Health

Characters, like colonists, raiders, etc, can become injured (via the environment or fighting). Each injury affects a different part of the colonists' well being, and can be found under a character's Health tab.

Health Systems

Main article: Characters

Characters of Rimworld can have the following health 'systems'.

System Name	Biological Body Parts	Mechanical Body Parts	Biological Pawns Have?	Mechanical Pawns Have?	Fatal if all Capacity Lost?^[1]
Pain	-	-	Yes	No	No
Consciousness	Brain	-	Yes	No	Yes
Data Processing	-	Artificial Brain	No	Yes	Yes
Sight	Eye	Sight Sensor	Yes	Yes	No
Hearing	Ear	Hearing Sensor	Yes	Yes	No
Moving	Leg, Foot	Leg, Foot^[2]	Yes	Yes	No^[3]
Manipulation	Arm, Hand	Arm, Hand^[4]	Yes	Yes	No
Talking	Jaw, Neck	-	Yes	No	No
Communication	-	Neck^[5]	No	Yes	No
Breathing	Lungs	-	Yes	No	Yes
Blood Filtration	Kidneys	-	Yes	No	Yes
Blood Pumping	Heart	-	Yes	No	Yes
Metabolism	Liver	-	Yes	No	Yes

↑ Refers to whether or not the pawn will die if a system's capacity becomes 'None'
↑ Centipedes body rings are used for movement instead, since they don't have legs.
↑ In the current alpha, while it doesn't kill you, it pretty much makes that pawn completely unable to care for themselves. Considered 'lethal' by much of the community do to this.
↑ Again, Centipedes body rings are used for work instead, since they don't have arms.
↑ Centipedes have no form of external communication. Scythers do have a neck though, and make some interesting sounds when incapacitated (they sound pretty cute).

Treatment

For most injuries, you can treat colonists with or without medkits (with typically better results if you do use one), and also have them lay in hospital beds to further improve the chance of them being treated properly.

Improper Treatment

Treating an an injury poorly may result in scarring, reduced healing rate or infections

Operations

Under the Health tab, you can assign an operation to a colonist.

Transplants

For missing internal organs, either a donor organ can be used or an artificial one.

Limb Replacement

From peg legs to bionic arms, you could either replace a colonists' missing limbs, augment them, or cruelly punish your enemies with peg legs out of spite.

[1] Refers to whether or not the pawn will die if a system's capacity becomes 'None'

[2] Centipedes body rings are used for movement instead, since they don't have legs.

[3] In the current alpha, while it doesn't kill you, it pretty much makes that pawn completely unable to care for themselves. Considered 'lethal' by much of the community do to this.

[4] Again, Centipedes body rings are used for work instead, since they don't have arms.

[5] Centipedes have no form of external communication. Scythers do have a neck though, and make some interesting sounds when incapacitated (they sound pretty cute).

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