Check your cloned pawns!

[Hones]

Hello there!

SPOILER ALERT FOR ANOMALY!

Just a tip for you all: Check your cloned pawns and treat them with caution and suspicion! I cloned one of my main doctors and after a while I got a metal horror infestation - several of my pawns afflicted. When I resolved it, it said that the clone had the metal horror "before he arrived at the colony", which struck me as odd, since before he arrived at the colony, he literally didn't exist. I even did a surgical inspection, but only revealed the duplicate sickness which I cured with a healer mech serum.

Anybody encountered a similar situation? I am not sure if this was a bug or if it is intended that the cloned pawns can be infected with metal horrors...

[Chuck]

The only time ive ever had a duplicated pawn he just got organ failure.

Then our colony went through some hard times and he went jailbreaker and i ordered a colonist to gun him down with a hellcat rifle.

the getting gunned down part might not have been anything as a result of him being a clone but he did have organ failure and would have expired soon anyway.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Almost everything related to anomaly can infect pawns with metal horrors. Infected insectoids, a revenant attack, being damage by fleshbeasts, etc.

[HunterSilver]

That is weird. I've gone through dozens of clones now and I've never had one be infected with a metalhorror. Was he the only one infected when you caught it or was anyone else infected too?

[Hones]

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

That is weird. I've gone through dozens of clones now and I've never had one be infected with a metalhorror. Was he the only one infected when you caught it or was anyone else infected too?

Since it was a doctor, he infected several others afterwards. In the end, 5 or 6 people were infected. But when they emerge, it clearly stated that said cloned pawn had the metal horror "before he arrived at the colony", which struck me as really odd... I thought the only possibilities to get pawns with metal horrors are either a creep joiner (one of the random wanderers with strange powers) or via a pawn getting hit by a fingerspike flesh monstrosity thingy.

[Chuck]

They can already have metalhorrors even if theyre not either of those. I did an ideology ritual and got an extra pawn from it who was a child, and he had a metalhorror.

That was my first encounter with the thing too and man it was rough because i had already done surgical inspections on everyone else, so everyone was in the hospital when it emerged so people were waking up from the anesthesia and immediately having to start shooting. With my doctor having to tend to pawns in the middle of the fight.

Those things are tough, but apparently theyre flammable? Assuming you find it in surgery that might mean setting fire to your hospital but when the alternative is a metal man made of swords killing everyone, id rather just rebuild the hospital