Matter recompositer

matter recompositer

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$ 180.00 Commerce Value 5 lbs. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - matter recompositer

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The flux inside this milliscopic cask can fold space on just a large enough scale to shunt a human chassis nearby.

Activated. Cooldown 100.
You teleport to a random, explored space on the map.

Target body parts: Body
License points: 3
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
Compute power on the local lattice reduces this item's cooldown.

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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matter recompositer is a moderate cost body-exclusive cybernetic implant which upon installation grants the user the ability to instantly teleport to a random explored tile within the user's current zone.

The granted ability is called "Emergency Recomposite" and upon activation "You teleport" is printed into the message log, the user is then transported to a random tile that is both unoccupied and previously explored. If there are no available valid tiles, a message box stating "There are no places to escape to safety!" will instead pop up and the ability will completely fail to activate, neither taking a turn nor going on cooldown.

Unlike some other forms of Teleportation, the teleportation provided by matter recompositer does not take a turn, allowing the user to act before any newly nearby hostile creatures and most environmental hazards like industrial fans or machine presses. However, while various dangers will be unable to immediately affect the user, certain hazards trigger the moment the user enters the tile, regardless of whether a turn has passed or not. Such hazards include: The damage which results from standing in pools of lava or similarly dangerous liquid, the on-touch effects of certain stationary plants like aloe voltas or yonderbrushs and the grenade-derived effects of standing on a hostile mine.

The teleportation like other reality-distorting effects is contested by sources of normality, if the implant is unable to overcome any nearby normality, it will fail to activate, notably consume a turn, and then damage the user by 1d6 electrical damage.

Formulae

The following formulae are used to determine ability cooldown based on compute power total. Of the two, whichever equation returns a larger result determines cooldown before the effects of Willpower.

Cooldown	100 X (100-compute power)/100

Cooldown	100/2

The overall result of the two equations is that compute power reduces the base cooldown by 1 turn per unit of compute power until the base cooldown has been halved, after which additional compute power confers no further benefit.

Compute power table

Compute Power	Cooldown
5	95 rounds
10	90 rounds
15	85 rounds
20	80 rounds
25	75 rounds
30	70 rounds
35	65 rounds
40	60 rounds
45	55 rounds
50	50 rounds
55	50 rounds
60	50 rounds

Ability cooldown

The cooldown for matter recompositer is influenced both by compute power and willpower (WI). The following tables indicate matter recompositer's willpower-adjusted cooldown (CD) at compute power totals 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50.

0 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	135	15	105	21	75	27	45
10	130	16	100	22	70	28	40
11	125	17	95	23	65	29	35
12	120	18	90	24	60	30	30
13	115	19	85	25	55	31	25
14	110	20	80	26	50	32	20

10 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	122	15	95	21	68	27	41
10	117	16	90	22	63	28	36
11	113	17	86	23	59	29	32
12	108	18	81	24	54	30	27
13	104	19	77	25	50	31	23
14	99	20	72	26	45	32	18

20 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	108	15	84	21	60	27	36
10	104	16	80	22	56	28	32
11	100	17	76	23	52	29	28
12	96	18	72	24	48	30	24
13	92	19	68	25	44	31	20
14	88	20	64	26	40	32	16

30 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	95	15	74	21	53	27	32
10	91	16	70	22	49	28	28
11	88	17	67	23	46	29	25
12	84	18	63	24	42	30	21
13	81	19	60	25	39	31	18
14	77	20	56	26	35	32	14

40 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	81	15	63	21	45	27	27
10	78	16	60	22	42	28	24
11	75	17	57	23	39	29	21
12	72	18	54	24	36	30	18
13	69	19	51	25	33	31	15
14	66	20	48	26	30	32	12

50 compute power willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	68	15	53	21	38	27	23
10	65	16	50	22	35	28	20
11	63	17	48	23	33	29	18
12	60	18	45	24	30	30	15
13	58	19	43	25	28	31	13
14	55	20	40	26	25	32	10

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Strong escape tool.
• Teleportation does not take a turn, somewhat limiting danger even when teleported to a less-than-ideal location.
• Cooldown scales well with compute power, allowing for frequent use without heavy investment.

Disadvantages

• Due to the random nature of the teleport it's possible for the user to sometimes be placed in a worse position than previously.
• Completely outclassed by the similarly functioning high-fidelity matter recompositer in nearly all metrics besides license cost.
• Moderate cost can be a tad prohibitive depending on the user's license tier and build goals.

Use as an escape tool

There are various scenarios where having some form of teleportation provides strong utility.

Use Case
Can allow the user to escape when grabbed and engulfed by certain creatures like red death daccas and tongue tyrants, making both the banana grove and Palladium Reef somewhat safer to explore.
Allows the user to teleport away when next to foes with dangerous melee attacks, like the limb-dismembering strikes of astral tabbies and saw-handers or the attribute-draining attacks of stat saps and enigma snails.
Allows the user to escape when latched onto by some creatures, such as the limb-obliterating madpole commonly found in jungle rivers or the movement-impeding crypt ferrets that are endemic to the upper stratum of the Tomb of the Eaters.
Allow the user to teleport away while stuck in certain objects and liquids such as asphalt or webs, potentially saving the user from being surrounded and killed while otherwise unable to easily flee.
Allows the user to escape when engulfed by various members of the Oozes faction, like gelatinous cupolas, gelatinous wedges or gelatinous antiprisms, saving the user from potentially suffering heavy damage, dealing with deadly anti-twins generated by gelatinous antiprisms or having to contend with being forced to a lower stratum by gelatinous cupolas.

Acquistion

By nature of being a cybernetic implant, it is not necessarily guaranteed to find matter recompositer in a given playthrough, especially when the relatively limited availability of cybernetics (compared to other items) is taken into consideration. However, despite this scarcity, there are specific places where the user can look in order to maximize their chances of a successful acquisition.

• Due to matter recompositer being considered a mid-tier implant, the following sources provide the greatest odds of finding a copy:
  • Ezra's tinkerer Yla Haj who offers a non-restocking selection of 6-8 cybernetics taken from the tier 5 cybernetics drop table.
  • village tinkers from villages which happen to spawn in mid-tier zones such as jungles, Rivers or banana groves can, upon restock, sometimes offer 2-4 implants taken from the zone's corresponding cybernetics table.
  • Historical sites which spawn in mid-tier zones like the mountains or Rainbow Wood, have a chance of containing becoming nooks which each hold 1-2 zone-tier appropriate implants. The locations of such historical sites can be obtained with some reliability by water-ritualing legendary members of the Putus Templar and trading for secrets.
  • The cybernetics ward on strata 13 of Bethesda Susa contains 4 becoming nooks which together provide 4-8 implants taken from the tier 4 cybernetics drop table.
  • Certain lower-ranking members of the Putus Templar such as Knight Templars, Banner-Knight Templars and Gunner-Knight Templars have a 25% chance of spawning with the implanted prefix. Which, when killed and butchered drop cybernetics pulled from the cybernetics 4 table at 80% efficiency.

• Alternatively, if the user would rather guarantee eventual access to a copy of matter recompositer, they can take the following action:
  • Under normal circumstances, the guaranteed gutsmonger present at the Six Day Stilt only provides a restocking inventory of 6-8 implants taken from the cybernetics 1 drop table. However, gutsmongers, unlike most other merchants, adjust the tier of their wares to correspond with whatever zone they are currently standing within. This essentially means, that if the user were to make a gutsmonger a follower, such as by using the Proselytize skill or a love injector, the user could then transport said gutsmonger to a mid-tier location such as Ezra, in order to have access to a permanent and restocking source of mid-tier implants.
  • The newly transported gutsmonger can then be cloned with a rebuked cloneling in order to massively increase the number of cybernetics available each restock. Allowing the user with enough dedicated farms to eventually obtain any implant of any tier.

Tips

• Having night vision installed provides the user with 40 tiles of sight, allowing for faster exploration of the surrounding area which by extension increases the number of valid teleportation targets within a given zone. Somewhat improving the odds of successfully teleporting away from hostile creatures or environmental hazards.
• Installed pneumatic pistons can somewhat mitigate the danger of a suboptimal teleportation. If after teleporting the user were to end up next to a hazard or deadly creature, the pistons would grant the option of immediately jumping up to 6 tiles away, providing the user with breathing room and potentially allowing for a complete escape if necessary.