Ghoul barbs

Ghoul barbs

A number of barbed bioferrite spikes that can be surgically attached to a ghoul. They drastically increase a ghoul's melee damage but also limit its range of motion, slowing it down.
Due to the extremely painful nature of the prosthetic, only ghouls can tolerate this enhancement.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Tech Level

Industrial

Market Value

48  ^[Note]

Mass

0.3 kg

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Ghoul enhancements

Work To Make

6,000 ticks (1.67 mins)

Work Speed Stat

General Labor Speed

Resources to make

35

Technical

thingCategories

BodyPartsGhoul

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Ghoul

Ghoul barbs are an artificial body part added by the Anomaly DLC that improves the melee damage of ghouls at the cost of slowing Move Speed.

Acquisition

Ghoul barbs can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the ghoul enhancements research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires  35 Bioferrite and 6,000 ticks (1.67 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter.

Summary

Can only be installed on ghouls.

• ×150% Melee Damage Factor, stacking multiplicatively with other sources.
• −0.25 c/s Move speed

Installation

Ghoul barbs can only be installed in ghouls. Note that despite the description noting pain as the reason it cannot be installed in other pawns, methods of pain nullification such as painstoppers do not allow the barbs' installation into other pawns.

Analysis

While they are fairly powerful by default, ghoul barbs are one of the key ways that ghouls compete with end-game human melee pawns, elevating body part weapons, normally outclassed by traditional melee with quality multipliers, to a point where they are sufficent for the ghouls other advantages to make them the premier melee choice. Every ghoul should have ghoul barbs equipped, and besides perhaps ghoul plating and some select gene options, it should be the prioritised over other upgrades.

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Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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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

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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