Medicinemaker

Medicinemaker are a caste of Dryads, a type of animal added by the Ideology DLC that generates herbal medicine x4 every two days.

Summary

All dryads, including the medicinemaker, are produced by a gauranlen tree. They have no need to eat, are immune to disease events, and have 100% Toxic Resistance, rendering them immune to Toxic fallout and Toxic buildup. Dryads cannot die from blood loss, so in practice will survive virtually any damage that doesn't immediately kill them. Dryads can retreat to a healing pod in order to regenerate wounds; this takes 3 days and heals all permanent injuries and bad conditions.

The medicinemaker is completely ill-suited for combat and exists as an alternative to healroot for generating herbal medicine.

Analysis

Medicinemakers can be a potential alternative to growing healroot. This can be a way to obtain herbal medicine if none of your colonists have level 8 plants. However, if healroot is available, medicinemakers are always a less efficient way to get herbal medicine; at Plants skill 8, healroot is 1200 ticks per medicine. With 4 dryads (the most efficient amount workwise) you produce 8 medicine per day, but that takes about 15000 ticks to do. So efficiencywise healroot is 1200 / per and medicinemakers are 1875 / per As the plants skill increases, the Pruning Speed improvements lag behind the gains from Plant Work Speed and Plant Harvest Yield (pruning speed goes from 100 to 112, whereas work speed goes from 100% to 238%, for example); the end result is that a high Plants pawn will take significantly less work to produce medicine via soil versus via dryad.

Medicinemakers do have one niche, however; they produce medicine SIGNIFICANTLY faster than growing it. Healroot naturally grows at a speed of 0.08 medicine / day in normal soil, 0.11 medicine / day in rich, and 0.22 / day in a hydroponics basin. Medicinemakers are effectively 2 / day per dryad, which is equal to about 25 tiles of normal soil, 18.2 [19] tiles of rich soil, or 9.09 [10] tiles of hydroponics basin. This means a single gauranlen tree is effectively 100 tiles of soil, 72.8 [73] tiles of rich soil, or 36.36 [37] tiles of hydroponics basin worth of production. if you need to grow your medicine stockpile fast or are working with very limited amounts of soil, medicinemakers are your best bet.

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Medicinemakers are incapable of training.

Health

Body part	Health
Head	20
Skull	20
Brain	8
Nose	8
Neck	20
Jaw	16
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	8
Ear (left, right)	8
Body	32
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	12
Lung^[2] (left, right)	12
Liver^[2]	16
Heart^[2]	12
Spine^[2]	20
Stomach^[2]	16
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	24
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	16

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Version history

Ideology DLC Release - Added.
1.3.3076 - Increase medicinemaker dryad production from 3 to 4 herbal meds per batch. Fix: Dryads are affected by disease incidents.

Animals