Sick Bay

Sick Bay is a building that is placed inside hospital rooms to reduce the chance of disease spreading among your population. As a hospital-room fixture, its primary purpose is to lower the probability that an illness will propagate from one occupant or contaminated tile to adjacent duplicants or areas. In practical terms, Sick Bay functions as part of an infection-mitigation strategy by being sited in spaces dedicated to treatment and recovery.

Place Sick Bays inside purpose-built hospital rooms to receive their benefit; they only provide their disease-reduction effect when installed within a room that is defined as a hospital. The reduction applies to the general risk of transmission within that room, making hospital rooms with a Sick Bay safer for both the patient and other duplicants who enter the space. This makes Sick Bay a central component when designing quarters intended for isolating and treating sick duplicants.

• Install Sick Bays in properly designated hospital rooms to obtain the reduced disease-spread effect; merely placing the building outside of a hospital room will not grant the same protection.
• Use Sick Bays to reinforce the safety of treatment areas so that recovery and medical procedures can occur with a lower likelihood of new infections originating in the room.
• Consider Sick Bay placement when planning traffic flow: situating it where patients spend most of their time ensures the building’s effect covers the highest-risk interactions.
• Keep hospital rooms clearly separated from high-traffic or communal areas so the Sick Bay’s benefits are concentrated on treatment spaces rather than diluted by routine transit.

Sick Bay integrates with broader infection-control practices by complementing room designation and isolation efforts. Its role is not to cure illness directly but to decrease the probability that disease will spread while duplicants are being treated or quarantined. For effective disease management, place Sick Bays in hospital rooms that are intended for treating contagious or recovering duplicants so that the chance of transmission within those rooms is minimized.