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carbide hand bones

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$ 120.00 Commerce Value 15 lbs. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - carbide hand bones

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Blue carbide merely dents where weak collagen would be smashed to bits.

Your fists deal 2d3 damage.

Target body parts: Hands
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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Carbide hand bones is a lower cost cybernetic implant which increase the damage potential for the implantee's unarmed attacks to 2d32-6 (Avg: 4). They are the lowest-damage unarmed implants available in Caves of Qud, being outclassed by the fullerite hand bones and crysteel hand bones, respectively. The damage provided is on par with an unmodified carbide hammer, with the added benefit of possessing uncapped PV

Notably, the implant only affects the pair of hands it is implanted in, and do not apply to additional hands granted by helping hands (or Multiple Arms, in the rare scenario where a True Kin gains that mutation).

The player can chose to begin the game with carbide hand bones as their starting cybernetic. They can also be purchased from a gutsmonger or found in a cybernetics rack attached to a becoming nook.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

• Provides exceptional damage for the early and parts of the midgame, greatly improving survival odds for any character, even those without much investment into cudgels or Strength.
• Is a meme.
• Always available at creation.
• Low cost allows for easy installation without much impact on the user's ability to install other implants.

Disadvantages

• Having high enough Strength to fully benefit from the uncapped penetration can be challenging without hyper-specializing in character creation, using large numbers of Eaters' nectar injectors or finding specific strength-boosting gear items, such as gesticulating gloves or powered exoskeletons
• Can be replaced Fist of the Ape God obtainable by killing Oboroqoru, Ape God which can be equipped without using an implant, does equal damage to crysteel hand bones, has a +3 to hit, and boosts Ego by 4 points.

Tips

• Damage output can be greatly improved by making use of the Single Weapon Fighting skill tree and precision nanon fingers. The x3 to percentage-based weapon effects provided by the nanon fingers applies to the bonus from the Backswing skill of the Cudgel tree, raising the chance of preforming an extra attack each turn from 25% to 75%. The additional attack from backswing works with Weapon Expertise and Weapon Mastery, potentially allowing for the user to make up to 3-4 attacks per turn, a number which can technically be increased even further with sources of addtional quickness. Such as from inflatable axons or blaze injectors augmented with fire suppression system.

• The Strength threshold to benefit from the uncapped penetration can be somewhat easily reached by injecting one, or two with juicer hulk honey injectors, the duration of the effect can then be extended with one or more intravenous ports, allowing the user to maintain the often extreme damage increase for long periods of time.

See Also

• fullerite hand bones
• crysteel hand bones