What do you do with biocoded weapons?

[Gojak_v3]

Do you just smelt them, or can they be sold to caravans too?

[Breakingzap]

you just smelt them

[Gojak_v3]

Can't sell them?

[Breakingzap]

Originally posted by Gojak_v3:

Can't sell them?

don't think so

[Evil Overlord]

Why not grab the prisoner arena mod and litter the arena with biocoded weapons and a single poor knife?

[Breakingzap]

Originally posted by Evil Overlord:

Why not grab the prisoner arena mod and litter the arena with biocoded weapons and a single poor knife?

why?

[Evil Overlord]

Originally posted by breakingzap:

why?

It's fun to imagine a new prisoner grabbing the biggest looking gun available only to find that it can't shoot while pegleg mcgee grabbed the knife.

[Breakingzap]

Originally posted by Evil Overlord:

Originally posted by breakingzap:

why?

It's fun to imagine a new prisoner grabbing the biggest looking gun available only to find that it can't shoot while pegleg mcgee grabbed the knife.

they don't work like that they just can't equip the weapon

[For_Science!]

Originally posted by breakingzap:

they don't work like that they just can't equip the weapon

The operative word there was "imagine".

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by For_Science!:

Originally posted by breakingzap:

they don't work like that they just can't equip the weapon

The operative word there was "imagine".

Imagine all the people... equipping bio-coded weaponry.

[Mismagius]

this mod adds in a item that lets you decode a weapon with that stupid feature: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1500244593

[Evil Overlord]

The restless dead await.

[Osttruppen]

Use them as decorations

[Lettis]

Put it in a transport pod along with other junk you want to get rid of and gift it to a near by settlement.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by Lettis:

Put it in a transport pod along with other junk you want to get rid of and gift it to a near by settlement.

You can absolutely do that, but you get nothing for it. A biocoded weapon has a value of 0.

Still, it's a quick way to get rid of them and I've done it a number of times just to clear space.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Gojak_v3:

Can't sell them?

Even if you could sell them, it's generally not worthwhile to sell weapons. Weapons have pretty high base market value, but a very heavy trade price penalty, meaning sitting on a stockpile of weapons to sell is mostly just inflating your colony wealth and making the game more difficult for marginal silver returns. Smelting them down into usable resources is generally an immediate benefit. After I grab a few basic weapons for my colony early game I usually set everything that NPCs drop to be immediately smelted or destroyed.

Originally posted by Mismagius:

stupid feature

The main purpose of the biocoded mechanic is to prevent you from jumping too far ahead in tech or wealth by, for example, popping open an early ancient danger after placing some cheap traps and looting all the high tech weapons they were carrying in the caskets. You can still get lucky and find something usable, it's just no longer a massive payday now that the occupants were mega-buffed around the same time to always have solid stuff. Before biocoding most of the people in caskets just had like synthread clothes and no gear, and there would be like 1-2 armed pawns in the group to deal with and loot, now they are almost always all armed and geared, and without biocoding the wealth jump would be pretty massive (more so than it already is).