Electroharvester
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Electroharvester
An electrical generator that can be placed near a holding platform, where it will draw power from a contained entity. The generator hooks into the entity's body and harnesses energy generated by unnatural spatial distortions or psychic flows inside it.
Larger entities produce more power. However, electroharvesting agitates entities, making them more likely to escape.
An electroharvester can link to up to four platforms. However, each holding platform can support only one electroharvester.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Anomaly (Buildings)
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Acquisition
Requires 50 steel, 25 bioferrite, and one component. Requires the Electroharvester research, a basic dark research.
Summary
The electroharvester will generate electrical energy from entities contained in connected platforms, providing power to its connected power grid. The amount of energy produced is based on the combined body size of all entities. It produces 200 watts of power per 1 body size, up to a maximum output of 2000 watts at 10 body size. For reference, a gorehulk has a body size of 2, and contributes 400 watts to an electroharvester. The Electroharvester reduces the containment strength of all connected platforms by -25. Additionally, it significantly increases the activity gain of connected entities. For example, a nociosphere normally gains 10% activity per day, but this jumps up to a whopping 25% when an electroharvester is attached. While this can be situationally useful, it also dramatically increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
A feature of the electroharvester not explicitly mentioned in-game is that it will periodically harm connected entities, applying a few electrical burns at infrequent intervals. The amount of damage applied is usually trivial, around 1-3 HP[check] of damage with an MTB of 2 days. Because of their inability to regenerate health, shamblers will eventually die from these burns, making shambler power non-renewable. Other entities which are able to regenerate health will still, albeit rarely, take damage to the brain or eyes. This damage will scar and eventually cause death, though due to the slow nature of this process it is unlikely to prove lethal unless the entity has been confined for many in-game years.
Electroharvesters will also halve the knowledge gain of connected entities, in addition to the knowledge penalty from reducing containment strength. It should be noted that intermittent scarring to the brain from the electroharvester may also indirectly increase the Escape interval of an entity, which is influenced by movement of a pawn.
Analysis
Appears much inferior to the Bioferrite generator and should be replaced when possible. The containment penalty it inflicts is considerable. Might be worth using with specific entities as power generation depends on the entity in question; further testing needed.
The wounds inflicted by the Electroharvester can provide consistent and risk-free opportunities for pawns to train up their medicine skill.
Version history
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added
