Bionic tongue

Bionic tongue

An artificial tongue replacement. Made of synthetic smooth-fibers and connected through a neurogel interface, it can match the performance of a natural tongue in speaking, eating, and tasting.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Tech Level

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Market Value

565  ^[Note]

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Bionic replacements

Skill Required

Crafting 8

Work To Make

26,000 ticks (7.22 mins)

Resources to make

8 + 2

Technical

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Advanced

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TechHediff, Bionic

A bionic tongue acts as a replacement for a removed tongue. It has 100% part efficiency, perfectly replacing but not exceeding the capabilities of a natural tongue.

Acquisition

Bionic tongues can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require  8 Plasteel,  2 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 8.

Summary

Summary stuff goes here

Installation

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

Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

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

Analysis

The tongue cannot be damaged in unmodded RimWorld, except for the explicit surgery option to remove it. As a bionic tongue has the same stats as a regular tongue, installing one serves no physical purpose for an otherwise healthy pawn.

Body modders and transhumanists will be happier when using any artificial body part. Among the core RimWorld artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest advanced components. With the Royalty DLC, Venom fangs , knee spikes , and elbow blades can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.

If Ideology DLC is installed, the biosculpter pod can be used to fix the tongue instead. Otherwise, only the rare healer mech serums can fix it.

Replacing a missing tongue may not be necessary at all, however. While very important on any pawn that uses their talking stat (wardening, trading, taming), other pawns face a tradeoff. Without a tongue a pawn will:

• No longer initiate or responds to relationship requests
• Won't feel bad for being rebuffed or make others feel bad for rebuffing them
• Unable to become lovers or propose marriage to another pawn
• No longer engage in conversations
• Will not trigger social fights by insulting others
• If currently in a relationship, will be unable to gain higher opinion of their partner
• Be considered disfigured by other pawns, receiving -15 opinion with them
• (to be checked): Unable to issue role commands

Version history

• 1.3.3101 - Added.

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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

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

Stomach

Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach

Organs

Bionic heart • Heart • Kidney • Liver • Lung • Prosthetic heart • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung

Visceral implants

Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer

Leg/Foot

Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike

Related

Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm

Deprecated

Scyther blade • Psychic silencer