Fibrocartilage

Fibrocartilage is, notably, the only mutation to raise your HP, and also the only other way to increase your max HP besides endocrine boosters.

Location

Fibrocartilage is located, quite conveniently, underneath the orphanage, in the Shoggoth's Lair. Several of the zone's tiles inflict fear, so bring alcohol for fear immunity unless you want to piss yourself and yakety sax in circles.

Effects

This mutation grants:

    +5 to max HP
    +95 resistance to rejuvex.

Endocrine booster modules will also be somewhat more likely to work if you have fibrocartilage. Note that the bonus HP gained from this mutation will not affect their failure rate.

Advantages

+5 max HP. On top of using endocrine boosters to reach 55, the additional bonus from fibrocartilage means you can reach 60 max HP. Max HP is an extremely high value stat - 5 health can be the difference between swaggering home with a bag of loot and limping out of a clone tank with a sore bottom.

Disadvantages

+95 resistance to rejuvex. If you have a habit of dying a lot, or removing mutations, you are going to be quite old, and you will have to use a lot of rejuvex to get down to a younger age to avoid heart attacks and such. Fortunately, rerolling will reset your age anyway.

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