Gear Screen & Bag

Dismantle

Nucleotides

Break a spare piece down for nucleotides and some materials back. It can't be undone.

• Equipped gear must be unequipped first, and locked gear unlocked: Lock keeps a piece from ever being dismantled, one at a time or in bulk (Pandemic Game Mode set rewards come locked)
• Base yield of A and T: Common 30, Uncommon 60, Rare 120, Epic 220, Legendary 400, Mythic 700, Prismatic 1,200, plus about two-thirds as much C and a third as much G
• The inspected piece shows the nucleotides it dismantles into, under "Dismantling gives"; the gear page after a run shows it too
• +8% per item level above 1 and +25% per enhancement level
• Also returns Polymerase Shards (1 for Common up to 18 for Prismatic) plus half the materials spent enhancing it

Tap Select, tick pieces (or All), then dismantle them all at once.

• The confirmation shows the total nucleotides

'Dismantle…' breaks down every unequipped piece of a tier and below: Common, Uncommon, Rare or Epic.

• Equipped and locked gear is never touched
• Shows how many pieces and how many nucleotides before you confirm

After a run, everything you found is laid out to inspect, compare with what you wear, equip or dismantle.

• Shows how many pieces you found and the best one's level and tier
• Each piece says whether it's stronger or weaker than the one you wear
• Pick all and Dismantle buttons

The bag

150 pieces

One bag holds up to 150 pieces, shared by every virus in your lineage.

• When the bag is full, a new drop replaces the weakest unequipped, unlocked piece of a lower tier, which is dismantled automatically
• If nothing lower is spare, the new piece is dismantled instead and you still get its nucleotides and materials
• Locked pieces never make room, and a Pandemic Game Mode set reward (it arrives locked) is always kept, even in a full bag
• The counter turns red at 150/150

Each icon shows the piece's state at a glance.

• Lv tag: item level
• E: equipped
• +N: enhancement level (orange at +10)
• Pink atom: mutated (×N for several)
• Yellow lock: locked, so it can't be dismantled
• Set-coloured outline and dot: set piece
• NEW: not inspected yet; the main menu's Gear tile counts new pieces
• The Loadout lists set progress (e.g. Lipid Bilayer 3/5) and each piece shows what it would replace