Capacity
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A capacity is a pawn's intrinsic capability to interact with the world in a certain way. It's measured as a percentage, with 100% being the baseline while 0% the complete inability to use this kind of interaction.
Capacities can be modified by certain factors, including ailments, diseases, drugs, injuries, missing parts, and artificial body parts. See hediffs for a comprehensive list.
Capacities can, directly or indirectly, impact the stats of a character, including other capacities. See each capacity page for more details.
The following capacities are critical for survival, reaching 0% in any of these is fatal:
- Blood Filtration
- Blood Pumping
- Breathing
- Consciousness
- Digestion
Some non-human pawns might lack specific capabilities, such as mechanoids not requiring to breath. For those cases, the capability is completely ignored and treated as 100% for calculation purposes. The exception is pain, which is treated as 0% instead. Additionally, some capacities have different names for different kinds of pawns. For further details, see the relevant capacity page.
| Pawn capacity | Description |
|---|---|
| Blood Filtration | A character's ability to fight off diseases. Affects consciousness and immunity gain speed. |
| Blood Pumping | How well a creature can move blood around its body. Affects consciousness and moving. |
| Breathing | The ability of a character to breathe. Affects consciousness and movement. |
| Consciousness | The state or quality of awareness. A pawn loses consciousness when this falls below 30%, and dies when this reaches 0%. |
| Digestion | How well a creature's body converts food reserves into energy to sustain life. Digestion influences the rest rate multiplier at 30% weight. |
| Eating | A character's ability to eat. |
| Hearing | How well a creature can detect sound waves. It improves social and trade prices. |
| Manipulation | How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness. |
| Moving | How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness. |
| Pain | How much pain a person feels. |
| Sight | How well a character can see. |
| Talking | A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness. |