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| + | If your colonist only suffers from [[Ailments#Hearing_loss|hearing loss]] (rather than true deafness), since hearing is weighted 75% for the better ear, replacing just one pushes hearing over the max of 100% - one is all they need. | ||
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| + | [[Body modder]]s, of course, will benefit from anything that does not hurt their functionality in the colony, but unless they are performing the social/animal roles, the cheaper [[cochlear implant]] serves just as well. | ||
===Installation=== | ===Installation=== | ||
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Bionic ear
An advanced artificial ear implant. A collection of invisible subdermal microphones capture sound and transmit it to a biogel nerve interface that links directly with the auditory nerve. It's sensitive enough to hear a cat before you see it, can't be damaged by loud noise, and automatically tunes itself to pick out meaningful sounds in noisy environments.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Market Value
- 785
- Mass
- 0.1 kg
- HP
- 50
- Flammability
- 100%
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Bionic replacements
- Skill Required
- Crafting 8
- Work To Make
- 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins)
- Resources to make
10 + 
3
- techHediffsTags
- Advanced
- tradeTags
- TechHediff, Bionic
A Bionic ear is an ear replacement that has 125% efficiency, increasing hearing by providing 25% better part efficiency.
Acquisition
Bionic ears can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 10 Plasteel, 3 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting of 8
They can also be bought from exotic traders, Empire traders, and at Outlander faction bases. They are also sometimes offered as a quest reward.
Summary
Significantly better than a Cochlear implant, 125% vs. 65% compared to a natural ear. Hearing cannot be improved past 100%, and the only stats "hearing" effects are Social (trading) and Animal Training, so the only pawns that could use a (single) bionic ear are colonists who serve those roles and have hearing damage.
If your colonist only suffers from hearing loss (rather than true deafness), since hearing is weighted 75% for the better ear, replacing just one pushes hearing over the max of 100% - one is all they need.
Body modders, of course, will benefit from anything that does not hurt their functionality in the colony, but unless they are performing the social/animal roles, the cheaper cochlear implant serves just as well.
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
Since the game gives a greater weighting on the more capable part when calculating hearing, with it contributing to 75% of a pawn's hearing capability, installing a single bionic ear increases hearing by 19%, and a second increases it by 6% to the expected 125%.
A colonist with hearing loss or a cochlear implant in the non-bionic ear will still have over 100% hearing.
Hearing impacts only social skills and animal taming/training. However, all hearing-based stats have a 100% cap on the amount of hearing considered — there is no benefit to having a hearing higher than 100%. This makes bionic ears only useful when a colonist already has damaged hearing and for pleasing someone with the Body modder trait.
- 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