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Adrenal hearts are ghoul exclusive artificial body parts added by the Anomaly DLC. They replace the organic heart and provide the ability to go into a frenzy with increased combat ability, at the expense of making its user require more food.

Acquisition[edit]

Adrenal hearts can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the Ghoul enhancements research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires 20 Bioferrite, 1 Component, 13,200 ticks (3.67 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 4.

It can sometimes spawn on hostile ghouls, however they cannot be harvested from them.

Summary[edit]

The gizmo used to activate "Ghoul Frenzy"

This creature's blood is saturated with stress hormones and liquid energy, permitting it to move and attack at incredible speeds for a short time.
— Ghoul frenzy hediff description

The adrenal heart is a ghoul exclusive body part. It has a part efficiency of 100%. This fully replaces the functionality of a normal heart but provides no statistical enhancement - when coupled with the heart body part having a Blood Pumping importance of 100%, it results in a directly proportional increase in blood pumping when replacing a heart with impaired efficiency. Blood pumping, in turn, affects Moving. Moving, in turn, affects the following stats: Hunting Stealth, Melee Dodge Chance, Move Speed. For further details, see those pages.

Pawns with the heart installed have access to the "ghoul frenzy" ability while drafted. The frenzy must be manually initiated by the player through use of a gizmo available while the ghoul is drafted and selected. Colonist ghouls will never independently use the frenzy. It is currently unknown whether NPC ghouls will use the ability.^{[Detail needed]} The frenzy lasts for 900 ticks (15 secs) and provides the following effect:

Melee Cooldown (Pawn) Factor: ×70%
Move Speed Offset: +4 c/s

The frenzy has a cooldown of 1,800 ticks (30 secs) before it can be used again.

The adrenal heart inflicts a +15% hunger rate offset, increasing the rate at which ghouls get hungry, and therefore the amount they eat. This applies at all times, not just while the ghoul frenzy ability is active.

Artificial hearts are also immune to heart attacks and artery blockages, preventing future cases and curing existing ones.

By installing an artificial heart, the pawn's natural heart, if perfectly healthy, is harvested without a penalty. This organic heart can then be sold or stored for later use.^[Verify]

Installation[edit]

The adrenal heart can only be installed in ghouls. Note that despite the description noting pain as the reason it cannot be installed in other pawns, methods of pain nullification such as painstoppers do not allow the hearts installation into other pawns.

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work. It doesn't anesthetize the ghoul, requires no medicine, cannot fail, but requires medical skill of 4.

Analysis[edit]

The +15% hunger rate is a small price to pay in exchange for ghoul frenzy, especially for ghouls with nuclear stomach who already consume very little food. After unlocking the metalblood serum, this should be the main heart upgrade for your combat ghouls.

The frenzy duration of 15 second is a bit less than 0.4 hours, half of the cooldown. For the aforementioned cost of hunger, you can keep your ghoul in frenzy half of the time, all day. On average, this will completely cancel the move speed penalty of all other ghoul-specific body parts.

Heart	Cost	Blood Pumping¹	Side Effects	Ability	Market Value
Prosthetic heart	25+ 4	80%			230
Heart	-	100%			1,200
Bionic heart	15+ 4	125%			1,030
Corrosive heart	20+ 1	85%		Corrosive spray	95
Adrenal heart	20+ 1	100%	Hunger rate: +15%	Ghoul frenzy	95
Metalblood heart	20+ 1	100%	Move speed: −0.20	Metalblood injection	95

1. This also affects move speed and, if below 100%, Consciousness. See page for details.

Version history[edit]

Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

Artificial body parts

Arm/Hand: Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm • Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon • Flesh tentacle • Flesh whip
Head: Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic jaw • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose
Head implants: Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High) • Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe
Spine: Bionic spine • Revenant vertebrae
Stomach: Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach • Fleshmass stomach
Heart: Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heart • Corrosive heart • Metalblood heart
Lung: Lung • Detoxifier lung • Fleshmass lung
Kidney: Kidney • Detoxifier kidney
Organs: Liver
Visceral implants: Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs
Leg/Foot: Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
Related: Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
Deprecated: Scyther blade • Psychic silencer

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-It can sometimes spawn on hostile [[ghoul]]s,{{Check Tag|Starter colonist?|Can they spawn on ghoul starter colonists?}} however they cannot be harvested from them.
+It can sometimes spawn on hostile [[ghoul]]s, however they cannot be harvested from them.
 == Summary ==
-{{Stub|section=1|reason=General. see other bionics for sufficient detail. [[Metalblood heart#Summary]]}}
+[[File:Gizmo_adrenal_heart_ghoul_frenzy.png|left|thumb|The gizmo used to activate "Ghoul Frenzy"]]
-{{Image Wanted|section=1|reason=Ability gizmo image}}
 {{Quote|This creature's blood is saturated with stress hormones and liquid energy, permitting it to move and attack at incredible speeds for a short time.|Ghoul frenzy hediff description}}
-Hunger rate offset: +15%. This is applied as a permanent multiplier to food consumption.
-Grants "Ghoul frenzy" ability, with cooldown of 30 seconds, which gives for 15 seconds the "Ghoul frenzy" hediff with the following effects:
+The adrenal heart is a [[ghoul]] exclusive body part. It has a part efficiency of 100%. This fully replaces the functionality of a normal heart but provides no statistical enhancement - when coupled with the heart body part having a [[Blood Pumping]] importance of 100%, it results in a directly proportional increase in blood pumping when replacing a heart with impaired efficiency. Blood pumping, in turn, affects [[Moving]]. Moving, in turn, affects the following [[stats]]: {{#ask: [[Moving Importance::+]]}}. For further details, see those pages.
+Pawns with the heart installed have access to the "ghoul frenzy" ability while [[draft]]ed. The frenzy must be manually initiated by the player through use of a gizmo available while the ghoul is drafted and selected. Colonist ghouls will never independently use the frenzy. It is currently unknown whether NPC ghouls will use the ability.{{Check Tag|Detail needed}}
+The frenzy lasts for {{Ticks|900}} and provides the following effect:
 * [[Melee Cooldown (Pawn)]] Factor: {{Good|×70%}}
 * [[Move Speed]] Offset: {{+|4 {{CS}}}}
+The frenzy has a cooldown of {{Ticks|1800}} before it can be used again.
+The adrenal heart inflicts a {{++|15%}}  [[hunger rate offset]], increasing the rate at which ghouls get hungry, and therefore the amount they eat. This applies at all times, not just while the ghoul frenzy ability is active.
+Artificial hearts are also immune to [[heart attack]]s and [[artery blockage]]s, preventing future cases and curing existing ones.
+By installing an artificial heart, the pawn's natural [[heart]], if perfectly healthy, is harvested without a penalty. This organic heart can then be sold or stored for later use.{{Check Tag|Verify|Verify for ghoul hearts}}
 === Installation ===
+The adrenal heart can only be installed in [[ghoul]]s. Note that despite the description noting [[pain]] as the reason it cannot be installed in other pawns, methods of pain nullification such as [[painstopper]]s do not allow the hearts installation into other pawns.
+Installing the part requires {{ticks|2500}} of work. It doesn't [[Anesthetic|anesthetize]] the ghoul, requires no medicine, cannot fail, but requires medical skill of 4.
 == Analysis ==
-The +15% hunger rate is a small price to pay in exchange for ghoul frenzy, especially for ghouls with [[nuclear stomach]] who already consume very little food. After unlocking the [[metalblood serum]], this should be the main heart upgrade for your combat ghouls.
+The {{++|15%}} hunger rate is a small price to pay in exchange for ghoul frenzy, especially for ghouls with [[nuclear stomach]] who already consume very little food. After unlocking the [[metalblood serum]], this should be the main heart upgrade for your combat ghouls.
 The frenzy duration of 15 second is a bit less than 0.4 hours, half of the cooldown. For the aforementioned cost of hunger, you can keep your ghoul in frenzy half of the time, all day. On average, this will completely cancel the move speed penalty of all other ghoul-specific body parts.