Editing Death

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'''Death''' is a certainly fatal state that can be inflicted to any [[pawn]].

==Summary==
A dead pawn can no longer act, and creates a [[corpse]] if its body was not completely destroyed. No organs or [[Artificial body parts|artificial parts]] may be retrieved, and any [[apparel]] items they were wearing will become [[tainted]]. Death activates a [[death acidifier]].

Colonist deaths cause various [[mood]] penalties. Pawns connected by family or relationship will be especially devastated. Animals [[bond]]ed to a dead pawn may receive a [[mental break]], while a bonded animal dying gives a mood penalty. A pawn's [[Ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} may change how they feel about various deaths.

== Sources ==
*Loss of a vital body part. For [[human]]s, this is the torso, brain, head, neck, [[heart]], and [[liver]]. Losing both [[kidney]]s or both [[lung]]s is also fatal.
*Reaching 0% [[Consciousness]], [[Blood Filtration]], [[Blood Pumping]], [[Breathing]], or [[Metabolism]].
*Taking over a total amount of damage across all body parts. For adult humans, this is 150 HP. For other pawns, this is (150 HP * health scale).
: An [[elephant]], with a health scale of 3.6, would take a maximum of (3.6 * 150) = 540 HP of damage.  Note that [[pain]] will usually [[downed|down]] humans and other organic pawns far below this HP threshold. An unmodified baseline human would be downed from 80 HP ''at the maximum''.
*Having certain [[ailments]] reach 100% severity. These include:
**[[Blood loss]]
**[[Malnutrition]]
**Fatal [[disease]]s
**[[Hypothermia]] & [[Heatstroke]]
**[[Artery blockage]] & [[Heart attack]]
**[[Drug]] [[overdose]]
**[[Toxic buildup]]
**[[Resurrection psychosis]]
**[[Growth vat#Summary|Biostarvation]]{{BiotechIcon}}
*Randomly while [[overdose|majorly overdosing]] or under [[Luciferium]] withdrawal.
*Having [[collapsed rocks]] from overhead mountain fall on top of them.
*Chance to die when failing certain specific [[surgery|surgeries]], such as installing a [[prosthetic heart]] ([[bionic heart]]s are safe to install) or [[carcinoma]] removal.
*[[Genes#Drugs|Drug dependency]] [[gene]],{{BiotechIcon}} after 60 days without the drug.
*During [[Reproduction|human pregnancy]].{{BiotechIcon}}

Enemy pawns have an additional chance to die when [[downed]] from [[pain shock]], even if their condition otherwise would not kill them. This chance is dependent on current population and the [[AI Storytellers#Enemy death on downed|storyteller settings]], and can be adjusted at any time. Other causes of downing, such as from blood loss or heatstroke, do not trigger this death chance.

In addition, enemy [[mechanoid]]s will always die when downed.

== Curing ==
A [[resurrector mech serum]] is the only way for to treat death for a colonist, at least without mods, developer tools, or reverting to a previous save. There must be a non-desiccated corpse in order to resurrect. It runs the risk of side effects, including [[resurrection psychosis]], which will kill the pawn again in 100 days. The chance of all side effects is reduced by limiting the time the corpse spends unfrozen before application of the serum.

==Death in Biotech==
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Mechanics that interact with death in the [[Biotech DLC]].

===Death and deathless===
The ''deathless'' [[gene]] can prevent most causes of death. If the brain, head, or neck is destroyed, then the pawn will actually die. Otherwise, a deathless pawn will enter into a comatose state:
*Pawns that are just deathless will enter into a regenerative coma. Once fatal aliments are cured, the coma lasts for 7 days.
*Pawns with deathless and the [[deathrest]] gene will enter [[deathrest]]. Once fatal aliments are cured, the pawn goes through ordinary deathrest, which lasts for 4 days by default.

In both cases, all fatal injuries or aliments must be healed. For example, diseases will disable the pawn until natural immunity kicks in. Except for the torso, no body parts are regenerated, so vital organs like the [[heart]] must be actively replaced before they can start to wake up.

===Mechanoid resurrection===
[[Allied mechanoid]]s can be resurrected at a [[mech gestator]] or [[large mech gestator]]. This takes 1 gestation cycle (1.8 days by default) and a size-dependent amount of [[steel]]. You can't revive enemy mechanoids, even if they were once part of your faction.

The [[apocriton]] can revive enemy mechanoids.

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