Traits

Traits are little things that can make your character unique. See also: Genetics Mutations

Some are purely cosmetic like having a funny swedish accent or getting a fancy hat. Some are debilitating, like starting with an addiction, blindness, or not being able to be cloned.

Some cost points to add on, some take away points when you add them on. The idea is to get to 0 - so if you wanted two positive traits, you'd need to take two negative etc. Some traits are also associated with certain categories, and you can only have one trait from that category; you can freely combine traits with no category.

Name	Point Change	Category	Description	Effect
Robotic Arms	0	Body	Your arms have been replaced with light robotic arms.	Both of your arms are replaced with light cyborg arms.
Green Fingers	-2	Body	Excess exposure to radiation, mutagen, and gardening have turned your arms into plants. The horror!	Both of your arms are replaced with synthlimbs, organic arms that can be reattached without surgery.
Adamantium Skeleton	-2	Body	Halves the chance that an explosion will blow off your limbs.	Halves the chance that an explosion will blow off your limbs.
Deaf	+1	Body	Spawn with permanent deafness and an auditory headset.	You spawn with permanent deafness and an auditory headset.
Swedish	0	Language	You are from sweden. Meat balls and so on.	You speak with a swedish accent mutation.
French	0	Language	You are from Quebec. y'know, the other Canada.	You have the accent (and curse words) of the Space French Space Québécois.
Scots	0	Language	Hear the pipes are calling, down thro' the glen. Och aye!	You speak with a Scottish accent mutation.
Chav	0	Language	U wot m8? I sware i'll fite u.	You speak with a chav accent mutation.
Funky Accent	0	Language	Give a man a banana and he will clown for a day. Teach a man to clown and he will live in a cold dark corner of a space station for the rest of his days. - Elvis, probably.	You speak the king's English...the King of Rock and Roll! You speak with an Elvis Presley accent mutation.
Finnish Accent	0	Language	. . . and you thought space didn't have Finns?	You speak with the accent of the taciturn, knife-wielding Space Finns.
Cat Eyes	-1	Vision	You can see 2 tiles further in the dark.	You can see 2 tiles further in the dark.
Infravision	-1	Vision	You gain permanent infravision.	You can see text people have written with infrared pens.
Short-Sighted	+1	Vision	Spawn with permanent short-sightedness and glasses.	You spawn with bad eyesight and a pair of glasses.
Blind	+2	Vision	Spawn with permanent blindnesss and a VISOR.	You are blind and can only see by wearing a VISOR. Your blindness cannot be removed with mutadone or oculine.
Robust Genetics	-2	Genetics	You gain an additional 20 genetic stability.	You gain an additional 20 genetic stability.
Stable Genes	-2	Genetics	You are less likely to mutate from radiation or mutagens.	Your mutation chance is halved. Most of the time.
NT Loyalist	-1	Trinkets	Start with a Nanotrasen Beret as your trinket.	You spawn with a Nanotrasen Beret as your trinket.
Petasusaphilic	-1	Trinkets	Start with a random hat as your trinket.	Start with a random hat as your trinket.
Pawn Star	-1	Trinkets	You sold your trinket before you departed for the station. You start with a bonus of 25% of your starting cash in your inventory.	The stack of credits you have on you when you spawn is 125% of its normal value. Does affect initial bank balance.
BEEst Friend	-1	Trinkets	Start with a bee egg as your trinket.	Your trinket is a space bee egg. Adorable!
Smooth Talker	-1	Skill	Traders will tolerate 50% more when you are haggling with them.	Traders are 50% less likely to reject your haggling offer.
Matrix Flopout	-2	Skill	Flipping lets you dodge bullets and attacks for a higher stamina cost!	Your flips now cost 50 stamina, but every flip now gives you a brief quarter-second period where you dodge all melee attacks, bullets, lasers, tasers, phasers, and everything else the game,for whatever reason, considers a projectile.
Happyfeet	-1	Skill	Sometimes people can't help but dance along with you.	When you dance, you have a 33% chance of making others dance too.
Meathead	-1	Stats	You can take quite a beating! You suffers from brain trauma, though.	You have 150 max health but start with 60 incurable brain damage. You'll stumble headfirst into airlocks often.
Athletic	-2	Stats	Great stamina! Frail body.	You have 1.1x max stamina (220 total) and 1.2x stamina regen (12 regen) but 80 max HP.
Big Bruiser	-2	Stats	Stronger punches but higher stamina cost!	Your punches do 1.25x damage than normal but cost 1.25x as much stamina.
Hemophilia	+1	None	You bleed more easily and you bleed more.	You have a 300% chance to bleed more.
Slow Metabolism	0	None	Any chemicals in you body deplete much more slowly.	Any chemicals in your body deplete twice as slowly.
Career Alcoholic	0	None	You gain alcohol resistance but your speech is permanently slurred.	You gain alcohol resistance like the bartender, but your speech is slurred.
Medical Allergy	+1	None	You're allergic to some medical chemical... but you can't remember which.	You're allergic to a random medicine. The game doesn't tell you which one at round-start, but you can find it out by looking at your MedTrak record on a medical computer. When you have this chem in your system, your body produces some histamine.
Allergy	0	None	You're allergic to... something. You can't quite remember, but bad could it possibly be?	You're allergic to a random chemical, chosen from a list that includes stuff like water, salt, soybean oil, oxygen, a few common drugs, a couple of medicines, some poisons--basically a sampling of every reagent category. You don't know which one at round-start, but you can find it out by looking at your MedTrak record on a medical computer. When you have this chem in your system, your body produces some histamine.
Addict	+2	None	You spawn with a random addiction. Once cured there is a small chance that you will suffer a relapse.	You spawn with an addiction of either: bath salts, LSD, space drugs, THC, psilocybin, cat drugs, or meth. It is possible to relapse.
Strong willed	-1	None	You are more resistant to addiction.	Your chance of getting addicted to each of the addictive chemicals is halved.
Addictive Personality	+1	None	You are less resistant to addiction.	You are twice as likely to gain a drug addiction than normal.
Unionized	-1	None	You start with a higher paycheck than normal.	Your paycheck is 150% of its normal value.
Jailbird	0	None	You have a criminal record and are currently on the run!	You are wanted for a random minor and major crime and your status is set to Arrest. Be careful around Beepsky and fear anybody with SecHUD vision.
Clerical Error	0	None	The name on your starting ID is misspelled.	The name on your starting ID is misspelled.
Chem Resistant	-2	None	You are more resistant to chem overdoses.	You overdose at 65% higher amounts than normal.
Puritan	+2	None	You can not be cloned. Any attempt will end badly.	You will gib once the cloning process is started.
Survivalist	-1	None	Food will heal you even if you are badly injured.	Food will still heal you if you are above 10 health.
Smoker	-1	None	You will not absorb any chemicals from smoking cigarettes.	You will not absorb any chemicals from smoking cigarettes. You will also spawn with a zippo lighter as your trinket.
Stowaway	+1	None	You spawn hidden away on-station without an ID or PDA.	You spawn without an ID or PDA and in a random locker or crate on the station. You do not spawn with your job's associated starting cash, and the arrivals announcement computer does not proclaim your presence, though you are still on the crew manifest.
Nervous	+1	None	Witnessing injuries or violence will sometimes make you freak out.	Witnessing injuries or violence will make you freak out 8% of the time. Doing so will cause a short stun and will make you drop your items.
Human Torch	+1	None	Extends the time that you remain on fire for, when burning.	Extends the time that you remain on fire for, when burning, 50% of the time.
Carpenter	-1	None	You can construct things more quickly than other people.	You construct things at 2x speed.
Kleptomaniac	+1	None	You will sometimes randomly pick up nearby items.	You will pick up nearby items 9% of the time, occasionally chuckling and acting smug all the while.
Clutz	+2	None	When interacting with anything you have a chance to interact with something different instead.	When interacting with anything you have a 10% chance to interact with something different instead..
Two Left Feet	+1	None	Every now and then you'll stumble in a random direction.	You have a 5% chance to stumble in a random direction when you try to move.
Scared Shitless	0	None	Literally. When you scream, you fart. Be careful around Bibles!	Actually only works on involuntary screaming and not when you use the *scream emote.
Hyperallergic	+1	None	You have a severe sensitivity to allergens and are liable to slip into anaphylactic shock upon exposure.	Histamine readily multiplies by itself in your system, to the point where it replenishes itself faster than even diphenhydramine removes it. Be wary of insect stings and other sources of histamine.
Dummy Thick	-2	None	Your buttocks are stubbornly chunky, and they clap together even when sneaking around.	Your bumcheeks occasionally clap together when you walk or are dragged about, like in the infamous meme, providing appropriate sounds.

Job Traits

In addition, there is also a subset of traits that certain jobs spawn with. Most give some sort of job-related perk or benefit.

Name	Associated Jobs	Effect
Medical Training	Roboticist Medical Doctor Pharmacist Medical Director	You are less likely to screw up surgeries, and when you do, you cause less damage.
Chaplain Training	Chaplain, duh	You cannot by targeted by various Wraith and Wizard abilities and are immune to various Vampire powers. More details here.
Professional Drinker	Barman Detective Head of Security	You spawn with alcohol resistance.
Security Training	Security Officer Head of Security	You handcuff people twice as fast and cannot be knocked down by chairflips.
Miner Training	Miner	You can examine asteroids to see what kind of ore is inside.