# Where are diseases located, and other questions about diseases ( causing mutations, etc.)

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**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/where-are-diseases-located-and-other-questions-about-diseases-causing-mutations-etc/21033 "2019-08-09T17:05:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/where-are-diseases-located-and-other-questions-about-diseases-causing-mutations-etc/21033/1 "2019-08-09T17:05:36Z")

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I’m thinking of ways to make people’s lives more miserable/better (such as untreated frostbite causing a hand/leg mutation called “missing finger/toe” which would increase encumbrance by 5 \<it would be “purifiable” by obtaining any hand/foot mutation\>, turning into a wendigo from eating human flesh, “smart” parasites \<e.g. like the stuff you have in yogourt\>, certain events causing “pyschopath” “killer drive” or “pyromaniac” to occur \<at a _very_ low chance like 1%\> to simulate pyschology, etc) but I can’t find exactly where diseases are located in the json folders. Anybody know what they’re called?

And what exactly would I have to have a disease cause a mutation after they reached past a certain stage, similar to how fungal infections can cause a limb to break or spawn spores?

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/where-are-diseases-located-and-other-questions-about-diseases-causing-mutations-etc/21033/2 "2019-08-09T21:14:18Z")

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data/json/effects

About the other, i have no idea

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**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/where-are-diseases-located-and-other-questions-about-diseases-causing-mutations-etc/21033/3 "2019-08-10T21:59:06Z")

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For most of that effects you’d not only have to code that JSON entry but also step into the c++ code to place some hard coded effects and interactions not governed by the JSON decoder.