Manipulation

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

Effects

Manipulation has a number of unique interactions with other mechanics, beyond the traditional effects on stats.

Pawns with 0% Manipulation:

• Cannot hold weapons. If a pawn is reduced to 0% manipulation while holding a weapon, the weapon will be dropped on the ground.
• Cannot strip the apparel from corpses and downed pawns.
• Cannot use a nutrient paste dispenser.

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.
Crawl Speed	Stat	1	-	Speed of crawling in cells per second.
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.
Entity Study Rate	Stat	0.5	1.1	The rate at which this person generates knowledge from studying unnatural entities.
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.

Manipulation	Right arm
No arm	Prosthetic arm	Wooden hand	Organic arm	Bionic arm	Archotech arm
Left arm
No arm	0%	25%	30%	50%	62.5%	75%
Prosthetic arm	25%	50%	55%	75%	87.5%	100%
Wooden hand	30%	55%	60%	80%	92.5%	105%
Organic arm	50%	75%	80%	100%	112.5%	125%
Bionic arm	62.5%	87.5%	92.5%	112.5%	125%	137.5%
Archotech arm	75%	100%	105%	125%	137.5%	150%

Offsets

The following offsets are added or subtracted after the Base factors.

• Alcohol (Beer) high warm: −2%
• Go-juice withdrawal: −10%
• Psychite (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea) withdrawal: −20%
• Wake-up withdrawal: −25%
• 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%
• Smooth Tail: +5%

Multipliers

The following factors are applied after the Offsets.

• 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%
• Trotter hands: ×85%
• Elongated Fingers: ×110%

Formula

Manipulation = (Base factors + Offsets) × Multipliers

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: 170% from being high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, having used a neural supercharger, with any level of pollution stimulus and a psychic bond with a pawn on the same map.
• Arm efficiency:
  • Left arm: 150% (archotech arm)
  • Right arm: 150% (archotech arm)
• Offsets (total +135%):
  • Fibrous mechanites: +50%
  • Sensory mechanites: +30%
  • Trauma Savant: +50%
  • Smooth tail: +5%
• Post factors: x110%
  • Elongated fingers: x110%

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 = ((170% × 150%) + 135%) × 110%  = 429%

The minimum possible manipulation is of course 0%.

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Stats

Capacities

Pain • Consciousness • Moving • Manipulation • Talking • Eating • Sight • Hearing • Breathing • Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Digestion

Basics | Important

Market Value • Market Value Ignoring Hitpoints • Honor Value

Non Pawn Important

Nutrition • Medical Potency • Medical Tend Quality Maximum • Max Hit Points

Basics

Mass • Flammability • Psychic Sensitivity Factor • Psychic Sensitivity Offset • Neural Heat Limit Offset • Neural Heat Recovery Rate Offset • Slave Suppression Offset • Terror (Source) • Max Install Count

Pawn

Recreation Fall Rate • Sleep Fall Rate • Eating Speed • Foraged Food Amount • Minimum Handling Skill • Mental Break Threshold • Immunity Gain Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Lifespan Factor • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Injury Healing Factor • Caravan Riding Speed • Carrying Capacity • Filth Rate • Crawl Speed • Move Speed • Max Nutrition • Rest Rate Multiplier • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Animals Learning Factor • Global Learning Factor • Neural Heat Limit • Psychic Sensitivity • Leather Amount • Meat Amount • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Meditation Psyfocus Gain • Neural Heat Gain (Factor) • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Terror • Raw Nutrition Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier

Non Pawn

Construction Speed (Material Factor) • Deterioration Rate • Sell Price Multiplier • Beauty • Outdoor Beauty • Cleanliness • Comfort • Work To Make • Food Poison Chance (Food Stat) • Shooting Accuracy (Turrets) • Style Dominance

Mechanoid

EMP Resistance • Bandwidth Cost • Energy Usage Multiplier • Wastepacks Per Recharge • Control Taking Time • Repair Energy Cost

Meditation

Meditation Psyfocus Bonus • Meditation Plant Growth Offset

Terrain

Cleaning Time Multiplier • Filth Multiplier

Apparel

Armor - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Cold - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Heat - Material Effect Multiplier • Equip Delay • Pack Radius • Shield Recharge Rate • Shield Max Energy • Insulation - Heat • Insulation - Cold • Armor - Heat • Armor - Blunt • Armor - Sharp • Jump Range

Weapon (Ranged)

Ranged Damage Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown • Accuracy (Long) • Accuracy (Medium) • Accuracy (Short) • Accuracy (Close)

Weapon (Melee)

Melee Damage Multiplier • Melee Weapon Average Armor Penetration • Melee Damage Per Second

Building

Research Speed Factor • Max Power Output • Medical Tend Quality Offset • Work Speed Factor • Work Efficiency Factor • Work To Build • Door Opening Speed • Rest Effectiveness • Immunity Gain Speed Factor • Recreation Power • Surgery Success Chance Factor • Reading Bonus • Trap Spring Chance • Trap Melee Damage • Biosculpter Pod Speed Factor • Assembly Speed Factor • Baby Play Power • Birth Quality Offset • Genetic Complexity Increase

Ability

Detection Chance • Goodwill Impact • Effect Radius • Duration • Range • Psyfocus Cost • Neural Heat Gain • Casting Time • Psylink Level

Stuff Stat Factors (Multipliers when made of this)

Melee Cooldown • Sharp Damage • Blunt Damage • Insulation - Heat (Material Factor) • Insulation - Cold (Material Factor) • Armor - Heat (Material Factor) • Armor - Blunt (Material Factor) • Armor - Sharp (Material Factor)

Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset

Pawn | Combat

Stagger Time Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Aiming Time • Pawn Trap Spring Chance • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Accuracy Factor (Long) • Accuracy Factor (Medium) • Accuracy Factor (Short) • Accuracy Factor (Close) • Shooting Accuracy (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Night • Outdoors Day ) • Melee Hit Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Melee DPS • Melee Damage Factor • Melee Cooldown • Melee Door Damage Factor • Shooting Accuracy Multiplier (Child)

Social

Bond Chance Factor • Train Animal Chance • Tame Animal Chance • Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Social Impact • Drug Sell Price Improvement • Trade Price Improvement • Negotiation Ability • Suppression Power • Conversion Power • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Animal Products Price Improvement

Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

Work

Cleaning Speed Multiplier • Butchery Speed • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Hunting Stealth • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Butchery Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Cooking Speed • Food Poison Chance • Plant Work Speed • Plant Harvest Yield • Drug Crop Harvest Yield • Reading Speed • Repair Success Chance • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Medical Tend Speed • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Mining Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Mining Yield • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Activity Suppression Speed • Study Efficiency • Entity Study Rate

Psychic Ritual

Psychic Ritual Quality • Psychic Ritual Quality Offset

Containment

Cold Containment Bonus • Containment Strength • Minimum Containment Strength

Hidden

Bed Hunger Rate Multiplier