Editing Electroharvester

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| name = Electroharvester 
| image = Electroharvester south.png
| description = An electrical generator that can be placed near a holding platform, where it will draw power from a contained entity.  The generator hooks into the entity's body and harnesses energy generated by unnatural spatial distortions or psychic flows inside it.<br>Larger entities produce more power.  However, electroharvesting agitates entities, making them more likely to escape.<br>An electroharvester can link to up to four platforms.  However, each holding platform can support only one electroharvester.
| type = Building
| type2 = Anomaly (Buildings)
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== Acquisition ==
Requires 50 steel, 25 bioferrite, and one component.  Requires the Electroharvester research, a basic dark research.

== Summary == 
The electroharvester will generate electrical energy from entities contained in connected platforms, providing power to its connected power grid. The amount of energy produced is based on the combined [[body size]] of all entities. It produces 200 watts of power per 1 body size, up to a maximum output of 2000 watts at 10 body size. For reference, a [[gorehulk]] has a body size of 2, and contributes 400 watts to an electroharvester. The Electroharvester reduces the [[Containment|containment]] strength of all connected platforms by -25.  Additionally, it significantly increases the activity gain of connected entities. For example, a [[nociosphere]] normally gains 10% activity per day, but this jumps up to a whopping 25% when an electroharvester is attached. While this can be situationally useful, it also dramatically increases the risk of catastrophic failure.

A feature of the electroharvester not explicitly mentioned in-game is that it will periodically harm connected entities, applying a few electrical burns at infrequent intervals. The amount of damage applied is usually trivial, around 1-3 {{HP}}{{Check Tag|check|Based on float range defined in code. Testing needed to confirm actual damage, and if armor has any effect.}} of damage with an {{MTB}} of 2 days. Because of their inability to regenerate health, [[shambler]]s will eventually die from these burns, making shambler power non-renewable compared to other entities{{Check Tag|others?|I know that this is the case for shamblers, but are there any other entities that do not regenerate health?}}.

== Analysis ==
The electroharvester provides a cheap early-game building for colonies to consistently generate power utilizing void entities. Reasonable setups where a single electroharvester is connected to 6 containment pads holding [[Sightstealer|Sightstealers]], [[Shambler|Shamblers]], and [[Gorehulk|Gorehulks]] can match or surpass the power generator of the [[Chemfuel_powered_generator|Chemfuel]] and [[Wood-fired_generator|Wood]] generators. Compared to [[Solar_generator|Solar]] and [[Wind_turbine|Wind]] generators, the Electroharvester is cheaper, and is unaffected by light or wind levels, but will generally offer less overall power unless connected to large body size entities such as Gorehulks or [[Chimera|Chimeras]].

The [[Bioferrite generator]] can be seen as a direct lategame upgrade to the Electroharvester, although it consumes 6 bioferrite per day as fuel, which may be a burden on colonies with smaller harvesting setups or frequent void rituals. It is possible to use an electroharvester in conjunction with a Bioferrite generator- they are not mutually exclusive.

The wounds inflicted by the Electroharvester can provide consistent and risk-free opportunities for pawns to train up their medicine skill.

Production rates of [[Twisted_meat|Twisted Meat]] from [[Fleshmass_nucleus|fleshmas nuclei]] rise with higher activity levels. Colonies utilizing twisted meat to feed ghouls, inhumanized colonists, or as an ingredient for chemfuel refining may prefer to have a fleshmass nucleus connected to an electroharvester.

== Version history == 
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.

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