Difference between revisions of "Bionic eye"

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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.

Prioritize 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 prioritized on anyone with damaged/missing eyes. On a healthy pawn, eyes are better for 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 outrun many types of enemies. Which bionic is more important can depend on playstyle and difficulty.

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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 Prioritize 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.
-Compared to other bionic parts, the penalty for lost sight is so wide that bionic eyes should be prioritized. 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 outrun many types of enemies. Which is more important depends on playstyle and [[difficulty]].
+Compared to other bionic parts, the penalty for lost sight is so wide that bionic eyes should be prioritized on anyone with damaged/missing eyes. On a healthy pawn, eyes are better for 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 outrun many types of enemies. Which bionic is more important can depend on playstyle and [[difficulty]].
 {{Sight Part Efficiency Table}}