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A bionic arm is an artificial body part that acts as a replacement for a pawn's natural arm, increasing Manipulation by 12.5% per arm while also offering a slightly more powerful punch attack and acting as a body part weapon.

Acquisition[edit]

Bionic arms can be crafted at a fabrication bench once the bionic replacements research project has been completed. Each requires 15 Plasteel, 4 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 8.

They can also be found in ancient shrines, offered as a quest reward, or bought from exotic traders, Empire traders, and at Outlander faction bases.

Summary[edit]

Body part[edit]

Bionic arms replace the user's organic arm up to, and including, the shoulder. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right. The bionic arm has a part efficiency of 125%. This not only fully replaces the functionality of a normal arm - when coupled with the arm body part having a Manipulation importance of 50%, it results in an increase in manipulation of 12.5% over natural for each bionic arm installed. Manipulation, in turn, affects a great many stats. For a full list of affected stats, see Manipulation.

Combat[edit]

A bionic arm replaces the natural "Fist" attack of the replaced arm with an almost 50% more powerful, but otherwise equivalent, punch.

Name		Damage	DPS	AP	Damage Type
	Human Fist	8.2	4.1	12%	Blunt
	Bionic arm	12		18%	Blunt

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.

Removing the part requires 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and has no Medical skill requirements.

If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.

Analysis[edit]

First, any reasonably important pawn with a destroyed or prosthetic arm should get a bionic replacement. Then, the increase to manipulation is best used for the Doctoring, Crafting, or Construction; doctors tend faster and with higher quality, while crafters and constructors make objects faster (quality is unaffected). Manipulation is one of the few ways to increase general labor speed, so it is great for skill-less crafting tasks like stonecutting and smelting.

Manipulation will also increase the Artistic, Mining, Plants, and Research (up to 110% Manipulation) skills, but these skills are generally less important to do fast in a mid- to late- game colony that can make bionic arms. The drill arm and field hand provide a much greater boost to Mining or Plants, though lower Moving in the process. For combat, bionic arms will increase Melee Hit Chance, but they only increase Shooting Accuracy if Manipulation is below 100%. While manipulation often goes below 100% due to the effects of pain and injury, bionic eyes are superior if combat, ranged or melee, is your main priority.

Unlike organic parts, bionic arms don't contain subparts - all damage is taken by the main, 30 HP arm, instead of spread throughout the bones, fingers, and shoulder. While a bionic arm won't lose stray fingers to a gun shot, this makes it easier for it to be completely destroyed. Note that the bionic arm is fully attached to the shoulder; a flak vest completely protects a bionic arm, but does not cover an organic arm at all. In addition, the artificial part never feels pain and never bleeds.

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%

As with all bionics, it will give a mood bonus to anyone with the Body modder trait and a heavy penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait. Similar effects are also applied to pawns following an ideoligion with a Body Modification precept.

Version history[edit]

0.19.2009 - received a nerf to efficiency (from 140%) but is now craftable.

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

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval: Nerve spiker

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

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-{{infobox main|
+{{Infobox main
 | name = Bionic arm
-| image = Health item bionic.png|Bionic arm
+| image = Health item bionic.png
 | type = Medical Items
 | type2 = Body Parts
+| tech level = Spacer
 | description = An advanced artificial arm. Silenced mini-servos give great strength, while the biogel nerve-link gives exquisite control. A lattice-dust healing system allows it to recover from damage. It is better than a biological arm in almost every way.
-| class = Spacer
 | meleeattack1dmg = 12
 | meleeattack1type = Blunt
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 | meleeattack1cool = 2
 | meleeattack1ap = 18
-| MeleeWeaponAverageDPS = 6
+| body part = Shoulder
-| MeleeWeaponAverageAP = 18
 | mode = Melee
 | production facility 1 = Fabrication bench
-| research = Bionic Replacements
+| research = Bionic replacements
 | skill 1 = Crafting
 | skill 1 level = 8
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-{{Info|A '''bionic arm''' is a very useful replacement for a natural arm.  They are universal and can be installed on either left or right shoulders (despite its name). It has 125% efficiency, increasing a colonist's [[manipulation]] by 12.5% for each bionic arm installed. A bionic arm's strength gives its bearer a melee attack of 12 damage when an attack uses that arm, compared to 8 damage from a natural arm.  An installed bionic arm will replace a colonist's arm up to and including the shoulder.}}
+{{Info|A '''bionic arm''' is an [[artificial body part]] that acts as a replacement for a pawn's natural arm, increasing [[Manipulation]] by 12.5% per arm while also offering a slightly more powerful punch attack and acting as a [[body part weapon]].}}
-==Acquisition==
+== Acquisition ==
-They can be crafted at a [[fabrication bench]] for 15 {{icon|plasteel}} [[plasteel]] and 4 {{icon|advcomponent}} [[advanced component]]s and are sometimes offered for sale by exotic traders and at Outlander bases. They require a crafting skill of 8.
+{{Acquisition}}
+They can also be found in [[ancient shrine]]s, offered as a [[quest]] reward, or [[Trade|bought]] from exotic traders, [[Empire]] traders, and at [[Outlander]] [[faction base]]s.
 == Summary ==
-{{stub|section=1}}
+=== Body part ===
-Installing requires {{ticks|2500}} of work, and a [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] of 5.
+Bionic arms replace the user's organic arm up to, and including, the shoulder. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right. The bionic arm has a part efficiency of 125%. This not only fully replaces the functionality of a normal arm - when coupled with the arm body part having a [[Manipulation]] importance of 50%, it results in an increase in manipulation of 12.5% over natural for each bionic arm installed. Manipulation, in turn, affects a great many [[stats]]. For a full list of affected stats, see [[Manipulation#Affected stats|Manipulation]].
+=== Combat ===
+A bionic arm replaces the natural "Fist" attack of the replaced arm with an almost 50% more powerful, but otherwise equivalent, punch.
+<div><li style="display: inline-table;">
+{| {{STDT|sortable c_06 text-center}}
+! colspan="2" | Name !! Damage !! DPS !! AP !! Damage Type
+|-
+! {{Icon Small|Heart|32}}
+! style='text-align: left !important;'| Human Fist
+| {{Q|Human|Attack 1 Damage}}
+| {{Q|Human|Attack 1 DPS}}
+| {{Q|Human|Attack 1 AP}}%
+| [[Damage Types#{{Q|Human|Attack 1 Type}}|{{Q|Human|Attack 1 Type}}]]
+|-
+! {{Icon Small|{{PAGENAME}}|32}}
+! {{PAGENAME}}
+| {{P|Attack 1 Damage}}
+| {{P|MeleeDPS}}
+| {{P|Attack 1 AP}}%
+| [[Damage Types#{{P|Attack 1 Type}}|{{P|Attack 1 Type}}]]
+|}
+</li></div>
+=== Installation ===
+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.
+Removing the part requires {{Ticks|2000}} of work, 1x medicine of [[Herbal medicine|herbal]] quality or better, and has no [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] requirements.
+If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.
 == Analysis ==
-Since bionic arms increase a colonist manipulation stat, it is advised to add them to colonist with a high skill level on [[Skills|Crafting]] or [[Doctoring|Medicine]] since those skills depend greatly on the manipulation stat. For example, a doctor will have a better chance at a high quality treatment if he or she has increased manipulation stats, and craftsmen will make objects faster.
+First, any reasonably important pawn with a destroyed or [[prosthetic arm]] should get a bionic replacement. Then, the increase to manipulation is best used for the [[Doctoring]], [[Crafting]], or [[Skills|Construction]]; doctors tend faster and with higher quality, while crafters and constructors make objects faster (quality is unaffected). Manipulation is one of the few ways to increase [[general labor speed]], so it is great for skill-less crafting tasks like [[stonecutter's table|stonecutting]] and [[electric smelter|smelting]].
-As with all bionics, it will give a mood bonus to anyone with the Body modder [[traits|trait]] and a heavy penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait.
+Manipulation will also increase the [[Skills|Artistic]], [[Skills|Mining]], [[Skills|Plants]], and [[Skills|Research]] (up to 110% Manipulation) skills, but these skills are generally less important to do ''fast'' in a mid- to late- game colony that can make bionic arms. The [[drill arm]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[field hand]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} provide a much greater boost to Mining or Plants, though lower [[Moving]] in the process. For combat, bionic arms will increase [[Melee Hit Chance]], but they only increase [[Shooting Accuracy]] if Manipulation is below 100%. While manipulation often goes below 100% due to the effects of [[pain]] and [[injury]], [[bionic eye]]s are superior if combat, ranged or melee, is your main priority.
+Unlike organic parts, bionic arms don't contain subparts - all damage is taken by the main, 30 HP arm, instead of spread throughout the bones, fingers, and shoulder. While a bionic arm won't lose stray fingers to a gun shot, this makes it easier for it to be completely destroyed.  Note that the bionic arm is fully attached to the shoulder; a [[flak vest]] completely protects a bionic arm, but does not cover an organic arm at all. In addition, the artificial part never feels [[pain]] and never bleeds.
+{{Manipulation Part Efficiency Table}}
+As with all bionics, it will give a mood bonus to anyone with the [[Body modder]] trait and a heavy penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait. Similar effects are also applied to pawns following an {{IdeologyIcon}} [[ideoligion]] with a [[Ideoligion#Body_modification|Body Modification]] [[Ideoligion#Precepts|precept]].
 == Version history ==
-In Beta 19 it received a nerf to efficiency (from 140%) but is now craftable.
+* [[Version/0.19.2009|0.19.2009]] - received a nerf to efficiency (from 140%) but is now craftable.
-{{nav|body parts|wide}}
-[[Category: Medical Item]]
+{{Nav|body parts|wide}}
-[[Category: Body Part]]
+{{Nav|weapon|wide}}
+[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Body Part]] [[Category:Artificial Body Part]]