Circadian assistant

Circadian assistant

An artificial gland. Produces chemicals and nanomachines that clear toxin buildup from the brain.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Tech Level

Spacer

Market Value

1030 

Mass

4 kg

HP

50

Flammability

100%

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Circadian influence

Skill Required

Crafting 8

Work To Make

26,000 ticks (7.22 mins)

Resources to make

15 + 4

Technical

thingSetMakerTags

RewardStandardLowFreq

techHediffsTags

Advanced, ImplantEmpireCommon

tradeTags

Bionic, ImplantEmpireCommon

The Circadian Assistant decreases the amount of sleep required by a pawn.

Acquisition

Circadian assistants can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Circadian influence research project has been completed. The required techprint can be obtained either by trade or completing quests for the Empire. They require  15 Plasteel,  4 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 8.

Pawns from ancient shrines may have this implant installed.

Summary

An installed circadian assistant decreases Rest Fall Rate by −20%. This increases "Time Awake per Time Rest" by +25%.

This does not equal 20% or 25% less sleep. See Sleep Saved for the exact details.

When a pawn with this implant is shocked with EMP, they will receive brain shock, knocking them unconscious temporarily.

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Removing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance^{[What Chance?]} to be destroyed.

Analysis

Sleep saved

The circadian assistant only has an effect while the pawn is awake. It has no effect when the pawn is sleeping. Therefore, actual sleep saving will always be lower than expected values.

For example:

• A baseline pawn in a normal bed would spend (7.56 hr asleep) + (18.19 hr awake) = 25.75 hr in a "true" sleep cycle.
  • (18.19 hr awake) / (25.75 hr total) = 70.6% day awake - or 16.95hr per 24 hour cycle.
• The same pawn with a circadian assistant would spend (7.56 hr asleep) + ([18.19 / 0.8] = 22.74 hr awake) = 30.3 hr in a "true" sleep cycle.
  • (22.74 hr awake) / (30.30 hr total) = 75.04% day awake - or 18.01hr per 24 hour cycle.

This means that the circadian assistant actually increases awake time by +4.44% - about 1 hour per day - rather than the expected +20% or +25%.

Increasing Rest Effectiveness or Rest Rate Multiplier will actually lower the amount of time savings of the circadian assistant.

Notes

Despite its description, it does nothing to mitigate toxic buildup.

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