Medical 2

Klovnstation design document

Current status

Klovnmed has stabilised the situation on the medical front, but we all know that this was never the endgame of the medical system. This proposal, known colloquially as factoriomed/complexmed in klovn circles for a long time now, seeks to create the best comprehensive framework of the body and its functionality. Various features like genetics are not here yet, as this is the first in a series of documents on the topic.

Rationale of improvement

The medical system will be made more complex and primarily tinkerable. It will model the human body in the form of producers and consumers. It will be designed to tie in with systems like packets to create a truly intertwined and multifaceted system.

Requested changes

The human body is reworked. Surgery opens a factorio/barotrauma circuit box style window where you connect individual organs with pathways. You can connect any pathway to any input/output node - what determines the functionality are the units that move down each pathway. For example, if you were connected to a nutrient IV drip, there would be nothing stopping you from wiring your legs’ nutrient input to your bloodstream instead of your stomach. Pathways should be instantaneous and act like atmos pipes.

The three types of organs will be consumer, producer and pump. Pumps will be a necessary midpoint that will connect a producer and consumer and allow the transfer.

Each producer will output a certain amount of units per tick. For example, a lung could take in 16 units of non-oxygenated blood and turn them into 16 units of oxygenated blood. Each consumer connected to a node with a pumped pathway will then remove a certain amount of the unit per tick. If there are shortages of units, this can manifest itself in worsened performance or lack of functionality. Unit overflows should not be an issue unless this is desirable.

Injecting chems is reworked - you can now choose the bloodstream (which just teleports them into the liver buffer) or special organs if present.

Units

Blood

The principal unit of the body. Limited amount and zero-sum - blood loss removes individual units of it at random points in the cycle. Has two flags - oxygenated/non-oxygenated (obvious analogues for vox with nitrogen) and a 2 bit number to indicate water satiation and nutrient satiation. Must be pumped.

Chem

Induces an effect on the body when metabolised. Must be pumped. Lost with blood loss similarly to blood.

Electricity

Used to power cybernetics. Has to come out of some form of battery or generator organ.

Control

The most ambitious and initially unnecessary unit. Control simulates nerve function and, as the name would imply, grants the controller control over a certain organ or whatnot. This can be used in multiple ways: when unlocking new organ abilities, you may connect the brain to them and get an action; you may use packet devices to add toggleable remote control functionality to, for example, someone’s legs; you may automate multiple actions using a packet device.

Organs

Lungs

Turn depleted blood into full blood. Obviously reliant on nitrogen/oxygen being present for the person using them. Require blood to function, will function better with nutrient and/or water rich blood.

Ports:

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• input (depleted blood)
• output (full blood)
• control (rate of work)

Control port info: initially not connected, modeled as an action with a popup box of the rate or useable in a packet system. Lungs can be overclocked to 1.5x maximum throughput and will incur damage proportional to that. Max overclocked lungs should last roughly 2 minutes.

Heart

The principal pump of the body, offers many inputs and outputs that deliver blood to where it is needed. The pump’s rate of pumping is always dictated by autosumming all consumers linked to its output ports and compared to its maximum pumping rate. When the rate of pumping would exceed the maximum, the heart evenly distributes as much as it can handle between the ports.

Requires blood to function, will function better with nutrient and/or water rich blood. Has an internal reservoir of blood to act as a small buffer. This reservoir replenishes over time.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• inputs (many, linked in pairs with outputs, can carry chems or blood)
• outputs (many)
• control (maximum pumped units)

Control port info: the heart can again be overclocked.

Stomach

Turns eaten items into chems that are then sent into various organs. Has an internal reservoir of nutrients and water - blood pumped into the stomach will be made nutrient and water rich at the cost of this reservoir.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• input (blood)
• output (nutrient rich blood)
• chem output
• control (toggle digestion, toggle blood enrichment, get data on remaining nutrients and water)

Liver

Actually metabolises chems and creates healing/movement/etc. effects. Has a buffer of chems which is slowly metabolised.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• chem input
• chem output (by default fed back into the liver, this is the “bloodstream” that you inject chems into)
• control (toggle metabolism, get data on chems inside)

Eyes, ears

Allow sight, hearing.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• control (enable/disable)

Brain

Allows body control and control connections.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• control (many ports, when connected to compatible organ ports this grants actions and control)

Legs, arms

Allow movement (2 legs) and grant hands.

• input (full blood)
• output (depleted blood)
• control (for legs, overclock - connecting control changes the visual sprite of the character’s legs to be bulkier for easy visual tells. overclocking damages the legs)

Junction, splitter

Simple junctions and splitters for pathways.

Valve

Simple valve that opens or closes a pathway.

• control (enable, disable)

Filter

Filters chems by type. Can be connected to packets.

• input (electricity)
• input (chems)
• output (filtered chems)
• output (passthrough)
• control (enable, disable, set type(s), overclock/set rate)

Processor

Packet device that can be implanted into a person. Only programmable and interactible when the person is opened.

Shard slot

Allows on-the-fly slaving of a linked packet processor to any program inserted inside.

Electrical pump

Requires electricity to perform pumping instead of a heart.

• input (electricity)
• input (units)
• output (units)
• control (enable, disable, overclock/set rate)

Chemical tank

Can be injected into, holds chems. Controllable by packets. Creates a noticeable bulge on the character for visual tells.

• input (electricity)
• input (chems)
• output (chems)
• control (turn output off or on, get data on chems inside)

Battery slot

Holds a battery, provides electricity.

• input (electricity)
• output (electricity)
• control (enable, disable, get data on charge)

Biogenerator

Converts nutrient rich blood into electricity.

• input (blood)
• output (blood)
• output (electricity)
• control (enable, disable, set rate/overclock)

Sensors

Pressure/surrounding atmosphere sensors, damage sensors, body temperature sensors, speed sensors, position sensors, et cetera.

• input (electricity)
• control (output data, enable, disable)

Gas port

De facto internals, allows slotting in a gas tank (this shows on the character) and acts as lungs I/O wise.

Power legs and arms

Require electricity, create visual tells on the character.

• input (electricity)
• control (enable, disable, overclock [bigger damage and faster doafters for arms, speed for legs])

Cauteriser

Must be fed chemical fuel or electricity, stops bleeds over time. (faster with chemical fuel) Has a small internal reservoir for fuel. (injection target) Creates a sound as it works.

• input (electricity)
• input (chems)
• control (enable, disable, switch fuel type, get reservoir data)

Skinwire

Fed copious amounts of electricity, deals shock damage to melee attackers. Can be overclocked and deal stamina damage + more damage at the cost of doing burn damage to the user over time and taking even more electricity. Has a distinct visual and audio tell with sparks flying off the character and electrical buzzing.

• input (electricity)
• control (enable, disable, overclock)

Integrated computer

Adds a readily accessible, isolated packet system to the player’s body. Can be connected to the brain for quick actions. Has a visual tell with wires running out of the player.

• input (electricity)
• control (quickbind actions that attempt to run functions)

Charge socket

Allows charging a slotted-in battery from APCs. Allows discharging the body’s electrical systems to fully recharge a substation, smes or APC - deals proportionate damage and knocks the player out for a good bit.

• input (electricity, a certain threshold of input electricity is required - APC needs less than substation which needs less than a SMES)

Threat radar

Allows either locking onto a threat with an action or automatically scans lethal projectiles incoming towards the target and relays their relative position and speed vectors as a packet system. Has a visual tell as a radar array on the head. Not that useful on its own, but automatically highlights other threat radar users anywhere visible. Ambitious, can be ignored for base implementation.

• input (electricity)
• control (targeting data)

Puppet module

Packet system, allows automating simple actions like walking, accessing the inventory and hands and manipulating them, attacking, placing tiles, etc. Programmer discretion as to how much this can do. Ambitious, can be ignored for base implementation.

• input (electricity)
• control (packet instructions as input)

Tool arm

More of a classic body part. Replaces an arm with a tool arm that has a select tool inside of it. This tool can be a gun, an omnitool, et cetera - the whitelist is primarily dependent on what makes sense and the spritework of the tool arm which should have a visual tell as to what exactly it is holding right now. It takes away the hand functionality of the arm, but trades it for things like drop-resilience, self charging (for rcds, stun batons and guns) and self-loading. (for guns, you can stock mags which it will load for you)

Example ideas: omnitool (including experimental welder), surgical omnitool, automatic hypogun (with switchable vials, can be linked to friendly bio sensors and a proximity sensor pair and automatically choose the proper vials and dosage for the nearest), gun arm (self loading), salvager arm (drill, grappling gun, powerful PKA), et cetera.

• input (electricity)
• control (per tool. for example, omnitool arm can signal doafter finishing so you can make automatic deconstruction presets for say rwalls, gun can output loaded ammo and ammo in reserve, et cetera)

HUD eye

Allows packets writing an overlay over the player’s screen. Very ambitious. Can be programmed to be a biomonitor, show ammo data for linked guns, show enemies when used with the threat radar, et cetera.

• input (electricity)
• control (to draw things on the screen)

Physnet interface

Automatically shows packet ports and addresses on compatible devices. Allows quickbinding an action to load the addy into a compatible packet device. Definitely should have a whitelist, high electricity consumption or a cooldown on the action to prevent people from making super-emags. Should have a visual tell with antennae near the head.

• input (electricity)
• control (input and output. can have gps coords input into it to automatically read addresses of devices on the tile for example - of course only if visible)

This document is living, and as such will be updated with more cybernetic gear as it is invented.

Projected results of this change

We build the beachhead for a satisfactory level of complexity in the body.