Fabricor

A fabricor is a mechanoid added by the Biotech DLC.

Summary

As mechanoids, every fabricor is immune to fire, Flame and Heat damage, and temperature extremes, despite having Comfortable Temperatures defined. They have 100% Toxic Resistance and Toxic Environment Resistance, making them immune to toxic buildup, rot stink and other toxic effects. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks for a time proportional to the EMP damage inflicted and will "adapt" and rendered immune to further EMP strikes for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs).

Combat

Fabricors can only make melee attacks. They have a melee hit chance of 62%, equivalent to a pawn with a Melee skill of 4.

As a labor-focused mech, fabricors are never found in mechanoid raids.

As an ally

Fabricors are light mechanoids which require the High Mechtech research to be created. They are created from a standard mech gestator with 100 Steel, 1 High subcore, taking up 1 bandwidth from a mechanitor. They take 1800 ticks to initially craft, and then it must gestate for 1 gestation cycle. Mechanoids can be fully repaired at the cost of power and nothing else. A dead Fabricor can be resurrected for 25 steel and 1 gestation cycle so long as the corpse is extant.

Mechs under player control require power: Fabricors use 10% of their power per day while active. If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for +1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a mech recharger (constant 200W), for 50% power/day, creating 5 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

Work

Fabricors will do most tasks associated with Crafting, Tailoring, Smithing, and Cooking. They have an effective skill of 10 (in all skills), but a Global Work Speed modifier of 50%, producing items 50% slower without items like the mech booster. In the settings for bills, the worker field can be set to "Any Mech", which will only allow mechs to work the bill in question.

If forced to haul, fabricors move at 3.4 c/s, 26% slower than a human, but 21% faster than a lifter.

Analysis

Fabricors are best at menial crafting for items that are not subject to quality modifiers, such as fabricating components and advanced components, synthesizing drugs, assembling mortar shells, smelting, or carving up stone blocks. With a skill of 10, Fabricors have the minimum possible chance to cause food poisoning. Colonies may have dedicated crafters with 10+ skill by the time Fabricors are created - skilled humans can be reserved for creating weapons, apparel, and other items.

Consider the addition of a mech booster to workshops where Fabricors will be frequently located. More than other mech types, it is easy to dictate where a Fabricor will spend the majority of its time operating, allowing them to fully utilize the mech booster's work speed buff.

Late game raiders tend to leave large quantities of smeltable material in the form of unsellable tainted apparel, weapons not worth selling due to their low sell price multiplier, and huge blooms of steel slag chunks from drop pod raids. Fabricors excel at converting these resources into usable metals with high work efficiency and without requiring colonist time. Fabricors can work near constantly and, because they will actively haul objects to the smelter to process, they can act as their own haulers without issue. While slower than humans, their time is less valuable, and they can be easily resurrected if caught outside the base by a raid. While they are more expensive than lifters to gestate in the first place, fabricors are faster, cost the same amount of bandwidth to control, and they cost the same amount to resurrect. While you could make a lifter to service a fabricor, you might as well just gestate another fabricor and more than double your throughput.

Health

Specify body type when known.

Body part	Health
Head	25
Skull	25
Brain	10
Nose	10
Neck	25
Jaw	20
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	10
Ear (left, right)	10
Body	40
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	15
Lung^[2] (left, right)	15
Liver^[2]	20
Heart^[2]	15
Spine^[2]	25
Stomach^[2]	20
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	30
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	20

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Gallery

Age 0-99 Fabricor facing east
Age 0-99 Fabricor facing north
Age 0-99 Fabricor facing south

Age 100+ Fabricor facing east
Age 100+ Fabricor facing north
Age 100+ Fabricor facing south

Version history

Biotech DLC Release - Added.
1.4.3534 - Given ability to do Cooking tasks.
1.4.3535 - Fix: Food poisoning chance is 100% for fabricors.
? (Prior to 6/Dec/2022) - Fabricors no longer wield slugthrowers.
1.4.3580 - Fix: Fabricor description mentions it has slug gun, which is no longer true. "A small work mechanoid designed to craft all manner of manufactured objects. It is equipped with a small slug gun for light defense." -> "A small work mechanoid designed to craft all manner of manufactured objects.". Fix: Fabricor food poisoning chance is 10x too large.

Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core: Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
Combat: Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron
Command: Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
Labor: Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
Cluster | Buildings: Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
Turrets: Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
Creation | Pawn: Mechanitor
Buildings: Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish

[Head-1] Located inside of Head.

[Body-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

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