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The joywire brain implant grants a permanent +30 mood boost. However, the bearer suffers a permanent -20% to consciousness. After implantation, it cannot be removed.

Acquisition

In the base game, the joywires cannot be crafted. Instead they can only be obtained via trade or found in ancient shrines.

With the Royalty DLC, joywires can be crafted at a Machining table once the Brain wiring research project has been completed. They require 20 Steel, 4 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 5.

Summary

The joywire provides a permanent +30 mood buff at the cost of a −20% Consciousness malus, which is subtractive. The Consciousness penalty causes a decrease in most stats, directly impacting all of: Eating, Manipulation, Moving, Reading Speed, Talking. See those pages for details.

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.

It cannot be removed once installed.

If the operation fails, the part is always destroyed.

Installing a joywire onto a guest is not considered a harmful operation.

Analysis

Joywires are most useful when a pawn's productivity simply does not matter. For example, a lategame colony can use a joywire and psychic harmonizer to spread a mmood buff to other colonists. This works best if the colonist is already disabled, and even better if comatose - see this section for details. A joywire can also be installed into Royal quest guests without penalty. They don't work, and the implant keeps them happy even if you neglect some of their royal needs.

Otherwise, implanting a joywire on a colonist is generally a bad idea. The debuff is hefty; ven cleaning, hauling, and walking are performed 20% slower. While the +30 mood buff is substantial, increasing mood can be done with many other ways, such as a social drug policy, fine orlavish meals, and beautiful rooms. Joywires could be useful for less useful colonists with Depressive or other traits that will cause mental breaks. But if other means of mood management aren't sufficient, it may be wiser to abandon them and get another recruit.

Luciferium can offset the stat penalty, bringing Consciousness to 95%. While it's still -20% Consciousness compared to an ordinary luciferium addict, note that certain stats (like Moving) only scale up to 100% Consciousness. Therefore, the penalty is somewhat smaller compared to a non-drugged pawn gaining a joywire. Of course, you should have some means of obtaining luciferium, like a reliable Outlander trade faction. A neural supercharger is analogous as a stat increase, though doesn't have the same costs as luciferium.

Trivia

The implant cannot be removed in the game, but according to the Joywire Addict and Addiction Counsel backstories and the fact the backstories appear on pawns without a joywire installed, this is not the case on other, probably more advanced, worlds.

Version history

0.12.906 - Added

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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 == Analysis ==
-Due to its hefty conciseness debuff, it is generally a bad idea to install joywires on your colonists. While a substantial increase, the +30 mood buff can be achieved via many other ways and the [[Consciousness]] penalty makes the pawn significantly slower and/or worse at almost every task. Even cleaning, hauling, or simply [[move speed|walking]] is performed 20% slower. Conversely, a joywire can be installed into Royal [[quest]] guests{{RoyaltyIcon}}, keeping them happy even if you neglect some of their royal needs.
+Joywires are most useful when a pawn's productivity simply does not matter. For example, a lategame colony can use a joywire and [[psychic harmonizer]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to spread a mmood buff to other colonists. This works best if the colonist is already disabled, and even better if comatose - see [[Psychic harmonizer#Comatose pawns|this section]] for details. A joywire can also be installed into Royal [[quest]] guests{{RoyaltyIcon}} without penalty. They don't work, and the implant keeps them happy even if you neglect some of their royal needs.
-Joywires work best with the [[psychic harmonizer]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, especially on an already useless pawn. The harmonizer will spread the joywire's buff to other colonists. You can put one on a comatose pawn to make the mood buff stable; see [[Psychic harmonizer#Comatose pawns|this section]] for details.
+Otherwise, implanting a joywire on a colonist is generally a bad idea. The debuff is hefty; ven cleaning, hauling, and [[move speed|walking]] are performed 20% slower. While the +30 mood buff is substantial, increasing mood can be done with many other ways, such as a social [[drug]] policy, [[Fine meal|fine]] or[[lavish meal]]s, and beautiful rooms. Joywires could be useful for less useful colonists with [[Depressive]] or other traits that will cause [[mental break]]s. But if other means of mood management aren't sufficient, it may be wiser to abandon them and get another recruit.
-Without the [[Royalty DLC]], a joywire can be useful for colonists with [[Depressive]] or other traits that will cause [[mental break]]s, who are not vital to your colony. However, these traits can often be handled by other methods, like a social [[drug]] policy, [[Fine meal|fine]] and [[lavish meal]]s, or beautiful rooms. Failing that, it may be wiser to abandon that pawn and recruit another.
 [[Luciferium]] can offset the stat penalty, bringing Consciousness to 95%. While it's still -20% Consciousness compared to an ordinary luciferium addict, note that certain stats (like Moving) only scale up to 100% Consciousness. Therefore, the penalty is somewhat smaller compared to a non-drugged pawn gaining a joywire. Of course, you should have some means of obtaining luciferium, like a reliable Outlander [[trade]] faction. A [[neural supercharger]]{{IdeologyIcon}} is analogous as a stat increase, though doesn't have the same costs as luciferium.