Cochlear implant

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Cochlear implant

Cochlear implant

An implant which replaces normal hearing. An external microphone transmits a sound signal to electrodes wrapped around the inner ear's auditory sensing nerves. The electrodes stimulate the nerves according to the sound, creating a sensation of hearing. It's not as good as a natural ear, but it's a lot better than being deaf.

Base Stats

Type
Medical Items – Body Parts
Market Value
220 Silver
Flammability
70%

Creation

Crafted At
Machining table
Required Research
Prosthetics
Skill Required
Crafting 5
Work To Make
15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)
Resources to make
Steel 20 + Component 4
Technical
techHediffsTags
Simple
tradeTags
TechHediff


The cochlear implant is an ear replacement with 65% efficiency. 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 cochlear implant reduces hearing by 9%, and a second reduces it by 26% to 65%.

Acquisition

Crafting a cochlear implant requires Prosthetics to be researched and a crafting skill of 5. It is crafted at a machining table for Steel 20 steel and Component 4 components.

It can also be purchased from traders or occasionally found installed on raiders

Summary

One implant is a modest improvement for colonists who perform Social or Animal Training tasks, and a perfect choice for body modders who do not. Otherwise wait for a (single) bionic ear, which maxes hearing. A second implant is only 1/3 the improvement of the first, so, again, wait for the improved version.

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 4.

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

The hearing stat only helps with two things: colonists performing social tasks (trading, prisoner recruitment), and colonists who are training animals (Tame Animal Chance). Hearing also affects social ineraction between pawns, so an implant will slightly increase their chances to share a double bed.

Another candidate is a body modder who does not perform those tasks, as bad hearing doesn't hurt anything else and makes the 'modder happy (see below). The cochlear implant also acts as a cosmetic replacement for a missing ear, so can be used to removed the "Disfigured" social penalty a missing ear inflicts.

The hearing stat favors the better ear by 75%, so a stone deaf, "0% hearing" colonist, with 1 implant, gets 48% hearing improvement, and the full 65% with two implants. However, a colonist with standard hearing loss in both ears would only improve from 50% to 61% from 1 implant, a 22% relative improvement, but waiting for one bionic ear would improve hearing to 106%; and since the hearing stat maxes at 100%, that's all anyone needs.

There is also a niche use for Body modder pawns - as the penalties only affects two specialized work types, the majority of pawns will have no significant penalty from having the implant installed, even if they were healthy to begin with. Thus installing two cochlear implants can be an easy, cheap, and effective way to get way to give a permanent +7 mood buff to transhumanist even in the early game, so long as they are never expected to do anything social or train animals.

Cochlear implant require a Medical skill of 4 to install.

Artificial body parts
Arm/Hand
Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm Content added by the Royalty DLC • Elbow blade Content added by the Royalty DLC • Field hand Content added by the Royalty DLC • Hand talon Content added by the Royalty DLC • Venom talon Content added by the Royalty DLC • Flesh tentacleContent added by the Anomaly DLC • Flesh whipContent added by the Anomaly DLC
Head
Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic jaw • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose Content added by the Royalty DLC
Head implants
Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant Content added by the Royalty DLC • Circadian half-cycler Content added by the Royalty DLC • Gastro-analyzer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Learning assistant Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mindscrew Content added by the Royalty DLC • Neurocalculator Content added by the Royalty DLC • Psychic harmonizer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Psychic reader Content added by the Royalty DLC • Psychic sensitizer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Venom fangs Content added by the Royalty DLC • Control sublink (Standard, High) Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mechlink Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mech gestation processor Content added by the Biotech DLC • Remote repairer Content added by the Biotech DLC • Remote shielder Content added by the Biotech DLC • Repair probe Content added by the Biotech DLC
Spine
Bionic spine • Revenant vertebraeContent added by the Anomaly DLC
Stomach
Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach Content added by the Royalty DLC • Reprocessor stomach Content added by the Royalty DLC • Sterilizing stomach Content added by the Royalty DLC • Fleshmass stomach Content added by the Anomaly DLC
Heart
Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heartContent added by the Anomaly DLC • Corrosive heartContent added by the Anomaly DLC • Metalblood heartContent added by the Anomaly DLC
Lung
Lung • Detoxifier lung Content added by the Biotech DLC • Fleshmass lung Content added by the Anomaly DLC
Kidney
Kidney • Detoxifier kidney Content added by the Biotech DLC
Organs
Liver
Visceral implants
Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper Content added by the Royalty DLC • Coagulator Content added by the Royalty DLC • Healing enhancer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Armorskin gland Content added by the Royalty DLC • Stoneskin gland Content added by the Royalty DLC • Toughskin gland Content added by the Royalty DLC • Immunoenhancer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Love enhancer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Ghoul platingContent added by the Anomaly DLC • Ghoul barbsContent added by the Anomaly DLC
Leg/Foot
Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike Content added by the Royalty DLC
Related
Psylink neuroformer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Xenogerm Content added by the Biotech DLC
Deprecated
Scyther blade • Psychic silencer Content added by the Royalty DLC

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