Damage Types

Damage is split into many different types, with different descriptors and death messages for injuries, different interactions with different targets and armor types, and different default stats. Not to be confused with health difficulties.
Name 	Label 	Category 	Armor Category	Overkill Percent To Destroy PartSee Overkill prevention	Death Message{0} represents a pawn's name. 	Hediffs (General / Skin / Solid / Additional) 	Harms Outer LayersSurgery doesn't hurt your outside bits, but getting shot and stuff will. 	Affects shields	Stun duration 	Source
Cut 	cut 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	0% - 10% 	{0} has been cut to death. 	Cut / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Crush 	crush 	Melee Weapon 	Blunt 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been crushed to death. 	Crush / Cut / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Blunt 	blunt 	Melee Weapon 	Blunt 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been beaten to death. 	Crush / Bruise / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Poke 	blunt 	Melee Weapon 	Blunt 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been beaten to death. 	Crush / Bruise / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Demolish 	blunt 	Melee Weapon 	Blunt 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been beaten to death. 	Crush / Bruise / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Stab 	stab 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been stabbed to death. 	Stab / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
RangedStab 	stab 	Ranged Weapon	Sharp 	40% - 100% 	{0} has been stabbed to death. 	Stab / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Bullet 	bullet 	Ranged Weapon	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been shot to death. 	Gunshot / - / - / - 	 	 	- 	
Arrow 	arrow 	Ranged Weapon	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been shot to death by an arrow. 	Cut / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
ArrowHighVelocity 	arrow 	Ranged Weapon	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been shot to death by an arrow. 	Stab / - / - / - 	 	 	- 	
Scratch 	scratch 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been torn to death. 	Scratch / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
ScratchToxic 	toxic scratch 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been torn to death. 	Scratch / - / Crack / Toxic buildup 	 	 	- 	
Bite 	bite 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	0% - 10% 	{0} has been bitten to death. 	Bite / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
BiteToxic 	toxic bite 	Melee Weapon 	Sharp 	0% - 10% 	{0} has been bitten to death. 	Bite / - / Crack / Toxic buildup 	 	 	- 	
Bomb 	bomb 	Misc 	Sharp 	? 	{0} has died in an explosion. 	Shredded / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
BombSuper 	bomb 	Misc 	Sharp 	? 	{0} has died in an explosion. 	Shredded / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Flame 	flame 	Environmental	Heat 	? 	{0} has burned to death. 	Burn / - / - / - 	Fire currently doesn't burn your organs out or anything - ironically good for preserving them.	 	- 	
Burn 	burn 	Environmental	Heat 	? 	{0} has burned to death. 	Burn / - / - / - 	 	 	- 	
Thump 	thump 	Misc 	Sharp 	? 	{0} has been shot to death. 	Crush / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
TornadoScratch 	scratch 	Environmental	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been killed by a tornado. 	Scratch / - / Crack / - 	 	 	- 	
Frostbite 	frostbite 	Environmental	- 	? 	{0} has succumbed to frostbite. 	Frostbite / - / - / - 	 	 	- 	
Surgical cut 	surgical cut 	Medical 	- 	? 	{0} has died during surgery. 	- / - / - / - 	Able to remove organs without harming outer body parts. 	 	- 	
Execution cut 	execution cut 	Medical 	- 	- 	{0} has been executed by cutting. 	Cut / - / - / - 	 	 	- 	
EMP Does not deal physical damage so does not show up on body parts.	- 	Stun 	- 	- 	{0} has been EMPed to death. 	- / - / - / - 	 	 	0.25 s Per point of damage. Only applies to mechanoids or turrets.	
Stun 	- 	Stun 	- 	- 	{0} has been stunned to death. 	- / - / - / - 	 	 	0.33 s 	
Smoke 	smoke 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Deterioration 	- 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Rotting 	- 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Mining 	- 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Extinguish 	- 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	Covered in firefoam / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
AcidBurn 	acid burn 	Misc 	Sharp 	- 	{0} has burned to death. 	Acid burn / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Decayed 	decayed organ 	Misc 	- 	- 	{0} died from metabolic disruptions caused by organ decay.	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Vaporize 	vaporize 	Misc 	Heat 	- 	{0} has been vaporized by extreme heat. 	Burn / - / - / - 	 	? 	- 	
MechBandShockwave 	mech-band shockwave	Stun 	- 	- 	{0} has been shocked to death. 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	 	
ToxGas 	tox gas 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Beam 	beam 	Misc 	Heat 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been beamed to death. 	- / - / - / - 	 	? 	- 	
BulletToxic 	toxic bullet 	Ranged Weapon	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been shot to death. 	Gunshot / - / - / Toxic buildup 	 	? 	- 	
ElectricalBurn 	electrical burn 	Environmental	Heat 	- 	{0} has died from electrical burns. 	Electrical burn / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
Digested 	digestion 	Misc 	- 	- 	{0} died from being digested. 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
EnergyBolt 	energy bolt 	Misc 	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been killed by an energy bolt. 	Energy bolt / - / - / - 	 	? 	- 	
Nerve 	nerve 	Misc 	Sharp 	0% - 70% 	{0} has been killed by nerve shock. 	Cut / - / Crack / - 	 	? 	- 	
NerveStun 	nerve stun 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	 	
Psychic 	psychic 	Misc 	- 	- 	{0} has been killed by a psychic attack. 	Psychic burn / Psychic burn (skin) / Psychic burn (solid) / -	- 	? 	- 	
DeadlifeDust 	deadlife dust 	Misc 	- 	- 	- 	- / - / - / - 	- 	? 	- 	
NociosphereVaporize 	vaporize 	Misc 	Heat 	- 	{0} has been vaporized by extreme heat. 	Burn / - / - / - 	 	? 	- 	
== General mechanics == 
Each damage type applies its damage in its own way - in the armor type it opposes, in the body parts it can target, in how damage is split between body parts, the multipliers it gets against certain target types, and a multitude of other effects. Most melee damage types have their hit damage multiplied by a random factor of .8-1.15 before application.
This often makes comparisons of pure damage and poor determining factors when comparing weapons of different damage types, even after accounting for the different armor types the attack opposes. 
=== Overkill prevention ===
Overkill prevention is mechanic by which the destruction of body parts that would reduced to 0 or below, is occasionally prevented.
Overkill prevention works as follows: If the damage would be insufficient to reduce the HP of the body part in question to 0 or below, full damage is dealt. If the damage would be sufficient, two outcomes are possible - either the part is destroyed or the part is reduced to 1 HP and any remaining damage is lost. First, the amount of damage over the current HP of the part is determined. This is then divided by the maximum health of the body part when completely healthy. This is the "Overkill Percentage". For example, a body part is totally health and has a maximum of 10. It is dealt 15 damage by a single attack, which would reduce it to -5. That results in an Overkill Percentage of 50%. 
This overkill percentage is then compared to the "overkillPctToDestroyPart" range unique to the damage type. For example, Scratch has a range of 0~0.7, or 0 to 70%. An inverse lerp is then performed using the Overkill Percentage and this range. This then provides the final chance for this attack to destroy the body part.
Chance to Destroy = (OVERKILL PERCENTAGE - LOWER)/(UPPER - LOWER)
This result is the chance that the body part is destroyed by the attack. For example, if the attack deals 70% of the parts maximum health as Scratch Type Overkill Damage, then there is a 100% chance the body part would be destroyed. If the chance is failed, the part is not destroyed and instead reduced to 1 HP.
The end result is that weapons that deal high single attack damage are more likely to result in body part destruction than lower damage attacks of their damage type, and that the chance of a body part getting destroyed by a single attack goes up as its HP goes down. It also makes the overkillPctToDestroyPart of each damage type an important factor in the combat performance of weapons that use it. 
== Damage types ==
=== Blunt ===
If a strike from an attack dealing blunt damage is sufficient to destroy the struck body part, damage can propagate to the parent part of the destroyed part, if and only if that parent part is considered an outside part. How the damage is divided between the two attacks is currently unclear. This allows blunt damage to deal significant damage to important body parts even if they were not the part directly targeted.
Additionally, if a blunt attack hits the parentless body part of a target, e.g. the torso on humans and most other pawns, there is a small chance to Stun the target. This chance depends on the percentage of the body part's maximum HP that the attack inflicted as damage. It is determined by the following curve. I.e. if a single strike does 90% of the maximum, not remaining, HP of the torso to the torso of a pawn, it has a 15% chance to be stunned.
Alternatively, if a blunt attack hits a body part of a target that a is source of consciousness, e.g. the brain on humans and most other pawns, there is a larger chance to Stun the target. This chance depends on the percentage of the body part's maximum HP that the attack inflicted as damage. It is determined by the following curve. I.e. if a single strike does 50% of the maximum, not remaining, HP of the brain to the brain of a pawn, it has a 100% chance to be stunned.
In both cases the stun duration appears to be 0.66s
If neither the parentless body part nor a consciousness source are hit, no stun occurs.
Eyes specifically have a 0% hit chance factor against blunt damage, meaning they will never be hit by a blunt attack.
Stun Chance per Percentage of Torso's Maximum HP	Stun Chance per Percentage of Brain's Maximum HP
 	
=== Bomb ===
Bomb damage is done by a variety of explosive weapons and is additionally effective against buildings. The default damage is 50, with a default of 10% and stopping power of 0.5. It does 4x Damage to Plants and to impassable buildings such as Nutrient Paste Dispensers and 2x to passable buildings such as armchairs. Additionally, Walls specifically have an additional 2x multiplier, stacking with the previous 4x, for a total of 8x damage. Each hit picks 1-4 random body part targets to affect (either internal or external, and can target the same part twice). Then split the total damage evenly across those parts. Then roll for armor penetration per each hit. For each internal part that takes damage, apply the hit damage to the parent part (even if the parent was already hit) (this is bonus damage).
=== Bullet ===
Target a single random internal or external body part. Roll for AP. If an internal part takes damage, apply the hit damage to the parent part (this is bonus damage).
=== Burn ===
Identical to Flame except that it cannot ignite targets.
=== Cut === 
Each hit rolls 0-100 for how many parts the strike damages. Result 0 - 59 is 1 target.. 60-89 is 2.. 90-99 is 3.. exactly 100 is 4 parts hit. If it's more than 1 target, multiply the damage of the hit by 1.4. Target random internal or external body parts (if a single-hit, cannot target internal parts. otherwise, can) (all multi-hit targets must be adjacent to each other). The total damage of the hit is evenly split across all targets. Roll for AP only against the first picked target regardless of the rest, and apply that damage to all targets. If an internal part is damaged without it's parent part being damaged, deal the same hit damage onto the parent part as well (this is bonus damage) (doesn't apply to bones). 
=== Demolish ===
Demolish damage is done by breach axes and is additionally effective against buildings. It applies a 10x Damage multiplier when attacking buildings, but applies an additional 0.75x multiplier when attacking the target is impassible such as walls, for a net multiplier of 7.5x against that class of building. In all other ways, it is otherwise identical to Blunt damage.
=== EMP ===
EMP damage is a fairly unique form of damage that does no direct harm to organic pawns, but temporarily stuns mechanical pawns and some objects.
The weapons that deal EMP damage include:
* EMP grenades
* EMP launcher
* EMP shell
* IED EMP trap
* Zeushammer 
* Persona zeushammer 
Additionally, when destroyed the Defoliator condition causer will release a EMP blast with a 9 tile radius.
EMP mainly serves to stun mechanoids, revenants, metalhorrors, nociospheres, turrets, and mortars. Every stun "damage" inflicts of stun. Most items do 50 EMP damage, or 25 seconds of stun.
After being stunned, targets become 'Adapted', gaining immunity from further stuns for . The immunity starts ticking down as soon as the stun is applied; stun duration or future stuns have no effect on adaptation. The post-stun Adapted duration is for most items. Some pawns such as command mechanoids and nociospheres have EMP resistance, so are stunned for less time. Metalhorrors are incapable of adapting and can be stun locked.
Damage	Sources 	Stun Duration	Post-Stun Adaption Duration	Ideal Stun Uptime
9 	Zeushammer, Persona zeushammer 	 	 	
45 	Awful quality EMP launcher 	 	 	
50 	All other sources 	 	 	
62.5 	Masterwork quality EMP launcher	 	 	
75 	Legendary quality EMP launcher 	 	 	100%
Any amount of EMP damage will also:
* Inflict brain shock on pawns with brain implants (Learning assistant , Neurocalculator , Circadian assistant , Circadian half-cycler )
* Inflicts vomiting on pawns with certain stomach implants (Nuclear stomach , Reprocessor stomach , Sterilizing stomach )
* Break shield belts, which will recharge as if they reached 0 HP normally.
* Disable the power generation of generators. 
* Disable low-shield packs for ; the burnout timer continues to run while stunned.
* Disable mech low-shields and mech high-shields for . For mech high-shields, an EMP shell must impact the actual shield; the blast will not disable it.
* Reveal revenants and sightstealers.
* If an EMP attack does more EMP damage to a mortar than the remaining HP it has, the mortar will explode.
Using EMP attacks against friendlies counts as an attack, even if they aren't hurt.
=== RangedStab ===
RangedStab is unlike other damage types in that it can directly apply its damage to an internal body part without damaging the exterior parent. That is, it can deal full damage to a liver but somehow not damage the torso on the way in. In comparison, melee stabs will split damage between internal and parent, while ranged attacks like bullets and arrows will duplicate the damage in its entirety for each part. 
The exception to this is when RangedStab damage is mitigated by armor, at which point it will deal damage to both internal child and external parent, splitting it 50/50. This disparity in damage modes is likely a bug, and it is probably intended that damage is dealt to the parent regardless.
=== Flame ===
Flame damage has a default damage of 10 and typically has no armor penetration at all. If any damage is dealt by flame damage at all, i.e. it is not fully negated by protective apparel, there is a chance to ignite the pawn. 
This chance does not scale with the damage done i.e. a partial mitigation does not reduce the chance. However, it does scale with the Flammability of the target, and is defined by the following graph:
Ignition Chance per Target Flammability
For example, a normal human has a flammability of 70% and so has a 100% chance to ignite if any flame damage is taken, while a human wearing phoenix armor has a flammability of 2% and so has a 1.4% chance to ignite if any flame damage is taken. 
Factors 	Flammability	Ignition Chance uponFlame Damage Taken
Default Human 	70% 	100% (1 in 1)
Fire resistant 	10% 	7% (1 in 14.3)
Phoenix armor 	2% 	1.4% (1 in 71.4)
Phoenix armor +Fire resistant	0.2% 	0.14% (1 in 714.3)
Default Mechanoid 	0% 	0% (Never)
If the pawn is ignited the size of the fire is randomly selected between 15% and 25%, which affects the difficulty of putting it out and the chance to spread.
In addition to weapons that deal flame damage, lightning also deals 10 flame damage its area of effect.
=== Scratch ===
Scratch damage does damage differently depending on what part is initially targeted.
If the part targeted is internal, then a count is made of all parts from the targeted part, and that part's parent, and that part's parent, etc. until a part that is external is found. The damage dealt is then evenly divided among these parts, including the targeted part and the final outside part. Note that in testing, no scratch attack was seen initially targeting an internal part. It is unclear if this is even possible to occur in game.
If the part targeted is external, then a list is created including: the originally targeted part, the children parts of the original part, the parent of the original part, and the children of the parent of the original part. Two parts are then selected from this list at random, and then 67% of the original post-armor damage is dealt to both parts. Note that is can result in 33% higher than the weapon's nominal value, though damage may be also limited by overkill prevention.
In this instance, Scratch has a overkillPctToDestroyPart range of 0~0.7, or 0% to 70%. This means there is a linear probability from 0% chance of destruction when the no damage over current HP is dealt, to 100% chance the body part would be destroyed when the attack deals 70% of the parts maximum health as Scratch Type Overkill Damage. If the chance is failed, the part is not destroyed and instead reduced to 1 HP.
For example, a power claw deals scratch damage. If the initial attack targets the nose, the head's child part, then an eye could be selected as it is also a child part of the head. If the initial attack was also halved by armor, then this attack would deal damage to the nose and to the eye.
=== Toxic bite ===
Identical to Bite, but also inflicts a 1.5% severity increase of toxic buildup for each point of Bite damage inflicted, multiplied by the Toxic Resistance of the target and inversely proportional to the body size of the target i.e. a target with 50% Toxic Resistance and a body size of 2 will take 25% of the toxic buildup.
Animals will not apply the toxic buildup hediff when hunting for food, even when using an attack with this damage type. This is to prevent them from rotting their prey with toxic buildup, and being left unable to eat, only to have to repeat the cycle.
=== Toxic bullet ===
Identical to Bullet, but also inflicts a 0.65% severity increase of toxic buildup for each point of Bullet damage inflicted, multiplied by the Toxic Resistance of the target and inversely proportional to the body size of the target i.e. a target with 50% Toxic Resistance and a body size of 2 will take 25% of the toxic buildup.
The tag is set such that animals will not apply the toxic buildup hediff when hunting for food, even when using an attack with this damage type, however it is unclear if this is functional or merely a hold over from copying the standard set by toxic bite as that condition cannot occur in vanilla. It is also unclear whether it would apply to colonists hunting with such weapons.
=== Toxic scratch ===
Identical to Scratch, but inflicts a 1.5% severity increase of toxic buildup for each point of Scratch damage inflicted, multiplied by the Toxic Resistance of the target and inversely proportional to the body size of the target i.e. a target with 50% Toxic Resistance and a body size of 2 will take 25% of the toxic buildup.
Animals will not apply the toxic buildup hediff when hunting for food, even when using an attack with this damage type. This is to prevent them from rotting their prey with toxic buildup, and being left unable to eat, only to have to repeat the cycle.
=== Thump ===
Thump damage is done by Thump cannon, and is exceptionally effective against buildings. The default damage is only 5, with 0 AP, however it does 4x Damage to Plants, 15x damage to impassable buildings such as Nutrient Paste Dispensers, 7.5x to passable buildings such as armchairs. Additionally, both walls and natural rock walls specifically have an additional 2x multiplier, stacking with the previous 15x, for a total of 30x damage.
=== Vaporize ===
Vaporize damage is done by the hellsphere cannon of Diabolus and the fleshmelter bolt of Nociosphere. The default damage is 800, with a default of 100% and stopping power of 1.5. It does 4x to impassable buildings such as Nutrient Paste Dispensers, 2x to Plants and passable buildings such as armchairs, and 0.1x damage to corpses. 
It is resisted by heat armor and heats up the area in which it is fired.
=== Decayed Organ ===
A result of Organ decay, which can apply to the Heart, Lungs, and Kidneys.
=== Acid Burn ===
Can be received via the various acid spits: Fleshmass spitter acid, Corrosive heart acid, and Acid spray acid. Devourers also inflict this damage to the swallowed pawn.
=== Psychic ===
An awoken unnatural corpse will psychically incinerate the target's brain.
=== Nerve ===
Damage dealt from the Nerve spiker.
==== Nerve Stun ====
The stun ability of the nerve spiker.
=== Mech-band Shockwave ===
From the Apocrition shockwave upon its death.
=== Energy Bolt ===
One of the projectiles fired by the Nociosphere.
=== Digestion ===
Inflicted to corpses by the Harbinger tree, and to pawns swallowed by a Devourer.
=== Electrical Burn ===
Electrical burns are periodically received by entities connected to an Electroharvester.
== Version history ==
* Beta 19/1.0 - Bomb damage now does 2x damage vs plants. Note: this was increased in a later version to 4x, as noted above.
* 1.2.2719 - New visual effects for the EMP state on mechs or turrets, with electrical arcs and sparks.
* 1.3.3200 - Thump damage multiplier versus walls reduced from 4x to 2x. Demolish damage multiplier versus impassible buildings reduced from 1 to 0.75.
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