Difference between revisions of "Bionic arm"

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A bionic arm is an artificial body part that acts as a replacement for a pawn's natural arm, increasing Manipulation by 12.5% per arm while also offering a slightly more powerful punch attack and acting as a body part weapon.

Acquisition

Bionic arms can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 15 Plasteel, 4 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting of 8

They can also be bought from exotic traders, Empire traders, and at Outlander faction bases. They are also sometimes offered as a quest reward.

Summary

Bionic arms replace the user's organic arm up to, and including, the shoulder. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right. The bionic arm has a part efficiency of 125%. This not only fully replaces the functionality of a normal arm - when coupled with the arm body part having a Manipulation importance of 50%, it results in an increase in manipulation of 12.5% for each bionic arm installed. Manipulation, in turn, affects a great many stats. For a full list of affected stats, see Manipulation.

A bionic arm also replaces the natural "Fist" attack all Humans have with an almost 50% more powerful, but otherwise equivalent, punch.

Name		Damage	DPS	AP	Damage Type
	Human Fist	8.2	4.1	12%	Blunt
	Bionic arm	12	6	18%	Blunt

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2 medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Removing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2 medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance^{[What Chance?]} to be destroyed.

Analysis

Since bionic arms increase a pawn's manipulation capacity, it is advised to install them onto colonists with a high skill level in Crafting or Medicine since those skills depend greatly on manipulation. For example, a doctor will have a better chance at a high quality treatment if he or she has increased manipulation stats, and craftsmen will make objects faster (note that quality of crafted items is unaffected by the stat). If that option is not available, colonists with high Construction, Mining, Plants or Artistic skills will also benefit quite well from the upgrade while not compromising in the moving capacity, unlike more specialized bionics such as the Drill arm or the Field hand.

Bionic arms don't contain subparts like natural arms do. Any damage received by them will always be applied to their main 30 HP hit bar instead of being spread through their subparts. As a result, they are more likely to be destroyed in combat. On another hand, bionic arms that get damaged but not destroyed don't cause any bleeding or pain and they will never be scarred or loose a finger. Furthermore, the 25% bonus to manipulation means that they will remain effective even after getting damaged.

As with all bionics, it will give a mood bonus to anyone with the Body modder trait and a heavy penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait. Similar effects are also applied to pawns following an ideoligion with a Body Modification precept.

Version history

0.19.2009 - received a nerf to efficiency (from 140%) but is now craftable.

Artificial body parts

Arm/Hand: Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm • Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon • Flesh tentacle • Flesh whip
Head: Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose
Head implants: Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High) • Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe
Spine: Bionic spine • Revenant vertebrae
Stomach: Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach • Fleshmass stomach
Heart: Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heart • Corrosive heart • Metalblood heart
Lung: Lung • Detoxifier lung • Fleshmass lung
Kidney: Kidney • Detoxifier kidney
Organs: Liver
Visceral implants: Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs
Leg/Foot: Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
Related: Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
Deprecated: Scyther blade • Psychic silencer

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 Since bionic arms increase a pawn's [[manipulation]] capacity, it is advised to install them onto colonists with a high skill level in [[Skills|Crafting]] or [[Doctoring|Medicine]] since those skills depend greatly on manipulation. For example, a doctor will have a better chance at a high quality treatment if he or she has increased manipulation stats, and craftsmen will make objects faster (note that quality of crafted items is unaffected by the stat). If that option is not available, colonists with high [[Skills|Construction]], [[Skills|Mining]], [[Skills|Plants]] or [[Skills|Artistic]] skills will also benefit quite well from the upgrade while not compromising in the [[moving]] capacity, unlike more specialized bionics such as the {{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Drill arm]] or the {{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Field hand]].
+Bionic arms don't contain subparts like natural arms do. Any damage received by them will always be applied to their main 30 HP hit bar instead of being spread through their subparts. As a result, they are more likely to be destroyed in combat. On another hand, bionic arms that get damaged but not destroyed don't cause any bleeding or pain and they will never be scarred or loose a finger. Furthermore, the 25% bonus to manipulation means that they will remain effective even after getting damaged.
 As with all bionics, it will give a mood bonus to anyone with the Body modder [[traits|trait]] and a heavy penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait. Similar effects are also applied to pawns following an {{IdeologyIcon}} [[ideoligion]] with a [[Ideoligion#Body_modification|Body Modification]] [[Ideoligion#Precepts|precept]].