Damage Types

Damage is split into many different types, with different descriptors and death messages for injuries, different interactions with different targets and armor types, and different default stats. Not to be confused with health difficulties.

Name	Label	Armor Category	overkillPctToDestroyPart	Death Message	General Injury	Skin Injury	Solid Injury	Harms Outer Layers	Affects shields	Stun duration
Cut	cut	Sharp	0% - 10%	{0} has been cut to death.	Cut	Cut	Crack	true	false	-
Crush	crush	Blunt	40% - 100%	{0} has been crushed to death.	Crush	Cut	Crack	true	true	-
Blunt	blunt	Blunt	40% - 100%	{0} has been beaten to death.	Crush	Bruise	Crack	true	false	-
Poke	blunt	Blunt	40% - 100%	{0} has been beaten to death.	Crush	Bruise	Crack	true	false	-
Demolish	blunt	Blunt	40% - 100%	{0} has been beaten to death.	Crush	Bruise	Crack	true	false	-
Stab	stab	Sharp	40% - 100%	{0} has been stabbed to death.	Stab	Stab	Crack	true	false	-
RangedStab	stab	Sharp	40% - 100%	{0} has been stabbed to death.	Stab	Stab	Crack	true	false	-
Bullet	bullet	Sharp	0% - 70%	{0} has been shot to death.	Gunshot	Gunshot	Gunshot	true	true	-
Arrow	arrow	Sharp	0% - 70%	{0} has been shot to death.	Cut	Cut	Crack	true	true	-
ArrowHighVelocity	arrow	Sharp	0% - 70%	{0} has been shot to death.	Cut	Cut	Crack	true	true	-
Scratch	scratch	Sharp	0% - 70%	{0} has been torn to death.	Scratch	Scratch	Crack	true	false	-
ScratchToxic	toxic scratch	Sharp	0% - 70%	{0} has been torn to death.	Scratch	Scratch	Crack	true	false	-
Bite	bite	Sharp	0% - 10%	{0} has been bitten to death.	Bite	Bite	Crack	true	false	-
BiteToxic	toxic bite	Sharp	0% - 10%	{0} has been bitten to death.	Bite	Bite	Crack	true	false	-
Bomb	bomb	Sharp	?	{0} has died in an explosion.	Shredded	Shredded	Crack	true	true	-
BombSuper	bomb	Sharp	?	{0} has died in an explosion.	Shredded	Shredded	Crack	true	true	-
Flame	flame	Heat	?	{0} has burned to death.	Burn	Burn	Burn	false	false	-
Burn	burn	Heat	?	{0} has burned to death.	Burn	Burn	Burn	false	false	-
Thump	thump	Sharp	?	{0} has ??	Crush	Crush	Crack	??	??	-
Frostbite	frostbite	-	?	{0} has succumbed to frostbite.	Frostbite	Frostbite	Frostbite	true	false	-
Surgical cut	surgical cut	-	?	{0} has died during surgery.	-	-	-	false	false	-
Execution cut	execution cut	-	-	{0} has been executed by cutting.	Cut	Cut	Cut	false	false	-
EMP	-	-	-	{0} has been EMPed to death.	-	-	-	true	true	0.25 s
Stun	-	-	-	{0} has been stunned to death.	-	-	-	false	true	0.33 s
Smoke	-	-	-	?	-	-	-	?	?	?

Blunt

If a strike from an attack dealing blunt damage is sufficient to destroy the struck body part, damage can propagate to the parent part of the destroyed part, if and only if that parent part is considered an outside part. How the damage is divided between the two attacks is currently unclear. This allows blunt damage to deal significant damage to important body parts even if they were not the part directly targeted.

Additionally, if a blunt attack hits the parentless body part of a target, e.g. the torso on humans and most other pawns, there is a small chance to Stun the target. This chance depends on the percentage of the body part's maximum HP that the attack inflicted as damage. It is determined by the following curve. I.e. if a single strike does 90% of the maximum, not remaining, HP of the torso to the torso of a pawn, it has a 15% chance to be stunned.

Alternatively, if a blunt attack hits a body part of a target that a is source of consciousness, e.g. the brain on humans and most other pawns, there is a larger chance to Stun the target. This chance depends on the percentage of the body part's maximum HP that the attack inflicted as damage. It is determined by the following curve. I.e. if a single strike does 50% of the maximum, not remaining, HP of the brain to the brain of a pawn, it has a 100% chance to be stunned.

In both cases the stun duration appears to be 0.66s

If neither the parentless body part nor a consciousness source are hit, no stun occurs.

Stun Chance per Percentage of Torso's Maximum HP	Stun Chance per Percentage of Brain's Maximum HP

Bomb

Bomb damage is done by a variety of explosive weapons and is additionally effective against buildings. The default damage is 50, with 0.1 AP multiplier, and a default stopping power of 0.5. It does 4x Damage to Plants and to impassable buildings such as Nutrient Paste Dispensers and 2x to passable buildings such as armchairs. Additionally, Walls specifically have an additional 2x multiplier, stacking with the previous 4x, for a total of 8x damage.

Burn

Identical to Flame except that it cannot ignite targets.

Demolish

Demolish damage is done by breach axes and is additionally effective against buildings. It does 10x Damage to buildings, but it otherwise identical to Blunt damage.

Flame

Flame damage has a default damage of 10 and typically has no armor penetration at all. If any damage is dealt by flame damage at all, i.e. it is not fully negated by protective apparel, there is a chance to ignite the pawn. This chance does not scale with the damage done i.e. a partial mitigation does not reduce the chance.

Toxic bite

Identical to Bite, but inflicts a 1.5% severity increase of toxic buildup for each point of Bite damage inflicted, multiplied by the Toxic Sensitivity of the target.

Toxic scratch

Identical to Scratch, but inflicts a 1.5% severity increase of toxic buildup for each point of Scratch damage inflicted, multiplied by the Toxic Sensitivity of the target.

Thump

Thump damage is done by Thump cannon, and is exceptionally effective against buildings. The default damage is only 5, with 0 AP, however it does 4x Damage to Plants, 15x damage to impassable buildings such as Nutrient Paste Dispensers, 7.5x to passable buildings such as armchairs. Additionally, both walls and natural rock walls specifically have an additional 2x multiplier, stacking with the previous 15x, for a total of 30x damage.

Version history

• Beta 19/1.0 - Bomb damage now does 2x damage vs plants. Note: this was increased in a later version to 4x, as noted above.
• 1.3.3200 - thump damage multiplier versus walls reduced from 4x to 2x.