Difference between revisions of "Death acidifier"

Latest revision as of 18:45, 7 February 2024

The death acidifier implant destroys all equipped weapons and apparel on the installed pawn on death, preventing them from being captured. It is installed on all empire soldiers to prevent weapon or armor capture.

Acquisition[edit]

It can be purchased from traders and installed normally, although it is more or less useless for your colonists.

Summary[edit]

Upon death, a death acidifier destroys held weapons and worn apparel on a pawn. All other items carried in the dead pawn's inventory drop normally, including weapons / apparel not currently equipped. It then applies chemical burns on the corpse, relative to where it destroyed items. It does not deal damage to anything else around the user on activation.

It does not prevent downed pawns from dropping their weapons or items, nor does it stop you from stripping apparel from a downed pawn. It only destroys weapons and armor at the time of death.

Installation[edit]

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

It cannot be removed once installed.

If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.

Analysis[edit]

The death acidifier merely serves as a way to prevent players from easily acquiring weapons and armor that would make the early game too easy. Installing the death acidifier on your pawns has no use, except for destroying equipment that could have been smelted for resources.

Downing a pawn does not cause the implant to activate. As long as the pawn is not downed by pain shock, the forced death on down chance will not apply. Psychic shock lances, heatstroke, and toxic buildup can all be used to recover the empire's gear freely.

Trivia[edit]

Animals with death acidifiers are immortal and cannot be killed by any means, including slaughtering, due to a bug that interrupts the death function. However without dev mode animals can never spawn with death acidifiers.

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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 == Summary ==
-{{stub|section=1|reason=Mechanics with how chemical burns are applied}}
+{{stub|section=1|reason=Mechanics with how chemical burns are applied. Also chance of destruction on failed operation.}}
 Upon [[death]], a death acidifier destroys held [[weapon]]s and worn [[apparel]] on a pawn. All other items carried in the dead pawn's inventory drop normally, including weapons / apparel not currently equipped. It then applies chemical burns on the corpse, relative to where it destroyed items. It does not deal damage to anything else around the user on activation.
-It does not prevent weapons or items being dropped by, nor apparel being stripped from, [[downed]] pawns. It only destroys items in the implantee's inventory at the time of death.
+It does not prevent [[downed]] pawns from dropping their weapons or items, nor does it stop you from stripping apparel from a downed pawn. It only destroys weapons and armor at the time of death.
 ===Installation===
-{{stub|section=1}}
 Installing the part requires {{ticks|2500}} of work, 2x medicine of [[Herbal medicine|Herbal]] quality or better, and a [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] of 5.
 It cannot be removed once installed.
-If the operation fails, the part has a chance{{Check Tag|What Chance?}} to be destroyed.
+If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.
 ==Analysis==
 The death acidifier merely serves as a way to prevent players from easily acquiring weapons and armor that would make the early game too easy. Installing the death acidifier on your pawns has no use, except for destroying equipment that could have been smelted for resources.
-Downing a pawn does not cause the implant to activate. As long as the pawn is not downed by [[pain shock]], the forced [[AI Storytellers#Enemy death on downed|death on down]] chance does not apply. [[Psychic shock lance]]s, [[heatstroke]], and [[toxic buildup]] can all be used to recover the empire's gear.
+Downing a pawn does not cause the implant to activate. As long as the pawn is not downed by [[pain shock]], the forced [[AI Storytellers#Enemy death on downed|death on down]] chance will not apply. [[Psychic shock lance]]s, [[heatstroke]], and [[toxic buildup]] can all be used to recover the empire's gear freely.
+==Trivia==
+Animals with death acidifiers are immortal and cannot be killed by any means, including slaughtering, due to a bug that interrupts the death function. However without dev mode animals can never spawn with death acidifiers.
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 [[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Body Part]] [[Category:Implant]]