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This article is about the mechanoid added by the Biotech DLC. For colonists performing medical duties, see Doctoring.

A paramedic is a mechanoid added by the Biotech DLC.

Summary

As mechanoids, paramedics are immune to fire, toxicity, and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks and will "adapt" for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs), rendering them immune to further EMP strikes. Mechs do not count as a pawn for determining raid points, but still contribute towards wealth.

Paramedics are light mechanoids, and require High mechtech to be researched. They are created from a standard mech gestator with 1 basic subcore and 50 steel, taking up 1 bandwidth from a mechanitor. They take 1800 ticks to initally craft, and then it must gestate for 1 cycle. A dead paramedic can be resurected 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 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

Paramedics will do tasks under the Doctoring tab, though can also feed prisoners. Paramedics have an effective Medical skill of 10. They will recuse pawns before tending to them. They have a base Global Work Speed of 50% and naturally move slower than a human.

Abilities

When drafted, paramedics have the ability to long jump up to 16 tiles away. It can be used twice, then has an 8 game-hour cooldown. Unlike regular movement, the long jump can both start and land outside of the mechanitor's command radius, with no restrictions so long as the mechanitor is not downed.

They also have access to a firefoam pop pack equivalent. It takes 30 ticks (0.5 secs) to deploy, but then has a 5 day cooldown.

Analysis

Unboosted paramedics work slowly, so are often a poor choice for pawns with an imminent danger of bleeding out. While work speed can be increased (see #Work Speed below), a healthy pawn with high Medical skill will always be superior - in tend speed, tend quality, and surgery success.

But, regardless of their quality or speed, paramedics support a colony by being an extra hand. They will help keep things manageable whenever a large group of pawns are injured or sick. Have skilled, healthy humans tend to the more urgent cases, and mechs handle the rest. If no doctors are above Medical 10, then paramedics can also do the surgeries for your colony. Paramedics are also capable of feeding prisoners, which can help free up time for wardens.

You may want to group the paramedic with other combat mechanoids, keeping both groups dormant until a combat situation or disease outbreak. Note that the mechanitor must be conscious to change Work Modes, so solo mechanatiors should keep paramedics active.

With their firefoam pack and immunity to fire and heat, paramedics excel at firefighting. Assuming their controlling Mechanitor is close by, drafted Paramedics are possibly the best choice for extricating a pawn from a fire when you do not want to extinguish the fire itself - such as when attempting to burn out an insectoid nest.

Work Speed

Paramedics have a base work speed of 50%. Being in range a mech booster increases the work speed to 75%. Each control sublinks installed in the controlling Mechanitor increases the work speed by 6%, up to a maximum of +36%. Control Sublinks and mech boosters combined allow Paramedics to reach 111% Work Speed. Multiple mech boosters do not stack, and the bonus from control sublinks is not multiplied by mech boosters.

Getting six sublinks will require acquiring 3 signal chips, 3 powerfocus chips, 21 components, and 9 advanced components.

All values are for 50%+ lighting conditions.

Control Sublinks	Work Speed	Mech Boosted
0	50%	75%
1	56%	81%
2	62%	87%
3	68%	93%
4	74%	99%
5	80%	105%
6	86%	111%

Health

Specify body type when known.

Body part	Health
Head	25
Skull	25
Brain	10
Nose	10
Neck	25
Jaw	20
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	10
Ear (left, right)	10
Body	40
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	15
Lung^[2] (left, right)	15
Liver^[2]	20
Heart^[2]	15
Spine^[2]	25
Stomach^[2]	20
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	30
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	20

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Version history

Biotech DLC Release - Added.

Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core: Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
Combat: Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron
Command: Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
Labor: Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
Cluster | Buildings: Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
Turrets: Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
Creation | Pawn: Mechanitor
Buildings: Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish

[Head-1] Located inside of Head.

[Body-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

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 ===Abilities===
-When drafted, paramedics have the ability to long jump up to 16 tiles away. It can be used twice, then has an 8 game-hour cooldown. Unlike regular movement, the long jump can both start and land outside of the [[mechanitor]]'s command radius, with no restrictions so long as the mechanitor is not [[down]]ed.
+When drafted, paramedics have the ability to long jump up to 16 tiles away. It can be used twice, then has an 8 game-hour cooldown. Unlike regular movement, the long jump can both start and land outside of the [[mechanitor]]'s command radius, with no restrictions so long as the mechanitor is not [[downed]].
 They also have access to a [[firefoam pop pack]] equivalent. It takes {{ticks|30}} to deploy, but then has a 5 day cooldown.
 == Analysis ==
-Unboosted paramedics work slowly, so are often a poor choice for pawns with an imminent danger of bleeding out. While work speed can be increased (see [[#Work Speed]] below), a healthy pawn with high Medical skill will always be superior, both in tend speed and surgery success. But regardless of their quality or speed, paramedics will help keep things manageable whenever a large group of pawns are injured or sick. Have skilled, healthy humans tend to the more urgent cases, and paramedics handle the rest.
+Unboosted paramedics work slowly, so are often a poor choice for pawns with an imminent danger of bleeding out. While work speed can be increased (see [[#Work Speed]] below), a healthy pawn with high Medical skill will always be superior - in tend speed, tend quality, and surgery success.
+But, regardless of their quality or speed, paramedics support a colony by being an extra hand. They will help keep things manageable whenever a large group of pawns are injured or sick. Have skilled, healthy humans tend to the more urgent cases, and mechs handle the rest. If no doctors are above Medical 10, then paramedics can also do the surgeries for your colony. Paramedics are also capable of feeding prisoners, which can help free up time for wardens.
 You may want to group the paramedic with other combat mechanoids, keeping both groups dormant until a combat situation or disease outbreak. Note that the mechanitor must be conscious to change Work Modes, so solo mechanatiors should keep paramedics active.
-With their firefoam pack and immunity to fire and heat, paramedics excel at firefighting. Assuming their controlling Mechanitor is close by, drafted Paramedics are possibly the best choice for extricating a pawn from a fire when you do not want to extinguish the fire itself- such as when attempting to burn out an [[insectoid]] nest.
+With their firefoam pack and immunity to fire and heat, paramedics excel at firefighting. Assuming their controlling Mechanitor is close by, drafted Paramedics are possibly the best choice for extricating a pawn from a fire when you do not want to extinguish the fire itself - such as when attempting to burn out an [[insectoid]] nest.
-Paramedics are capable of feeding prisoners as part of their work routines, which can help free up time for one's Wardens.
 ===Work Speed===