Molten Rock

"Surprise, surprise... Another band of peculiar pill-pushers think it's a wise idea to build a medical facility on Molten Rock. Yes, you heard me correctly. That's Molten Rock: the active volcano. What does one prescribe for an eruption? Leeches? It certainly feels right. Still, won't it be a shame when the whole thing bursts into flames."

- Nigel Bickleworth

Molten Rock is the second Campus of the Medical School DLC. The Nurses here receive two new rooms, the Injection Room and Thumping Therapy, along with a host of new Patient treating in them. The new Helipad item will offer flexibility in how to go about this.

The player has two new, very different companions in this location; first, the Island itself. Molten Rock is unconvinced of the player's intentions, and will need to be impressed. As well as this, the Pirate Healthcare crew, led by Captain Briney Seadog, will put the player's Doctors and Nurses - and potentially Janitors - through their paces.

Tropical-Plot-Icon.png Plot Challenge Mode
The Island has given the player 27 plots to earn, through Plot Challenge Mode. Selecting a plot will reveal either one or two objectives (one for an empty plot, the other for one including buildings), which the player may confirm by pressing the button. Up to three objectives at a time may be selected, and when each is completed, the Island will grant the player the plot, onto which the Campus can be expanded. It will be necessary to earn all 26 additional plots in order to reach Star Level.

Island-Trial-Icon.png Island Trials
The Island will not wait passively for the player to complete their mission; it will be testing the player throughout their stay with Island Trials. These consist of sporadically-issued objectives that must be completed within a set time limit.

If the Trial is passed, the Island will reward the player with an eruption from the geyser at its base. This will spread healing spores across the Campus, restoring the Happiness and Health bars of all Patients to maximum.

However, if the Trial is failed, the Island will instead cause the volcano to erupt, covering the Campus in molten rockettes, which must be extinguished by Janitors trained in Fire-Resistance.

Pirate-Wager-Icon.png Pirate Healthcare
Emergencies take a slightly different form in Molten Rock. The challenge itself will be the same, to cure a certain target number of Patients in a 90-day period. However, the Pirate Healthcare crew will make the player a Pirate Wager over the matter, resulting in greater rewards than a regular Emergency, but also potential penalty. It should be noted that Pirate Wagers are issued directly by Pirate Healthcare, and cannot be rejected or delayed.

If the player is successful in meeting the target, then a treasure map will appear somewhere on one of the open plots. A Janitor will proceed to this spot (marked 'X'), and proceed to dig up a Pirate Treasure, containing 25,000.

However, if the target should not be met, the Campus will instead be invaded, by the Pirate Healthcare crew themselves. This invasion may even be led by Briney Seadog herself! In addition to the usual mayhem invaders are known to cause, the pirates will fight with Patients, which can cause them to instantly rage quit.

The following table lists Island Trials that may be encountered. Where an n appears, the challenge is variable. It will entail raising the Happiness of the Student body by 5%, though it will never ask for more than 80%. For Campus Levels 1-6, this will be +3% rather than +5%.

Invader-Icon.png Invaders

 * Pirate Healthcare

Trivia
In early development, this Campus was named "Fissure Island"