Paramedic
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Paramedic
A small mechanoid designed for non-violent emergency situation management and medical care. The paramedic can rescue the wounded, fight fires, treat the sick, and even perform surgery when a more-qualified human is not available. Its built-in jump launcher allows it to jump into, and out of, emergency situations, and its built-in firefoam popper can quickly extinguish fires.
Base Stats
- Type
- Mechanoid
- Market Value
- 800
- Flammability
- 0%
Armor
- Armor - Sharp
- 20%
- Armor - Blunt
- 10%
- Armor - Heat
- 200%
Pawn Stats
- Move Speed
- 3.8 c/s
- Body Size
- 0.7
- Mass
- 42 kg
- Pack Capacity
- 24.5 kg
- Carrying Capacity
- 53 kg
- Filth Rate
- 1
- Comfortable Temp Range
- -100 °C – 250 °C (-148 °F – 482 °F)
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- High mechtech
- Resources to make
100 + 
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A paramedic is a mechanoid added by the Biotech DLC.
Summary
As mechanoids, paramedics are immune to fire, toxicity, and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks and will "adapt" for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs), rendering them immune to further EMP strikes. Mechs do not count as a pawn for determining raid points, but still contribute towards wealth.
Paramedics are light mechanoids, and require High mechtech to be researched. They are created from a standard mech gestator with 1 basic subcore and 50 steel, taking up 1 bandwidth from a mechanitor. They take 1800 ticks to initally craft, and then it must gestate for 1 cycle. A dead paramedic can be resurected for 25 steel and 1 gestation cycle so long as the corpse is extant.
Mechs under player control require power: paramedics use 10% of their power per day while active. If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for +1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a mech recharger (constant 200W), for 50% power/day, creating 5 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.
Paramedics will do tasks under the Doctoring tab, though can also feed prisoners. Paramedics have an effective Medical skill of 10. They will recuse pawns before tending to them. They have a base Global Work Speed of 50% and naturally move slower than a human.
Abilities
When drafted, paramedics have the ability to long jump up to 16 tiles away. It can be used twice, then has an 8 game-hour cooldown. Unlike regular movement, the long jump can be directed outside of the mechanitor's command radius.
They also have access to a firefoam pop pack equivalent. It takes 30 ticks (0.5 secs) to deploy, but then has a 5 day cooldown.
Analysis
Paramedics are generally a poor choice for tending a pawn in imminent danger of bleeding out, due to their low base work speed. Paramedics have inferior tend speed and surgery success chance compared to high medical skill pawns. Their work speed can be increased (see #Work Speed below), but will always be worse than a highly skilled pawn.
Drafted Paramedics can freely utilize their jump ability in any direction, even if they start or end outside of their mechanitor's command radius. However, manual movement must end within said command radius. You may want to group the paramedic with other combat mechanoids, keeping both groups dormant until a combat situation or disease outbreak. Note that the mechanitor must be conscious to change Work Modes, so solo mechanatiors should keep paramedics active.
With their firefoam pack and immunity to fire and heat, paramedics excel at firefighting. Assuming their controlling Mechanitor is close by, drafted Paramedics are possibly the best choice for extricating a pawn from a fire when you do not want to extinguish the fire itself- such as when attempting to burn out an insectoid nest.
Paramedics are capable of feeding prisoners as part of their work routines, which can help free up time for one's Wardens.
Work Speed
Paramedics have a base work speed of 50%. Being in range a mech booster increases the work speed to 75%. Each control sublinks installed in the controlling Mechanitor increases the work speed by 6%, up to a maximum of +36%. Control Sublinks and mech boosters combined allow Paramedics to reach 111% Work Speed. Multiple mech boosters do not stack, and the bonus from control sublinks is not multiplied by mech boosters.
Getting six sublinks will require acquiring 3 signal chips, 3 powerfocus chips, 21 components, and 9 advanced components.
All values are for 50%+ lighting conditions.
| Control Sublinks | Work Speed | Mech Boosted |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 75% |
| 1 | 56% | 81% |
| 2 | 62% | 87% |
| 3 | 68% | 93% |
| 4 | 74% | 99% |
| 5 | 80% | 105% |
| 6 | 86% | 111% |
Health
Specify body type when known.
Version history
- Biotech DLC Release - Added.
- Mechanoids | Core
- Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
- Combat
- Centurion
• Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron - Command
- Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
- Labor
- Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
- Cluster
| Buildings - Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
- Turrets
- Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
- Creation | Pawn
- Mechanitor
- Buildings
- Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish