Do Prisoners Need Their Kidneys? (SOLVED)

[Borker]

Do they need them? What about their liver?
I already extracted every single other body part from the left lung, and the left kidney, and the heart.

[Borker]

Apparently no.

[Ashardalon]

every organ that has 2 doesnt need the spare
so kidney and lungs are good to grab
without a liver they wont live long but they will survive long enough to get of the map
same for a stomach, wont be able to eat so as long as they can get of the map before he needs food your good
a heart is not really something you can miss so thats not a good way of getting a profit

[Borker]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

every organ that has 2 doesnt need the spare
so kidney and lungs are good to grab
without a liver they wont live long but they will survive long enough to get of the map
same for a stomach, wont be able to eat so as long as they can get of the map before he needs food your good
a heart is not really something you can miss so thats not a good way of getting a profit

Thank you! I already euthanized him (I think hes glad for that) so... I'll make sure to go the extra mile with other prisoners!

[Syndicake ☠]

Don't they die instantly when you take a heart or liver? Did that change?

[Ashardalon]

heart yes, liver gives you a few hours if i remember correctly
but in my current colony everyone get sacrificed to the gods
so that might need some testing

[dj8472]

Removing a liver instantly kills the pawn, the liver handles metabolism which if reduced to 0% is one of the ways a pawn can die

also pawns can still eat without a stomach, just very slowly

Originally posted by ZorbaTHut:

This isn't really an answer to your question, but I've been meaning to research death anyway.

There actually aren't too many things that cause death. Those include:

Being slaughtered (I think this is restricted to animals, but maybe it applies to prisoners also?)

A hediff that includes a random-chance-of-death every day (this is used solely for drug overdoses and luciferum withdrawal)

A chance that happens on downing, only to non-player non-prisoner flesh pawns - it's 67% for non-animals, 47% for animals (this is what will kill a deer when you blow its leg off)

Various hediffs that include a lethal severity threshold (blood loss, toxic buildup, heart attack, malnutrition, heatstroke, hypothermia, and drug overdose; yes, it's got a random chance and a straight-up threshold)

Reducing any life-necessary capacity to the minimum for capability or below. In all cases relevant to death, the threshold is 0, and the relevant capacities are: Consciousness, Breathing, Blood Filtration, Blood Pumping, and Metabolism. For mechanoids, it's only Consciousness (displayed as "Data processing", but internally it's the same thing), which is part of why they're so hard to kill.

Destroying the core body part - you will be unsurprised to learn that this is the "body" or "torso" on all flesh characters, though it's the "first ring" on mechanoids

This introduces the rather interesting concept that blowing up the head is fatal only because that's where the brain is, and the brain provides all the body's consciousness. If someone were to make, say, a "body maintenance module" bionic that provided 0.1 consciousness and could be installed in the torso, that would be enough to keep a headless character alive until you could install a brain . . .

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/56j9o5/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥/d8kame9/
http://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Body_Parts

[Ashardalon]

ah sorry for the misinformation
must have been mixing up rl with in game

[Flirtyfrog]

Just so you know, you can harvest the following:

Eyes
Ears
Nose
Jaw
1 lung
1 kidney
Stomach
Finally, either the heart or liver

Easily 10k silver per prisoner. There are ways to avoid some of the debuffs in vanilla, but I won't spoilt it for you here. The body can be butchered for skin and meat, which can be further processed into clothes and kibble. Have fun!