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Cut Content: Burning Power Cell

This is my implementation of a cut/unimplemented feature. Not how it may have been implemented prior to being cut. The drop rate values are not final, feedback is welcome.

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Burning Power Cells were likely added in 1.4 alongside Biotech. They are in-game but unused, they still work and can even be spawned in via dev mode (Spawn Thing\BurningPowerCell).

This mod makes it so most Mechanoids have a small chance of dropping one on death.

This mod also makes Mechanoid Chips immune to taking damage from explosions.

“A damaged mechanoid power generation unit. The cell has been destabilized by the death of the mechanoid, and is burning down in seconds. When critically damaged, this cell will explode.”

Once dropped, Burning Power Cells lose 1 HP every second, with 30 HP they will explode after 30 seconds. They explode when their HP reaches 0, meaning if they take damage, they will explode sooner.

The explosion radius is 7x7 (excluding the corner cells.) It deals the same damage as a frag grenade. 400 Damage to walls (vanila bug?), 100 dmg to buildings and upto 50 damage to pawns. Usually 12.5-30~ across multiple wounds - So missing limbs and heavy bleeding are common.


These are not final, I have not extensively playtested this mod. Feedback is welcome.

BPC% = The Chance to drop a Burning Power Cell on Death.


The Chips that bosses drop are immune to damage from explosions with this mod.

If it is not listed, it does not drop a burning power cell. The values seem to be correct in my quick tests, but I’m not very good at maths.

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This mod also includes a faithful higher res (x64 > x128) version of the texture as I had to remake it for the thumbnail anyway.


Safe to be installed/removed mid-save
Includes support for Biotech

Feel free to alter, adapt, adopt or build upon this mod/concept. No credit required.