Balanced Viruses

A small rebalance of Paralives’ digestive virus system designed to make illness outbreaks feel more believable and less overwhelming. 😷💊

In the base game, viruses can spread extremely aggressively due to frequent infection checks and high transmission chances. This mod reduces the intensity of outbreaks while still preserving the original sickness mechanics and gameplay.

• Reduced the chance of catching the digestive virus from work/school:

5% → 1%

• Reduced the chance of spreading the virus between Paras:

25% → 5%

• Reduced how often transmission checks occur:

Every 15 in-game minutes → Every 60 in-game minutes

• Reduced length of sickness time once infected:

12 in-game hours → 8 in-game hours

• Reduced aura effect radius of infected Paras:

6 → 3

Paras can still get sick, viruses can still spread naturally, just far less aggressively than in vanilla. This mod only edits the digestive virus logic and should be lightweight and compatible with most other mods unless they also modify the same virus systems.

This is my first mod of this kind, so please let me know of any issues.