Creatures 2 Biochemistry Decay Rates

The full list of C2 Decay Rates, displayed by "Half Life" decay number.

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Notes:

1. The biochemistry uses both integer arithmetic, and discrete time steps of 0.2 seconds. Rounding down often makes the decay from 255->0 quicker than you would expect looking at the decay from 255->127 (which would otherwise be a true half-life).

2. The Science Kit graphs are only drawn accurate to the pixel, so when the concentration on the graph there appears to be at its minimum, it may not have actually reached it. If you try and measure exact times of decay in the Science Kit, you won't get as accurate results as here.

3. If you hex-edit a gene file, and change the decay rate to values other than in this table, you will just get the same behaviour as the nearest lower value in the table. For example, any value from 0 to 7 will behave as 0 does, and any value from 64-71 will behave the same as 64.

Decay number (the "half life" in the genetics kit)	Time to decay from full concentration to half (255->127)	Time to decay from full concentration to none (255->0)
0	0.2 secs	0.2 secs
8	0.2 secs	0.8 secs
16	0.2 secs	1.4 secs
24	0.4 secs	2.6 secs
32	0.8 secs	4.4 secs
40	1.4 secs	7.6 secs
48	2.6 secs	12.4 secs
56	5.0 secs	19.8 secs
64	9.8 secs	39.4 secs
72	19.8 secs	1 mins 19 secs
80	39.8 secs	2 mins 38 secs
88	1 mins 20 secs	5 mins 17 secs
96	2 mins 40 secs	10 mins 33 secs
104	5 mins 20 secs	21 mins 7 secs
112	10 mins 40 secs	42 mins 14 secs
120	21 mins 20 secs	1 hours 24 mins
128	42 mins 40 secs	2 hours 48 mins
136	1 hours 25 mins	5 hours 37 mins
144	2 hours 50 mins	11 hours 15 mins
152	5 hours 41 mins	22 hours 31 mins
160	11 hours 22 mins	1 days 21 hours
168	22 hours 45 mins	3 days 18 hours
176	1 days 21 hours	7 days 12 hours
184	3 days 19 hours	15 days 0 hours
192	7 days 14 hours	30 days 0 hours
200	15 days 4 hours	60 days 1 hours
208	30 days 8 hours	120 days 3 hours
216	60 days 16 hours	240 days 7 hours
224	121 days 8 hours	1 years 115 days
232	242 days 17 hours	2 years 231 days
240	1 years 120 days	5 years 97 days
248	13 years 226 days	Absolutely ages

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