Manipulation

Manipulation is a pawn capacity: How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.

Manipulation affects most colonist stats at 100% weight.

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Cooking Speed	Stat	16	1.5	The speed at which this person cooks meals.
Melee Hit Chance	Stat	12	1.5	Chance to hit a target in melee. The target can still dodge even if we would've hit.
Shooting Accuracy	Stat	8	1	Base chance to not miss per cell of shot distance. Chance to hit is also affected by many other factors. A hit chance explanation for any shot can be seen by selecting a shooter and mousing over a target.
Smelting Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person smelts things. Since smelting is dumb labor, smelting speed is not affected by any skill.
Drug Cooking Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person brews beer and tea, or makes simple drug products like smokeleaf joints.
Drug Synthesis Speed	Stat	1	-	How fast this character synthesizes complex chemical drugs.
Carrying Capacity	Stat	1	-	The amount of stuff this creature can carry in its hands, mouth, or other manipulators. This is separate from the ability to carry cargo on long cross-world trips.
Mechanoid Shredding Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person can shred a mechanoid for resources.
Deep Drilling Speed	Stat	1	-	A speed at which this person uses a deep drill to extract underground resources.
Animal Gather Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person milks, shears, and otherwise gathers resources from animals.
General Labor Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person carries out general labor like making stone blocks, making chemfuel at a refinery, burning items, tailoring clothes, creating art, smithing armor and weapons or smelting slag. This stat applies both to activities that involve no skill, as well as those where the skill affects the quality of the product instead of the speed of production.
Medical Tend Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which the character tends to wounds and illnesses.
Medical Tend Quality	Stat	1	1.4	The base quality of tending given when tending wounds and illnesses. Final Tend Quality: ( ( ( ( (Medical Tend Quality Stat from Doctor) * (Medical Potency) ) + ( Medical Tend Quality Offset from Bed ) ) * ( 0.7 if Self-Tend) ). Multiplied by a random + or - 25% and clamped to between 0% and the Maximum Tend Quality from the medicine used. Standard bed is not a factor. Only hospital beds have a Medical Tend Quality offset. Light is not a factor of Medical Tend Quality. Light is likely a factor of Medical Tend Speed and Surgery Success chance. Cleanliness is not a factor of Medical Tend Quality. Cleanliness is a factor of Infection Chance. Indoors is not a factor of Medical Tend Quality. Indoors is a factor of cleanliness and thus Infection Chance. Higher tend quality will speed the recovery from injury.
Medical Surgery Success Chance	Stat	1	-	The likelihood that a colonist will succeed when attempting to perform a surgery. The actual success chance is also affected by factors like facilities, room cleanliness, medicine used, the difficulty of the surgery, and inspirations. No matter how high this stat is, there is always a small chance of failure on any operation.
Medical Operation Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which the character performs medical operations.
Mining Speed	Stat	1	-	A speed at which this person mines away walls.
Smoothing Speed	Stat	1	-	A multiplier on the speed at which this person smooths rough stone floors and walls.
Construction Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person constructs and repairs buildings.
Plant Work Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person sows and harvests plants.
Butchery Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person butchers flesh creatures.
Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency	Stat	0.9	-	The amount of materials yielded when this person shreds a dead mechanoid for resources. The actual amount is also related to the mechanoid's size.
Arrest Success Chance	Stat	0.9	1	How effective this person is in arresting people. This affects chance that this person will be able to arrest someone without resistance.
Butchery Efficiency	Stat	0.9	-	The amount of meat produced when butchering flesh creatures. The actual amount is also related to the creature's size.
Hacking Speed	Stat	0.5	1.1	How fast this person can hack into computer terminals.
Foraged Food Amount	Stat	0.5	1	The amount of nutrition this person will automatically forage per day while traveling by caravan.
Train Animal Chance	Stat	0.5	1	The base chance this person will make progress training an animal on a given attempt. The actual chance for a given attempt will also depend on the animal's wildness, whether it is bonded with the trainer, and so on.
Research Speed	Stat	0.5	1.1	How fast this person performs research and how quickly they can find things using scanning equipment.
Tame Animal Chance	Stat	0.5	1	The base chance this person will successfully tame an animal on any given attempt. The actual chance is also affected by the animal's wildness. Failed tame attempt can induce animal attacks, especially for more vicious animals.
Eating Speed	Stat	0.3	-	Multiplier on eating speed.
Repair Success Chance	Stat	0.3	-	The chance that this person will successfully repair a broken down building using a component. Failing means wasting time and resources. Note that this only applies to repairing breakdowns, which is different from repairing damage.
Construct Success Chance	Stat	0.3	-	The chance that this person will succeed in constructing something. Failing means wasting time and resources.
Animal Gather Yield	Stat	0.3	-	The percentage yield someone receives when they shear, milk, or otherwise gather resources from a living animal. Higher percentages reduce the chance of wasting the product.
Plant Harvest Yield	Stat	0.3	-	The yield this person gets when harvesting plants. Low yields give a chance that this person will accidentally waste the harvest.
Mining Yield	Stat	0.3	1	The percentage of mined resources a miner will produce. This applies to both wall mining and deep drill mining. This doesn't affect the production rate of rock chunks from deep drills.
Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier	Stat	-0.5	-	A multiplier on the miss radius of a mortar used by this person. Smaller numbers means more accurate mortar shells.

Factors

The following factors affect Manipulation.

• Consciousness: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max
• Arm part efficiency. 50% importance for each arm, no allowed defect. No Max
  • Bionic arm. 125% part efficiency for +12.5% Manipulation.
  • Archotech arm. 150% part efficiency for +25% Manipulation.
• Hand part efficiency. 50% importance for each hand, no allowed defect. No Max
  • Wooden hand ?% part efficiency for ?% Manipulation.
• Finger part efficiency. 8% importance for each finger. No allowed defect. No Max