Mindscrew

Mindscrew

Inflicts continuous pain on the user. Mindscrews are used by some authorities as a long-term punishment. Some even install them voluntarily as a demonstration of ideological or religious devotion.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Market Value

210 

Mass

4 kg

HP

50

Flammability

100%

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Brain wiring

Skill Required

Crafting 5

Work To Make

15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)

Resources to make

15 + 4

Technical

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RewardStandardLowFreq

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PainCauser

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ImplantEmpireCommon

The Mindscrew is an implant that permanent gives a pawn that's been implanted with it +20% Pain.

Acquisition

Mindscrews can be crafted at a Machining table once the Brain wiring research project has been completed. The required techprint can be obtained either by trade or completing quests for the Empire. They require  15 Steel,  4 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 5.

Summary

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Installation

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

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

Once installed, it cannot be removed.^{[Fact Check]}

Analysis

May be useful on masochists to give a permanent mood boost to them. Note that this also makes them generally less effective as the pain itself will inflict a -4% consciousness penalty, and also in battle since they collapse earlier from pain.

On non-masochist pawns, just the pain from the mindscrew will inflict enough pain to give a -10 mood penalty.

On Wimps, it will causes immediate and permanent shock as the pain will instantly reach their pain shock threshold.

Can also be useful on psycasters since they recover from neural heat faster when in pain.

There is also potential synergy with the psychic harmonizer when used on prisoners as psychic harmonizers only affect pawns of the implantee's faction.

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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

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Leg/Foot

Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike

Related

Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm

Deprecated

Scyther blade • Psychic silencer