High subcoreLast updated 12 days ago

High subcore

A high-tier mechanoid brain, this is a psychodynamic substrate unit which supports a sophisticated subpersona. This particular subcore is of the strongest tier, and can power complex ultra-heavy mechanoids.
The subpersona inside this core approaches a live human in its complexity, though it is of a very different nature. Like any such mind, it has a noticeable psychic presence. This subcore could only have been produced by rich pattern transfer from another sophisticated mind. The only way to do this without huge facilities is to ripscan a living person's brain, killing them in the process.

Base Stats

Type

Crafted resources

Market Value

1000 

Stack Limit

10

Mass

1 kg

HP

100

Deterioration Rate

2

Flammability

60%

Creation

Crafted At

Resources to make

50 + 4

Technical

thingCategories

Manufactured

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SubcoreBasic

A high subcore is a mechanoid component added by the Biotech DLC.

It is one of three subcore types, along with the less advanced basic subcore and standard subcore.

Acquisition

High subcores are acquired from the subcore ripscanner, which requires High mechtech to be researched. The ripscanner can produce one subcore using  50 Steel,  4 Components and one sacrificial pawn. Creating these items is not done with a standard work bill.

Firstly, the ripscanner must be loaded with  50 Steel,  4 Components. Then, a non-baby human must sit^{[Detail needed]} in the scanner for 7,500 ticks (2.08 mins). The ripscanner destroys the pawn's brain in the process, killing them and necessitating a new victim for every new subcore. The subcore ripscanner does not take pawns with scanning sickness.

Usage

High subcores are used in the following crafting recipes:

Product	Ingredients	Type [ExpandCollapse]
Centipede blaster	255 +  355 +  8 +  1	Mechanoid
Centipede burner	255 +  255 +  8 +  1	Mechanoid
Centipede gunner	255 +  255 +  8 +  1	Mechanoid
Centurion	300 +  200 +  2 +  1 +  1	Mechanoid
Diabolus	300 +  300 +  2 +  1	Mechanoid
Fabricor	100 +  1	Mechanoid
Legionary	100 +  6 +  1	Mechanoid
Paramedic	100 +  1	Mechanoid
Tesseron	110 +  7 +  1	Mechanoid
War queen	600 +  300 +  3 +  1 +  1	Mechanoid

Analysis

High subcores are used in the creation of a number of different mechanoids, and therefore how much they are needed, in what numbers, and at what priority depends on the need for those mechanoids. See the individual mechanoid pages listed in the table above for analysis on their acquisition. Most mechanitor colonies will want them however, as the mechanoids that require them are some of the most useful on offer. Solo mechanitors in particular will value the paramedic, which can rescue its master and perform surgery on them.

The primary way to get participants for the ripscanner are prisoners, taken from the constant supply of raiders. It is also possible to use colonists who you would've banished in the first place.

If used in tandem with a pawn capable of death refusal, it is possible to obtain a high subcore while keeping the pawn alive after the fact. This incurs the typical penalties associated with death refusal revival, but can be especially useful when looking to ripscan cultist raiders as they can then be sold, organ harvested, or ripscanned a second time.

Human resources

Main article: Human resources

A high subcore requires  223 silver of non-human material and is worth  1,000 silver, for a Market Value profit of 777. When used on guilty prisoners, there isn't a mood penalty.

Selling prisoners directly to a slaver or faction base often is more profitable; this only gives a −3 moodlet per prisoner. However, human market value is dependent on a pawn's quality; sufficiently bad traits like brain damage, a peg leg, or previous organ harvests can make a high subcore more valuable. Organ harvests in general are more profitable: a heart or liver is worth  1,200 and requires 2 medicine of any type to extract. However, this usually gives −5 mood for organ harvesting and another −6 for organ-murder.

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - Added.
• 1.4.3555 - Fix: Ripscanning doesn't kill pawns if colonist instant death in difficulty settings is 0%.

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Mechanoids

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

Band node • Mech booster • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish • Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mech recharger • Large mech recharger