Editing Mental break

{{rewrite|reason=1) Which breaks are "aggressive" or "violent" and thus affected by [[Dead calm]]/[[Hyper-aggressive]]/[[Aggressive]] - information should be linked to or replicated on [[Genes]] 2) Needs information on non-mood based breaks - e.g. drugs, psychic breakdown, ailments etc. In game times - Days easier to parse than 10000s of ticks. Also needs Biotech mental breaks e.g. Fleeing fire.}}{{About|the mental conditions experienced by unhappy pawn|breaking objects|Max Hit Points}}

A '''mental break''' is a pawn event that may occur when a pawns's '''mood''' drops below the '''mental break threshold'''. The pawn will then become uncontrollable and shirk work tasks for a short while, or even worse, they will attempt to sabotage the colony. A breaking colonist may be interrupted by arresting or downing them.

There are three levels of severity for mental break events: '''minor, major,''' and '''extreme'''. Each severity level has a different pool of possible events that may occur at different frequencies. Minor events include hiding in the pawn's room for a day, extreme events include murder.

 

Colonists, visitors, enemies, tamed, and wild animals all have types of mental breaks. Some breaks may be induced by the player in battle, via [[psycast]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}} or weapons like the [[psychic shock lance]] or [[psychic insanity lance]].  

A specific pawn's mental break thresholds are affected by various personality [[traits]]. Traits may directly raise or lower mental break threshold, such as [[Steadfast]] or [[Nervous]] respectively. Some traits add permanent negative thoughts, like [[Pessimist]], or conditional negative thoughts, like [[Night owl]]. Multiple traits have an additive effect, but the minor break threshold is capped between 1% and 50%.

The major break threshold is 4/7 of the minor break threshold, while the extreme break threshold is 1/4 of that (1/7 of the minor break threshold). The base mental break threshold stat is 35%, which yields the following:

* Minor break threshold: 35%

* Major break threshold: 20%

* Extreme break threshold: 5%

There are three severity levels of mental break events, each with their own possible events and frequencies.

* Below their base mental break threshold, they will have a minor break in a mean time of 10 days.

* Below their major break threshold, they will have a major break in a mean time of 3 days.

* Below their extreme mental break threshold, their mood is ~5% and "About to break." they will have an extreme break in a mean time of 0.7 days.

While a colonist is experiencing a mental break, their name is displayed <span style="color:limegreen;">'''in green'''</span> in the colonist bar (at the top of the game screen), and you have no direct control over them. They may enter restricted areas, consume restricted food or drugs, attack allies, or destroy objects. [[Arrest]] the misbehaving pawn to interrupt their mischievous actions. The broken colonist has a [[Arrest Success Chance|chance]] based on the arresting pawn's stats to either go berserk, or come quietly and be escorted to the nearest available prison bed - immediately ending their mental breakdown. However, arrest will downgrade their status as a member of your colony to a prisoner. Releasing them will return them to the colony, but replaces the catharsis bonus with a 'was imprisoned' negative thought (-8).

Another more extreme way of ending a mental break is by attacking the offending pawn, such as by beating the pawn with [[Weapons#Melee weapons|blunt-damage melee weapons]] until they are incapacitated by pain, or by inflicting [[brain shock]]. This is the only way to stop a berserk pawn. However, direct violence causes the victim to have a negative opinion of the colonists who beat him up, and you risk killing the pawn if he is already injured. It is ineffective if the pawn feels reduced pain, like those with the [[Painstopper]] implant or high on [[Go-juice]].

The [[word of serenity]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} psycast will instantly end any mental break by forcing the target into a 6 hour coma. The psyfocus cost depends on the level of the mental break the target is experiencing. This cannot be used on [[babies]]{{BiotechIcon}} or [[children]]{{BiotechIcon}}.

While having a break, at the top of the game screen, a colonist will be designated with a small "lightning bolt" icon over their image; yellow for non-aggressive breaks (such as food binge or daze), and red for aggressive ones (such as tantrum or berserk).

Once a pawn's mental break ends, they'll revert back to their usual schedule and work and may be drafted again. Their thoughts do not 'reset,' so negative thoughts may still be present. Pawns get the [[Thoughts#Catharsis|'catharsis']] thought, granting a +40 mood for the next 2.5 days. This will generally prevent a pawns from entering a spiral of mental breakdowns in all but the worst scenarios.  

Colonists with the [[Traits#Tortured artist|Tortured Artist trait]] will have a constant mood debuff (-8) but also have a chance (50%) to receive a creative inspiration after a mental break ends. Note that this does not include the [[#Fleeing fire|Fleeing fire]] break.

 

Colonists may be considered '''guilty''' after particularly destructive breaks and may then be banished or executes with no consequences.

Causes the pawn to pig out on whatever food they can get their hands on.{{Check Tag|Details|Limits, preference, etc}}

This break can only occur when the map the pawn is currently on contains more than 10 human-edible nutrition in a [[stockpile zone]], however an already ongoing binge will not end if all the food is consumed or otherwise removed. Pawns with the [[Trait#Gourmand|Gourmand trait]] will experience this more often, being the only minor-level mental break they can experience, as well as randomly experiencing the break below 50% mood.{{Check Tag|Details}}

Causes the pawn to wander about in their room, refusing to come out or satisfy their needs.

This break can only occur if the breaking pawn has a bedroom assigned to them.

This can totally ruin the victim's mood with an up to {{Bad|-33}} mood penalty through 10 stacked insults, which can potentially trigger a mental break in the victim as well.

Causes the pawn to wander around aimlessly, eventually recovering on their own. The letter informing you of this break refers to it as a "Daze."

 

Affected colonists can ignore [[Menus#Food_restriction|food restrictions]]. This can push the colony to collapse, especially with few colonists and without enough automation.

Dazed colonists can be [[prisoners|arrested]], which can be useful if they are in imminent danger.

Unlike sad wandering, [[prisoners]] can stage prison breaks whilst in this mental state. They will still wander around aimlessly, but will be able to open doors. They may still attack colonists if caught in melee.

Causes the pawn to take out their anger on the structures in the colony, randomly punching at (and possibly destroying) them. The attacks may create [[Filth#Building_rubble|building rubble]] in the process.

Targeted tantrums are significantly more dangerous than the non-targeted variety, as the pawn has a much higher chance of actually destroying things instead of simply damaging them. They are especially dangerous when the pawn targets mortar shells (beware the [[antigrain warhead]]), which explode upon destruction, or if they attack important stacks such as stacks of components or medicine that the colony relies upon.

Causes the pawn to periodically melee attack prisoners for the duration of the mental break.

This break can only occur if you have a filled grave or sarcophagus. The pawn is required to be capable of [[manipulation]].

While this break is somewhat quick, it can potentially bring "Observed corpse" mood debuffs to whoever sees the corpse, and can trigger a colony-wide "Colonist left unburied" mood debuff if the corpse was of a colonist.

Pawns that are [[Work#Incapable_of_work_types|incapable of violent]] can still go berserk. Berserk colonists are able to use doors that are forbidden, and don't close doors behind them (auto-doors included). Berserk prisoners will bash at doors until they break.

Fire-starting sprees are very short and can easily be dealt with by having somebody else "babysit" the pyromaniac, putting out fires as the pyromaniac pawn starts them. However, it is worthwhile to consider that they may also target volatile objects such as [[chemfuel]].

Hard drug binges are considerably more dangerous for the affected colonist's health than social drug binges, as hard drugs contribute towards [[overdose]]s which are potentially lethal, and can easily lead to an addiction and/or chemical damage. As with social binges, hard binges will either end when the affected colonist goes to bed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. Colonists taking [[penoxycyline]] and [[luciferium]] have nothing to do with the drug binge they are on.

===Catatonic breakdown===

Causes the pawn to enter a ''catatonic breakdown'' state, where they become incapacitated and need to be rescued.

Since catatonic breakdown is technically a health condition, usage of the [[healer mech serum]] can instantly bring the affected colonist out of the mental break.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|100000}} <br>

:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|300000}} <br>

The pawn will move to the targeted prisoner, and upon reaching them, a [[prison break]] event will trigger. Afterwards, the mental break will be changed to something else.

The pawn can be arrested or downed before reaching the prison cell.

#If the murder target is rescued or otherwise becomes unpathable to the maddened colonist, they will instead select a new victim.

Damaging them until they are downed isn't an advisable option; since they don't belong to your faction anymore, they will most likely die upon receiving enough damage to become incapacitated. Using a [[psychic shock lance]] to down them will ignore the storyteller [[death on downed]] chance, however there is always the risk of brain damage. If rescued, they have a chance to join you upon recovery.

 

Additionally, it appears that this mental break does not trigger the Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] from the [[Traits#Tortured artist|Tortured artist]] trait, however more testing is needed.{{Check Tag|Verify}}

This can be countered either by arresting the colonist, or incapacitating them by force. Sometimes a pawn can decide to return to the colony after having this break, but before they have left the map. It is currently unclear what controls the rate of this occurrence. {{Check Tag|Detail needed}}

 

This sort of mental break happens when half (rounded up) of a group of non-colonist humanlikes are killed; whether it be hostiles, traders, or the like. Pawns affected by this mental state will attempt to leave the map by any means possible as soon as they realize that they're not going to win whatever battle they got caught up in.

{{For|the [[event]] that causes a pack of animals affected by this break to spawn on the map|Events#Manhunter pack}}

Animals may suffer a manhunter mental break, similar to [[Mental break#Berserk|berserk]]. A manhunter animal will seek out and attack any humans and [[Mechanoids]]. Animal pulser maddened animals will attack mechs on the map it can reach, regardless of faction, but will ignore tamed animals.