Editing Paramedic

{{Biotech}} 
{{About|the mechanoid added by the [[Biotech DLC]]|[[colonists]] performing medical duties|Doctoring}}
{{infobox main|none|
| name = Paramedic
| image = Paramedic east.png
| description = A small mechanoid designed for non-violent emergency situation management and medical care. The paramedic can rescue the wounded, fight fires, treat the sick, and even perform surgery when a more-qualified human is not available. Its built-in jump launcher allows it to jump into, and out of, emergency situations, and its built-in firefoam popper can quickly extinguish fires.
| type = Mechanoid
| movespeed = 3.8
| flammability = 0
| marketvalue = 800
| armorblunt = 10
| armorsharp = 20
| armorheat = 200
| min comfortable temperature = -100
| max comfortable temperature = 250
| bandwidth = 1
| bodysize = 0.7
| healthscale = 
| lifespan = 
| attack1dmg = 6
| attack1type = Blunt
| attack1cool = 2.6
| attack1part = Head
| page verified for version = 1.4.3525
<!-- Creation -->
| research = High mechtech
| production facility 1 = Mech gestator
| resource 1 = Steel
| resource 1 amount = 100
| resource 2 = High subcore
| resource 2 amount = 1
}}
A '''paramedic''' is a [[mechanoid]] added by the [[Biotech DLC]] that can perform doctoring duties, fight fires, and jump long distances.

== Summary ==
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{{Mechanoid Summary}}

===Work===
Paramedics are light mechanoids, and require [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] to be researched. They are created from a standard [[mech gestator]] with {{Required Resources}}, taking up 1 [[bandwidth]] from a [[mechanitor]]. They take 1800 [[ticks]] to initially craft, and then it must gestate for 1 cycle. A dead paramedic can be resurrected for 25 [[steel]] and 1 gestation cycle so long as the corpse is extant.

Mechs under player control require power: paramedics use 10% of their power per day while active.  If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for +1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a [[mech recharger]] (constant 200W), for 50% power/day, creating 5 [[wastepack]]s whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

Paramedics will do all work under the Doctoring tab, such as surgery, tending, and rescue. They will also feed [[prisoner]]s as a warden.{{Check Tag|Firefighting?|Firefighting is listed in their work. Does this mean they'll fight fires as a pawn would. Priorities? Firefighting over doctor and then as the Work tab organised jobs}} Paramedics have an effective [[Medical]] skill of 10. They will rescue pawns before tending to them. They have a base [[Global Work Speed]] of 50% and have a base [[move speed]] {{%|{{P|Move Speed Base}}/{{Q|Human|Move Speed Base}} round 0}} that of a human, equivalent to a pawn in [[plate armor]].

===Abilities===
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When drafted, paramedics are capable of long jumping. This ability can be used twice, then has an 8 game-hour cooldown per charge.
*It can jump to any tile in [[line of sight]] and within a 15 tile radius, but outside a 6 tile radius. This means it can jump over [[rock chunk]]s and [[fence]]s, but not [[wall]]s.
*There is a short {{ticks|30}} warm-up before jumping, and a {{ticks|480}} cooldown after each jump.{{Check Tag|Verify}}
*It cannot be hurt mid-jump, even by explosions directly under it, but can still get hit during the warmup.
Unlike regular movement, the long jump can both be initiated and land outside of the [[mechanitor]]'s command radius, with no restrictions so long as the mechanitor is present and not [[downed]] or in a [[mental break]]. Paramedics can carry a [[downed]] pawn with them during this jump.

They also have the ability to release a 3.5-tile radius burst of [[firefoam]] on command, putting out [[fire]]s, preventing the spread of other fires, and reducing the [[flammability]] of pawns in the area to 0%. It takes {{ticks|30}} to deploy, but then has a {{ticks/gametime|300000}} cooldown.

== Analysis ==
Paramedics work slowly without a [[mech booster]]. For reference, a skill 2 pawn is faster than a base paramedic, and skill 6 is faster than a mech-boosted paramedic. When triaging situations with multiple bleeding pawns, send almost ''any'' human doctor for patients who are critically [[Blood loss|bleeding out]], and paramedics for the rest.

In any tending situation, paramedics have 3 main advantages:
*Paramedics do not suffer from [[mental break]]s, can never get [[disease]]s, and will rarely get wounded - all factors that can weaken human doctor.
*Paramedics are an extra hand - when you need a lot of things tended, mechs won't get in the way of your best doctors.
*Paramedics only 'sleep' for 24 hours out of every 6 working days, and can be turned off and on when needed.
You may want to group the paramedic with other combat mechanoids, keeping them dormant until a combat situation or disease outbreak occurs. Note that the mechanitor must be conscious to change Work Modes, so solo mechanitors should keep paramedics active, and consider having more than one.

===Nonurgent===
With a [[cleanliness|clean]], [[Light|well-lit]] hospital with a high quality [[hospital bed]], a paramedic can reach the 98% surgery success chance cap of a human. They cannot clean their own hospitals, are slower to heal injuries caused by surgery failures, and rely much more on the quality of the hospital than high skill humans.

If no doctors are above Medical 10, or when playing with a solo colonist, then a paramedic is the obvious choice for surgery and [[disease]]. Otherwise, skilled doctors will have a higher tend quality.

===Firefighting and rescue===
With their firefoam pack and immunity to fire and heat, paramedics excel at firefighting and rescuing pawns from situations involving heat that would wound others.

Due to the flexibility of the long jump, paramedics are useful for rescuing pawns. 
*A paramedic takes up 1 [[bandwidth]]. A human combatant, who would otherwise be "lost" rescuing, almost certainly makes up for the loss of [[militor|combat mech]]s from a single bandwidth.

== Work Speed ==
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The [[Medical Tend Speed]] of a paramedic is dependent on their [[Global Work Speed]], which is 50%. A [[mech booster]]'s effect increases work speed to 75%. Each [[control sublink (standard)|control sublink]] installed in their Mechanitor increases the work speed by +6%, up to a maximum of +36%. Multiple mech boosters do not stack, and the bonus from control sublinks is not multiplied by mech boosters. 

All values are for 50%+ lighting conditions.

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{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan='2'| Control Sublinks !! colspan='2' | [[Medical Tend Speed]]
|-
! Base !! Mech Boosted
|-
| 0 || 50% || 75%
|-
| 1 || 56% || 81%
|-
| 2 || 62% || 87%
|-
| 3 || 68% || 93%
|-
| 4 || 74% || 99%	
|-	
| 5 || 80% || 105%
|-
| 6 || 86% || 111%
|-
|}

A healthy, skill 2 colonist beats a base paramedic in terms of tend speed. A skill 6 colonist will beat a mech-boosted paramedic with no sublinks. A skill 12 colonist, or skill 6 with 2 [[archotech arm]]s, will beat a mech-boosted Paramedic with maximum sublinks.

== Health ==
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== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.4.3541|1.4.3541]] - Fix: Paramedic mechs can't carry pawns while jumping.
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Paramedic mechs can't carry pawns while jumping. It is unknown why this fix was/had to be implemented twice. 

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