Medicinemaker dryad

Medicinemaker dryads are a caste of Dryads, a type of animal added by the Ideology DLC that generates herbal medicine x4 every two days.

Summary[edit]

All dryads, including the medicinemaker dryad, are produced by a gauranlen tree. They have no need to eat, are immune to disease events, and have 100% Toxic Resistance, rendering them immune to Toxic fallout and Toxic buildup. Dryads cannot die from blood loss, so in practice will survive virtually any damage that doesn't immediately kill them. Dryads can retreat to a healing pod in order to regenerate wounds; this takes 3 days and heals all permanent injuries and bad conditions.

The medicinemaker dryad is completely ill-suited for combat and exists as an alternative to healroot for generating herbal medicine.

Analysis[edit]

Medicinemaker dryads can be an alternative to growing healroot. They are most effective if growing healroot is impossible, such as if there is no colonist with Plants 8 or if it is too hot/cold to grow heatroot.

If planting healroot is possible, medicinemaker dryads are almost always a less efficient way to get herbal medicine. At Plants skill 8, healroot requires 1,200 ticks (20 secs) per medicine. With 4 dryads (the most efficient amount workwise) you produce 8 medicine per day, but that takes about 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) to do so, or 1875 ticks per medicine. In addition, planting healroot only becomes better with higher Plants skill, as Pruning Speed increases less than Plant Work Speed and Plant Harvest Yield.

Medicinemakers do have a few niches:

They can be a competitive option for disabled pawns, since Pruning Speed is not impacted by Manipulation or Sight.
They grow medicine immediately, every other day, while healroot takes time to grow. If a medicine stockpile is needed quickly, medicinemakers can produce it.
They are more space efficient. Healroot naturally grows at a speed of 0.08 medicine/day per tile of normal soil, 0.11 medicine/day in rich, and 0.22/day in a hydroponics basin, while dryads produce 2 medicine per day. This means a single gauranlen tree is effectively 100 tiles of soil, 72.8 [73] tiles of rich soil, or 36.36 [37] tiles of hydroponics basin worth of production. Therefore it can make sense in biomes with little growing space.

Training[edit]

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Medicinemaker dryads are incapable of training.

Health[edit]

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Part Name	HP	N°	C^[1]	TC^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	32	1	100%	21%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	8	1	7%	7%	Body	-	-
Spine	20	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	16	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	12	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	12	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	12	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	16	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	20	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	20	1	75%	2.25%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	20	1	25%	1.125%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	8	1	70%	2.625%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	8	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	9.6	2	8%	1.2%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.
Nose	8	1	10%	1.5%	Head	-	-
AnimalJaw	8	1	10%	1.5%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	24	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.^[6]
Front Paw	8	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.
Rear Leg	24	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Paw	8	2	15%	1.05%	Rear Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ A Scratch attack that varies from animal to animal. Each front paw allows one attack.

Attack table

Medicinemaker dryad
Attack (Damage type)	DPS^[1] (Post Hit Chance)^[2]	Dam.	Cool.	AP	Selection chance^[3]
Average	4.17 (2.59)	-	-	12.33%	-
Front left paw (Scratch)	4 (2.48)	8	2s	12%	33.33%
Front right paw (Scratch)	4 (2.48)	8	2s	12%	33.33%
Teeth (Bite)	4.5 (2.79)	9	2s	13%	33.33%
Head (Blunt)	2 (1.24)	4	2s	6%	0%

↑ Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the pawn.
↑ Assuming a melee hit chance of 62%
↑ Chance for attack to be selected. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the pawn.

Gallery[edit]

Facing east
Facing north
Facing south
Desiccated facing east

Version history[edit]

Ideology DLC Release - Added.
1.3.3076 - Increase medicinemaker dryad production from 3 to 4 herbal meds per batch. Fix: Dryads are affected by disease incidents.

Animals