Consciousness

Consciousness, called Data Processing on mechanoids, is a pawn capacity: The state or quality of awareness. A pawn loses consciousness when this falls below 30%, and dies when this reaches 0%. Humans, animals and mechanoids all share the same unconscious and lethality thresholds.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 170% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, having used a neural supercharger, with any level of pollution stimulus and a psychic bond with a pawn on the same map.

Affected stats

Consciousness itself doesn't have any direct effect on a pawn's stats, however it does directly affect several other capacities which in turn affect most stats a pawn has. Thus, when considering the effect of a consciousness change, the affected stats of those other capacities must be considered.

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Eating	Capacity	1	-	A character's ability to eat.
Manipulation	Capacity	1	-	How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.
Moving	Capacity	1	1	How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness.
Talking	Capacity	1	-	A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness.

Factors

Base Factors

Consciousness is mainly affected by the following factors:

• Blood Pumping: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
• Breathing: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
• Blood filtration: 10% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
• Pain: The pain offset can be calculated as follows:

IF Pain[%] <= 10% THEN -0% ELSE -{(Pain-0.1)/2.25}[%]

Thus, minor levels of pain (10% or less) have no effect on Consciousness, while anything more than that starts to reduce consciousness at a little less than half (4/9) its value.

More specifically, the pawn's consciousness is reduced at a rate of -1% for every 2.25% Pain above 10%, with a maximum penalty at 100% Pain of -40% Consciousness.

• Brain part efficiency: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 100%).
  • Joywire: part efficiency offset −20%

Post Factors

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

• Beer (high)
  • Tipsy: ×90%
  • Drunk: ×65%
  • Hammered: ×50%
• Cryptosleep sickness: ×80%
• Food poisoning
  • Recovering: ×60%
  • Initial: ×60%
  • Major: ×50%
• Heart attack painful: ×50%
• Biosculpting sickness: ×80%
• Interupted deathrest: ×80%
• Scanning sickness: ×75%
• Morning sickness: ×80%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

• Beer (hangover)
  • Slight: −3%
  • Strong: −8%
  • Pounding: −18%
• Alcohol withdrawal: −20%
• Go-juice:
  • High: +20%
  • Withdrawal: −20%
• Luciferium high: +10%
• Psychite withdrawal (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): −20%
• Smokeleaf joint
  • High: −30%
  • Withdrawal: −20%
• Wake-up:
  • High: +10%
  • Withdrawal: −30%
• Blood loss
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Severe: −40%
  • Extreme: −40%
• Toxic buildup
  • Initial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −15%
  • Serious: −25%
• Malnutrition
  • Trivial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Severe: −30%
• Heatstroke
  • Initial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Serious: −20%
• Hypothermia
  • Shivering: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Serious: −20%
• Hypothermic slowdown
  • Minor: −5%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Serious: −40%
• Infection extreme (initial): −5%
• Flu
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −10%
  • Extreme: −15%
• Plague
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −20%
  • Extreme: −30%
• Malaria
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −12%
• Sleeping sickness
  • Minor (initial): −2%
  • Minor (advanced): −4%
  • Major: −15%
  • Extreme (initial): −20%
• Lung rot extreme: −10%
• Resurrection psychosis
  • Moderate: −10%
  • Advanced: −20%
  • Severe: −30%
  • Total: −40%
• Psychic breakdown:
  • Minor: −25%
  • Major: −50%
• Circadian half-cycler: −15%
• Neural supercharger: +10%
• Psychic bond:
  • Psychic bond: +15%
  • Psychic bond distance: −25%
• Pollution stimulus: +5%
• Infant illness extreme: −5%
• Gene loss shock: −0.05
• Bio-starvation: −25%

Limits

If any of these conditions apply, the Consciousness can not be higher than the given value. Note that it can still be lower.

• Beer (high) blackout: 10% max
• Luciferium need unmet: 80% max
• Blood loss extreme: 10% max
• Anesthetic
  • Wearing off: 90% max
  • Woozy: 70% max
  • Sedated: 1% max
• Catatonic breakdown: 10% max
• Psychic shock: 10% max
• Psychic coma: 10% max
• Brain shock: 10% max
• Toxic buildup extreme: 10% max
• Heart attack debilitating: 10% max
• Drug overdose
  • Minor: 50% max
  • Major: 10% max
• Malnutrition extreme: 10% max
• Heatstroke extreme: 10% max
• Hypothermia extreme: 10% max
• Hypothermic slowdown extreme: 10% max
• Infection extreme (advanced): 10% max
• Malaria extreme: 10% max
• Sleeping sickness extreme (advanced): 10% max
• Resurrection psychosis catatonic: 10% max
• Psychic breakdown total: 10% max
• Infant illness extreme: 10% max
• Hemogen craving:
  • Minor: 90% max
  • Major: 80% max
  • Extreme: 50% max
• Deathresting: 10% max
• Deathrest exhaustion: 50% max
• Regeneration coma: 10% max
• Xenogermination coma: 10% max
• Chemical dependency:
  • Deficiency: 70% max
  • Deficiency coma: 10% max

Formula

The formula is as follows:

Consciousness = IF (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) < Limit THEN (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) ELSE Limit

The Base factors can be calculated with the following formulas:

Blood Pumping = 1 + ({IF Blood Pumping < 1 THEN Blood Pumping ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Breathing = 1 + ({IF Breathing < 1 THEN Breathing ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Blood Filtration = 1 + ({IF Blood Filtration < 1 THEN Blood Filtration ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.1
Pain = IF (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) < 1 THEN (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) ELSE 1

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Stats

Capacities

Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Breathing • Consciousness • Eating • Hearing • Manipulation • Metabolism • Moving • Pain • Sight • Talking

Pawn Stats - General

Carrying Capacity • Eating Speed • Filth Rate • Foraged Food Amount • Global Learning Factor • Hunger Rate Factor • Immunity Gain Speed • Leather Amount • Lifespan Factor • Max Nutrition • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Meat Amount • Mental Break Threshold • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Minimum Handling Skill • Move Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Psychic Sensitivity • Rest Rate Multiplier • Sleep Fall Rate • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Meditation Focus Gain • Neural Heat Gain • Neural Heat Limit • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Conversion Power • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Terror • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Raw Nutrition Multiplier

- Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed

- Combat

Aiming Time • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance • Melee DPS • Melee Hit Chance • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Shooting Accuracy • Trap Spring Chance • Melee Damage Factor • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Stagger Time Multiplier

- Social

Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Negotiation Ability • Social Impact • Tame Animal Chance • Trade Price Improvement • Train Animal Chance • Animal Products Price Improvement • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Suppression Power

- Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

- Work

Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Butchery Efficiency • Butchery Speed • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Cooking Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Food Poison Chance • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hunting Stealth • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Tend Speed • Mining Speed • Mining Yield • Plant Harvest Yield • Plant Work Speed • Repair Success Chance • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset