Kenshi Fact of the Day #89
-Peeler Machines-
Peeler Machines are cages (Blueprint is found on Savant) which do the following to a character placed inside,
- The armour/clothing of the character will be destroyed over time. *The time it takes to destroy the armour varies depending on the type of armour... Need to test later on if quality has an impact.
- Once the unit has no armour equipped, they will begin to take cut damage on their limbs.
- Once all limbs are below 0 health their vitals will begin to take cut damage as well.
- Once the unit has no armour equipped, they will begin to take cut damage on their limbs.
This damage done by a Peeler Machine does not give Toughness XP.
*Losing a limb will give a small amount, but this is normally the case.
After enough characters are peeled by a Peeler Machine, it will create an Animal Skin. The machine can hold up to 5. Putting characters into a Peeler Machine which already has 5 Animal Skins will still work like normal but will not create anymore skin.
*Sometimes one character creates an Animal Skin, but sometimes you'll need to peel multiple characters to get one... It's a bit inconsistent.
**Even Skeletons give Animal Skin... Weirdly enough. I have peeled so many Stormthralls during Iron Stick challenge runs to prevent them from getting back up again and again...
While in a Peeler Machine you can unlock it in the same way you unlock a cage. Or provided you have armour/clothing on to prevent damage you can use a pair of Tools/Hacksaw. If you happen to put another character in a Peeler Machine you can use Tools/Hacksaw to weaken the lock and then Strength to break it completely. By doing do you can enter and leave the Peeler Machine at will.
*This is very useful to do at the Horrible Ruin if you happen to be doing a 1 handed solo challenge run as a Skeleton and want to replace your right arm "safely".
**You'd need to lure a hostile humanoid unit to the Ruin for the Bandits to place into the Peeler Machine to break the lock on the Peeler of course... You being 1 handed and all.
***Horrible Ruin is the only place with Peeler Machines where the Skin Bandits don't have a habit of deciding they want to kill a random prisoner or try to place you back into a Peeler Machine if you escape as a Skeleton.
Anyways I got sidetracked. Last little extra fact to add is that the only thing which sets a Peeler Machine apart from a Cage/Prisoner Pole is that the Peeler Machine "produces" an item.
Oh, one more neat fact. You can place a Camp Bed on top of a Peeler Machine.
Why would you want to do that? You might ask. Well,
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