Editing Bionic ear

{{infobox main|
| name = Bionic ear
| image = Health item bionic.png|Bionic ear
| type = Medical Items
| type2 = Body Parts
| description = An advanced artificial ear implant. A collection of invisible subdermal microphones capture sound and transmit it to a biogel nerve interface that links directly with the auditory nerve. It's sensitive enough to hear a cat before you see it, can't be damaged by loud noise, and automatically tunes itself to pick out meaningful sounds in noisy environments.
| production facility 1 = Fabrication bench
| research = Bionic replacements
| skill 1 = Crafting
| skill 1 level = 8 
| resource 1 = Plasteel
| resource 1 amount = 10
| resource 2 = Advanced component
| resource 2 amount = 3
| work to make = 26000
| mass base = 0.1
| hp = 50
| flammability = 1.0
| marketvalue  = 785
| tradeTags = TechHediff, Bionic
| techHediffsTags = Advanced
}}
A '''Bionic ear''' is an [[artificial body part]] that replaces the ear and provides 125% part efficiency, improving the [[hearing]] of the implantee. 

== Acquisition ==
Bionic ears can be crafted at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]] once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed. They require {{Required Resources}}, {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work, and a [[{{P|Skill 1}}]] skill of {{P|Skill 1 Level}}.

They can also be [[Trade|bought]] from exotic traders, [[Empire]] traders, and at [[Outlander]] [[faction base]]s. They are also sometimes offered as a [[quest]] reward.

== Summary ==
Bionic ears have a part efficiency of 125%. Since there is 75% weighting placed on the more capable part when calculating a pawn's [[hearing]] capability, installing a single bionic ear increases hearing by 19%, and a second increases it by a further 6% for a total of 125%. Note that {{hover title|1.3.3200|as of the time of writing}}, hearing over 100% does not improve any [[stat]] beyond that which an healthy pawn would already have.

Bionic ears fully replace a missing natural ear, including removing the "''Disfigured''" [[social|opinion penalty]] from other pawns. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right.  

===Installation===
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Installing the part requires {{ticks|2500}} of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] of 5.

Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] of ?.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance{{Check Tag|What Chance?}} to be destroyed.

== Analysis ==
While it is significantly better than a [[Cochlear implant]], with a part efficiency of 125% vs. 65%, its rare that the bionic ear is necessary. There is no benefit to having a hearing higher than 100%, and the only stats hearing does affect are those pertaining to [[Skills#Social|Social]] and [[Animals|Animal handling]] tasks, so the ''only'' pawns that could benefit from a bionic ear are colonists who both serve one/both of those roles ''and'' have damaged hearing.  

Keep in mind that if your colonist only suffers from [[Ailments#Hearing_loss|hearing loss]], since hearing is weighted 75% for the better ear, replacing just one pushes hearing over 100% and so one is all that is needed. If the ear is totally destroyed however, this will only get the value to 94%. Even in that case, a bionic ear and a cochlear implant provides 110% hearing and is significantly cheaper than two bionic ears. A colonist with [[hearing loss]] or a [[cochlear implant]] in the non-bionic ear will still have over 100% hearing.

[[Body modder]]s, of course, will benefit from anything that does not hurt their functionality in the colony, but unless they are performing the social/animal roles, the cheaper [[cochlear implant]] serves just as well.

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