Bioferrite
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Bioferrite
An exotic metal-like fibrous substance with both organic and metallic properties. Bioferrite is produced by microscopic mechanites as they process organic material. In cases of disordered mechanite behavior, this happens in a chaotic, cancer-like way.
The material is known to interact with some types of psychic flows. If pressurized under specific conditions, bioferrite becomes extremely flammable, making it a useful fuel.
Base Stats
Stat Modifiers
- Beauty Factor
- ×0.25
- Beauty Offset
- +0
- Work To Make Factor
- ×2.5
- Work To Build Factor
- ×2.5
- Max Hit Points
- ×2
- Flammability
- ×0.75
- Armor - Sharp
- ×1.1
- Armor - Blunt
- ×0.5
- Armor - Heat
- ×0.5
- Insulation - Cold
- +2.5 °C (4.5 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- +0 °C (0 °F)
- Melee Blunt Damage
- ×0.9
- Melee Sharp Damage
- ×1.3
- Melee Cooldown
- ×1
- Door Opening Speed
- ×1
- Rest Effectiveness
- ×0.86
- defName
- Bioferrite
- Color
- (100, 80, 80)
Bioferrite is a metallic material added by the Anomaly DLC.
Acquisition
Bioferrite can be extracted from Entities securely held in Holding spots or Holding platforms using a Bioferrite harvester.
Summary
Equipment made of bioferrite have additional effects beyond the normal statistical effects of the material. These effects scale with the quality of the item made.
Equipped items made from bioferrite apply a multiplier to the wearer's psychic sensitivity. These multipliers stack multiplicatively with one another and with other bonuses from eltex
items [Prestige]
| Quality | Awful | Poor | Normal | Good | Excellent | Masterwork | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychic Sensitivity | ×1.06 | ×1.08 | ×1.1 | ×1.13 | ×1.15 | ×1.17 | ×1.20 |
For example, a pawn with a base psychic sensitivity of 100%, a psychic sensitizer, a normal eltex shirt, and a bioferrite item of normal, good, and excellent quality, would result in a psychic sensitivity of:
| Psychic sensitivity = ((100% + 25%) + 8.3%) * 1.1 * 1.13 * 1.15 = 191% |
Equipped items made from bioferrite apply an offset to both neural heat limit and neural heat recovery rate, which stacks additively. Note that the heat limit bonus stacks with the bonus to the limit from the increased psychic sensitivity, however due to the sensitivity bonus' multiplicative nature the total bonus cannot be easily quantified without assuming what other bonuses to sensitivity a pawn may have.
| Quality | Awful | Poor | Normal | Good | Excellent | Masterwork | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neural Heat Limit | 4 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 |
| Neural Heat Recover Rate | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
Usage
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Bioferrite is used in the following crafting recipes:
50
Bioferrite can also be used as a Metallic material for stuffable items, like walls, doors, and melee weapons.
A Bioferrite generator can use bioferrite as fuel to generate power.
Analysis
Excellent for sharp melee weapons - while its DPS is lower than plasteel, it is close and it has significantly more AP and per attack damage. It is unclear if it this leads to a win for bioferrite on melee stats alone. Combined with the psychic boosts however, and it becomes powerful in the hands of a psycaster.
Bioferrite is likely better than eltex for buffing psycasters, as bioferrite is much more reliably obtained both generally and at high qualities, the stacking is multiplicative with all other buffs except blindsight, as it is applied last, and unlike eltex, bioferrite can provide a respectable amount of armor.
As the bonus from bioferrite is multiplicative, optimal equipment depends on psy sensitivity of the pawn. For a basic 100% sensitive pawn full eltex set plus bioferrite slave collar remain the best giving 363% psy sensitivity, compared to 238% granted by eltex shirt, bioferrite weapon, bioferrite slave collar
, bioferrite helmet, and bioferrite plate armor.
But the more you boost psy sensitivity the better bioferrite gear becomes. With all boosts to psy sensitivity you can get(implant, serums, genes, deathrest, blindsight, traits, anomaly things) you can go as far as 2159% sensitivity (2079% without blindsight), compared to 1508% (1428% without blindsight) for eltex set + bioferrite collar.
Max psy sensitivity
As a building material, bioferrite has exactly twice the HP of steel and is the third most durable material in the game behind plasteel and uranium. Each unit of Bioferrite is 62.5% the silver value of a unit of wood, which can help with wealth management. Bioferrite is flammable.
Bioferrite plating is ugly which makes it ill suited for use outside of containment cells. Bioferrite also has a mighty ×25% penalty to beauty when used for non-void sculptures.
Gallery
One bioferrite
Partial stack
Full stack
Version history
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added.
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- Stony
- Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade
- Metallic
- Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite
- Woody
- Wood
- Leathery
- Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather
- Fabric
- Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread