Prosthetic arm
Prosthetic arm
An arm prosthesis. While it lacks a neural interface, its complex arrangement of internal joints allows it to mimic natural movement quite convincingly. Still, it is inferior to a real arm.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 260
Melee Combat
- Mode
- Melee
- Melee Attack 1
- Fist
8.2 dmg (Blunt)
12% AP
2 seconds cooldown - Body Part
- Shoulder
- Melee Average DPS
- 4.1
- Melee Average AP
- 12%
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Prosthetics
- Skill Required
- Crafting 5
- Work To Make
- 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)
- Resources to make
40 + 
4
- techHediffsTags
- Simple
- tradeTags
- TechHediff
A prosthetic arm is an artificial body part that acts as a replacement for a pawn's natural arm. The least advanced of the arm replacements, prosthetic arms have a part efficiency of 50%, therefore one prosthetic arm and one healthy natural arm provides 75% manipulation, while having two prosthetic arms provides 50% manipulation.
Acquisition
Prosthetic arms can be crafted at a Machining table once the Prosthetics research project has been completed. They require 40 Steel, 4 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 5.
They can also sometimes be purchased from traders.
Summary
Body part
Prosthetic arms replace the user's organic arm up to, and including, the shoulder. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right. The prosthetic arm has a part efficiency of 50%. This partially replaces the functionality of a normal arm - when coupled with the arm body part having a Manipulation importance of 50%, it results in restoring 25% manipulation per missing arm replaced, or a loss of 25% when replacing a healthy arm. Manipulation, in turn, affects a great many stats. For a full list of affected stats, see Manipulation.
Combat
A prosthetic arm replaces the natural "Fist" attack of the replaced arm with an completely identical punch.
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 4.
Removing the part requires 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and has no Medical skill requirements.
If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.
Analysis
The prosthetic arm should be used on essential pawns with missing arms or shattered bones before Bionics have been researched. Compared to no arm, the increase in manipulation provides a major increase to combat and virtually any work type (short of Hauling). If just the hand is missing, then a wooden hand offers more manipulation.
Unlike organic parts, prosthetic arms don't contain subparts - all damage is taken by the main, 30 HP arm, instead of spread throughout the bones, fingers, and shoulder. While a prosthetic arm won't lose stray fingers to a gun shot, this makes it easier for it to be completely destroyed. Note that the prosthetic arm is fully attached to the shoulder; a flak vest completely protects a prosthetic, but does not cover an organic arm at all. In addition, the artificial part never feels pain and never bleeds.
| Manipulation | Right arm | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No arm | Prosthetic arm | Wooden hand | Organic arm | Bionic arm | Archotech arm | |
| Left arm | ||||||
| No arm | 0% | 25% | 30% | 50% | 62.5% | 75% |
| Prosthetic arm | 25% | 50% | 55% | 75% | 87.5% | 100% |
| Wooden hand | 30% | 55% | 60% | 80% | 92.5% | 105% |
| Organic arm | 50% | 75% | 80% | 100% | 112.5% | 125% |
| Bionic arm | 62.5% | 87.5% | 92.5% | 112.5% | 125% | 137.5% |
| Archotech arm | 75% | 100% | 105% | 125% | 137.5% | 150% |
Version history
- 0.19.2009 - renamed from simple prosthetic arm to prosthetic arm and made craftable.
- Arm/Hand
- Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm
• Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon - Head
- Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose
- Head implants
- Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High)
• Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe - Spine
- Bionic spine
- Stomach
- Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach
- Organs
- Bionic heart • Heart • Kidney • Liver • Lung • Prosthetic heart • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung
- Visceral implants
- Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer
- Leg/Foot
- Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
- Related
- Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
- Deprecated
- Scyther blade • Psychic silencer