[Vanilla] Why can't you craft lungs in this game?

[マルコ]

I mean, one would think that either a bionic eye or bionic leg/arm is far more complex than an air filter, or even replacing a freaking spine! So why the lung specifically is the one you cannot craft?

[Vintorez]

Probably to make people do at least a little organ harvesting. Kidneys and Livers don't have vanilla replacements either.

[Pizzarugi]

Originally posted by Vintorez:

Probably to make people do at least a little organ harvesting. Kidneys and Livers don't have vanilla replacements either.

I thought Kidney did have vanilla replacements thanks to Royalty. Immuno-Enhancers if I recall. But other than that, livers definitely need organ harvesting. Same as lungs apparently.

To OP: If mods aren't a problem for you, I recommend mods that add more bionic organ replacements.

[Fyredrakon]

lungs are a complex organ. They require a significant amount of blood flow into the organ, which is hard to imitate with bionics (loottttsss of blood vessel connections). Unlike the bionic stomach, which seems complicated but all it does is take food in from one tube, processes it, and pushes it out through another, into the large and small intestines.

Also IRL lung transplants don't have a fantastic survival rate after extended use.

My mod recommendation to fix that is prosthetics plus. It adds an organic synthesizer that you can use to make lungs and an a couple other organs.

Idk what the game devs goals were with making some body parts replaceable and others not. It might be to have a use for organ harvesting. It might be for something else, idk.

[マルコ]

Originally posted by Fyredrakon:

lungs are a complex organ.

With that are you justifying the absence of bionic lungs in the game?
Because if that's the case, google for "First prototype artificial lungs succeed", and that article is from 2018

[マルコ]

Also regarding organ harvesting, can I harvest after I kill an "invader" from their fresh dead body and also without getting a penalty?

[Pizzarugi]

Originally posted by Marcus:

Also regarding organ harvesting, can I harvest after I kill an "invader" from their fresh dead body and also without getting a penalty?

No, postmortem organ harvesting isn't possible in a vanilla game. If you're okay with mods, you can find a couple that let you do it though. I don't know if they cause mood penalties.

The only other option you have is to collect live prisoners and turn your colony into an organ harvesting operation.