Ritual mask

The ritual mask is an item of clothing added by the Anomaly DLC.

Acquisition[edit]

Ritual masks can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the Bioferrite shaping research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires 25 Bioferrite and 3,000 ticks (50 secs) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter.

Summary[edit]

In addition to minor head protection, a ritual mask increases the pain shock threshold of its wearer by +15%, allowing its wearer to take more pain before being downed.

At the time of writing, the ritual mask is the only item with the "Bioferrite" stuff tag. This technically makes the mask stuffable but forces only one option for the crafting material. This is done to allow the mask to benefit from the following psychic buffs afforded to stuffable items made of bioferrite:

Equipped items stuffed from bioferrite including the mask apply a multiplier to the wearer's psychic sensitivity. These multipliers stack multiplicatively with one another and with other bonuses from eltex items ^[Prestige?]

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Psychic Sensitivity	×1.06	×1.08	×1.1	×1.13	×1.15	×1.17	×1.20

For example, a pawn with a base psychic sensitivity of 100%, a psychic sensitizer, a normal eltex shirt, and a bioferrite item of normal, good, and excellent quality, would result in a psychic sensitivity of:

Psychic sensitivity = ((100% + 25%) + 8.3%) * 1.1 * 1.13 * 1.15 = 191%

Equipped items stuffed from bioferrite apply an offset to both neural heat limit and neural heat recovery rate, which stacks additively. Note that the heat limit bonus stacks with the bonus to the limit from the increased psychic sensitivity, however due to the sensitivity bonus' multiplicative nature the total bonus cannot be easily quantified without assuming what other bonuses to sensitivity a pawn may have.

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Neural Heat Limit	4	6	8	11	13	15	18
Neural Heat Recover Rate	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04

Analysis[edit]

The ritual mask serves as an excellent early game full-head-coverage armor piece. It's directly better than items like a visage mask for its increase to pain shock threshold and added psychic sensitivity. A simple helmet for example has better stats in general but, unlike the ritual mask, doesn't cover the entire head.

For a psycaster, it's a cheap and highly efficient alternative to eltex headgear, especially for its competent protection.

In terms of armor, if your colony is in possession of enough devilstrand or hyperweave, it's recommended that you instead use a ceremonial hood, although the ceremonial hood comes without the increased pain shock threshold and psychic sensitivity.

Stats table

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Quality

Ritual mask		Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality	Material	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Awful	Bioferrite	19.8%	9%	9%	160	-0.4 °C (-0.7 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	23
Poor	Bioferrite	26.4%	12%	12%	160	-0.45 °C (-0.8 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	35
Normal	Bioferrite	33%	15%	15%	160	-0.5 °C (-0.9 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	46
Good	Bioferrite	37.95%	17.25%	17.25%	160	-0.55 °C (-1 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	58
Excellent	Bioferrite	42.9%	19.5%	19.5%	160	-0.6 °C (-1.1 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	69
Masterwork	Bioferrite	47.85%	21.75%	21.75%	160	-0.75 °C (-1.4 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	115
Legendary	Bioferrite	59.4%	27%	27%	160	-0.9 °C (-1.6 °F)	+0 °C (0 °F)	230