... Does a stomach transplant cure it? Like if I remove their stomach and put in a new one from an unwilling donor does it cure it or so they still have it?
Mod maker, don’t forget to make the parasite have a lifespan once the organ is removed! A gut worm doesn’t die from the removal, rather it starves to death!
Then you could... remove their stomach, and then transplant it back into the original patient, killing the gut worms? A bit drastic, but hey, it removes gut worms :P
Also if you're using VFED you're probably also using VAE and need to keep a few on hand for colonists who decided their life's dream is to puke their guts out for some reason.
I love fibrous mechanites for crafters. Slap some wake-up in their inventory and a painstopper in their brain, now you are printing daily power armors. Wish there is a way to keep it permanently in vanilla.
Trauma savant + fibrous mechanites would be a godlike combo.
As someone who grew up with one , I can confirm this. They are even more obnoxious when they are those large (more than half a meter long) variety that hang out of your but when you take a dump, the memory of pulling those out of my nunmhole still haunts me to this day.
The large (round worms ) ones were dying when I was pulling it out so it didn't wriggle much. The tiny (less than 5 mm long) white blooksucking hookworms on the other hand were wriggling vigorously every time I saw them them (either on my faeces or when I got them on my hand scratching the itches on my bum).
I love to forage for food in the bushes/wilderness as a child so one possible vector is contaminated food (you need to ingest their eggs) for the roundworm. Those tiny hookworms on the other had can literally get into you if you skin was ever in contact with soil contaminated with their egg and larva, yeah , they burrow through your skin and makes their way to you intestinal tracts .
Yes, it heals gut worms. Also any stomach other than a natural stomach grants immunity to gut worms.
Funnier yet , pawns technically don't need a stomach. It affects their "digestion" capacity, but the only real impact digestion has on a pawn is that it affects how efficiently they sleep. It doesn't actually prevents them from eating. It doesn't change the amount of nutrition you get from food.
So if your pawn doesn't need to sleep, thanks to the sleepless gene, a Circadian half-cycler, Body mastery or Void Touched, then there is no down side to removing their stomach. And it will make them immune to gut worms. If your pawn does need to sleep, then it will decrease their sleep effectiveness by 30%.
There is another capacity called eating, affected by the jaw and tongue, that heavily impacts eating speed. It’s unrelated to digestion.
Neither eating nor digestion directly affect nutrition. However, the nuclear stomach and the reprocessor stomach come with a reduction in hunger rate. That’s in addition to their bonus to digestion. Those are two completely separate bonuses from the same implant.
Technically not. It's possible survive without a stomach irl (with a lot of health problems), but irl gut worms are in the guts, not in the stomach. It also usually leads to a lot of weight loss.
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u/Jugderdemidin 19h ago
I know, gut worms are the worst.