Bionic jaw
Bionic jaw
An artificial jaw replacement. Made out of biosynthetic bone, with plasteel tooth replacements and a set of micro servomotors for the full range of motion.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Tech Level
- Spacer
- Market Value
- 1030
- Body Part
- Jaw
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Bionic replacements
- Skill Required
- Crafting 8
- Work To Make
- 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins)
- Resources to make
10 + 
3
- techHediffsTags
- Advanced
- tradeTags
- TechHediff, Bionic
A bionic jaw is an artificial body part that acts as a replacement for a pawn's natural jaw, increasing the Talking and Eating capacities.
Acquisition[edit]
Bionic jaws can be crafted at a fabrication bench once the Bionic replacements research project has been completed. Each requires 10 Plasteel, 3 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 8.
They can also be found in ancient shrines, offered as a quest reward, or bought from exotic traders, Empire traders, and at Outlander faction bases.[Verify]
Summary[edit]
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A Bionic jaw replaces an organic jaw and has a part efficiency of 125%, improving both Talking and Eating by +25%. This increases the Eating speed by +23.75%.
The following stats are also affected: Social Impact, Negotiation Ability, Conversion Power, Train Animal Chance, Tame Animal Chance, Trade Price Improvement. Note however that, as of the time of writing, no stat is improved by a Talking capacity above 100%. However, a bonus will provide a buffer against stat and capacity penalties from other sources.
It also removes the Disfigured condition from pawns missing a jaw or a tongue. Installing a Bionic Jaw will replace any previously installed Bionic Tongues, and it is impossible to install a tongue on a colonist with a Bionic Jaw. This means that the Bionic Jaw is superior to a Bionic Tongue in every way.
Installation[edit]
Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.
Removing the part requires 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and has no Medical skill requirements.
If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.
Analysis[edit]
Bionic jaws are a very low priority implant to install on most pawns. Improving Talking past 100% has no game impact, so the only benefit of installing bionic jaw on a healthy pawn is +23.75% Eating Speed, which is fairly minor due to how little time pawns spend eating, and somewhat better Talking when injured.
The best purpose of a bionic jaw is for wardens and Social pawns who would otherwise be missing a jaw or wearing a denture. In addition, a Social pawn with a joywire would appreciate a bionic jaw, as the increased Talking will counteract the Consciousness penalty from a joywire. The Talking stat is also used for animal handling, but the animal stats have an allowed defect of 20%, so the benefit is not much higher than a denture.
For pawns with a missing jaw, then the bionic jaw must be compared to a denture. Both replacements will replace the jaw and remove the disfigured social penalty.
- Dentures are more cost efficient. A denture is virtually free, costing nothing except the medicine used to install it. In addition, dentures are better for wealth management purposes - a denture reduces pawn value by -30%, while a bionic jaw increases value by 785 silvers.
- A bionic jaw improves Talking, making it a better if more expensive option for Social pawns. Outside of Social and Animal skill pawns, the only benefit is a net ×148.43% eating speed, which is typically not worth the crafting cost.
Version history[edit]
- 1.5.4062 - Added.
- 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 • Pilot assistant 
- Spine
- Bionic spine • Revenant vertebrae
- 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 • Blood warmer
- Organs
- Liver
- Visceral implants
- Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs • Vacskin gland
- Leg/Foot
- Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
- Related
- Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
- Deprecated
- Scyther blade • Psychic silencer