Injury

Injury

Each kind of injury has its own value of pain, its own description for its scar, and its own flavor text for being mended by medicine.

Name	Pain	Old Pain	Old Label	Combines?	Bleeding	Become Old Chance	Naturally Heals	Destroyed	Destroyed Out	Treated Well	Treated	Inner Treated Well	Inner Treated	Solid Treated Well	Solid Treated
Misc	1.0	0.0	Scar	No	1.0	1%	Yes	Destroyed	Destroyed	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Burn	1.5	0.5	Burn scar	Yes	0.0	1%	Yes	Burned off	Burned out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Crush	1.0	0.5	Scar	Yes	0.4	1%	Yes	Crushed	Crushed	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Crack	0.8	0.5	Scar	Yes	0.0	0%	?	Shattered	Shattered	Healed	Poorly healed	Healed	Poorly Healed	Set	Poorly set
Cut	1.0	0.5	Cut scar	Yes	1.0	1%	Yes	Cut off	Cut out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Scratch	1.0	0.5	Scratch scar	No	0.1	1%	Yes	Torn off	Torn out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Bite	1.0	0.5	Bite scar	No	0.1	1%	Yes	Bitten off	Bitten out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Stab	1.0	0.5	Stab scar	No	0.8	1%	Yes	Cut off	Cut out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Gunshot	1.0	0.5	Old gunshot	No	0.92	1%	Yes	Shot off	Shot out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Shredded	1.0	0.5	Scar	Yes	1.0	1%	Yes	Torn off	Torn out	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set
Bruise	1.0	0.5	Old bruise	No	0.0	0%	Yes	Destroyed	Destroyed	Bandaged	Poorly bandaged	Sutured	Poorly sutured	Set	Poorly set

Main Article: Pain

Most biological creatures including colonists, raiders, and animals feel pain caused by injuries. A pawn's pain level ranges from 0% to 100% and is displayed on their Health tab's Overview. Pain levels are None, Little, Moderate, Severe, and Extreme.^{[Detail Needed]} Even a little pain causes unhappy thoughts. Once pain passes 10%, it'll start to have an effect on consciousness. If a pawn's pain level meets or exceeds their Pain Shock Threshold they'll go into shock, unable to move. Pawns with the Wimp trait will be incapacitated with only minor pain of 30%.

Most pain is temporary, but scars and certain diseases can cause long-term pain. A painstopper implant or the Painblock psycast will get rid of all a colonist's pain and negate any pain-related mood penalties. Note that colonists with the Masochist trait or an ideoligion with the Pain: Idealized precept get a mood bonus from pain instead of a penalty, so it's usually better to leave them alone.

Injuries to the artificial parts do not cause any pain, so colonists with a lot of bionics will generally incur less pain during combat.

Formula

Pain for a given pawn is the sum of the pain from each individual injury, with two extra steps at the end:

• pain = pain / healthFactor for pawns with a healthFactor other than 1.0 (like grizzly bears and other large animals). Humans have a healthFactor of 1.0, so this doesn't impact humans
• pain = pain * painFactor from health conditions which alter pain. This includes pain-reducing drugs like flake and yayo as well as anesthetic used during operations

Pain from an individual injury is the product of the severity of the injury (the number of HP missing for things like cuts and burns) and the pain per severity for the injury type. For example:

• 30 burn damage causes 30 damage × 0.01875 pain per severity = 56.25% pain
• 30 cut damage causes 30 damage × 0.0125 pain per severity = 37.5% pain

For the complete table of pain vs damage, see Health Difficulties

Thresholds

Pain creates moodlets of different values at 4 stages depending on pain severity.

Level	Required Pain %	Mood Penalty (Default)	Mood Buff (Masochist)	Mood Buff (Pain:Idealized)
Minor	1%	−5	+5	+3
Serious	15%	−10	+10	+5
Intense	40%	−15	+15	+7
Mind-shattering	80%	−20	+20	+9

A standard pawn will go down upon reaching mind-shattering pain.
Pain inflicts a consciousness penalty that scales with the pain percentage after exceeding 10%. It conforms to the following equation: IF Pain[%] <= 10% THEN -0% ELSE -{(Pain-0.1)/2.25}[%] For example, 15% pain is 0.15 - 0.1 = 0.05 / 2.25 = 0.02 or 2% consciousness loss.

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Factors

Base factors

Factors cause the game code to MULTIPLY pain X a number. Small numbers reduce pain a lot. Large numbers reduce pain a little.

• Painstopper: ×0%
• Painless persona trait : ×0%
• Go-juice:
  • High: ×10%
  • Withdrawal: ×300%
• Painblock psycast: ×10%
• Yayo:
  • High: ×50%
• Luciferium:
  • High: ×80%
• Psychite tea:
  • High: ×90%
• Beer: (See also Offsets)
  • Warm: ×90%
  • Tipsy: ×80%
  • Drunk: ×50%
  • Hammerred: ×30%
  • Blackout: ×10%
• Psychic bond:
  • Psychic bond: ×50%
• Reduced pain: ×50%

Offsets

Offsets cause the game code to ADD OR SUBTRACT a number from the pawn's pain. Small numbers are less effective at reducing pain than large numbers. However, if the pawn only has a small amount of pain, an equally small offset will be totally effective at removing all pain. Positive numbers add pain. Negative numbers reduce pain.

• Mindscrew: +20%
• Sensory mechanites:
  • Mild pain: +20%
  • Intense pain: +60%
• Blood rot:
  • Extreme: +5%
• Fibrous mechanites:
  • Mild pain: +20%
  • Intense pain: +60%
• Muscle parasites: +20%
• Gut worms: +20%
• Malaria:
  • Major: +30%
  • Extreme: +30%
• Luciferium:
  • Withdrawal: +40%
• Beer: (See also Factors)
  • Blackout: +5%
• Stoned on smokeleaf: −20%
• Torture crown: +5%
• Tox gas:
  • Mild: +10%
  • Moderate: +15%
  • Severe: +25%
• Hemogen craving:
  • Minor: +5%
  • Moderate: +10%
  • Major: +15%

Non-Local Injuries

Starvation

Occurs when a pawn is out of food, starting from 0%. Upon reaching 100%, the pawn will die.

Blood Loss

Occurs when a pawn has untreated wounds that cause bleeding, starting from 0%. Upon reaching 100%, the pawn will die due to losing too much blood.

Suffocation

Not sure when this occurs, but is listed in the files as a damage type. May occur in environments without oxygen, like underwater.

Shock

Caused by extreme pain, it incapacitates the affected target. There are no other causes of shock besides pain currently.

Scarring

Scars are permanent markers of injuries. They forever lower the maximum health of the scarred body part, making it easier to damage the affected body part in the future. Scars can be caused by poor quality Health#Treatment or just not treating wounds, though injuries have an inherently low chance to scar (as seen up . Scars will also cause a small amount of pain, despite being fully healed.

Sometimes colonist are generated with minor scars.

Colonists currently have no feelings towards scars. They don't really mind if they're completely covered in head-to-toe with them. Research concludes that colonists must be seriously hardcore to endure all the pain and not care.