whats a good way to lose limbs without risking death?

[Von Faustien]

I want to augment some of my people but id rather not have them die outright well trying to open a body part slot

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Over all there really is no way with out risking death.
But using the peeler machine with armour helps.

[2tecs]

Originally posted by Von Faustien:

I want to augment some of my people but id rather not have them die outright well trying to open a body part slot

Depends, which limbs are you trying to lose right now? I have just successfully gotten their legs off (which funnily should make getting the arms off easier with the next tactic). To get the legs off I went to black desert? the place with scrap yard and stand barefoot on the acidic soil for some time. If you have clothing which otherwise adds upto 100% acid rain protection, then no other body part will get hurt while this happens. unfortunately no matter how far you get them down this will still not take off the legs, you will still need to get into a fight but since they're already so badly injured (heck, -300 if you want) the legs should pop off pretty easily in a fight. If you're not that strong and dont want to fight the robots around there just pick the guy up with someone else and transport him to an easier fight somewhere else, so long as the enemy will have weapons with cutting damage, should pop them legs off. (or maybe use the next step once their legs are super low, might speed up the process)
Another tactic which you can either do entirely on it's own or as a next step, go to fog islands. Either bash a bunch of fogmen up and put the desired character on their sacrifice pole (it acts like a prisoner cage) or send in the guy on his own to get beat up and they will put him on it themselves. They'll start to eat the guy. I think their order of eating goes 'upwards' on the health list, so legs, arms, stomach chest, etc. You can lose maybe 2 limbs before the blood loss becomes a threat. But especially if you already have robot legs from the previous method, they 'should' (i will check soon) just go straight to eating arms.
Just have a decent crew standing by to run in and save him. The fogmen groups are pretty weak, except the fogmen heavies and prince which will be drawn by someone being on the sacrifice pole and come to do the eating.

[lizardmang]

To amend some of the tips in the previous comment:

-If you're trying to get limbs severed through combat, keep in mind that -300 limb health would actually make it harder to lose said limb. This is because while a damaged limb is more likely to be hit than a healthy one, once a limb goes negative, it actually becomes much less likely to be hit. Some people have run into this issue where they will wonder why they can't lose a limb or remove a training prisoner's limb despite it being deep into the negatives because they can't seem to hit that limb anymore. This mechanic is the culprit.

-All weapons have minimum cutting damage added behind the scenes. This means it does not have to be a bladed/cutting weapon to sever limbs. A purely blunt weapon works just as well as a katana.

[Von Faustien]

alright thanks for the tips

[bunny de fluff]

set dismemberment to frequent

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

Over all there really is no way with out risking death.
But using the peeler machine with armour helps.

Of course, 'getting' the peeler machine blueprint is risking death in and of itself ;)

[bunny de fluff]

Might as well go swim in the acidic water along the 5 hive villages west of Squin.

[Derek Withers]

There is a perfectly safe and non cheesey way to lose limbs easily. You just don't heal them after a fight. You do have to start with the legs first with the aim of the arms afterwards.

When you heal a character after a fight it works from the head downwards. So if someone in your party takes a good leg wound you heal them until just before the leg is healed and move away. The leg will pop off eventually (I play with frequent limb loss) and you heal them and give them a robot limb. You have to work your way up the body. You repair robot limbs and heal normal ones as appropriate.

It requires a bit of micro management but as long as you have a pack animal with some limbs its easy to do as you explore and get in fights.