Adapting to the host
The first time your lineage reaches certain organs in Infect Game Mode, some viruses adapt for good. A banner announces "<VIRUS> ADAPTS". The bonus then applies in every organ and every game mode, and the bonuses multiply together. Influenza A has no milestones.
Milestones count from the deepest organ your whole lineage has reached in Infect Game Mode, whichever virus got there.
Captured cells hit 25% harder and are 25% tougher.
A bean-sized checkpoint where immune cells gather. Lymph drains through it, and B and T cells meet the antigens dendritic cells bring in.
Fun fact: You have around 600 lymph nodes; swollen glands during a cold are nodes busy fighting.
Lymph Node in the Codex
Captured cells get +10% damage and +15% toughness, and every cell your shots kill adds a kamikaze.
The intestines: a lining of finger-like villi covered in mucus, home to trillions of bacteria and about 70% of the body's immune cells.
Fun fact: Spread flat, the small intestine's surface would cover about half a badminton court.
Gut in the Codex
Captured cells get +60% damage and toughness, and Latency and Integration Surge hit 80% harder.
The body's chemical factory and filter. Blood from the gut flows through its hexagonal lobules, where resident macrophages catch anything foreign.
Fun fact: The liver can regrow from as little as a quarter of its original size.
Liver in the Codex
Captured cells double their damage and toughness, and Latency and Integration Surge hit 120% harder.
Protected by the blood-brain barrier, the brain has its own immune system run mostly by microglia and astrocytes.
Fun fact: The brain has around 86 billion neurons and roughly as many glial cells supporting them.
Brain in the Codex
Bleeds, Hemorrhage and Viral Hemorrhage hit 80% harder.
The organs of breathing, where oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide leaves it.
Fun fact: Spread flat, the surface of the lungs' air sacs would cover roughly half a tennis court.
Lungs in the Codex
Bleeds, Hemorrhage and Viral Hemorrhage hit another 50% harder, and any bleeding cell deals 35% less damage.
The network of vessels carrying about 5 litres of blood around the body every minute, filled with red cells, platelets and immune cells.
Fun fact: Laid end to end, your blood vessels would stretch around 100,000 km, more than twice around the Earth.
Bloodstream in the CodexBleeding gets 10% stronger, and Hemorrhage weakens cells 5% more.
The intestines: a lining of finger-like villi covered in mucus, home to trillions of bacteria and about 70% of the body's immune cells.
Fun fact: Spread flat, the small intestine's surface would cover about half a badminton court.
Gut in the CodexInfection, spike volleys, outbreaks and the ultimate hit 80% harder.
A bean-sized checkpoint where immune cells gather. Lymph drains through it, and B and T cells meet the antigens dendritic cells bring in.
Fun fact: You have around 600 lymph nodes; swollen glands during a cold are nodes busy fighting.
Lymph Node in the CodexSpike volleys deal 15% more, and the Fury surge gives +65% damage.
The intestines: a lining of finger-like villi covered in mucus, home to trillions of bacteria and about 70% of the body's immune cells.
Fun fact: Spread flat, the small intestine's surface would cover about half a badminton court.
Gut in the Codex
Infection, spike volleys, outbreaks and the ultimate hit 60% harder.
Soft tissue inside bones where every blood cell is made: hundreds of billions a day, from a small pool of stem cells.
Fun fact: Your marrow makes about 2 million new red blood cells every second.
Bone Marrow in the CodexInfection, spike volleys, outbreaks and the ultimate hit 90% harder.
Protected by the blood-brain barrier, the brain has its own immune system run mostly by microglia and astrocytes.
Fun fact: The brain has around 86 billion neurons and roughly as many glial cells supporting them.
Brain in the Codex
