How to automate Blood packs?

[Tactical Wargamer (Richard)]

Can you do it with normal pawns? With a prisoner, what option do I use to regularly have someone draw blood packs automatically? Kinda a pain to constantly do manual operation bills for blood :)

[KPJFormat]

It should be in the options under prisoner tab; Hemogen Farm

Same place you decide to convert, recruit, etc. prisoners on the tab when you click the character (among the tabs like character, health, prisoner, etc.)

[The Blind One]

Cool mod to consider;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967718207&searchtext=hemogen+farm

[hardy_conrad]

I did try hemogen farm on a prisoner once but it didn't seem to work. Maybe I was neglecting a setting like warden or doctor... He'd be at 100 percent blood and healed of injuries but still get ignored. No mods and just the biotech dlc.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

I did try hemogen farm on a prisoner once but it didn't seem to work. Maybe I was neglecting a setting like warden or doctor... He'd be at 100 percent blood and healed of injuries but still get ignored. No mods and just the biotech dlc.

They should do it automatically as long as a doctor has time for it and the pawn has all his blood.

[Tokogawa [GER]]

Im currently having a unfortunate soul as a Hemogen farm and for me I just set him as one and once he reaches full blood he gets put to bed by a doc (not a warden mind you) and produces 1 blood pack whilst reaching medium bloodloss.
So you should probably check your docs if they truly have medical as 1 and not currently busy doing whatever else as Hemogen farming isnt a warden issue

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

They should do it automatically as long as a doctor has time for it and the pawn has all his blood.

(And you have medicine, it needs at least herbal, unless that has been changed).

[null]

if you are open to open I really like this one;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903919607&searchtext=hemogen+extractor

My favorite setup is to use medicine to prevent my prisoner from escaping. For example, I will take off both of his legs. Being a mod user myself, I use a mod that introduces ethically questionable methods, so I remove the spine of my prisoners. I find the method really effective.

The next step is to repeat the setup to limit the back and forth between the amputated prisoners and the refrigerator. I know there are techniques to extract more blood from the prisoners but I am satisfied with quantity over efficiency for this particular area.

See 4.5.2 for prisoner hemogen farm
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Prisoner#Hemogen_farm

I recommend their wiki. It's good

[hardy_conrad]

Wait I need medicine to blood farm? That doesn't seem to make sense but could explain my problem. And upon reflection I'm not certain I had doctor set to one. It's not a thing I do frequently but I look forwards to trying it again.

[The Blind One]

You don't need medicine to farm blood packs.

[Tactical Wargamer (Richard)]

Thanks, Friends, lots of excellent advice!

[null]

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

Wait I need medicine to blood farm? That doesn't seem to make sense but could explain my problem. And upon reflection I'm not certain I had doctor set to one. It's not a thing I do frequently but I look forwards to trying it again.

you do not but I prefer to use medicine when I hack limbs off

[sooshon]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

They should do it automatically as long as a doctor has time for it and the pawn has all his blood.

(And you have medicine, it needs at least herbal, unless that has been changed).

No, you do not need medicine for extracting hemogen, this is completely wrong.

[null]

Originally posted by sooshon:

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

(And you have medicine, it needs at least herbal, unless that has been changed).

No, you do not need medicine for extracting hemogen, this is completely wrong.

What is wrong is the way they read what I wrote. The medicine is probably used to anesthetize pawn while they get their legs hack off. Sure you can do it cold but it would be even more unethical, no?

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by null:

Originally posted by sooshon:

No, you do not need medicine for extracting hemogen, this is completely wrong.

What is wrong is the way they read what I wrote. The medicine is probably used to anesthetize pawn while they get their legs hack off. Sure you can do it cold but it would be even more unethical, no?

I turn choosing a hemogen donor into a sort of game show. Once I collect enough prisoners I release them all...into a maze filled with landmines. As a bonus they get a 'rescued me' moodlet instead of 'they're harvesting my parts!'.

Jokes aside, that hemogen extractor mod is pretty great. There's another version (with pipes and storage tanks) in Vanilla Races Expanded: Sanguophages. Could be an option if you just want to throw someone in a pod-bed and have it be fully* automated.

*You still have to load nutrition in to feed them, but it's compatible with the nutrient paste expanded's pipes. That's just the usual "grow rice, throw into hopper" deal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2963116383