Changeling Abilities

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Last Updated: 2025-10-29
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Starting Abilities

Absorb DNA

0 Chems

• Allows you to slowly and noisily absorb a dead, crit, cuffed or hard*grabbed crew mate. This adds their DNA to your pool, gives you 2 evolution points, and refills your biomass.
• If another changeling is absorbed, you instead get half of their total evolution points and half of their max chemicals.
• Target must be in a HARD grab to use this ability.
• Can be used in lesser form.
• Cannot be used while on fire.

Extract DNA Sting

25 Chems

• Adds the stung player's DNA to your pool.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.

Cycle DNA

0 Chems

• Changes the active DNA used for transform.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.

Transform

5 Chems

• Transforms you to have the exact name and voice of your currently active DNA, consumes the DNA.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.

Enter Regenerative Stasis

0 chems

• Changeling instantly dies, and the exit stasis ability is unlocked.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.

Exit Regenerative Stasis

30 Chems

• Changeling instantly revives, all health is fully recovered.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.
• Can only be used after a set duration. This scales with damage taken prior to stasis, up to 180 seconds.

Combat Abilities

Dissonant Shriek

2 Evolution Points / 30 Chems / 1 Absorbed Organic

• Changeling emits an EMP blast, disabling borgs, IPCs, suit coordinates, and other electronic equipment.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.

Resonant Shriek

2 Evolution Points / 30 Chems / 1 Absorbed Organic

• Screeches, blinding anyone in the nearby area without flash protection, breaks nearby lights as well.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.

Organic Shield

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems / 1 Absorbed Organic

• Grows one of its arms into a robust shield, absorbs 50% of incoming damage until destroyed.

Strained Muscles

2 Evolution Points / 0 Chems

• Speeds the changeling up greatly, but deals heavy stamina damage over time to self. Toggles on and off.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire

Bone Shard

3 Evolution Points / 15 Chems

• Changeling forms a bone shard throwing weapon that hardstuns in two hits, shards dissolve after a short while.

Dart Gun

3 Evolution Points / 15 Chems

• Changeling forms an arm into a dart gun. Dart gun fires any of the lings evolved stings, costs 1/3 the sting's cost in chems per shot.
• Can shoot and select darts while on fire (if in use/toggled)

Arm Blade

4 Evolution Points / 15 Chems

• Changeling forms an arm into a blade. Deals heavy limb damage on light attack when targeting a limb.

Arm Claw

4 Evolution Points / 15 Chems

• Changeling forms an arm into a claw. Claws can grab organisms and prevent them from moving. Claw cannot be used to attack while grabbing.

Arm Hammer

4 Evolution Points / 15 Chems

• Changeling forms an arm into a hammer. Deals blunt damage, knocks down, and flings targets on light attack.

Chitinous Armor

4 Evolution Points / 25 Chems / 2 Absorbed Organics

• Changeling forms body into a mass of armor, only usable when outerwear and head slots are empty.
• Armor slows ling by 15 percent
• Armor reduces all damage by 50 percent
• Head armor reduces brute and burn damages by 10 percent
• Has decent protection against fires
• Slows down chem regen rate by 25%.

Stings Abilities

Blind Sting

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Changeling injects organic with 2 units of blind toxin, blinding the target for 12 seconds.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Does not work on Yowies.
• Can stack with itself.

Cryogenic Sting

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Changeling injects organic with 10 units of fresium, dropping their temperature to 0 degrees Celsius in most cases.
• Cold organics move far slower.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can stack with itself.

Mute Sting

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Changeling injects organic with 2 units of mute toxin, muting the target for 40 seconds.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can stack with itself.
• Does not work on Yowies.

Lethargic Sting

3 Evolution Points / 30 Chems

• Changeling injects organic with 5 units of impredrezene and tirizene, causing numerous effects.
• Slows target by 35%
• Deals 20 poison damage
• Deals 15 stamina damage per second for ten seconds
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can stack with itself.
• Does not work on Yowies.

False Armblade Sting

4 Evolution Points / 50 Chems

• Changeling injects organic with some of its genome, forcing the organic to grow a temporary useless armblade.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Lasts roughly 60 seconds.

Utility Abilities

Anatomic Panacea

2 Evolution Points / 30 Chems

• Produces 10 units of Ling Panacea within the changeling.
• Heals 60 genetic, radiation and poison damage.
• Cures disabilities (permanent blindness, narcolepsy, leg paralysis etc.)
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.

Last Resort

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Explodes the changelings current body and turns them into a headslug.
• Headslugs are extremely fast, can ventcrawl, and can crawl under doors.
• It can be used while cuffed but cannot be used in lesser form.
• Headslugs can infect a non*hollow corpse to turn into a lesser form changeling after a short timer.
• If the infected body is destroyed, the headslug will not revive, and will be forever lost.
• Can be activated while on fire.

Lesser Form

2 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Changeling turns into a monkey.
• Uncuffs changeling.
• Monkey can ventcrawl, but loses some abilities that the ling would otherwise have.

Absorb Biomatter

3 Evolution Points

• Consuming meat products restores the changelings chemical stores.

Augmented Eyesight

4 Evolution Points / 0 Chems

• Changeling can toggle eyesight between flash resistant and thermal vision.
• While using thermal vision, flashes stun the changeling for twice as long.
• Thermal vision also provides changeling with night vision.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.

Biodegrade

4 Evolution Points / 30 Chems

• Burns cuffs off the changeling.
• Uncuffs changeling.
• Splashes anyone grabbing changeling with acid, doing slight caustic damage, blinding them and knocking them down.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.

Chameleon Skin

4 Evolution Points / 20 Chems

• Changeling gains invisibility.
• Invisibility increases while standing still.
• Invisibility rapidly decreases while moving.
• Can be used while cuffed.
• Slows down chem regen rate by 25%.

Adrenaline Reserves

4 Evolution Points / 25 Chems

• Changeling produces 5 units of Changeling Adrenaline.
• Deals 6.75 poison damage to changeling upon immediate second use.
• Removes stuns, knockdown times, and makes you impervious to most forms of fatigue.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.
• Can be used while on fire.

Hivemind Access

4 Evolution Points

• Shows a symbol above all changelings with this ability.
• Toggleable on and off.
• Grants access to the hivemind channel - :g

Void Adaption

4 Evolution Points / 0 Chems / 2 Absorbed Organics

• Renders you immune to barotrauma (spacing) damage if active.
• Immune to freezing temperatures and its effects if active.
• Does not protect from cold damage.
• Changeling no longer needs to breathe if active.
• Slows down chem regen rate by 25%.

Fleshmend

5 Evolution Points / 35 Chems

• User is given the "Fleshmend" status effect, lasting for 10 seconds.
• Fleshmend's effects will temporarily cease while on fire.
• Heals 10 overall brute damage per tick (100 in total).
• Heals 5 overall burn damage per tick (50 in total).
• Heals 2 asphyxiation damage per tick (20 in total).
• Reduces bleeding severity by 2.5 per tick (25 in total).
• Restores roughly 3.5% blood level per tick (35% in total).
• Usable while in critical condition.
• Can be used while cuffed or in lesser form.