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Bioferrite is a metallic material added by the Anomaly DLC.

Acquisition

Bioferrite can be extracted from Entities securely held in Holding spots or Holding platforms using a Bioferrite harvester.

Summary

Equipment made of bioferrite have additional effects beyond the normal statistical effects of the material. These effects scale with the quality of the item made.

Equipped items made from bioferrite apply a multiplier to the wearer's psychic sensitivity. These multipliers stack multiplicatively with one another and with other bonuses from eltex items ^[Prestige]

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Psychic Sensitivity	×1.06	×1.08	×1.1	×1.13	×1.15	×1.17	×1.20

For example, a pawn with a base psychic sensitivity of 100%, a psychic sensitizer, a normal eltex shirt, and a bioferrite item of normal, good, and excellent quality, would result in a psychic sensitivity of:

Psychic sensitivity = ((100% + 25%) + 8.3%) * 1.1 * 1.13 * 1.15 = 191%

Equipped items made from bioferrite apply an offset to both neural heat limit and neural heat recovery rate, which stacks additively. Note that the heat limit bonus stacks with the bonus to the limit from the increased psychic sensitivity, however due to the sensitivity bonus' multiplicative nature the total bonus cannot be easily quantified without assuming what other bonuses to sensitivity a pawn may have.

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Neural Heat Limit	4	6	8	11	13	15	18
Neural Heat Recover Rate	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04

Usage

Bioferrite is used in the following crafting recipes:

Product	Ingredients	Type [ExpandCollapse]
Void sculpture	50	Art
Shard animal pulser	1 + 75	Artifact
Biomutation pulser	1 + 40 + 30	Artifact - Utility
Atmospheric heater	2 + 150 + 150 + 8	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Bioferrite shaper	2 + 40 + 50	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Electroharvester	1 + 25 + 50	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Frenzy inducer	1 + 100	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Proximity detector	15 + 1	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Serum lab	1 + 2 + 80 + 100	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Shard beacon	1 + 30	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Sleep suppressor	1 + 100 + 25	Building - Anomaly (Buildings)
Bioferrite generator	50 + 100 + 4 + 1	Building - Power
Deadlife shell	25	Crafted resources - Mortar shell
Ghoul resurrection serum	20 + 20	Drug - Serum
Juggernaut serum	20 + 10	Drug - Serum
Metalblood serum	10 + 20	Drug - Serum
Mind-numb serum	2 + 30	Drug - Serum
Voidsight serum	2 + 10	Drug - Serum
Hellcat rifle	60 + 20 + 7	Equipment - Weapons
Incinerator	75 + 6 + 30	Equipment - Weapons
Nerve spiker	40	Equipment - Weapons
Bioferrite plate	4	Floor
Ceremonial hood	20 (Fabric) + 10	Gear - Clothing
Ritual mask	25	Gear - Clothing
Biomutation lance	1 + 50 + 20	Gear - Utility
Deadlife pack	30 + 1	Gear - Utility
Disruptor flare pack	1 + 30	Gear - Utility
Shard insanity lance	1 + 75	Gear - Utility
Shard shock lance	1 + 60	Gear - Utility
Adrenal heart	20 + 1	Medical Items - Body Parts
Corrosive heart	20 + 1	Medical Items - Body Parts
Ghoul barbs	35	Medical Items - Body Parts
Ghoul plating	70	Medical Items - Body Parts
Metalblood heart	20 + 1	Medical Items - Body Parts
Revenant vertebrae	10 + 1 + 2	Medical Items - Body Parts

Bioferrite can also be used as a Metallic material for stuffable items, like walls, doors, and melee weapons.

A Bioferrite generator can use bioferrite as fuel to generate power.

Analysis

Excellent for sharp melee weapons - while its DPS is lower than plasteel, it is close and it has significantly more AP and per attack damage. It is unclear if it this leads to a win for bioferrite on melee stats alone. Combined with the psychic boosts however, and it becomes powerful in the hands of a psycaster.

Bioferrite is likely better than eltex for buffing psycasters, as bioferrite is much more reliably obtained both generally and at high qualities, the stacking is multiplicative with all other buffs except blindsight, as it is applied last, and unlike eltex, bioferrite can provide a respectable amount of armor.

As the bonus from bioferrite is multiplicative, optimal equipment depends on psy sensitivity of the pawn. For a basic 100% sensitive pawn full eltex set plus bioferrite slave collar remain the best giving 363% psy sensitivity, compared to 238% granted by eltex shirt, bioferrite weapon, bioferrite slave collar, bioferrite helmet, and bioferrite plate armor.

But the more you boost psy sensitivity the better bioferrite gear becomes. With all boosts to psy sensitivity you can get(implant, serums, genes, deathrest, blindsight, traits, anomaly things) you can go as far as 2159% sensitivity (2079% without blindsight), compared to 1508% (1428% without blindsight) for eltex set + bioferrite collar.

As a building material, bioferrite is slightly below wood in value and more durable than steel, while sitting between the two in flammability and being much slower to build with.

Gallery

One bioferrite
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history

Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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Materials

Stony: Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade
Metallic: Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite
Woody: Wood
Leathery: Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather
Fabric: Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread

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 Excellent for sharp melee weapons - while its {{DPS}} is lower than plasteel, it is close and it has significantly more {{AP}} and per attack damage. It is unclear if it this leads to a win for bioferrite on melee stats alone. Combined with the psychic boosts however, and it becomes powerful in the hands of a [[psycast]]er.{{RoyaltyIcon}}
-Bioferrite is likely better than [[eltex]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} for buffing psycasters, as bioferrite is much more reliably obtained both generally and at high qualities, the stacking is multiplicative with other buffs, and unlike eltex, bioferrite can provide a respectable amount of armor.
+Bioferrite is likely better than [[eltex]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} for buffing psycasters, as bioferrite is much more reliably obtained both generally and at high qualities, the stacking is multiplicative with all other buffs except blindsight, as it is applied last, and unlike eltex, bioferrite can provide a respectable amount of armor.
+As the bonus from bioferrite is multiplicative, optimal equipment depends on psy sensitivity of the pawn. For a basic 100% sensitive pawn full eltex set plus bioferrite slave collar remain the best giving 363% psy sensitivity, compared to 238% granted by [[eltex shirt]],{{RoyaltyIcon}} bioferrite weapon, bioferrite [[slave collar]]{{IdeologyIcon}}, bioferrite helmet, and bioferrite [[plate armor]].
+But the more you boost psy sensitivity the better bioferrite gear becomes. With all boosts to psy sensitivity you can get(implant, serums, genes, deathrest, blindsight, traits, anomaly things) you can go as far as 2159% sensitivity (2079% without blindsight), compared to 1508% (1428% without blindsight) for eltex set + bioferrite collar.
-The exact math on the optimum set up has yet to be determined and likely depends on some assumptions, but [[eltex shirt]],{{RoyaltyIcon}} bioferrite weapon, bioferrite [[slave collar]]{{IdeologyIcon}}, bioferrite helmet, and bioferrite [[plate armor]] is a candidate for maximising buffs.
 As a building material, bioferrite is slightly below [[wood]] in value and more durable than [[steel]], while sitting between the two in flammability and being much slower to build with.