Bionic eye

A Bionic eye is an artificial eye that can replace a natural one through implant surgery. Unlike their natural counterparts, bionic eyes do not scar. They have 125% efficiency, which results in a 25% improvement to the colonist's sight if two are installed. Since the game gives a greater weighting on the more capable part when calculating sight, with it contributing to 75% of a pawn's sight capability, installing a single bionic eye increases sight by 18.75%, and a second increases it by 6.25% to the expected 125%.

Acquisition

Bionic eyes can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. They require 15 Plasteel, 4 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

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Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 3x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Removing the part requires ? of work, 1 medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance to be destroyed, base on the doctor's skill (modified by any health issues), the medicine used, and the cleanliness of the operating area.

Analysis

Bionic eyes have two primary purposes - treatment and augmentation.

Bionic eyes are the first artificial replacement for a damaged natural eye to become available; there are no "prosthetic" eyes. Commonly available from outlander faction bases and in quest rewards they thus, they will likely also be the first available method for to cure damaged, diseased, or missing eyes unless you chance upon a healer mech serum or rush biosculpter pods.

Due to the aforementioned weighting of one eye over both, upgrading the first eye is a much more significant improvement than the second; if you have multiple colonists who might benefit from improving their sight, all things equal you should give them each one improved eye before you give one of them two improved eyes.

As elective replacements, bionic eyes can benefit almost any task. In combat, they are useful for improving the accuracy of both ranged and melee pawns - the first eye is equivalent to another 2 levels of the relevant skill to both Shooting Accuracy and Melee Hit Chance, while the second eye improves that by 1 to equivalent to 3 additional levels. Melee Dodge Chance also improves by the equivalent of 1.5 levels of melee with one eye installed, or 2 for both.

Outside of combat, they significantly improve a colonists' Medical Tend Quality, resulting in better outcomes for their patients. Adding a bionic eye also hastens intellectual tasks like researching and hacking, though adding a second eye offers no further improvement. Finally it also improves Foraged Food Amount, reducing the need to rely on carried food on caravans, and Cooking Speed, doing exactly what the name implies. See Sight, and the pages of the relevant stats, for full details.

These buffs mean that bionic eyes are sought-after buffs for a fairly wide variety of pawns. Generally speaking, shooters benefit more than melee pawns due to the exponential nature of how shooting accuracy is applied. Meanwhile, doctors have one of the most important tasks in the colony and can fully exploit both eyes, and are thus often ideal candidates for implantation. Cooks also benefit significantly, so long as the 160% speed cap has not already been reached through skill or manipulation buffs. They should thus be given second call on any eyes. This leaves only researchers as the final job to prioritize, and they only require one eye. Caravanners do benefit as mentioned above, and while the buff is fairly significant relative to the base stat, foraged food alone is generally not relevant enough to warrant a bionic eye to optimize.

The next and ultimate step is the archotech eye, with a 150% bonus for two eyes replaced. These should largely be issue in the same priority order as bionic eyes, though keep in mind that replacing bionic eyes with archotech runs the risk of losing both.

As with all bionics, it will give a mood buff to anyone with the body modder trait and a heavy penalty to any colonist who is a body purist. They are a strong option for body modders - not conflicting with any other

Version history

0.7.581 - Added
Beta 19 - received a nerf to efficiency but is now craftable.

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

Bionic eye

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Installation

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