiction resistance, +100 suffocation resistance; Soaks: 3-6 beat, 10-20 bullets, 2-5 electric, 100-100 suffocation, 50-100 healing; lets you feed on corpses or severed heads, howl to summon the undead to your aid, and puke to puke bile on someone. Also, you are cloned in random locations and will re-animate after you die if you wait long enough. Incompatible with: billygoat, bleeder, hideous freak, hyperimmune, silicone skin, and vampire.	Necropolis Floodplains.
Empath	The "fifth" of the major game-changing mutations. Gives +1 brains, +2 senses, +3 focus, and +2 medic, +3 to Medium's seek, an unknown bonus to Plant Whisperer's fertilize, allows massage which may relieve stress in someone else, and soothe which lets you absorb the mental illnesses of others. You gain small amounts of stress from being in a room with other people who are stressed. Killing humans and some other intelligent creatures will give stress and shock on a failed focus roll, with the difficulty going up based on how close you are to the dying creature. Requires Blink, Flight, or Medium, as well as Swollen Brain.	berkeley psychic institute

Other mutations

Mutation	Description	Location
Enigma	You are a complete mystery to others. People can't accurately determine how strong you are, or what ailments you suffer from. In fact, your mysterious aura is so thick that it sometimes effects your own senses. Coincidentally, this makes you pretty cool. Gives +2 cool, -1 senses, you cannot be diagnosed or appraised by anyone, including yourself.	Back room of Heaven bar in Gangland.
Hooligan	Something's...not right with your head. You have trouble focusing, and you're prone to bouts of brain damage. On the plus side, this makes it difficult to stun or distract you. Gives -3 focus, +35 stun resistance. You get a headbutt command, with a chance of stun and damage based on your brawn. It uses the wrestle skill!	Nukem Academy - 2nd Floor
Mule	Pouches in your skin let you carry 30% more weight. However, you feel stressed and uncomfortable if your pouches aren't full enough.	Sharpton Interior - Basement
Billygoat	Can eat anything you can junk. Chance to barf up components from eaten items. No penalties from being full from eating non food. Eating food until you're full still gives you penalties. Gives -1 to Endurance. +1 to Climb. Incompatible with: vampire and zombie.	Crater Rim
Bleeder	You gain the power to inflict bleeding wounds on yourself, but you will feel naked whenever you are not covered in at least a little blood. Additionally, bleeding wounds will cause you to enter a frenzy. You also no longer pass out from blood loss so bleed away. Incompatible with: Jack Mentkow suspected child molester and zombie.	Princeton General
Camelfat	Fat tissue reorganizes into a powerful water-storage medium. You'll get thirsty much more slowly. Drugs (both good and bad) will also take longer to work their way through your system. Incompatible with: eelskin and iron liver.	Sea of Dunes
Iron Liver	Resistance to poison and alcohol, makes pleasure drugs and nanite healers less effective. 40 resistance to THC and speed, 25 resistance to nanite healers, 60 resistance to curare, 70 resistance to spider venom, 75 resistance to pcp, 50 resistance to alcohol. Alcohol heals you 1-7 hp per tick based off how drunk you are. Healing lasts for the duration of the drunk status effect. Incompatible with: camelfat.	Chemical Plant
Bloodhound	Your nasal cavities swell and grow thicker networks of nerve endings, enhancing tracking and overall sensory awareness. +4 to track, +2 to senses Incompatible with: stench.	Mountain Pass
Twitchy Nerves	Mutates nerve fibers that provide enhanced reflexes, but make it a little harder to concentrate. +2 Reflexes, -1 Senses	Vault 4
Jack Mentkow suspected child molester	Makes your wounds seal up instantly so that you can't bleed to death, and +2 Endurance. Weapons which bypass armor to cause direct bleeding damage, such as sonic scalpels, will still inflict damage against you, but won't cause you to bleed. Incompatible with: bleeder.	Subway Tunnels
Brute strength	Thickened muscle tissue which boosts brawn, but hurts endurance a bit. +3 to brawn, -1 to endurance, and +1 to wrestle for whatever reason. Incompatible with: swollen brain.	In the Sewers, underneath Charnold
Swollen Brain	Enlarged corpus callosum, which makes you brainier and more sense-aware. Too bad it looks so un-cool. +3 to brains, +1 to senses, -1 to cool. Incompatible with: brute strength.	In the Sewers, across the bridge to the west. Requires two people to get across the bridge.
Stench	Grants the command Musk, which releases a musk which gradually wears off after 5 or 6 minutes. The musk prevents smelling monsters from aggroing you and grants a bonus to escape said monsters at the cost of minor stat/skill changes to senses and fuck. Furthermore, you becom a little easier to track even when not musking, and much easier to track when actively musking. Incompatible with: bloodhound.	Sewers
Hyperimmune	The reaction time of your immune system increases tenfold, destroying viruses and bacteria before they have the chance to act out their intended purpose. However, any invader (helpful or harmful) is targeted, greatly reducing the effectiveness of nanites and making them almost useless. +2 endurance, immunity to all diseases, 50 resistance to rad sickness, reduces effectiveness of nanite healers by 60%. All other drugs still work. Incompatible with: vampire and zombie.	Subway Tunnels
Ripper	Gives you claws. +1 to fist, +2 to climb, -5 to locksmith, -4 to craft, -3 to repair and medic, -1 to pilot and chemistry. Incompatible with: nimble fingers.	the underground mine
Nimble Fingers	Your fingers become extremely agile. On the other hand, you become a bit of a limp-wristed nerd and your bones become more brittle. You also gain the 'massage' command, which lets you massage stress out of other players. +1 Locksmith and Craft, +2 Reflexes, -2 Endurance, -2-4 Beat protection. Incompatible with: ripper.	the Sewers below the bug queen
Fibrocartilage	+4 Max health, +100 resistance to 'all anti-aging methods.' (In other words, currently, just rejuvex.) This means you cannot reduce your age until you remove this mutation, which means you need to use Stormfront's mutation remover. Unrecommended.	Shoggoth Lair
Junkrat	Your keen eyes are able to spot hidden details invisible to others, and you are able to find something in a room like no other. However, your obssesive-compulsive ways are considered nerdy to most people. It's more difficult to find stuff in places where there is a stench, and sniff is now based on scavenge skill. +1 Scavenge, -1 Cool, +1 Senses. Gives the sniff command which lets you find secret exits and attempt to locate a specific scavengable item in a room. Incompatible with: stench.	Toxic Dump
Plant Whisperer	With this mutation you can, well, talk to plants. Maybe they have something interesting to share. You can also attempt to fertilize (persuade) the plant to make it bear a harvest if it is empty [this is a persuade check]. You may have better results if you are an empath. More to come for this fantastic mutation at a later date. Stay tuned!	Crater Forest

Radiation Mutations

You have a chance to get mutations from having a lot of radiation (The amount appears to be 20 or more). Once you have about the needed amount, simply wait (heal yourself periodically if you need to) and one of these mutations may eventually occur. These mutations are temporary; when you die you'll lose them. If you have high endurance you may shrug off getting the mutation.

Mutation	Effects	Message when Acquired	Visible Effects
second head	brains +1, cool -1	You feel a terrible pain in your shoulder-- feels like something is being rearranged. Then there's a lot of pressure on your skin, and with a pop, something appears.	<name> has a second head on <their> shoulder. It is shrunken and underdeveloped, but its eyes occasionally focus on you.
chameleon	+4 sneak	Your skin feels briefly like it's on fire, and large black patches appear all over it. You look at your hand, and realize you can see the floor reflected on it.	<name> is hard to get a fix on. They shift in and out of sight, seemingly at random.
third eye	+2 senses	With a blinding flash of pain, the skin of your forehead splits, and then... you can see. Like never before.	<name> has a third eye in the center of <their> forehead. It flicks about lazily.
red eyes	+2 brawn, +2 reflexes, +1 senses, -4 cool	Something in your brain snaps. Your vision tinges with red, and your face feels very itchy.	<names>'s eyes no longer have any discernible features-- they are just solid red.
downs syndrome	brawn +1, brains -3	Duhhhurrr. The world abruptly seems much simpler	<name>'s head is a funny shape, and <their> eyes are a little too far apart.
strange-looking skin	+1 reflexes, -1 endurance	Your skin suddenly feels like it's giving way, melting, but not. You move your arm and realize it makes you sort of 'flow'... very strange.	<name>'s skin looks strange. It is slightly translucent, and appears to bead, like water, before breaking up again.
elephantitis	-2 reflexes	Your body shivers with pain, and your flesh starts to swell, straining your skin. Ugh.	<name>'s flesh is blobby and swollen. Ick.
third arm	Let's you triple-wield, but you can't wear clothes on your abdomen and occasionally drop what you're holding	<name> clutches <their> shoulder in agony as it twists and shudders, sprouting a bizarre protrusion that slowly forms itself into something resembling an arm.	<name> has a disgusting mutated third arm growing from <their> shoulder.

Getting one of the rad mutations is easy enough if you move about in an irradiated area (wasteland, desert, glowstiller, nuked areas, etc) for a while. If you are seriously dedicated, the power plant southeast of the control room in the Colossus Silo will instantly set you up with 20 delicious rads and probably a shitload more unless you leave in a hurry.

If you want a safer way, use irradiated items such as Plutonium Rods, Spent Fuel Rods, Enriched Uranium Rods, etc, to collect rads. Get to 20+ rads, and then drop the items and move to somewhere else, and await mutation.

Also, you could try to stand near an Abomination who isn't too much of a douchebag to kill you on sight (which is rare) and bathe in its healthy green glow until desired amount is reached.

Mutation Slots

When you first start out, you have one free mutation slot. For every 3,500 XP you earn, either from combat or quests, you will get another mutation slot, until you have gained five mutation slots. After your sixth slot opens, you'll get mutation slots every 7,000 XP until your tenth mutation slot. From then on you will earn mutation slots every 9,000 XP. There is no limit to the number of free mutation slots you may have at one time, and each new mutation gained takes one mutation slot.

XP	Slots
0	1
3,500	2
7,000	3
10,500	4
14,000	5
17,500	6
24,500	7
31,500	8
38,500	9
45,500	10
55,500	11
65,500	12
75,500	13
85,500	14
95,500	15
105,500	16
115,500	17
125,500	18
135,500	19
145,500	20
155,500	21
165,500	22

[You earned another mutation slot!]

Mutation Removal

It's possible to remove your mutations now through a device on Stormfront Island. The penalties associated with this are as follows: You age 10 years. Your health drops to 5 below the starting max, 25. You lose 1 raw from a random skill from your top three.