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A Bionic eye is an artificial eye that improves sight.

Acquisition

Bionic eyes can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 15 Plasteel, 4 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, 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

Bionic eyes replace natural eyes. Bionic eyes have a 125% efficiency, which results in a +25% improvement to Sight if two are installed.

However, the game places 75% weighting on the more capable eye for the purposes of sight. Installing the first bionic eye on a healthy pawn would increase sight by +18.75%, while the second would provide a +6.25% increase.

Installation

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 ? of work, 1 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

Bionic eyes can repair damaged sight, and augment normal sight for healthy pawns. There are no prosthetic eyes - bionic eyes are the first replacement for a damaged natural eye, and eyes are easily scarred. Before Bionics are researched, getting an eye from a trader is your best bet, unless you chance upon a healer mech serum or rush for a biosculpter pod.

Damaged sight reduces general labor speed and a wide variety of other stats, slowing virtually any task a pawn can do. Improving Sight past 100% boosts: Shooting Accuracy & Melee Hit Chance, Melee Dodge Chance, Medical Tend Quality, and Cooking Speed. Sight up to 110% also provides a slight boost to Research Speed and Hacking Speed. A bionic eye is roughly equal to +2 levels of Shooting or Melee, with a bonus for melee dodge chance.

Priortize replacing damaged eyes first, then getting a single bionic eye on healthy colonists, then potentially getting a second eye per colonist. Archotech eyes are a trader/quest -only upgrade, and should be installed in the same order.

Compared to other bionic parts, the penalty for lost sight is so wide that bionic eyes should be priortized. On a healthy pawn, eyes are better for raw combat, while arms and legs are better for work speed. Legs may also be better in combat if you rely on kiting tactics, allowing you to reliably outspeed many types of enemies. Which is more important

Sight	Right eye
Blindness	Cataract	Organic eye	Bionic eye	Archotech eye
Left eye	Blindness	000%	037.5%	075%	093.75%	112.5%
Cataract	037.5%	050%	087.5%	106.25%	125%
Organic eye	075%	087.5%	100%	118.75%	138%
Bionic eye	093.75%	106.25%	118.75%	125%	144.25%
Archotech eye	112.5%	125%	138%	144.25%	150%

As with all bionics, it will give a mood buff to anyone with the body modder trait and a heavy penalty to any colonist who is a body purist. They are a strong option for body modders - not conflicting with any other. Also, having implants of any kind installed will annoy fellow colonists who have the Body Purist trait, stressing their relationship.

Gallery

Bionic eyes when installed on pawns
The texture for an installed bionic eye, south-facing

Version history

0.7.581 - Added
Beta 19 - received a nerf to efficiency 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

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-{{Info|A '''Bionic eye''' is an artificial eye that can replace a natural one through implant surgery. Unlike their natural counterparts, bionic eyes do not scar. They have 125% efficiency, which results in a 25% improvement to the colonist's [[sight]] if two are installed.}} Since the game gives a greater weighting on the more capable part when calculating sight, with it contributing to 75% of a pawn's sight capability, installing a single bionic eye increases sight by 18.75%, and a second increases it by 6.25% to the expected 125%.
+{{Info|A '''Bionic eye''' is an artificial eye that improves sight.}}
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 == Summary ==
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+Bionic eyes replace natural eyes. Bionic eyes have a 125% efficiency, which results in a +25% improvement to [[Sight]] if two are installed.
-Summary stuff goes here
+However, the game places 75% weighting on the more capable eye for the purposes of sight. Installing the first bionic eye on a healthy pawn would increase sight by +18.75%, while the second would provide a +6.25% increase.
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 == Analysis ==
-Bionic eyes have two primary purposes - treatment of damaged sight and augmentation of normal sight.
+Bionic eyes can repair damaged sight, and augment normal sight for healthy pawns. There are no prosthetic eyes - bionic eyes are the first replacement for a damaged natural eye, and eyes are easily scarred. Before Bionics are researched, getting an eye from a [[trader]] is your best bet, unless you chance upon a [[healer mech serum]] or rush for a [[biosculpter pod]]{{IdeologyIcon}}.
-Bionic eyes are the first artificial replacement for a damaged natural eye to become available; there are no "prosthetic" eyes. Commonly available from [[outlander]] [[faction base]]s and in [[quest]] rewards they thus, they will likely also be the first available method for to cure damaged, diseased, or missing eyes unless you chance upon a [[healer mech serum]] or rush [[biosculpter pod]]s{{IdeologyIcon}}.
+''Damaged'' sight reduces [[general labor speed]] and a wide variety of other stats, slowing virtually any task a pawn can do. Improving Sight past 100% boosts: [[Shooting Accuracy]] & [[Melee Hit Chance]], [[Melee Dodge Chance]], [[Medical Tend Quality]], and [[Cooking Speed]]. Sight up to 110% also provides a slight boost to [[Research Speed]] and [[Hacking Speed]]. A bionic eye is roughly equal to +2 levels of Shooting or Melee, with a bonus for melee dodge chance.
-Due to the aforementioned weighting of one eye over both, upgrading the first eye is a much more significant improvement than the second; if you have multiple colonists who might benefit from improving their sight, all things equal you should give them each one improved eye before you give one of them two improved eyes.
+Priortize replacing damaged eyes first, then getting a single bionic eye on healthy colonists, then potentially getting a second eye per colonist. [[Archotech eye]]s are a trader/quest -only upgrade, and should be installed in the same order.
-As elective replacements, bionic eyes can benefit almost any task. In combat, they are useful for improving the accuracy of both ranged and melee pawns - the first eye is equivalent to another 2 levels of the relevant skill to both [[Shooting Accuracy]] and [[Melee Hit Chance]], while the second eye improves that by 1 to equivalent to 3 additional levels. [[Melee Dodge Chance]] also improves by the equivalent of 1.5 levels of melee with one eye installed, or 2 for both.
+Compared to other bionic parts, the penalty for lost sight is so wide that bionic eyes should be priortized. On a healthy pawn, eyes are better for raw combat, while arms and legs are better for work speed. Legs may also be better in combat if you rely on [[kiting]] tactics, allowing you to reliably outspeed many types of enemies. Which is more important
-Outside of combat, they significantly improve a colonists' [[Medical Tend Quality]], resulting in better outcomes for their patients. Adding a bionic eye also hastens [[intellectual]] tasks like [[Research Speed|researching]] and [[Hacking Speed|hacking]], though adding a second eye offers no further improvement. Finally it also improves [[Foraged Food Amount]], reducing the need to rely on carried food on caravans, and [[Cooking Speed]], doing exactly what the name implies. See [[Sight]], and the pages of the relevant stats, for full details.
+{{Sight Part Efficiency Table}}
-These buffs mean that bionic eyes are sought-after buffs for a fairly wide variety of pawns. Generally speaking, shooters benefit more than melee pawns due to the exponential nature of how shooting accuracy is applied. Meanwhile, doctors have one of the most important tasks in the colony and can fully exploit both eyes, and are thus often ideal candidates for implantation. Cooks also benefit significantly, so long as the 160% speed cap has not already been reached through skill or [[manipulation]] buffs. They should thus be given second call on any eyes. This leaves only researchers as the final job to prioritize, and they only require one eye. Caravanners do benefit as mentioned above, and while the buff is fairly significant relative to the base stat, foraged food is generally not relevant enough to warrant a bionic eye to optimize.
-The next and ultimate step is the [[archotech eye]], with a 150% bonus for two eyes replaced. These should largely be issue in the same priority order as bionic eyes, though keep in mind that replacing bionic eyes with archotech runs the risk of losing both.
 As with all bionics, it will give a mood buff to anyone with the [[Traits#Body modder|body modder]] trait and a heavy penalty to any colonist who is a [[Traits#Body purist|body purist]]. They are a strong option for body modders - not conflicting with any other. Also, having implants of any kind installed will annoy fellow colonists who have the Body Purist trait, stressing their relationship.
-{{Sight Part Efficiency Table}}
 == Gallery ==