How do i interrogate a prisoners?

[Maltsi]

I don't trust my doctors to provide me the information about infected colonists (because i don't think i could play 50h+ without seeing a single horror), so how do i actually interrogate them? I already jailed the person and broke him, but got no option to do so.

[Garatgh Deloi]

It should be one of the options in the list (Like enslave, recruit, etc) and you do not need to break them or anything before doing it. That said the option only shows up when a metal horror is suspected to be in the colony (for example when a piece of grey flesh is found).

Also, unless you have researched several pieces of grey flesh (That they leave behind) you can't find them with doctors (even assuming the doctor isn't infected and lying).

[Maltsi]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

It should be one of the options in the list (Like enslave, recruit, etc) and you do not need to break them or anything before doing it. That said the option only shows up when a metal horror is suspected to be in the colony (for example when a piece of grey flesh is found).

Also, unless you have researched several pieces of grey flesh (That they leave behind) you can't find them with doctors (even assuming the doctor isn't infected and lying).

Ah that makes sense, i haven't actually seen any of this gray flesh yet. Im just paranoid about these pawns being infected. Guess it takes a while until i can actually find out if there is infected pawns or not.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Maltsi:

Ah that makes sense, i haven't actually seen any of this gray flesh yet. Im just paranoid about these pawns being infected. Guess it takes a while until i can actually find out if there is infected pawns or not.

If there are metalhorrors around, they will drop gray flesh around. This is how you get warned that an infection is present somewhere in the colony. I believe once you analyze the first flesh sample, you unlock the option to interrogate prisoners (with higher social skill having better chance to spot if the prisoner is infected, and/or make them tell you who infected them/who else they might have infected).

Once you find the second flesh sample, your doctors should be able to carry out surgical inspections of anyone you find suspicious to determine if they have a horror in them or not. An infected doctor will lie, however. So it's good to have two doctors ready to cross-examine.

Let's say you suspect Dude #1. The best option is to have Doctor #1 check Dude #1, and if he comes up clean, have Doctor #2 check Dude #1. If he comes up infected, then Doctor #1 is infected and lying to cover the horrors' tracks. If he comes up clean, have Doctor #1 inspect Dude #1 again. If he comes up infected, Doctor #2 is infected and planted a horror in Dude #1 during the surgery. If he comes up clean, either both doctors are clean, or both are infected (in which case, GL;HF)

Also if you can get a mechanitor with the doctor bot, it won't ever lie about whether a patient is infected or not.

Oh and.. Keep your dudes ready to fight nearby if you think you're about to find a horror in someone. Because it's gonna burst out, and it's gonna be pissed and require some work to put down.

[MadArtillery]

If you don't accept a lot of random joins you are unlikely to run into metal horror issues.