Difference between revisions of "Bionic tongue"

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A bionic tongue acts as a replacement for a removed tongue. It has 100% part efficiency, perfectly replacing but not exceeding the capabilities of a natural tongue.

Acquisition

Bionic tongues can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 8 Plasteel, 2 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 8.

Summary

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Installation

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

Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

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

Analysis

The tongue cannot be damaged in unmodded RimWorld, except for the explicit surgery option to remove it. As a bionic tongue has the same stats as a regular tongue, installing one serves no physical purpose for an otherwise healthy pawn.

Body modders and transhumanists will be happier when using any artificial body part. Among the core RimWorld artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest advanced components. With the Royalty DLC, Venom fangs , knee spikes , and elbow blades can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.

If Ideology DLC is installed, the biosculpter pod can be used to fix the tongue instead. Otherwise, only the rare healer mech serums can fix it.

Replacing a missing tongue may not be necessary at all, however. While very important on any pawn that uses their talking stat (wardening, trading, taming), other pawns face a tradeoff. Without a tongue a pawn will:

No longer initiate or responds to relationship requests
Won't feel bad for being rebuffed or make others feel bad for rebuffing them
Unable to become lovers or propose marriage to another pawn
No longer engage in conversations
Will not trigger social fights by insulting others
If currently in a relationship, will be unable to gain higher opinion of their partner
Be considered disfigured by other pawns, receiving -15 opinion with them
(to be checked): Unable to issue role commands

Version history

1.3.3101 - Added.

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 • Flesh tentacle • Flesh whip
Head: Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic jaw • 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 • Revenant vertebrae
Stomach: Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach • Fleshmass stomach
Heart: Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heart • Corrosive heart • Metalblood heart
Lung: Lung • Detoxifier lung • Fleshmass lung
Kidney: Kidney • Detoxifier kidney
Organs: Liver
Visceral implants: Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs
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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 == Analysis ==
-Body modders and transhumanists {{IdeologyIcon}} will be happier when using a bionic tongue.  Among the {{hover title|RimWorld base content without DLC|core RimWorld}} artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest [[advanced component]]s.  With [[Royalty DLC]], [[Venom fangs]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[knee spike]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}}, and [[elbow blade]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}} can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.
+The tongue cannot be damaged in unmodded RimWorld, except for the explicit [[surgery]] option to remove it. As a bionic tongue has the same stats as a regular tongue, installing one serves no physical purpose for an otherwise healthy pawn.
-If [[Ideology DLC]] is installed, the [[biosculpter pod]] {{IdeologyIcon}} can be used to fix the tongue instead. Otherwise, only rare [[healer mech serum]]s can fix it.
+Body modders and transhumanists {{IdeologyIcon}} will be happier when using any artificial body part.  Among the {{hover title|RimWorld base content without DLC|core RimWorld}} artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest [[advanced component]]s.  With the [[Royalty DLC]], [[Venom fangs]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[knee spike]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}}, and [[elbow blade]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}} can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.
+If [[Ideology DLC]] is installed, the [[biosculpter pod]] {{IdeologyIcon}} can be used to fix the tongue instead. Otherwise, only the rare [[healer mech serum]]s can fix it.
 Replacing a missing tongue may not be necessary at all, however.  While very important on any pawn that uses their [[talking]] stat (wardening, trading, taming), other pawns face a tradeoff.  Without a tongue a pawn will: