Peg leg

Peg legs are a artificial body part that replaces a pawn's leg. It is the worst kind of leg available, but is better than having a missing leg.

Acquisition[edit]

Unlike most other prostheses, peg legs don't have a separate item form. Instead, when ordering a surgical operation on a pawn, 1 Wood, 2 Herbal medicines is consumed and the peg leg is added to the pawn. Converting a log to a peg leg does not take any work. Notably, when removed the peg leg turns back into a wooden log.

Summary[edit]

Peg legs replace the user's entire organic leg. The peg leg has a part efficiency of 60%. This partially replaces the functionality of a normal leg - when coupled with each leg body part having a Moving importance of 50%, it results in restoring 30% moving per missing leg replaced, or a loss of 20% when replacing a healthy leg.

Moving, in turn, affects the following stats: Hunting Stealth, Melee Dodge Chance, Move Speed. This results in a directly proportional change to a pawn's move speed, and a change in melee dodge chance equivalent to losing 3.6 levels of Melee skill per leg replaced. Due to how the stat is fit to a post-process curve, this can result in the melee dodge chance dropping to 0% for pawns with skill under 9, when replacing one leg, or under 12 for both legs.

Each peg leg results in -10% character quality and thus a 10% reduction in the affected individual's pawn value.

As an artificial part, peg legs will give a mood buff to anyone with the Body modder trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait.

Installation[edit]

Installing the part requires 1,500 ticks (25 secs) of work, 1 wood, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 3.

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 wood will be destroyed.

Analysis[edit]

The peg leg is certainly better than a missing or otherwise inoperative leg, but you should strongly consider replacing it with a modern prosthesis as soon as possible. Movement is important for combat, many types of work, and general efficiency (getting up from bed to work...), making it a very valuable stat. For pawns that don't move as much, like researchers, this upgrade is less important.

In cases where only the foot is missing, a wooden foot only has half the Moving penalty, which means it restores more movement, and it has the exact same material and research requirements.

Prisoners[edit]

Alternatively, peg legs can be installed on your prisoners, making them easier to stop when starting a prison escape or going berserk. As peg legs actively make the pawn worse, it isn't recommended to install peg legs on those who you would like to recruit, at least until you can make bionic leg replacements.

Unlike healthy organic legs, peg legs can be removed; removing them will result in no leg, and removing both will permanently incapacitate a pawn. This is great if you want to keep prisoners long term without them attempting to a break out, such as for selling them, harvesting hemogen packs, or extract genes from. However, if the Dead calm gene can be applied to them instead, it is superior as they won't require a colonist or slave to feed them and legs won't have to be reinstalled if they are to be sold.

Moving	Right leg
No leg	Peg leg	Wooden foot	Prosthetic leg	Organic leg	Bionic leg	Archotech leg
Left leg
No leg	0%	30%	40%	42.5%	50%	62.5%	75%
Peg leg	30%	60%	70%	72.5%	80%	92.5%	105%
Wooden foot	40%	70%	80%	82.5%	90%	102.5%	115%
Prosthetic leg	42.5%	72.5%	82.5%	85%	92.5%	105%	117.5%
Organic leg	50%	80%	90%	92.5%	100%	112.5%	125%
Bionic leg	62.5%	92.5%	102.5%	105%	112.5%	125%	137.5%
Archotech leg	75%	105%	115%	117.5%	125%	137.5%	150%

Version history[edit]

0.7.581 - Added

Artificial body parts

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