Left Radius (shattered)

[VG Purist]

Ok this might sound stupid but.. what is a left radius injury? Does shattered mean I can replace it?

[Blue Mouse]

I think a "radius" is the little circular bone that your arm bones kind of move around in. But I'm no doctor.
And I think if you use the Extended Surgery mod you can fix it.

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Originally posted by VG Purist:

Ok this might sound stupid but.. what is a left radius injury? Does shattered mean I can replace it?

Your colonist just had one of the two major bones in their forearm destroyed.

Aside from mods, you can do it the Rimworld way - hack an arm off a prisoner and replace the damaged limb of your colonist with it.

Or, if you're swimming in silver, get a bionic replacement from a trader - this way you're actually improving the victimpatient.

At a last resort, you can make basic prosthetics, but there's no fun in that...

[Stormbrooke]

There will be wounds your doctor cannot heal. I highly recommend the expanded prostestics mod and the dermal regenerator mod VG.

One mod allows you different tech levels for replacements from simple steel arms and hooks to lightening fast robotic arms, meanwhile the other helps heal scars and gunshot wounds.

[VG Purist]

Ah ok thanks for the replies =)

[Zalzany]

Wait you can hack an arm off a prisonor? I have stolen kidneys, and lungs for spare parts but didn't see option to steal arms in vanila, you can do peg legs for busted up legs with out an implant though.

[HoroSaga]

Arms and legs can't be harvested normally anymore, though most other organs and appendages still can be. It's a shame, because shattered bones in the arms and legs can impose some pretty devastating penalties, and they never heal.

You can harvest legs in a roundabout fashion by installing cheap prosthetics such as a pegleg on someone, though, which will remove their current leg. Not sure if you can also do that with arms and arm prosthetics.

At the moment, a shattered arm bone is only easily repaired using a prosthetic arm or bionic arm, which you'll have to purchase from a passing trader. Alternatively, there are various user-made mods that add in more accessible prosthetic arm replacements.