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The more capable ear is responsible for 75% of Hearing. If the implant is the most capable part, it results in restoring 48.75% [[hearing]], or a loss of 26.25% when replacing a healthy ear. If it is not, it restores 16.25%, or a loss of 8.75% when replacing a healthy ear. Hearing, in turn, affects the following [[stats]]: {{#ask: [[Hearing Importance::+]]}}. For full details, see those pages. | The more capable ear is responsible for 75% of Hearing. If the implant is the most capable part, it results in restoring 48.75% [[hearing]], or a loss of 26.25% when replacing a healthy ear. If it is not, it restores 16.25%, or a loss of 8.75% when replacing a healthy ear. Hearing, in turn, affects the following [[stats]]: {{#ask: [[Hearing Importance::+]]}}. For full details, see those pages. | ||
| − | For a pawn at 100% quality, the first prosthetic ear results in a 4% reduction in character quality, and a second further reduces it by 14% for a total reduction of 18%. Each implant increases the pawn's wealth by a flat $220 per prosthetic in addition to the character quality reduction. | + | For a pawn at 100% quality, the first prosthetic ear results in a 4% reduction in character quality, and a second further reduces it by 14% for a total reduction of 18%. Each implant increases the pawn's wealth by a flat $220 per prosthetic in addition to the character quality reduction. |
As an artificial part, cochlear implants will give a mood buff to anyone with the [[Body modder]] trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the [[Body purist]] trait. | As an artificial part, cochlear implants will give a mood buff to anyone with the [[Body modder]] trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the [[Body purist]] trait. | ||
Revision as of 10:48, 10 September 2024
Cochlear implant
An implant which replaces normal hearing. An external microphone transmits a sound signal to electrodes wrapped around the inner ear's auditory sensing nerves. The electrodes stimulate the nerves according to the sound, creating a sensation of hearing. It's not as good as a natural ear, but it's a lot better than being deaf.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 220
- Flammability
- 70%
- Body Part
- Ear
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Prosthetics
- Skill Required
- Crafting 5
- Work To Make
- 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)
- Resources to make
20 + 
4
- techHediffsTags
- Simple
- tradeTags
- TechHediff
Cochlear implants are an artificial body part that replaces a pawn's ear. replacement with 65% efficiency.
Acquisition
Cochlear implants can be crafted at a Machining table once the Prosthetics 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.
They can also be purchased from traders or occasionally found installed on raiders
Summary
Cochlear implants replace the user's organic ear. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right side. The cochlear implant has a part efficiency of 65%, which impacts Hearing. Cochlear implants also remove the "Disfigured" opinion penalty held by other pawns from having a missing ear.
The more capable ear is responsible for 75% of Hearing. If the implant is the most capable part, it results in restoring 48.75% hearing, or a loss of 26.25% when replacing a healthy ear. If it is not, it restores 16.25%, or a loss of 8.75% when replacing a healthy ear. Hearing, in turn, affects the following stats: Conversion Power, Negotiation Ability, Social Impact, Tame Animal Chance, Trade Price Improvement, Train Animal Chance. For full details, see those pages.
For a pawn at 100% quality, the first prosthetic ear results in a 4% reduction in character quality, and a second further reduces it by 14% for a total reduction of 18%. Each implant increases the pawn's wealth by a flat $220 per prosthetic in addition to the character quality reduction.
As an artificial part, cochlear implants will give a mood buff to anyone with the Body modder trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait.
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 4.
Removing the part requires 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and has no Medical skill requirements.
If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.
Analysis
The hearing capacity only affects two different work types:
Hearing also affects social ineraction between pawns, so an implant will slightly increase their chances to share a double bed. Pawns that don't perform either of these work types can largely ignore Hearing entirely. For the pawns that do perform those tasks, using a cochlear implant to replace a damaged, ill, missing ear is obviously recommended if a bionic ear cannot be obtained. Furthermore, no Hearing dependent stat is affected by Hearing above 100%. As such, when replacing both ears, a single bionic ear and a single cochlear implant totally remedies all hearing based issues, at a lower cost than two bionic ears.
There is also a niche use for Body modder pawns - as the penalties only affects two work types, the majority of pawns will have no significant penalty from having the implant installed, even if they were healthy to begin with. Thus installing two cochlear implants can be an easy, cheap, and effective way to get way to give a permanent +7 mood buff to body modders / transhumanists even in the early game, so long as they are never expected to do anything social or train animals.
| Hearing | Right ear | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaf | Hearing loss | Cochlear implant | Organic ear | Bionic ear | ||
| Left ear | Deaf | 0% | 37.5% | 49% | 75% | 94% |
| Hearing loss | 37.5% | 50% | 61.25% | 87.5% | 106.25% | |
| Cochlear implant | 49% | 61.25% | 65% | 91% | 110% | |
| Organic ear | 75% | 87.5% | 91% | 100% | 119% | |
| Bionic ear | 94% | 106.25% | 110% | 119% | 125% |
- 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