Peg leg

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Peg leg

Peg leg

A wood log fashioned into a crude but effective artificial leg.

Base Stats

Type
Medical ItemsBody Parts
Weapon Class
Medieval
Market Value
1.2 Silver

Creation

Work To Make
ticks (0 secs)
Resources to make
Wood 1
Technical
techHediffsTags
Poor
tradeTags
TechHediff


Peg legs are a artificial body part that replaces a pawn's leg. It is the worst kind of leg available, but is better than having a missing leg.

Acquisition

Unlike most other prostheses, peg legs don't have a separate item form. Instead, when ordering a surgical operation on a pawn, Wood 1 Wood, Herbal medicine 2 Herbal medicines is consumed and the peg leg is added to the pawn. Converting a log to a peg leg does not take any work. Notably, when removed the peg leg turns back into a wooden log.

Summary

Peg legs replace the user's entire organic leg. The peg leg has a part efficiency of 60%. This partially replaces the functionality of a normal leg - when coupled with each leg body part having a Moving importance of 50%, it results in restoring 30% moving per missing leg replaced, or a loss of 20% when replacing a healthy leg.

Moving, in turn, affects the following stats: Hunting Stealth, Melee Dodge Chance, Move Speed. This results in a directly proportional change to a pawn's move speed, and a change in melee dodge chance equivalent to losing 3.6 levels of Melee skill per leg replaced. Due to how the stat is fit to a post-process curve, this can result in the melee dodge chance dropping to 0% for pawns with skill under 9, when replacing one leg, or under 12 for both legs.

Each peg leg results in -10% character quality and thus a 10% reduction in the affected individual's pawn value.

As an artificial part, peg legs 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 1,500 ticks (25 secs) of work, Wood 1 wood, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 3.

Removing the part requires ? of work, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance[What Chance?] to be destroyed.

Analysis

The peg leg is certainly better than a missing or otherwise inoperative leg, but you should strongly consider replacing it with a modern prosthesis as soon as possible. Movement is important for combat, many types of work, and general efficiency (getting up from bed to work...), making it a very valuable stat. For pawns that don't move as much, like researchers, this upgrade is less important.

In cases where only the foot is missing, a wooden foot only has half the Moving penalty, which means it restores more movement, and it has the exact same material and research requirements.

Prisoners

Alternatively, peg legs can be installed on your prisoners, making them easier to stop when starting a prison escape or going berserk. As peg legs actively make the pawn worse, it isn't recommended to install peg legs on those who you would like to recruit. Bionic legs can replace peg legs, but they are expensive to create.

Unlike healthy organic legs, peg legs can be removed; removing them will result in no leg, and removing both will permanently incapacitate a pawn. This is great if you just need prisoners to harvest hemogen packsContent added by the Biotech DLC or extract genesContent added by the Biotech DLC from.

Moving Right leg
No leg Peg leg Wooden foot Prosthetic leg Organic leg Bionic leg Archotech leg
Left leg
No leg 0% 30% 40% 42.5% 50% 62.5% 75%
Peg leg 30% 60% 70% 72.5% 80% 92.5% 105%
Wooden foot 40% 70% 80% 82.5% 90% 102.5% 115%
Prosthetic leg 42.5% 72.5% 82.5% 85% 92.5% 105% 117.5%
Organic leg 50% 80% 90% 92.5% 100% 112.5% 125%
Bionic leg 62.5% 92.5% 102.5% 105% 112.5% 125% 137.5%
Archotech leg 75% 105% 115% 117.5% 125% 137.5% 150%

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