Field hand

Field hand

This mechanical hand replacement is made to speed up the sowing and harvesting tasks of a farmer. Multiple telescoping finger-like protrusions can simultaneously harvest from several points on the same plant, or precisely sow several holes at once. It also has a general-purpose manipulator. It is somewhat ungainly, which slows down movement slightly.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Market Value

425 

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

"Punch" is not in the list (Cut, Crush, Blunt, Poke, Demolish, Stab, Scratch, Toxic scratch, Bite, Toxic bite) of allowed values for the "Attack 1 Type" property.

Melee Attack 1

Knuckle
9 dmg (Punch)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

4.5

Melee Average AP

13%

Creation

The Field Hand gives a pawn that's been implanted with it an increased Plant work speed by 160% but inflicts -8% Moving penalty.

This is a hand replacement, and cannot be installed in a bionic or archotech arm.

Acquisition

Can be made at machining table for 60 steel and 8 components after Specialized limbs has been researched.

Analysis

It's a niche hand replacement that is good for pawns that spend most of their time growing. The effect is especially potent for pawns with traits that modify global work speed, as the +160% bonus is added before multiplicative modifiers.

Example: a healthy pawn with a plants skill of 12 (x146%), a single field hand(+160%), a combination of very neurotic and industrious traits (x(40+35)%) in a lit environment will have: (100% + 160%) x 146% x 175% = 664% plant work speed. This makes sowing and harvesting crops and trees very fast, while adding a second field hand results in a whopping (100% + 320%) x 146% x 175% = 1073% plant work speed, making work on simple crops like rice or grass cutting almost instant. Tree sowing and harvesting will take roughly the same amount of time that it would take an average worker to sow rice. Installing two field hands on a single pawn is quite an overkill, unless one needs a large amount of plant work done quickly for some reason.

The drill arm, a mining-oriented counterpart, has the same behaviour in terms of bonus speed calculation.

Combat

Its attacks have 13% AP and 4.50 DPS.

Version History

Introduced in Royalty's initial release.

Prior to version 1.1.2565 it had no movement penalty, a 50% part efficiency, and provided a 180% boost.

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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