Bionic tongue

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

Weapon Class

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

Technical

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Advanced

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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

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

Summary stuff goes here

Installation

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

Body modders and transhumanists will be happier when using a bionic tongue. Among the core RimWorld artificial parts that don't have any downsides, bionic tongues require the fewest advanced components. With Royalty DLC, Venom fangs , knee spikes , and elbow blades can provide a similar benefit without requiring advanced components.

If Ideology DLC is installed, the biosculpter pod can be used to fix the tongue instead. Otherwise, only 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. Without a tongue a pawn will:

• No longer initiate or responds to relationship requests
• Won't feel bad for being rebuffed or make others feel bad for rebuffing them
• Unable to become lovers or propose marriage to another pawn
• No longer engage in conversations
• Will not trigger social fights by insulting others
• If currently in a relationship, will be unable to gain higher opinion of their partner
• Be considered disfigured by other pawns, receiving -15 opinion with them
• (to be checked): Unable to issue role commands

Version history

• 1.3.3101 - Added.

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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