Surgery Fail Chance seems busted.

[justiceforjoggers]

I started a new colony as soon as I could purchase the new DLC. After playing said colony up to this point, I didn't have a single successful surgery until this morning. I have lost 23 kidneys, 14 lungs, and three colonists before only now having a single pawn with a wooden hand. I get that the colonists aren't infallible but is it not ridiculous to have multiple catastrophic failures in a row with a success rate above 100%

[Doomdrvk]

Well your surgeries could be failing due to lack of light, cleanliness or your doctors manipulation skill. Sight also plays a huge role in manipulation.

[justiceforjoggers]

Originally posted by Doomdrvk:

Well your surgeries could be failing due to lack of light, cleanliness or your doctors manipulation skill.

Nope, the hospital is spacious, beautiful, sterile, and my colonist is also completely healthy. I couldn't make a more perfect scenario without the editor if I tried.

[Grishnerf]

seems not normal tbh.
i have no problems.

maybe check your doctor pawn specifically under "i" and look for his/her surgery success chance. not every lvl 20 doctor is the same.

[Adefice]

For best results:
-Clean room. Use sterile silver tiles and make sure its literally being cleaned if it gets dirty. No animals should enter this room.
-Use hospital beds with attached vitals monitors.
-Make sure its at least 50% lit. Having a standard lamp near the bed is fine.
-Make sure your doctor has decent skill. 10+ is ideal. Also check their manipulation and consciousness levels. If they can't see well or use their arms well, they will perform poorly. This can be offset with drugs like wake-up, for instance. Bionic eyes and arms also help.
-Use at least the mid-line medicine and not herbal medicine.
-Consider saving before the surgery and reloading if you fail if you really don't like the gamble of it.

[Astasia]

If you claim the success rate is above 100% and you understand the multipliers involved, then it sounds like you have a mod breaking something. The cap on success chance when doing a surgery is 98%, a fail 1 in 50 times is expected with a good doctor using good meds, and it's safe to assume that's what everyone else is seeing since nobody else has made a thread like this.

[justiceforjoggers]

Originally posted by Adefice:

For best results:
-Clean room. Use sterile silver tiles and make sure its literally being cleaned if it gets dirty. No animals should enter this room.
-Use hospital beds with attached vitals monitors.
-Make sure its at least 50% lit. Having a standard lamp near the bed is fine.
-Make sure your doctor has decent skill. 10+ is ideal. Also check their manipulation and consciousness levels. If they can't see well or use their arms well, they will perform poorly. This can be offset with drugs like wake-up, for instance. Bionic eyes and arms also help.
-Use at least the mid-line medicine and not herbal medicine.
-Consider saving before the surgery and reloading if you fail if you really don't like the gamble of it.

I'll keep this up for anyone still needing tips

[justiceforjoggers]

Originally posted by Astasia:

If you claim the success rate is above 100% and you understand the multipliers involved, then it sounds like you have a mod breaking something. The cap on success chance when doing a surgery is 98%, a fail 1 in 50 times is expected with a good doctor using good meds, and it's safe to assume that's what everyone else is seeing since nobody else has made a thread like this.

I'll do some testing to figure out what's going on, I don't think the mods I have would ♥♥♥♥ with the doctoring but not much else would make sense either.

[PolecatEZ]

I noticed with organ harvesting this last 24 hours of play...fully lit operating room with master patient bed and vitals monitor, sterile floors, skill 15 surgeon with 115% manipulation and 100% eyesight.

Still fails about 1/4 of all surgeries.

No mods at all. Something did break, but savescumming is the workaround.