Replacing shoulders

[Levin]

Hi,

One of my colonists carelessly got his right shoulder shot off.
After getting him to the medbay and treating him I thought I'd give him a shiny, new bionic arm as compensation.
After having bought it though, I realized that I can't install it.

The way I saw it I thought new arms included the shoulder, but is this intentionally not the case?
If so my favorite fighter/medic will be even more grizzled as he one-handedly fires his sniper-rifle in between healing fellow colonists suffering from malaria and such.

[dazhat]

Replacement shoulders should exist. I work in a university department which researches this kind of thing. You can get a shoulder replacement just like a hip replacement.

In the rimworld universe if you can have a bionic leg, a shoulder would not be a big step.

[TheSilencedScream]

I agree - I think if a part of your body can be destroyed without immediately killing you, there should be some way of replacing it, even with less efficiency.

[Coenmcj]

And if you can't replace it, you can always just get a big StarCraft marine-esque shoulder-pauldron-thing that holds it all together!

[Levin]

Update on the colonist.
Last night he somehow managed to get his other shoulder shot off...

He is now walking around withouth shoulders, has no manipulative ability, but somehow still manages to grow crops.
Very, very slowly.

I'm considering putting him out of his misery, but he bears my name so I'm loathe to do so.

I suppose he can just continue hanging around my base, possibly chatting up Lolita the brain-dead cleaning-lady.
She took a stray UZI-bullet to the brain, never quite been the same afterwards.

[Levin]

RimWorld changelog

Oct 22

    Refactored and cleaned up stat categorization and display.
    Bionic arm replaces arm from the shoulder on down, so can heal/replace shot-off shoulders.
    Skill degradation is slower.
    LL cleanup.


Wohoo! Tynan delivers

[SimpleLogician]

RimWorld changelog

Oct 22

    Refactored and cleaned up stat categorization and display.
    Bionic arm replaces arm from the shoulder on down, so can heal/replace shot-off shoulders.
    Skill degradation is slower.
    LL cleanup.


Wohoo! Tynan delivers

Gotta love it.

[StorymasterQ]

With brain transplant mod already available, this gives us the opportunity to replace...HEAD AND SHOULDERS! BaDumTsh!

[TheXIIILightning]

With brain transplant mod already available, this gives us the opportunity to replace...HEAD AND SHOULDERS! BaDumTsh!

But why would you replace it?! You need it to fight off the giant, alien blob monsters!

[Tynan]

RimWorld changelog

Oct 22

    Refactored and cleaned up stat categorization and display.
    Bionic arm replaces arm from the shoulder on down, so can heal/replace shot-off shoulders.
    Skill degradation is slower.
    LL cleanup.


Wohoo! Tynan delivers

Yeah this was basically just a bug anyway.

[Mikhail Reign]

Yay!

In addition to this, we should be able to put claws on bionic arms - I mean we are fusing tech to body already, could fusing tech to tech be that hard? Either that, or have bionic arms and bionic hand be separate parts