Just pondering ideas, you could possibly set it's medical skill equivalent to 0 but give it a large positive tend quality offset, so that it can still tend wounds but would be ineligible for most surgeries. Some surgeries have no skill requirement, but a lot do. If anything quickly patching up wounds with ~50% tend quality tends seems like just the thing for a "First aid" bot. Close up cuts and bullet holes so they dont bleed to death, but just. That sort of thing.

Any chance of getting compat with 'Nurse Job' mod? That'd fix the surgery issues, and with 'Mech Job Panel' you could pick which job you want them doing, so they could also serve as a surgeon in a pinch, if your doc is down. I believe that Nursing is just the 'Caring' job/s sliced out of Doctoring. I'd be happy to do it myself if you have a github I could fork.

Could it be possible to simply remove surgery from it's available work types in the first place, so you don't need to meticulously micromanage it away when it, while idly waiting for a task, inevitably tries to perform assigned surgeries before your busy skilled doctors finish their meal or their card game? Or does surgery being bundled with basic doctoring make that impossible?

ist this just... paramedic but faster and dumber?

yep. it's 1.6 now.

Good mod!

Hi, can this bot also treat wounded from another faction?

figured it out. It won't work when set to escort

Hey, is there a way to force this thing to tend someone or can it only do it on it's own? The person I wanted to tend and the mechanoid itself were in command range but I didn't see any options to tend them

I also tried to disable surgery altogether, but unfortunately, my skills weren’t sufficient to make that work, so I had to go with this workaround instead. Maybe one day, after I improve, I’ll release First-Aid 2.0!

As for collaborating on a mechanoid expansion mod, I sincerely appreciate the offer! However, I am still a newbie in the world of modding. I know my own limitations and need to study and gain more experience before I’m ready. I'm sorry, but for now, I'm not quite there yet.

P.S. This reply was translated using ChatGPT. I hope the meaning was conveyed accurately!

Second, the low surgery success rate is to ensure that it doesn't overlap with the Paramedic's role. When creating downgraded versions of existing mechanoids, my biggest concern is making sure they do not overshadow their higher-tier counterparts. There are already other mods on the Workshop that enhance mechanoid capabilities. If First-Aid had a decent surgery success rate, the Paramedic would lose its purpose entirely.
I prefer to create mods that provide minor conveniences while respecting the original game design. That’s why I intentionally left surgery as the Paramedic’s job and assigned First-Aid a very low success rate for it.

You are the creator of the Isopod Mech, aren't you? I'm truly grateful that you like my mod!

To answer your question:

First, the fast work speed is an intentional characteristic of this mechanoid. As you might guess from its name, First-Aid was designed to quickly handle injuries like bleeding and fractures. I created it to help mitigate situations where a mechanitor accidentally gets their pawn severely injured in the early game, or when Randy suddenly throws the Black Plague or Malaria at you. In the case of bleeding, immediate treatment is crucial for survival, which is why I assigned it a high value of 2.25.

thanks

Greetings, [FRIEND]!
Love the mod so far!
Just asking:
Is it meant to be this comicly fast at tending things?
I took a look at the xml and a value of 2.25 seems too specific for me to assume an missinput.

Besides that, does it realy need an *Forced* low-surgery success chance? I totally understand the ballance perspective, but since it is realy easy to tweak manually, I won't complain!

Personally, I think it should still have an acceptable chance via sterile floors and glitterworld medicine, but with an comicly low multiplier of 0.1 that is essentially not possible.

Anyhow, if you plan on making further mech mods in the future, maybe we could collaborate of sorts!

I assume that it WON'T perform surgery by default?

Another quality of life mech. Finally I can stop interacting with my filthy brain-scannees after their latest escape attempt got beaten down.