Trying to farm trauma savant..

[sdlurrr]

is it possible? or am i just wasting time and medicine

[ButterStuffed]

You’re probably going to kill your colonist before you ever get trauma savant.

If you do find a way to consistently get it though let us know.

—EDIT

Actually if you were to have your colonist covered in armor except for the head and had a colonist attack with a low quality weapon you would probably have a higher chance of getting it. Would probably lose your eyes though.

[starbabylon]

To prevent everyone else from googling it, this is what the wiki says: (it adds nothing to the current discussion though)

Trauma Savant

Being shot in the brain can cause the trauma savant condition.

A pawn may become a trauma savant upon taking and surviving an injury to the Brain. Certain capabilities will rise and some will fall.

Trauma Savant currently removes all ability to socialise and opinions of others, capability of Talking and Hearing (both capped at 0%), but increases Manipulation by 50%, and restores full brain functioning (meaning consciousness and other functions will be normal) - this is great for doctors and general workers, but it'll make affected wardens or traders a write-off in that aspect.

There is a 12% chance of any pawn becoming a trauma savant upon receiving brain damage. It does not have to be a humanlike, and can sometimes be seen applied on animals.

[The Great Glumbini]

I guess it is possible, but risky. You have a 12% chance to get it when you survive a brain injury, so you'd first have to weigh that against the chance of dying from a headshot. Then, upon surviving that headshot, there's a chance that you won't get trauma savant and you'll have to either put them on luciferium and wait 15-30 game days or use a healer mech serum to restore their brain so you can try again.

In my opinion, the answer is YES it is possible, and YES you are wasting time and medicine.

[mattpage84]

Could always just save and reload. I don't know if your 12% chance would remain the same or if it changes because of the reload

[The Great Glumbini]

Originally posted by mattpage84:

Could always just save and reload. I don't know if your 12% chance would remain the same or if it changes because of the reload

That would be the best way to farm it, if you're on permadeath however, I don't think it's a worthy endeavour.

[mattpage84]

Originally posted by Lord of Feeling It:

Originally posted by mattpage84:

Could always just save and reload. I don't know if your 12% chance would remain the same or if it changes because of the reload

That would be the best way to farm it, if you're on permadeath however, I don't think it's a worthy endeavour.

Definitely not on permadeath, I'm not sure if the op is playing that or not. The question is, is it worth just rerolling a save over and over for a trauma savant?

[The Great Glumbini]

Originally posted by mattpage84:

Originally posted by Lord of Feeling It:

That would be the best way to farm it, if you're on permadeath however, I don't think it's a worthy endeavour.

Definitely not on permadeath, I'm not sure if the op is playing that or not. The question is, is it worth just rerolling a save over and over for a trauma savant?

Possibly, depending on the colonist in question. If it's a labourer with no social skill, then it might be worth it, even more so if they happen to dislike most of your other colonists, since savants also get all their opinions of others set to 0. You might waste a bit of time tediously reloading, but you'll probably get that time back once they start working and finishing their tasks in good time.

[The Great Glumbini]

Another interesting note... on the wiki it mentions this:
"... restores full brain functioning (meaning consciousness and other functions will be normal) ..."

Does this just mean that the scar won't lower their consciousness, or does this mean it can bestow 100% consciousness even if they're using something like a joywire or half-cycler? If that's the case, then getting trauma savant on someone with a half-cycler would be like having the perfect worker...

[sdlurrr]

one of my colonist have it. its a result from a failed psychic harmonizer installation, so i thought why not try it on a prisoner? i did tried it and i havent got any more trauma savants and i already killed 2 prisoners.

my method is using my low skill doctor (5-6 lv.) to install a brain implants with no light and no beds to induce failure. no guns.

also the exp i get is like 4k an attempt so now i have lots of doctor

im playing on permadeath randy savage if that helps. thank you

Originally posted by Lord of Feeling It:

I guess it is possible, but risky. You have a 12% chance to get it when you survive a brain injury, so you'd first have to weigh that against the chance of dying from a headshot. Then, upon surviving that headshot, there's a chance that you won't get trauma savant and you'll have to either put them on luciferium and wait 15-30 game days or use a healer mech serum to restore their brain so you can try again.

In my opinion, the answer is YES it is possible, and YES you are wasting time and medicine.

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

You’re probably going to kill your colonist before you ever get trauma savant.

If you do find a way to consistently get it though let us know.

—EDIT

Actually if you were to have your colonist covered in armor except for the head and had a colonist attack with a low quality weapon you would probably have a higher chance of getting it. Would probably lose your eyes though.

Originally posted by mattpage84:

Originally posted by Lord of Feeling It:

That would be the best way to farm it, if you're on permadeath however, I don't think it's a worthy endeavour.

Definitely not on permadeath, I'm not sure if the op is playing that or not. The question is, is it worth just rerolling a save over and over for a trauma savant?

[The Great Glumbini]

Originally posted by Crayzl:

one of my colonist have it. its a result from a failed psychic harmonizer installation, so i thought why not try it on a prisoner? i did tried it and i havent got any more trauma savants and i already killed 2 prisoners.

my method is using my low skill doctor (5-6 lv.) to install a brain implants with no light and no beds to induce failure. no guns.

also the exp i get is like 4k an attempt so now i have lots of doctor

im playing on permadeath randy savage if that helps. thank you

That's actually a very interesting method you got there... trying to botch brain surgeries on prisoners and consequently training your medical skill. I didn't even think about prisoners or botched surgeries, I just assumed you were shooting/hitting your workers in the head, possibly with some help from that mod that lets your colonists "target" body parts.

I gotta say, I like your method a lot. Especially for permadeath, that's probably going to be the only viable way of trying to "farm" it. Using prisoners to start with is probably the best way, I personally wouldn't want to use my colonists for this, but I would recruit a savant prisoner in a heartbeat. Also, all the failed attempts can be a good reason to keep some wargs around the colony, or a good source of food for them if you already do. I wish you luck on your endeavour, my current colony is running at "max" capacity right now but I may try to emulate your method in the future. Personally I'd be interested to see how trauma savant works on someone with a half-cycler, so I might also try using that when the time comes.

[Do you like bread?]

I just caused Trauma savant with a dark ritual that causes brain damage specificaly in Anomaly so this might be a good way to farm it