How do I install a bionic leg or peg leg?

[My Little Pwny]

So one of my colonists got their leg shot off. They're sitting in a hospital bed. Over and over, I've saved up for a bionic leg, created a bill to have my doctor install it, and then waited. The doctor comes over and slices into the patient and after a few minutes the patient is injured, the bionic leg is gone, but the colonist still has only one leg.

The same thing happens with peg legs. I've done this over and over with the same result. What am I missing? Why do the bionic legs keep disappearing? Is the outcome of surgery random and I'm just very unlucky? Shouldn't the game tell me if the surgery was unsuccessful?

[Ashardalon]

unless using glittermeds the succes chanse of surgery is abysmal
and bionics get their neural intigration circuitry damaged when failed to install properly
(if you fail surgery you lose the bionic)

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by Exige:

So one of my colonists got their leg shot off. They're sitting in a hospital bed. Over and over, I've saved up for a bionic leg, created a bill to have my doctor install it, and then waited. The doctor comes over and slices into the patient and after a few minutes the patient is injured, the bionic leg is gone, but the colonist still has only one leg.

The same thing happens with peg legs. I've done this over and over with the same result. What am I missing? Why do the bionic legs keep disappearing? Is the outcome of surgery random and I'm just very unlucky? Shouldn't the game tell me if the surgery was unsuccessful?

dont need the game to hand hold thru surgury you should be watching that anyway. as ashaedalon said surgury without glitter is alot lower chance since A16 but with the ammount of attempts its sound like you have had are you using herbal meds? because they always been last resort or just treating injuries meds

[EthanT]

Save scum

[Lanaflux]

Exige: I have people with only Medicine 12, and I have had to reload the game a few times to get through a successful harvest or surgery, but at most only three times. Here's what I do so I don't have to!

• Create a room with sterile hospital flooring. Its expensive and slow to make. It lowers the chances of infection, and can be used in kitchens to reduce food poisoning.
  
• Research and build a Hospital bed. (They request 10 of those white medicine packages, plus like 80 steel, and some rocks I think.) The Hospital bed, increases chances of surgery success quite a bit! And it improves immunity gain speed.
  
• Do not use herbal packages, use the drug lab, and craft the 2nd tier medicine, not glitterworld (since I don't think you can craft them there anyway, but I don't know.) Medicine requires, 1 Neutroamine (you can only buy them from merchants), 1 cloth, and 1 herbal medicine at the drug lab. Glitterworld medicine is recommended the most but its hard to come by! So ordinary medicine is pretty decent.

Now with all this you have a much higher chance. I have heard you can also put your colony doctor on some drugs to give them a steadier hand as well. Not smokeleaf or yayo!

You can use Go-Juice to increase surgery success, and wake up but wake up WILL cause them to have a heart attack in 2 years.

Also If you want to make your hospital wing complete, use a Vital's monitor! It doesn't help surgery but it increases your chances at immunity and treatment quality. You just put it next to the bed, and it'll work. FYI if you someone does get an infection, treat them regularly with these tips, and use medicine not herbal. They'll be close but be able to beat it and it won't be a death sentence.