Centipede burner

Centipede burners are a variant of centipede that wield the inferno cannon.

Acquisition

Centipede burners can be gestated by a mechanitor at a Large mech gestator once the High mechtech research project has been completed. They require 255 Steel, 255 Plasteel, 8 Components, 1 High subcore and 6 gestation cycles taking 1,800 ticks (30 secs) each to initiate. They take up 4 bandwidth from their linked mechanitor.

Dead, friendly centipede burners can also be resurrected at the large mech gestator using the "Resurrect heavy mechanoid" bill. This requires the corpse of the friendly Centipede burner, 100 steel, and 1 gestation cycle taking 1,800 ticks (30 secs) to initiate.

Summary

Main article: Centipede

As mechanoids, centipedes are immune to fire, toxicity, and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks and will "adapt" for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs), starting from the stun, rendering them immune to further EMP strikes.

Centipedes have a Psychic Sensitivity of 75%, reducing the duration of certain psycasts. However, most other mechanoids have a psychic sensitivity of 50%, making centipedes more vulnerable than their contemporaries.

Combat

Centipede burners are always equipped with a inferno cannon. It creates explosions of fire, which can ignite pawns. They are also able to engage in (less effective) melee combat with colonists.

Melee Attacks	Damage Amount	Cooldown
Blunt	11.7	2.6 sec

The inferno cannon has a Forced Miss Radius of 3.5 tiles, where blasts will always land. They have a melee hit chance of 62%, equivalent to a pawn with a Melee skill of 4.

As an ally

Mechs under player control require power: centipedes use 10% of their power per day while active. If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for +1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a large mech recharger (constant 400W), for 50% power/day, creating 20 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

Analysis

Centipede burners are high-tier threats due to the fire they create. Fire causes pawns to run around wildly, ignore orders, and get out of cover, which can all lead to death. Firefoam pop packs are helpful to protect against their attacks.

As mechanoids are not hurt by fire damage, centipede burners are not great targets for psychic insanity lances. However, using one will still take the burner out of combat for an extended time.

Gallery

Age 0-99 Centipede burner facing east
Age 0-99 Centipede burner facing north
Age 0-99 Centipede burner facing south

Age 100+ Centipede burner facing east
Age 100+ Centipede burner facing north
Age 100+ Centipede burner facing south

Version history

1.4.3523 - The base centipede, which could wield both the charge blaster and inferno cannon, was split into blaster, burner, and gunner.
Biotech DLC - Introduced ability to create and control centipedes.

Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core: Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
Combat: Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron
Command: Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
Labor: Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
Cluster | Buildings: Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
Turrets: Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
Creation | Pawn: Mechanitor
Buildings: Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish