Consciousness

Consciousness 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/lethality thresholds. Any change in consciousness affects movement, production and social interaction.

Consciousness is called Data Processing on mechanoids.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 150% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, and having used a neural supercharger.

Affected stats

Changes in consciousness influence these critical values...

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Eating	Capacity	1	-	A character's ability to eat.
Manipulation	Capacity	1	-	How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.
Moving	Capacity	1	1	How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness.
Talking	Capacity	1	-	A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness.

Factors

Base Factors

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}[%]

In English, what this says is that 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 its value (1/2.25).

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

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

• Beer (high)
  • Tipsy: x90%
  • Drunk: x65%
  • Hammered: x10%
• Psychite hangover (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): x80%
• Cryptosleep sickness: x80%
• Food poisoning
  • Recovering and Inital: x60%
  • Major: x50%
• Heart attack painful: x50%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

• Beer (hangover)
  • Slight: −3%
  • Strong: −8%
  • Pounding: −18%
• Beer withdrawal: −20%
• Go-juice:
  • High: +20%
  • Withdrawal: −20%
• Luciferium high: +10%
• Psychite withdrawal (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): −20%
• Smokeleaf joint
  • High: −30%
  • Withdrawal: −20%
• Wake-up:
  • High: +10%
  • Withdrawal: −30%
• Blood loss
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Severe: −40%
• Toxic buildup
  • Initial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −15%
  • Serious: −25%
• Malnutrition
  • Trivial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Severe: −30%
• Heatstroke
  • Initial: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Serious: −20%
• Hypothermia
  • Shivering: −5%
  • Minor: −10%
  • Serious: −20%
• Hypothermic slowdown
  • Minor: −5%
  • Moderate: −20%
  • Serious: −40%
• Infection extreme (initial): −5%
• Flu
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −10%
  • Extreme: −15%
• Plague
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −20%
  • Extreme: −30%
• Malaria
  • Minor: −5%
  • Major: −12%
• Sleeping sickness
  • Minor (initial): −2%
  • Minor (advanced): −4%
  • Major: −15%
  • Extreme (initial): −20%
• Resurrection psychosis
  • Early: −10%
  • Advanced: −20%
  • Severe: −30%
  • Total: −40%
• Circadian half-cycler : −15%
• Neural supercharger : +10%

Limits

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

• Beer (high) blackout: 10% max
• Luciferium withdrawal: 80% max
• Blood loss extreme: 10% max
• Anesthetic
  • Wearing off: 90% max
  • Woozy: 70% max
  • Sedated: 10% max
• Catatonic break: 10% max
• Psychic shock: 10% max
• Psychic coma: 10% max
• Brain shock: 10% max
• Toxic buildup extreme: 10% max
• Heart attack debilitating: 10% max
• Drug overdose
  • Minor: 50% max
  • Major: 10% max
• Malnutrition extreme: 10% max
• Heatstroke extreme: 10% max
• Hypothermia extreme: 10% max
• Hypothermic slowdown extreme: 10% max
• Infection extreme (advanced): 10% max
• Malaria extreme: 10% max
• Sleeping sickness extreme (advanced): 10% max
• Resurrection psychosis catatonic: 10% max

Formula

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

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Stats

Capacities

Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Breathing • Consciousness • Eating • Hearing • Manipulation • Metabolism • Moving • Pain • Sight • Talking

Pawn Stats - General

Carrying Capacity • Eating Speed • Filth Rate • Foraged Food Amount • Global Learning Factor • Hunger Rate Factor • Immunity Gain Speed • Leather Amount • Lifespan Factor • Max Nutrition • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Meat Amount • Mental Break Threshold • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Minimum Handling Skill • Move Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Psychic Sensitivity • Rest Rate Multiplier • Sleep Fall Rate • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Meditation Focus Gain • Neural Heat Gain • Neural Heat Limit • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Conversion Power • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Terror • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Raw Nutrition Multiplier

- Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed

- Combat

Aiming Time • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance • Melee DPS • Melee Hit Chance • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Shooting Accuracy • Trap Spring Chance • Melee Damage Factor • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Stagger Time Multiplier

- Social

Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Negotiation Ability • Social Impact • Tame Animal Chance • Trade Price Improvement • Train Animal Chance • Animal Products Price Improvement • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Suppression Power

- Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

- Work

Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Butchery Efficiency • Butchery Speed • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Cooking Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Food Poison Chance • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hunting Stealth • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Tend Speed • Mining Speed • Mining Yield • Plant Harvest Yield • Plant Work Speed • Repair Success Chance • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset