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The Psylink neuroformer is an item added by the Royalty DLC that increases the psylink level of its user by one.

Acquisition[edit]

By gaining Honor with the Empire faction, one may call a Bestower to the colony to provide a Psylink to a pawn after it ranks up in titles. Alternatively, you may steal the Psylink neuroformer themselves from the Bestower, making your colony an enemy of the Empire.

Two Psylink neuroformers can be obtained through the quest The Deserter.

Psylink neuroformers can also be found as occasional quest rewards. These rewards are generated by special logic: the game keeps track of each time a psylink level is "available" to the player. This includes the following events:^[Confirm?]

Completing an anima tree linking ritual to gain a psylink level
Obtaining a psylink level as a title reward
Obtaining a psylink neuroformer as a quest reward

If more than 45 days have passed since the last such event, it starts being possible to get a psylink neuroformer as a quest reward. This chance raises up to 100% at 60 days.^[Source] Hence, at most one neuroformer per 45 days can be obtained from quest rewards. This route is the only renewable source of psylink neuroformers that doesn't require gaining Honor with the Empire, although there are some other ways of acquiring psylink levels.

Psylink neuroformers can not be acquired through trade (except trade quests) or surgery as they could in past versions.

Summary[edit]

When used, a psylink neuroformer increase the psylink level of the pawn by one. This turns a pawn into a psycaster if they weren't already. This increases the neural heat capacity, neural heat regeneration rate, and the level of psycasts available. Upon gaining a new level of psylink, a random psycast of the new level will be granted, unless one has already been learned via psytrainer.

Installation[edit]

They cannot be removed.

Analysis[edit]

The Empire only gives psylink levels to the level "owed" - e.g. if you already have a level 2 psylink, becoming an Acolyte will not increase psylink any further. If you plan on raising a pawn up the royal ranks, you may want to use any spare neuroformers on a different pawn.

The best pawns to give psycasting powers are those with psychic sensitivity boosts, and/or those with trigger-happy (which lowers psycast warmup time). If a pawn has the Natural meditation focus, they can use the anima tree in conjunction with neuroformers with no penalty. Because gathering many neuroformers can take a long time, you may want to combine the anima tree with neuroformers to raise psylink faster.

Version history[edit]

Royalty DLC Release - Added as Psychic amplifier. Note that this is what the Neuroformer is called in the game files.
1.1.2647 - Renamed from Psychic amplifier to Psylink neuroformer, lore changed, and is no longer the sole method of obtaining psycasts.
1.1.2654 - Remove psylink neuroformer from traders (but most still buy it). Neuroformer market value increased from 1200 to 2600.
1.2.2753 - Fix: Psylink neuroformers that are in a storage area do not appear on a resource readout.

Psychic amplifier sprite

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

References[edit]

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-{{Define|Body Part
+{{Royalty}}{{infobox main|
-| image = Psychicamp|32px
+| name = Psylink neuroformer
-| always haulable = true
+| image = PsylinkNeuroformer.png
-| def name = Psychic amplifier
+| type = Medical Items
-| description = An archotech device that links the brain to a larger psychic field. With training in specific abilities, the user can throw psycasts with diverse effects. This implant can be upgraded through several levels. Higher levels permit the use of more powerful psycasts. The psychic amplifier can be self-installed by one person with no chance of failure. The user presses the unit into their skull, where it inserts its neural tendrils and binds itself to the bone. Removing it requires a surgeon.Imperial laws restrict the use of the psychic amplifier to specific royal titles. Illegal use of the amplifier runs the rick of having your psychic signature detected and causing diplomatic consequences.
+| type2 = Body Parts
-| graphic class = Graphic_Single
+| tech level = Archotech
-| graphic path = Things/Item/BodyPart/Psychicamp
+| description = A consumable archotech-created device that forms or upgrades a psylink in the user's mind.<br>The user presses the device over the eyes, where it links to the brain directly and restructures part of it. Afterwards, the device disintegrates into worthless ash.
-| is body part = true
+| mass base = 1
-| label = Psychic amplifier
+| hp = 100
-| parent name = BodyPartBase
+| beauty = -4
-| path cost = 10
+| flammability = 1.0
-| selectable = true
+| marketvalue  = 2600
-| thing class = ThingWithComps
+| thingCategories = BodyPartsArchotech
-| ticker type = Never
+| tradeTags = PsylinkNeuroformer
-| use hit points = true
-| flammability base = 1.0
-| market value base = 1200
-| max hit points base = 50
-| mass = 4
 }}
+The '''Psylink neuroformer''' is an item added by the [[Royalty DLC]] that increases the [[psylink]] level of its user by one.
+== Acquisition ==
+By gaining [[Honor]] with the [[Empire]] faction, one may call a [[Empire#Bestower|Bestower]] to the colony to provide a Psylink to a pawn after it ranks up in titles. Alternatively, you may steal the Psylink neuroformer themselves from the Bestower, making your colony an enemy of the Empire.
-The '''Psychic Amplifier''' gives a pawn that's been implanted with it a [[Psycast]] level.
+Two Psylink neuroformers can be obtained through the quest [[Quests#Royalty|The Deserter]].
-If the pawn using it doesn't have the required [[Titles|title]] for the level of psycast you're attempting to promote them to, it can anger the [[Empire]], however if you wish to do this regardless you still can, or if you want to try to have psycasts without angering the empire you can use the [[Psychic silencer]] in an attempt to go around the illegal act.
+Psylink neuroformers can also be found as occasional [[quest]] rewards. These rewards are generated by special logic: the game keeps track of each time a psylink level is "available" to the player. This includes the following events:{{Check Tag|Confirm?|Based on occurrences of Notify_PsylinkAvailable in 1.5.4297 game code, not confirmed ingame}}
+* Completing an [[anima tree]] linking ritual to gain a psylink level
+* Obtaining a psylink level as a title reward
+* Obtaining a psylink neuroformer as a quest reward
+If more than 45 days have passed since the last such event, it starts being possible to get a psylink neuroformer as a quest reward. This chance raises up to 100% at 60 days.{{hover title|curve QuestTuning.DaysSincePsylinkAvailableToGuaranteedNeuroformerChance in Rimworld v.1.5.4297|<sup>[Source]</sup>}} Hence, at most one neuroformer per 45 days can be obtained from quest rewards. This route is the only renewable source of psylink neuroformers that doesn't require gaining [[Honor]] with the [[Empire]], although there are [[Psycasts#Acquisition|some other ways]] of acquiring psylink levels.
-== Obtaining ==
+Psylink neuroformers can not be acquired through [[trade]] (except trade quests) or surgery as they could in past versions.
-A few can be obtained by promoting your pawns, and afterwards it can be obtained by trading.
-For those who intend to live as rebels you may capture nobles and extract their psychic amplifiers.
+== Summary ==
+When used, a psylink neuroformer increase the [[psylink]] level of the pawn by one. This turns a pawn into a psycaster if they weren't already. This increases the neural heat capacity, neural heat regeneration rate, and the level of psycasts available. Upon gaining a new level of psylink, a random [[psycast]] of the new level will be granted, unless one has already been learned via [[psytrainer]].
-{{nav/body_parts}}
+=== Installation ===
+{{Stub|section=1|reason=See other bionics}}
+They cannot be removed.
-[[Category: Royalty]]
+== Analysis ==
+The Empire only gives psylink levels to the level "owed" - e.g. if you already have a level 2 psylink, becoming an Acolyte will not increase psylink any further. If you plan on raising a pawn up the royal ranks, you may want to use any spare neuroformers on a different pawn.
+The best pawns to give psycasting powers are those with [[psychic sensitivity]] boosts, and/or those with [[trigger-happy]] (which lowers psycast warmup time). If a pawn has the Natural [[meditation focus]], they can use the [[anima tree]] in conjunction with neuroformers with no penalty. Because gathering many neuroformers can take a long time, you may want to combine the anima tree with neuroformers to raise psylink faster.
+== Version history ==
+* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Added as '''Psychic amplifier'''. Note that this is what the Neuroformer is called in the game files.
+* [[Version/1.1.2647|1.1.2647]] - Renamed from '''Psychic amplifier''' to '''Psylink neuroformer''', lore changed, and is no longer the sole method of obtaining psycasts.
+* [[Version/1.1.2654|1.1.2654]] - Remove psylink neuroformer from traders (but most still buy it). Neuroformer market value increased from 1200 to 2600.
+* [[Version/1.2.2753|1.2.2753]] - Fix: Psylink neuroformers that are in a storage area do not appear on a resource readout.
+<gallery>
+Psychicamp.png|Psychic amplifier sprite
+</gallery>
+{{nav|body parts|wide}}
+[[Category: Medical Item]] [[Category: Body Part]] [[Category:Implant]]
+==References==
+{{reflist}}