Consciousness

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Consciousness, called Data Processing on mechanoids, and Sentience on entitiesContent added by the Anomaly DLC, is a pawn capacity: The state or quality of awareness. A pawn loses consciousness when this falls below 30%, and dies when this reaches 0%. Humans, animals and mechanoids all share the same unconscious and lethality thresholds.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 170% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, having used a neural supercharger,Content added by the Ideology DLC with any level of pollution stimulus Content added by the Biotech DLC and a psychic bond Content added by the Biotech DLC with a pawn on the same map.

Affected stats[edit]

Consciousness itself doesn't have any direct effect on a pawn's stats, however it does directly affect several other capacities which in turn affect most stats a pawn has. Thus, when considering the effect of a consciousness change, the affected stats of those other capacities must be considered.

NameTypeWeightMaxDescription
EatingCapacity1-A character's ability to eat.
ManipulationCapacity1-How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.
MovingCapacity11How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness.
TalkingCapacity1-A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness.
Reading SpeedStat1A multiplier on how fast this person can read.

Factors[edit]

Base Factors[edit]

Consciousness is mainly affected by the following factors:

  • Blood Pumping: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
  • Breathing: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
  • Blood filtration: 10% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
  • Pain: The pain offset can be calculated as follows:
IF Pain[%] <= 10% THEN -0% ELSE -{(Pain-0.1)/2.25}[%]
Thus, minor levels of pain (10% or less) have no effect on Consciousness, while anything more than that starts to reduce consciousness at a little less than half (4/9) its value.
More specifically, the pawn's consciousness is reduced at a rate of -1% for every 2.25% Pain above 10%, with a maximum penalty at 100% Pain of -40% Consciousness.
  • Brain part efficiency: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 100%).
    • Joywire: part efficiency offset −20%

Post Factors[edit]

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

Offsets[edit]

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

Limits[edit]

If any of these conditions apply, the Consciousness can not be higher than the given value. Note that it can still be lower.

Formula[edit]

The formula is as follows:

Consciousness = IF (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) < Limit THEN (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) ELSE Limit

The Base factors can be calculated with the following formulas:

Blood Pumping = 1 + ({IF Blood Pumping < 1 THEN Blood Pumping ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Breathing = 1 + ({IF Breathing < 1 THEN Breathing ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Blood Filtration = 1 + ({IF Blood Filtration < 1 THEN Blood Filtration ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.1
Pain = IF (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) < 1 THEN (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) ELSE 1