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A small blast radius, and high rate of failure could balance the mines.  Of course maximum irony would involve requiring one medicine per mine to construct.

-Argon

Bone  Pins
Bought from traders, not manufacturable, used in surgery to fix "bad Back", and "shattered _______  Bone"
Simple to add and incredibly useful.

-Argon

This work shows a picture of Allione the Luddite having his nose removed to save him from a severe infection.

-Argon

Uranium maces.  Equip a brawler with one, they do a huge amount of damage in the critical first swing.

-Argon

Now that the individual body part damage system has been implemented, mines/blasting charges could be made less OP, now they would turn people's feet into mush, disabling or slowing them, instead of the corpse-vaporizing explosives of the old days.

-Argon

Flail/Morningstar

Description:A highly uncontrollable weapon consisting of a spiked ball of a given heavy material attached by a chain to a handle.

Would deal massive damage, with the tradeoff that low melee skill colonists could easily injure themselves.

-Argon

A type of mechanoid raid where their goal is to steal metal and plaststeel.

-Argon

1/10=10/100

Decimate means killing one out of 10 (decem means ten in Latin).

-Argon

I once saw a psychic wave of tortoises ravage a raiding party. The best part was watching them miss the tortoises and hit their fellow pirates.

-Argon

Hmm, so I suppose that would work with stone constructions aswell... stone > slag > steel

Correct.  However stone structures have more HP and take longer to construct. Its simply a question of how long you would like to micromanage for.

-Argon

Although this may be true in real life (I'm a pessimist myself), and a few more traits with this feature could be
useful. There must be some pawns in the game with plain and simple "bad" traits, for game balancing sake.
Hidden positives could recoup some of the negatives w/o completely cancelling them.

-Argon

A larger number of factions who raid less frequently, and can also be raided themselves.

-Argon

You can also destroy wooden beds with frags, dropping 1-2 slag chunks.  Free metal.

-Argon

You can currently make the map larger when you first select the location for the crash site (before you click "Select Site" or whatever the button says, there's a button in the middle of the page that allows you to change map size), but 1.) like you said, it needs optimization (as it can sometimes be buggy and lag) and 2.) large maps often mean your pawn will wake up, eat, cross it and do a single activity, come back, and - before they can even get back - they may on the verge of a mental break from being hungry and tired.

Understood.  I regularly play w/ large maps, but only because I have a particularly powerful computer.
what I was suggesting was the ability to increase the map size of a preexisting colony.

-Argon

Had a colonist get shot in the nose, get a nose infection, and then have his nose removed.
Every time I mouse over his health tab I start cracking up uncontrollably.

-Argon