Bioferrite

Bioferrite

An exotic metal-like fibrous substance with both organic and metallic properties. Bioferrite is produced by microscopic mechanites as they process organic material. In cases of disordered mechanite behavior, this happens in a chaotic, cancer-like way.
The material is known to interact with some types of psychic flows. If pressurized under specific conditions, bioferrite becomes extremely flammable, making it a useful fuel.

Base Stats

Type

Material – Metal

Stuff Categories

Bioferrite, Metallic

Market Value

0.75 

Mass

0.25 kg

Stat Modifiers

Beauty Factor

×0.25

Beauty Offset

+0

Work To Make Factor

×2.5

Work To Build Factor

×2.5

Max Hit Points

×2

Flammability

×0.75

Armor - Sharp

×1.1

Armor - Blunt

×0.5

Armor - Heat

×0.5

Insulation - Cold

+2.5 °C (4.5 °F)

Insulation - Heat

+0 °C (0 °F)

Melee Blunt Damage

×0.9

Melee Sharp Damage

×1.3

Melee Cooldown

×1

Door Opening Speed

×1

Rest Effectiveness

×0.86

Technical

defName

Bioferrite

Color

(100, 80, 80)

Bioferrite is a metallic material added by the Anomaly DLC.

Acquisition

Bioferrite can be extracted from Entities securely held in Holding spots or Holding platforms using a Bioferrite harvester.

Summary

Equipment made of bioferrite have additional effects beyond the normal statistical effects of the material. These effects scale with the quality of the item made.

Equipped items made from bioferrite apply a multiplier to the wearer's psychic sensitivity. These multipliers stack multiplicatively with one another and with other bonuses from eltex items ^[Prestige]

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Psychic Sensitivity	×1.06	×1.08	×1.1	×1.13	×1.15	×1.17	×1.20

For example, a pawn with a base psychic sensitivity of 100%, a psychic sensitizer, a normal eltex shirt, and a bioferrite item of normal, good, and excellent quality, would result in a psychic sensitivity of:

Psychic sensitivity = ((100% + 25%) + 8.3%) * 1.1 * 1.13 * 1.15 = 191%

Equipped items made from bioferrite apply an offset to both neural heat limit and neural heat recovery rate, which stacks additively. Note that the heat limit bonus stacks with the bonus to the limit from the increased psychic sensitivity, however due to the sensitivity bonus' multiplicative nature the total bonus cannot be easily quantified without assuming what other bonuses to sensitivity a pawn may have.

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Neural Heat Limit	4	6	8	11	13	15	18
Neural Heat Recover Rate	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04

Usage

Bioferrite is used in the following crafting recipes:

Product	Ingredients	Type [ExpandCollapse]
Void sculpture (Error: Page has no Property:Image) Void sculpture	50	Art
Bioferrite generator	50 +  100 +  4 +  1	Building - Power
Deadlife shell Deadlife shell	25	Crafted resource - Mortar shell
Ghoul resurrection serum	20 +  20	Drug - Serum
Voidsight serum	2 +  10	Drug - Serum
Hellcat rifle	60 +  20 +  7	Equipment - Weapons
Incinerator	75 +  6 +  30	Equipment - Weapons
Nerve spiker	40	Equipment - Weapons
Bioferrite Plating Bioferrite Plating	4	Floor
Ceremonial hood	20 (Fabric) +  10	Gear - Clothing
Disruptor flare pack	1 +  30	Gear - Utility
Revenant Vertebrae	10 + Revenant spine (Error: Page does not exist) 1 +  2	Medical Items - Body Parts

Bioferrite can also be used as a Metallic material for stuffable items, like walls, doors, and melee weapons.

A Bioferrite generator can use bioferrite as fuel to generate power.

Analysis

Excellent for sharp melee weapons - while its DPS is lower than plasteel, it is close and it has significantly more AP and per attack damage. It is unclear if it this leads to a win for bioferrite on melee stats alone. Combined with the psychic boosts however, and it becomes powerful in the hands of a psycaster.

Bioferrite is likely better than eltex for buffing psycasters, as bioferrite is much more reliably obtained both generally and at high qualities, the stacking is multiplicative with other buffs, and unlike eltex, bioferrite can provide a respectable amount of armor.

The exact math on the optimum set up has yet to be determined and likely depends on some assumptions, but eltex shirt, bioferrite weapon, bioferrite slave collar, bioferrite helmet, and bioferrite plate armor is a candidate for maximising buffs.

As a building material, bioferrite is slightly below wood in value and more durable than steel, while sitting between the two in flammability and being much slower to build with.

Gallery

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  One bioferrite

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  Partial stack

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  Full stack

Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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Materials

Stony

Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade

Metallic

Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite

Woody

Wood

Leathery

Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather

Fabric

Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread

Other

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