👶 Children & Reproduction

Pawns can now have children — heterosexual pawns sharing a bed have a chance to conceive.

• Pregnancy lasts 18 days, movement speed -20%, unable to work in the last 3 days
• Newborns need care: feeding (breast milk or baby food), playtime, and hygiene
• Growth stages at ages 3→6→10→13, each stage has different learning rates
• Assign learning schedules to children — they automatically learn skills as they grow
• A child's growth speed is tied to their "Learning" need — keeping learning high means decent skills by adulthood at age 13
• Childcare items: baby crib, school desk, blackboard (accelerates learning)

🧬 Gene System

You can implant genes into pawns and prisoners to alter their abilities.

• Germline genes: Heritable, can only be passed down through reproduction
• Xenogerm: Not heritable, like an implant — can be installed/removed at any time
• Gene sources: purchase from traders, extract from prisoners (needs gene extractor), craft your own (after researching gene technology)
• Complexity limit: each pawn can only carry a limited number of genes — exceeding the limit prevents installation

🔬 Gene Engineering Flowchart

From gene acquisition to pawn implantation — the full process at a glance:

🤖 Mechanitor & Mechanoids

A Mechanitor can build and control mechanoids — your own robotic army.

• After building a mechanitor console, a pawn can become a mechanitor
• Mechanoid types: Lifters (hauling), Constructoids (building), Agricohand (farming), Cleansweepers (cleaning), combat mechanoids
• Mechanoids don't need food or sleep, but they need recharging (competing with your power grid)
• Mechanoids produce toxic wastepacks — too much pollution means map-wide toxic fallout
• A mechanitor's bandwidth limits how many mechanoids they can control — insufficient bandwidth means you can't control more

🧛 Sanguophages

Sanguophages are a special xenotype introduced in Biotech — immortal + incredible combat power, but at a cost.

• Sanguophage traits: ageless, rapid wound regeneration, no pain, fast speed, high strength
• Cost: must regularly consume hemogen — otherwise they enter deathrest
• Hemogen can be extracted from prisoners, animals, or willing donors
• Sanguophages have special abilities: coagulate (stop bleeding), long-jump, psychic manipulation
• How to get sanguophages: ritual conversion (turn a normal pawn into a sanguophage) or choose the sanguophage scenario at start

⚗️ Pollution Management

Mechanoids produce toxic wastepacks during operation — if left untreated, they rot and release pollution.

• Pollution spread: ground pollution turns soil barren, kills plants, and makes pawns sick
• Solutions: freeze storage (keep in freezer to slow decay), launch away (drop pod them off, but watch out for angry neighbors), or pollution pump (late-game tech, slow cleanup)
• Frozen toxic wastepacks don't rot — dedicated freezer + waste zone = peace of mind
• Pollution also affects your neighbors — dumping waste near pirates means they deal with it