Best organ harvesting practices

[EscapeZeppelin]

Because my latest colony is a monstrous nightmare populated by psychically deaf cannibals they've started harvesting the organs of anyone who isn't psychically deaf. The problem is that prisoners keep dying before we get all of the good organs out of them. What's the best order to harvest the organs in and is it possible to get everything out of them before they die?

[ZestyLemons]

You can always check the wiki if you're unsure, here's a big ol' table: http://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Human

You can take the following safely without someone dying:

• One lung
• One kidney

Lastly, you can take either the other lung, the other kidney, their heart or their liver. You don't want to take their heart or liver first, because the patient will die without those (they're sort of essential).

[REMworlder]

I think blood loss might also factor in. So at least bandage them up before surgery; I've had that prematurely kill an organ donor or two who've been operated on right after being a battle casualty.

[Coenmcj]

Anything that drops the associated stat to 0 will kill the patient regardless. So bandaging is unneeded if you're harvesting, just Harvest a kidney and a lung then either a heart, liver, or another kidney/lung. In which the patient will die.

[StorymasterQ]

Off Topic, but now that the new Alpha has come out, the Rimworld forum has THE BEST topic titles.

[ZestyLemons]

Anything that drops the associated stat to 0 will kill the patient regardless. So bandaging is unneeded if you're harvesting, just Harvest a kidney and a lung then either a heart, liver, or another kidney/lung. In which the patient will die.

Only for essential stats, to clarify.

You can't harvest eyes/arms/limbs, but they're not essential living.

[Snownova]

Off Topic, but now that the new Alpha has come out, the Rimworld forum has THE BEST topic titles.

I know, my 9-year old foster kid plays Rimworld, but I'm kind of worried if I should put this latest alpha on his computer. His gleeful reaction to cannibalism was scary enough...

[RawCode]

in most cases there is no reason to harvest organs if you don't need replacement for essential colonist.

cotton farm will provide more *money*

[Mikhail Reign]

in most cases there is no reason to harvest organs if you don't need replacement for essential colonist.

cotton farm will provide more *money*

They are a resource to be utilized. A cotton farm may provide you with more money, but a cotton farm AND harvesting organs will provide even more money....

[Varnhagen]

I have a couple spare kidneys/lungs on hand, but mostly I just sell prisoners off, euthanize them, execute them if they proof to be to difficult to recruit. No need to spend medicine on them. All these "spare parts" just clutter my beacon and med-bay and I like it neat and tidy.

[Damien Hart]

in most cases there is no reason to harvest organs if you don't need replacement for essential colonist.

My morbid collections of body parts beg to differ.

[milon]

My morbid collections of body parts beg to differ.

That plus your avatar makes me nervous of you 
I'm glad I don't live in your colony!! 

[Damien Hart]

My morbid collections of body parts beg to differ.

That plus your avatar makes me nervous of you 
I'm glad I don't live in your colony!! 

Yeah, I don't blame you... 

But hey, no one can say that my colony is messy; all the hearts get arrayed neatly around the perimeter of the common room, a testament to what happens to misbehaving colonists. And for my next playthrough, I'll be lining my bedrooms with lungs and kidneys (I was selling them last time - opportunity missed!).

I should take up a career as an interior decorator!

[Wex]

One thing I don't understand. Liver regenerates. It can regrow itself if it's 1/3 of the original mass. Why can't we pull out half a liver from a colonist to use for another?

[REMworlder]

I think the issue is the connections to each lobe don't grow back, and those connections are used in the transplant. So while your remaining lobe will grow to replace the removed lobe, the regrown lobe won't have a usable connection.

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2hkkyt/if_i_donate_part_of_my_liver_to_someone_the_liver/cktp2c2