Editing Agrihand

{{Biotech}}
{{About|the mechanoid from the [[Biotech DLC]]|the [[artificial body part]] from the [[Royalty DLC]]|Field hand}}
{{infobox main|none|
| name = Agrihand
| image = Agrihand east.png
| description = A small mechanoid designed to sow and harvest crops. While it is better suited to labor than combat, it can fight with built-in cutting blades if necessary.
| type = Mechanoid
| movespeed = 3.4
| flammability = 0
| marketvalue = 800
| armorblunt = 10
| armorsharp = 20
| armorheat = 200
| min comfortable temperature = -100
| max comfortable temperature = 250
| bandwidth = 1
| bodysize = 0.7
| healthscale = 
| lifespan = 
| attack1dmg = 8
| attack1type = Cut
| attack1cool = 2
| attack1part = Right blade
| attack2dmg = 8
| attack2type = Stab
| attack2cool = 2
| attack2part = Right blade
| page verified for version = 1.4.3525
<!-- Creation -->
| research = Basic mechtech
| production facility 1 = Mech gestator
| resource 1 = Steel
| resource 1 amount = 50
| resource 2 = Basic subcore
| resource 2 amount = 1
}}
A '''agrihand''' is a [[mechanoids|mechanoid]] added by the [[Biotech DLC]].

== Summary ==
As mechanoids, agrihands are immune to [[fire]], toxicity, and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by [[EMP]] attacks and will "adapt" for {{Ticks|2200}}, rendering them immune to further EMP strikes. Mechs count as a partial pawn in terms [[raid points]], and still contribute towards wealth.

===Work===
{{PAGENAME}}s are light mechanoids. They are created from a standard [[mech gestator]] with 1 [[basic subcore]] and 50 [[steel]], taking up 1 [[bandwidth]] from a [[mechanitor]]. They take 1800 [[ticks]] to initally craft, and then it must gestate for 1 cycle. Mechanoids can be fully repaired at the cost of power and nothing else. A dead agrihand can be resurected for 25 [[steel]] and 1 gestation cycle so long as the corpse is extant.

Mechs under player control require power: agrihands use 10% of their power per day while active.  If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for +1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a [[mech recharger]] (constant 200W), for 50% power/day, creating 5 [[wastepack]]s whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

Agrihands will automatically perform tasks under the [[Work#Grow|Grow]] and [[Work#Plant cut|Plant Cut]] [[work]] types; they can't be manually controlled, except when [[draft]]ed for combat. They have an effective [[Plants (skill)|Plants skill]] of 10, resulting in [[Plant Harvest Yield]] of 102% however their [[Plant Work Speed]] is capped at 40%.

== Analysis ==
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Agrihands are fairly simple, increasing the number of crops you can grow and harvest at any one time. With 10 plants skill, they can grow any crop, and as a 24/7 worker, they can allow your colony to grow and harvest a substantial number of additional crops. 

Agrihands are useful if pawn time, or pawns with enough skill, are limited. In other words: useful if you need to grow more crops. If grow area is limited, then using a human with >10 skill will maximise the return off the finite space. Ideally, you could use both planters and agrihands when sowing crops, and have the mechs enter dormancy during the harvest. You can set a [[zone]] for agrihands if you need a specific area sowed or cut.

As mechanoids are immune to toxicity, agrihands are especially helpful for growing [[toxipotato]]es and other plants in polluted soil - which you may cause by using mechanoids in the first place.

===Comparison to growers===
An agrihands harvest yield, both per plant and per day, can be outstripped by skilled human growers. Humans can become even more efficent if they are equipped with [[field hand]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}}, have the [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist role]]{{IdeologyIcon}}, and for drugs, the [[Ideoligion#Drug_use|Drug Use:Essential]] precept{{IdeologyIcon}}. 

There's nothing stopping you from using both human and mech labor, or using mechs so that a human grower has more time for other tasks. But other than the [[pollution]] cost, mechs may create too [[wealth management|too much]] yield, too much to actually use.

== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added.

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