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Lab Coat (Cure Research Control)
"The cure only moves when you say so."
How do I install Lab Coat (Cure Research Control)?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Lab Coat (Cure Research Control) for Plague Inc: Evolved in one click.
</>What does Lab Coat (Cure Research Control) do?
The cure is the clock. Every run is really a race between how fast you can spread and how fast a room full of scientists in hazmat suits can undo your life's work. Lab Coat hands you the stopwatch. Pause Cure Research and the labs just... stop, frozen at whatever percentage they'd reached, while you take your time infecting the last stubborn islands. Want something less absolute? The research speed multiplier dials humanity up or down — crank it to make Mega Brutal genuinely unfair, or drag it to a crawl for a relaxed run. Then there's Prevent Cure Completion, the cruel one: the bar keeps climbing, the news keeps reporting breakthroughs, and it never quite arrives. Reset the whole thing to zero whenever you feel like restarting their misery, or complete it instantly if you want to watch the losing screen on purpose. Handy if you keep getting cured with two countries left, if you'd rather tune your own difficulty than take what the game hands you, or if you're walking someone through a strategy on stream and don't want a countdown ruining the demo.
</>What is Lab Coat (Cure Research Control)?
Lab Coat puts humanity's cure research on your leash in Plague Inc: Evolved. Pause it outright, dial the research speed up or down, wipe progress back to zero, or finish the cure the moment you want the race over. Prevent Cure Completion keeps the pressure on by letting the scientists get painfully close and no further. Free on ProjectMods, the community-first PC mod manager for 400+ games.
</>Common questions about Lab Coat (Cure Research Control)
What does Lab Coat do in Plague Inc: Evolved?
Lab Coat hands you the stopwatch on humanity's cure research in Plague Inc: Evolved. You can freeze cure progress where it stands, dial the research speed up or down, wipe the progress bar back to zero, finish the cure on the spot, or let research climb forever without ever crossing the finish line. The cure is the clock in Plague Inc — everything you do is a race against a room full of scientists in hazmat suits. Lab Coat lets you decide how fast that clock ticks, or whether it ticks at all. It's a free-tier mod from ProjectMods, the community-first PC mod manager.
How does Lab Coat's cure research speed control work?
Lab Coat's Cure Research Speed Multiplier is a straight dial on how fast humanity researches the cure in Plague Inc: Evolved. Set it to 1 and the cure moves at the game's normal pace — that's your baseline. Push it above 1 and the world's scientists get scary good, chewing through research before your plague has even left its starting country. Drop it below 1 and they slow to a crawl, giving you breathing room to build symptoms before anyone panics. The speed setting only shapes new research coming in; whatever progress already exists on the bar stays put. That makes it the tuning dial rather than the panic button — pick a difficulty that suits the run you want, then leave it alone and play.
Does Prevent Cure Completion stop research from moving at all?
No — and that's the point. With Prevent Cure Completion switched on in Plague Inc: Evolved, research keeps climbing, the news keeps reporting breakthroughs, and the bar keeps creeping toward the end. It just never quite arrives. Lab Coat holds it a hair short of done, forever. It's the cruel one: all the pressure of a nearly-finished cure with none of the game-ending payoff. Compare that with Pause Cure Research, which freezes the number exactly where it is and leaves it there until you switch the option off. One is a hard stop, the other is an endless near-miss. Pick your flavour of dread.
Can I undo Reset Cure Progress if I press it by mistake?
No. Reset Cure Progress sends the cure bar in Plague Inc: Evolved straight back to zero, and there's no undo button — Lab Coat doesn't remember what the number was before you hit it. Research does start rebuilding normally from there, so the world isn't frozen in time, but that specific progress is gone for good. If you're mid-run and just want to stall the scientists without nuking their work, use Pause Cure Research instead: it freezes the current total and hands it straight back when you switch it off. Treat Reset as the big red button it is, and press it on purpose.
Why would I want to complete the cure instantly?
Because sometimes you want to see the other ending. Complete Cure Instantly fills the bar and finishes humanity's cure on the spot in Plague Inc: Evolved, ending the race then and there. It's handy when you're testing a disease build and don't want to sit through the last twenty minutes, when you're recording something and need the cure-victory screen on demand, or when you just want to watch the world win for once. Lab Coat also makes the opposite scenario easy: slow the research to a crawl, or hold it just below the line, and let a doomed planet keep hoping. Same mod, two very different stories.
What options does Lab Coat (Cure Research Control) include?
Prevent Cure Completion
Allow cure research to continue but stop it before it reaches completion.
Reset Cure Progress
Set the current cure research progress to zero.
Complete Cure Instantly
Fill the cure research bar and complete the cure.
Cure Research Speed Multiplier
Multiply new cure research gains. Set this to 1 for the normal research rate.
Pause Cure Research
Stop cure research from gaining progress until this option is turned off.
Lab Coat is a free Plague Inc: Evolved mod that puts you in charge of humanity's cure. Pause research, speed it up or slow it down, reset it to zero, finish it instantly, or let it climb forever without ever finishing.
System Requirements
What features does Lab Coat (Cure Research Control) include?
- Freeze the cure exactly where it is — the labs stop dead until you say otherwise.
- Dial the cure's research speed up or down with a slider, from a crawl to genuinely unfair.
- Wipe cure progress back to zero, or finish the cure instantly when you want the run over.
- Let the cure climb forever without ever landing, so the pressure never lets up.
Best For
- You keep getting cured with two countries left and want the clock off your back.
- You're testing a disease build and want to see how it holds up against a slow cure, a fast one, or one that's about to land.
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