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| − | Bionic tongues fully replace an organic tongue. Without a tongue, pawns are unable to: | + | Bionic tongues fully replace an organic tongue. Without a tongue, pawns have 0% [[Talking]] and are unable to: |
* Initiate or responds to relationship requests, become lovers, or propose marriage | * Initiate or responds to relationship requests, become lovers, or propose marriage | ||
* Engage in conversations, good or bad. | * Engage in conversations, good or bad. | ||
Revision as of 03:10, 2 December 2022
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Bionic tongue
An artificial tongue replacement. Made of synthetic smooth-fibers and connected through a neurogel interface, it can match the performance of a natural tongue in speaking, eating, and tasting.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Tech Level
- Spacer
- Market Value
- 565
[Note]
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Bionic replacements
- Skill Required
- Crafting 8
- Work To Make
- 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins)
- Resources to make
8 + 
2
- techHediffsTags
- Advanced
- tradeTags
- TechHediff, Bionic
A bionic tongue acts as a replacement for a removed tongue. It has 100% part efficiency, perfectly replacing but not exceeding the capabilities of a natural tongue.
Acquisition
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Bionic tongues can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 8 Plasteel, 2 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 8.
Summary
Bionic tongues fully replace an organic tongue. Without a tongue, pawns have 0% Talking and are unable to:
- Initiate or responds to relationship requests, become lovers, or propose marriage
- Engage in conversations, good or bad.
- Will not be rebuff or be rebuffed by others
- Unable to trigger social fights by insulting others
- Unable to increase opinion of an existing romatic partner
- Will not try and convert others to their ideoligion
. - (to be checked): Unable to issue role commands
In addition, a pawn without a tongue is considered disfigured, giving -15 opinion from others.
Installation
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Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.
Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x 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
The tongue cannot be damaged in unmodded RimWorld, except for the explicit surgery option to remove it. As a bionic tongue has the same stats as a regular tongue, installing one on a healthy pawn serves no physical purpose. If Ideology DLC is installed, the biosculpter pod can be used to restore the tongue at the cost of 
2 instead. Otherwise, only the rare healer mech serums can fix it.
Replacing a missing tongue may not be necessary at all, however. While very important on any pawn that uses their talking stat (wardening, trading, taming), other pawns face a tradeoff. It removes all negative conversations, which can help with traits like Abrasive, but removes relationship penalties. Note that the healer mech serum may heal an missing tongue - installing a bionic one will avoid wasting the much rarer serum on it.
Body modders and transhumanists will be happier when using any artificial body part. Among the core RimWorld artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest advanced components. With the Royalty DLC, Venom fangs 
, knee spikes , and elbow blades can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.
Version history
- 1.3.3101 - Added.
- 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