Editing Blindsight

It elevates the status of blind pawns and improves the psypowers of blind [[psycast]]ers.

* Allows crafting [[blindfold]]s, which provides protection, cold insulation and +2 mood boost for sighted pawns.

* Blind pawns ignore other pawns beauty status.

* Blindsight gives down to -6 mood penalty to non-blinded pawns and -5 opinion from other pawns.

* Sighted wearing [[blindfold]]: +30% psychic sensitivity.

If satisfying, this ritual will give the pawn a psylink upgrade.

You can repeat the ritual by recovering the pawn sight, that means you can effectively trade [[Bionic eye]]s, [[Healer mech serum]]s and [[Resurrector mech serum]]s for psychic powers.  

 

You can also heal the pawn eyes in a [[Biosculpter pod]] if he follows a non-Blindsight ideoligion. Together with the Transhumanist's "Biosculpting: Accelerated" this is one of the most efficient ways to farm psychic powers because the pawn doesn't have to be in the Blindsight ideoligion to be the Target of a Blinding ritual.

* [[Taming]], Training, [[Social]], [[Hauling]], Cleaning and Meditation.

* Hunting, Cooking, [[Crafting]], [[Art]] and [[Research]].

 

 

* Mining, Butchering, Plants, Milking and Shearing.

Activities that might result in failure with blindness:

* [[Construction]] and Medical.

If you are only taming and training without milking or shearing anything then animal handlers are also a good option to blind.

Hunters, cookers, crafters, artists and researchers can be blinded with only a reduction in work speed.

Blinding overall provides more benefits than wearing a blindfold but compromises the pawn fighting abilities while a blindfold can be taken out during a raid. Therefore, full blindness is better suited for pure [[psycast]]ers or pawns carrying [[weapons]] with forced miss radius such as [[EMP grenades]]. Alternatively, careful shooters pawns, shooting specialists and [[Gunlink]]s can help overcome the accuracy lost.

Blinding is particularly useful in [[slaves]]. Blind slaves add very little wealth to your colony and are fairly harmless in case a rebellion happens. They can effectively use [[EMP grenades]], [[EMP launcher]]s and [[Smoke launcher]]s since those weapons don't have an aim penalty from blindness and also don't increase slave rebellion chance. Also, the extra cold insulation from blindfolds might just be enough to allow them wear [[Slave body strap]]s on cold biomes. They will have increased psychic sensitivity and don't use psy powers if they rebel, therefore, the nobles of the [[empire]] which already have some psy powers make really good candidates for blind slavery with support combat roles.

Since blinding is not ideal for a lot of pawns, Blindsight is better used together with another [[Ideoligion]]. That way, you can have a few blinded pawns enjoying the benefits of their blindness without affecting much their activities while the rest follows another ideoligion that doesn't includes Blindsight and therefore are not sad for not being blind. For example, it might be worth it to have a "blind worker" Ideoligion for cookers, crafters, cleaners and haulers and a "sighted elite" Ideoligion for those who need to keep their sight. Only your starting Ideoligion and the ancient's Ideoligion can have Blindsight.

Blind pawns are unaffected by light and darkness, so ideally you should fight in darkness so your enemies get a move penalty and you don't. Consider keeping a Sun Blocker active for a permanent fight advantage if it doesn't hurt your energy and food production.

It is not a good idea to blind medical specialists, but they can still wear blindfolds while not doctoring and act as psycasters during combat. Unlike pawns incapable of violence, medical specialists can equip an [[Eltex staff]] if you give them before assigning the role.

 

Even if you don't want to blind anyone, Blindsight is still a useful meme that gives access to medical specialists and the blinding ritual which can be used to farm psychic powers.