Joywire

== Acquisition ==
In the base game, the joywires cannot be crafted. Instead they can only be obtained via trade or found in ancient shrines.
With the Royalty DLC, 
== Summary ==
The joywire provides a permanent buff at the cost of a Consciousness malus. Note that this malus is subtractive, not multiplicative. This consciousness penalty in turn negatively affects almost every task a pawn can perform, as it directly affects the capacities, and these in turn affect most stats. See those pages for details.
=== Installation ===
Installing the part requires of work, 2x medicine of Herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.
It cannot be removed traditionally once installed. For non-traditional methods, see the Analysis section.
If the operation fails, the part is always destroyed.
Installing a joywire onto a guest is not considered a harmful operation.
== Analysis ==
Joywires are most useful when a pawn's productivity simply does not matter. For example, a lategame colony can use a joywire and psychic harmonizer to spread a mood buff to other colonists. This works best if the colonist is already disabled, and even better if comatose - see the Psychic harmonizer page for details. A joywire can also be installed into Royal quest guests without penalty. Conceited nobles will not do work, and the implant keeps them happy even if you neglect some of their royal needs.
Otherwise, implanting a joywire on a colonist is generally a bad idea. The debuff is hefty; even cleaning, hauling, and walking are performed slower. In combat, joywires reduce accuracy and increases the chance to die from consciousness loss. While the mood buff is substantial, increasing mood can be done with many other ways, such as a social drug policy, fine or lavish meals, and beautiful rooms. Joywires could be useful for less useful colonists with Depressive or other traits that will cause mental breaks. But, if the other means of mood management aren't sufficient, it may be wiser to just abandon them.
Luciferium can offset the stat penalty, bringing Consciousness to 95%. While it's still Consciousness compared to an ordinary luciferium addict, note that certain stats (like Moving) only scale up to 100% Consciousness. Therefore, the penalty is somewhat smaller compared to a non-drugged pawn gaining a joywire. Of course, you should have some means of obtaining luciferium, like a reliable Outlander trade faction. A neural supercharger is analogous as a stat increase, though doesn't have the same costs as luciferium.
=== Alternatives ===
The Very happy and Happy genes provide much smaller and mood buffs respectively, in exchange for reduced metabolic efficiency, and requiring the appropriate facilities and extracted genes to modify a pawn. The metabolic penalties may be offset or negated entirely by mixing in other genes depending on what is needed or available.
At the cost of Bioferrite , a Bliss lobotomy provides a smaller mood buff, while reducing Global Learning Factor by , disabling the Cook, Construct, Grow, Mine, Plant Cut, Smith, Tailor, Craft, Research and Dark Study work types, and increasing Prison Break Interval by 1000%. This procedure can also be removed with a Healer mech serum or Unnatural healing .
Unlike a joywire, neither alternatives reduce the Consciousness of affected pawns.
=== Removal ===
While you cannot traditionally remove the joywire, it is possible to remove it indirectly by destroying the head of the implanted pawn and then resurrecting the pawn using a resurrector mech serum. 
This is not without issues however. First, consistently destroying the head can be difficult. With the Ideology DLC, extracting the skull from a dead pawn will do this reliably and safely, but without it, the best way is allow colonists or animals to eat sections of the corpse, at the risk of consuming the entire body and permanently losing the pawn. Furthermore, no matter how successful the head removal, there the risks normally associated with resurrection remain, including dementia, blindness, and resurrection psychosis.
== Trivia ==
The implant cannot be removed in the game, but according to the Joywire Addict and Addiction Counsel backstories and the fact the backstories appear on pawns without a joywire installed, this is not the case on other, probably more advanced, worlds.
== Version history ==
* 0.12.906 - Added
Category:Medical Item Category:Body Part Category:Implant