Manipulation

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

Affected stats

Manipulation affects most colonist stats at 100% weight.

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Animal Gather Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person milks, shears, and otherwise gathers resources from animals.
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.
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.
Butchery Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person butchers flesh creatures.
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.
Construct Success Chance	Stat	0.3	-	The chance that this person will succeed in constructing something. Failing means wasting time and resources.
Construction Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person constructs and repairs buildings.
Cooking Speed	Stat	16	1.5	The speed at which this person cooks meals.
Deep Drilling Speed	Stat	1	-	A speed at which this person uses a deep drill to extract underground resources.
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.
Eating Speed	Stat	0.3	-	Multiplier on eating speed.
Foraged Food Amount	Stat	0.5	1	The amount of nutrition this person will automatically forage per day while traveling by caravan.
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.
Hacking Speed	Stat	0.5	1.1	How fast this person can hack into computer terminals.
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.
Mechanoid Shredding Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which this person can shred a mechanoid for resources.
Medical Operation Speed	Stat	1	-	The speed at which the character performs medical operations.
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 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 Tend Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which the character tends to wounds and illnesses.
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.
Mining Speed	Stat	1	-	A speed at which this person mines away walls.
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.
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.
Plant Work Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed at which this person sows and harvests plants.
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.
Research Speed	Stat	0.5	1.1	How fast this person performs research and how quickly they can find things using scanning equipment.
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.
Smoothing Speed	Stat	1	-	A multiplier on the speed at which this person smooths rough stone floors and walls.
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.
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.

Factors

Base factors

Manipulation is mainly affected by the following factors:

Consciousness: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max.
Arm part efficiency. 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max.
- Whole arm: 50% importance for each arm, no allowed defect. No Max.
  - Prosthetic arm: 50% part efficiency resulting in −25% arm part efficiency.
  - Bionic arm: 125% part efficiency resulting in +12.5% arm part efficiency.
  - Archotech arm: 150% part efficiency resulting in +25% arm part efficiency.
- Shoulder part efficiency: 50% importance for each Shoulder, no allowed defect. No Max.
- Clavicle part efficiency: 50% importance for each Clavicle, no allowed defect. No Max.
- Humerus part efficiency: 50% importance for each Humerus, no allowed defect. No Max.
- Radius part efficiency: 50% importance for each Radius, no allowed defect. No Max.
- Hand part efficiency: 50% importance for each hand, no allowed defect. No Max.
  - Wooden hand: 60% part efficiency resulting in −20% arm part efficiency.
- Finger part efficiency: 8% importance for each finger. No allowed defect. No Max.

Post factors

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

Alcohol (Beer) withdrawal: x50%
Psychite (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea) hangover buzzing: x80%
Cryptosleep sickness: x90%
Food poisoning
- Recovering and Inital: x90%
- Major: x80%
Resurrection sickness: x10%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

Alcohol (Beer) high warm: −2%
Go-juice withdrawal: −10%
Psychite (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea) withdrawal: −20%
Wake-up withdrawal: −20%
Anesthetic
- Wearing off: −10%
- Woozy: −20%
Hypothermia
- Shivering: −8%
- Minor: −20%
- Serious: −50%
Hypothermic slowdown
- Moderate: −20%
- Serious: −50%
Bad back: −10%
Frail: −30%
Muscle parasites: −30%
Fibrous mechanites: +50%
Sensory mechanites: +30%
Flu
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −10%
- Extreme: −20%
Plague
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −20%
- Extreme: −30%
Malaria
- Major: −8%
- Extreme: −10%
Sleeping sickness
- Minor (initial): −2%
- Minor (advanced): −4%
- Major: −6%
- Extreme: −20%
Trauma savant: +50%

Formula

Manipulation = (Base factors + Offsets) × Post factors

Arm efficiency must again be calculated by inserting the efficiency of all the related body parts. Note that the efficiency of all fingers must be added up first (normally 10). If any type of body part is not affected, that part of the formula can be omitted.

Arm efficiency = (Left arm × 0.5 + Right arm × 0.5) × (Left shoulder × 0.5 + Right shoulder × 0.5) × (Left clavicle × 0.5 + Right clavicle × 0.5) × (Left humerus × 0.5 + Right humerus × 0.5) × (Left radius × 0.5 + Right radius × 0.5) × (Left hand × 0.5 + Right hand × 0.5) × (Fingers × 0.08 + 0.2)

For example the maximum possible value would be achievable with the following values:

Consciousness: 150% (high on go-juice, luciferium, wake-up and has an active neural supercharge)
Arm efficiency:
- Left arm: 150% (archotech arm)
- Right arm: 150% (archotech arm)
Offsets (total +130%):
- Fibrous mechanites: +50%
- Sensory mechanites: +30%
- Trauma Savant: +50%
Post factors: x100%

First of all we can calculate the arm efficiency:

Arm efficiency = Left arm × 0.5 + Right arm × 0.5 = 1.5 × 0.5 + 1.5 × 0.5 = 150%

We can therefore calculate the Manipulation:

Manipulation = ((1.5 × 1.5) + 1.3) × 1  = 355%

Stats

Capacities: Blood Filtration • Blood Pumping • Breathing • Consciousness • Eating • Hearing • Manipulation • Metabolism • Moving • Pain • Sight • Talking

Pawn Stats - General: Carrying Capacity • Eating Speed • Filth Rate • Foraged Food Amount • Global Learning Factor • Hunger Rate Factor • Immunity Gain Speed • Leather Amount • Lifespan Factor • Max Nutrition • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Meat Amount • Mental Break Threshold • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Minimum Handling Skill • Move Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Psychic Sensitivity • Rest Rate Multiplier • Sleep Fall Rate • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Meditation Focus Gain • Neural Heat Gain • Neural Heat Limit • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Conversion Power • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Terror • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Raw Nutrition Multiplier

- Mechanitor: Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed

- Combat: Aiming Time • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance • Melee DPS • Melee Hit Chance • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Shooting Accuracy • Trap Spring Chance • Melee Damage Factor • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Stagger Time Multiplier

- Social: Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Negotiation Ability • Social Impact • Tame Animal Chance • Trade Price Improvement • Train Animal Chance • Animal Products Price Improvement • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Suppression Power

- Misc: Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

- Work: Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Butchery Efficiency • Butchery Speed • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Cooking Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Food Poison Chance • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hunting Stealth • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Tend Speed • Mining Speed • Mining Yield • Plant Harvest Yield • Plant Work Speed • Repair Success Chance • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset