Morale Points

Your Morale Points represent your character's mental state.

• Each character starts the game with 7 .
• A character can gain a maximum of 14 . This can be reduced by certain Diseases and Disorders.
• When your drops to 0, your character will commit suicide during the next cycle change (unless they have the Self-sacrifice skill). This can only be avoided by raising your to at least 1 before the cycle change occurs.
• The of Mush characters is always at its maximum and cannot be changed.

Gaining Morale

Source	Gain	Notes
Eating a Banana	+1
Eating certain Error: Unrecognized item.	+1
Taking certain Drugs	+1-3
Sleeping in the same room as a Shrink	+1	The point is gained during cycle change.
Being comforted by a Shrink	+2
Being present during a Leader's Motivational Speech	+2
Doing the thing	+2	When Derek does the thing for the first time, he restores all .
Caressing Schrödinger	+3	Once per game.
Using the Alien Holographic TV	+3	Once per game.
Rebel Base: CYGNI	+3
Rebel Base: KALADAAN	+6
Establishing communications with Sol	+3	Only triggers the first time contact is re-established.
Being rescued from a MIA event on Expeditions	+3

Losing Morale

Source	Loss	Notes
Certain Disorders	-1
Death of a crewmember	-1	No morale is lost if the crewmate dies to suicide, trades, or quarantine. None is lost if you have Detached Crewmember.
Death of a Pregnant crewmember	-2
Death of Chun	-3
Consuming a Alien Steak or a Standard Ration	-1
Taking certain Drugs	-2
Eating Organic Waste	-4
Surviving a day	-2	Morale is lost when transitioning from Cycle 8 to Cycle 1. Reduced by 1 while Chun is alive. Reduced by 1 if you have The Optimist.
Being the victim of a panic attack	-3	Happens randomly between cycles, the same as other negative events.
Being lost on a planet during cycle change	-1
Being Dirty during cycle change as a Finola	-1
Being in the same room as another crewmate during cycle change as Raluca	-1
Raluca: Schrödinger dies	-4 Template:Moral
Using Premonition	-1
Being the victim of Demoralize	-2

Low Morale

If your morale is low, you become:

• Demoralized if your morale is less than or equal to 5 Template:Moral.
• Suicidal if you have only 1 left.

Tips

• Staying at low morale should be avoided if possible, as you risk dying to an unexpected panic attack or a Mush rampage that causes multiple deaths.
• Communicate with Janice, or a character with Leader, if your morale is low. However, beware of being too open about having low morale, or an opportunistic Mush could kill you with Demoralize.