Difference between revisions of "Mindscrew"

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The Mindscrew is an implant that permanent gives a pawn that's been implanted with it +20% Pain.

Acquisition

Mindscrews can be crafted at a Machining table once the Brain wiring research project has been completed. The required techprint can be obtained either by trade or completing quests for the Empire. They require 15 Steel, 4 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 5.

Summary

The mindscrew is installed in the brain. Once installed, it adds +20% Pain to the pawn.

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance^{[What Chance?]} to be destroyed.

Once installed, it cannot be removed.^{[Fact Check]}

Analysis

May be useful on masochists to give a permanent mood boost to them. Note that this pain will give a −4% Consciousness penalty, and also makes them worse in combat, as they collapse earlier from pain. On non-masochist pawns, the pain from the mindscrew gives a −10 mood penalty.

Can also be useful on psycasters, since they recover from neural heat faster when in pain.^{[How much?]}

There is also potential synergy with the psychic harmonizer when used on prisoners, as psychic harmonizers only affect pawns of the implantee's faction.

Removal

While you cannot traditionally remove the mindscrew, it is possible to remove it indirectly by destroying the head of the implanted pawn and then resurrecting the pawn using a resurrector mech serum.

This is not without issues however. First, consistently destroying the head can be difficult. With the Ideology DLC, extracting the skull from a dead pawn will do this reliably and safely, but without it, the best way is allow colonists to eat sections of the corpse, at the risk of consuming the entire body and permanently losing the pawn. Furthermore, no matter how successful the head removal, there is always the risks normally associated with resurrection, including dementia, blindness, and resurrection psychosis.

Alternatively, the effects of the mindscrew can be mitigated through the use of either a painstopper or pain-reducing drugs such as go-juice, with the usual downsides associated with those options.

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

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 == Summary ==
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+The mindscrew is installed in the brain. Once installed, it adds {{Bad|+20%}} [[Pain]] to the pawn.
-Summary stuff goes here
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 == Analysis ==
-May be useful on [[masochist]]s to give a permanent mood boost to them. Note that this also makes them generally less effective as the pain itself will inflict a -4% [[consciousness]] penalty, and also in battle since they [[Pain Shock Threshold|collapse earlier]] from pain.
+May be useful on [[masochist]]s to give a permanent mood boost to them. Note that this pain will give a {{--|4%}} [[Consciousness]] penalty, and also makes them worse in combat, as they [[Pain Shock Threshold|collapse earlier]] from pain. On non-masochist pawns, the pain from the mindscrew gives a {{--|10}} [[mood]] penalty.
-On non-masochist pawns, just the pain from the mindscrew will inflict enough pain to give a -10 [[mood]] penalty.
+Can also be useful on [[psycast]]ers, since they recover from neural heat faster when in pain.{{Check Tag|How much?}}
-On Wimps, it will causes immediate and permanent shock as the pain will instantly reach their pain shock threshold.
+There is also potential synergy with the [[psychic harmonizer]] when used on prisoners, as psychic harmonizers only affect pawns of the implantee's faction.
-Can also be useful on [[psycast]]ers since they recover from neural heat faster when in pain.{{Check Tag|How much?}}
+=== Removal ===
+While you cannot traditionally remove the mindscrew, it is possible to remove it indirectly by destroying the head of the implanted pawn and then resurrecting the pawn using a [[resurrector mech serum]].
-There is also potential synergy with the [[psychic harmonizer]] when used on prisoners as psychic harmonizers only affect pawns of the implantee's faction.
-=== Removal ===
+This is not without issues however. First, consistently destroying the head can be difficult. With the [[Ideology DLC]], extracting the [[skull]] from a dead pawn will do this reliably and safely, but without it, the best way is allow colonists to eat sections of the corpse, at the risk of consuming the entire body and permanently losing the pawn. Furthermore, no matter how successful the head removal, there is always the risks normally associated with resurrection, including [[dementia]], [[blindness]], and [[resurrection psychosis]].
-While you cannot traditionally remove the mindscrew, it is possible to remove it indirectly by destroying the head of the implanted pawn and then resurrecting the pawn using a [[resurrector mech serum]]. This is not without issues however. First, consistently destroying the head can be difficult. With the [[Ideology DLC]], extracting the [[skull]] from a dead pawn will do this reliably and safely, but without it, the best way is to allow animals to eat sections of the corpse at the risk of consuming the entire body and permanently losing the pawn. Furthermore, no matter how successful the head removal, there is always the risks normally associated with resurrection, including [[dementia]], [[blindness]], [[resurrection psychosis]], and death.
-Alternatively, the effects of the mindscrew can be mitigated through the use of either a [[painstopper]] or pain-reducing drugs such as [[go-juice]] with the usual downsides associated with those options.
+Alternatively, the effects of the mindscrew can be mitigated through the use of either a [[painstopper]] or pain-reducing drugs such as [[go-juice]], with the usual downsides associated with those options.
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