grayish flesh

[Destriss]

Hey , i dont know if its this name in english.

I got a message saying that one of my colonists was infected, I was lucky, by locking up a colonist at random I managed to find him a few days after finding a piece of flesh.

What I don't understand is that my colony leader doctor performed the operation, the monster came out, but the game tells me that my colonist assures me that there's nothing there.
So I perform the same operation on my leader and nothing. bug?

I'd also like to know how I can be sure that I don't have any other visitors in my colonists' heads? Like, when the event happens, does it infect a single colonist? Or several? Is there a message telling me that the colony is saved?

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[Helios]

You get a message after an inspection surgery that your doctor could lie to you so you could try to repeat it with other colonist doing the checkup.

[MadArtillery]

Kinda weird I got that message too and have had no weird flesh related incidents after it. Though it was funny that my metal horror infected man was also a mine from alpha animals at the same time. A double doppleganger so maybe that had something to do with it?

[Helios]

Strange flesh sounds like revenant, just read about them here only that you can study the flesh they drop.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Destriss:

Hey , i dont know if its this name in english.

I got a message saying that one of my colonists was infected, I was lucky, by locking up a colonist at random I managed to find him a few days after finding a piece of flesh.

What I don't understand is that my colony leader doctor performed the operation, the monster came out, but the game tells me that my colonist assures me that there's nothing there.
So I perform the same operation on my leader and nothing. bug?

I'd also like to know how I can be sure that I don't have any other visitors in my colonists' heads? Like, when the event happens, does it infect a single colonist? Or several? Is there a message telling me that the colony is saved?

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There is two possibilities.
1. Your doctor is telling the truth but didn't find anything (you need to research enough of the stuff they leave before he will be able to find them).
2. Your doctor is also one of them (they will in that case lie).

Note that if your doctor is one of them he will infect anyone he does a operation on. It spreads.

[HunterSilver]

1) Infections have to come from somewhere, they don't pop up spontaneously. Random joiners, units injured in melee combat by entities, and units hypnotized by Revenants can be infected by metalhorrors.
2) The surgery is very unlikely to find anything if you haven't studied multiple pieces of grey flesh from what I understand.
3) Once the infection has been discovered and you've provoked the metalhorrors, all of the currently infected individuals will spawn metalhorrors and stop being infected.
4) If you get more grey flesh after killing the metalhorrors, it means a new infections has started.

[Destriss]

hum ok , so if i dont discovered more grey flesh its good .
What will happen if the metalhorror control totally one character ? or more ? end of the game later ?

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Destriss:

hum ok , so if i dont discovered more grey flesh its good .
What will happen if the metalhorror control totally one character ? or more ? end of the game later ?

Until they are discovered metal horrors remain dormant, all they do is spread. Once one of them gets discovered or the colonist they are in take damage, all metal horrors in your colony rip their way out of whatever colonist they are in, leaving said colonist wounded but alive.

If too many in your colony is infected you will likely lose since you won't have enough colonists left to fight them.

[HunterSilver]

Originally posted by Destriss:

hum ok , so if i dont discovered more grey flesh its good .
What will happen if the metalhorror control totally one character ? or more ? end of the game later ?

It can be, but this takes a long, long time.

Pre-patch medical tests were spreading the infection Very Quickly, but that has since been toned down. Even toned down though, medical testing with human doctors remains one of the worst ways to prevent metalhorror infestations and instead just makes them worse.

It's safer to do nothing and let the metalhorrors randomly pop out than it is to do medical tests. If you're going to check for infections, arrest suspects and interrogate them a few times.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Helios:

Strange flesh sounds like revenant, just read about them here only that you can study the flesh they drop.

Grey Flesh is it's own event where a pawn drops a bit of grey flesh and warns the player that someone is infected and that you need to find them to prevent the infection from spreading. It can easily kill the entire colony if enough people get infected.

To avoid spoilers I won't detail much more other than that it's very comparable to the movie "The Thing".