Buildings

Recognize structures, furniture and machines, and check their costs and requirements. Values shown are starting values. Quality, material, skills and conditions can change them during play.

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Structure

Wooden wall

A simple wooden wall. Encloses rooms.

Materials: 5 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Stone wall

A strong wall of cut stone.

Materials: 5 Stone blocks
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Masonry

Wooden door

Lets colonists through. Raiders must break it.

Materials: 20 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

A wide double door, two cells across, for a barn: it closes the room (so a heater or cooler can keep it bearable) but the colony's animals walk through it as well as people. Other animals and prisoners can't. Build it over a wall, with a fenced pen outside. Press R to turn it.

Materials: 40 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Fence

A low wooden fence. Animals can't cross it; people climb over, slowly. It doesn't make a room or hold up a roof, so a fenced pen stays outdoors: build a shelter against it with walls and a Build roof area.

Materials: 3 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Wooden floor

Smooth wooden flooring. Makes rooms nicer.

Materials: 2 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Stone tiles

Neat stone tiles.

Materials: 3 Stone blocks
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Masonry

Soil

Spread compost over rough stone or sand to make farmable soil (80% fertility). It becomes the ground itself, for good.

Materials: 5 Compost
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Furniture

Bed

A place to sleep. Can be assigned to a colonist.

Materials: 40 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 2 cells
Research: Available from the start

Double bed

A bed for two: lovers who share one sleep better for it (Slept with my lover). Can be assigned to two colonists.

Materials: 75 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 2 cells
Research: Complex furniture

End table

A bedside table: a bed touching it is more comfortable (a better night's sleep for the mood). Stacks with a dresser; two don't help.

Materials: 30 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Complex furniture

Dresser

Makes beds within 6 cells in the same room more comfortable (a better night's sleep for the mood). Stacks with an end table; two don't help.

Materials: 50 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Complex furniture

Table

Colonists prefer to eat at a table.

Materials: 25 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Chair

Somewhere to sit. Use next to tables.

Materials: 12 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Torch

Lights up the surroundings at night.

Materials: 4 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Game table

A board game table. Great recreation.

Materials: 10 Stone blocks, 40 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Flower pot

Decorative flowers. Makes a room pleasant.

Materials: 8 Stone blocks
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Production

Cooking hearth

Cook raw food into meals.

Materials: 15 Stone blocks, 50 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Cook simple meal, Cook simple meal x4, Cook fine meal, Pack travel rations x4

Butcher table

Butcher animal corpses into raw meat and press kibble for animals (Cooking work).

Materials: 40 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Butcher animal, Make kibble x40

Crafting bench

Craft weapons and tools.

Materials: 15 Steel, 60 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Make club, Make knife, Make short bow, Make spear, Make pipe rifle, Make repeater, Make medkit x2, Make simple helmet, Make flak vest, Make plate armor

Tailoring bench

Sew clothes from cloth or leather: shirts and pants, parkas and tuques for winter, dusters and wide-brim hats for summer, backpacks; unravel worn-out ones for a quarter of their cloth or leather. Crafting work; better crafters make better clothes.

Materials: 50 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Make shirt, Make pants, Make parka, Make duster, Make tuque, Make wide-brim hat, Make backpack, Unravel clothes

Electric stove

Cooks 50% faster than a hearth. Uses 350 W; can't be used without power.

Materials: 80 Steel, 10 Stone blocks
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Electrical appliances
Power demand: 350 W
Production: Cook simple meal, Cook simple meal x4, Cook fine meal, Pack travel rations x4

Electric smelter

Melts weapons and armor down to a quarter of their steel. By default its bills take only worn-out and tainted things; change the filter to melt anything. Crafting work, needs power.

Materials: 100 Steel, 20 Stone blocks
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Electricity
Power demand: 700 W
Production: Smelt weapon, Smelt armor

Compost bin

Colonists with Haul work fill it with 30 raw food (the bill's filter picks which); left alone it rots down in 3 days into 15 compost, which they carry off. Stops while frozen (0 °C or below).

Materials: 30 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Make compost

Nest box

Haulers bring it a fertilized egg; one of the colony's hens sits on it and after 3 days of brooding a chick hatches. Put it where the hens are (in their area): animals don't open doors.

Materials: 15 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Hatch an egg

Stonecutter

Cut stone chunks into building blocks.

Materials: 10 Steel, 40 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start
Production: Cut stone blocks

Research bench

Study new technologies here.

Materials: 20 Steel, 60 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Electric research bench

Research 50% faster. Uses 250 W; can't be used without power.

Materials: 5 Jade, 120 Steel, 30 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 1 cells
Research: Electrical appliances
Power demand: 250 W

Hydroponic basin

One cell of water and nutrients: while powered, any crop sown in it grows at 300% fertility, day and night, on any ground and with or without a roof. Frozen or scorching weather still stops it. Uses 150 W; with no power the plant stops growing. Taking the basin away kills the plant. Paint a grow zone over it (Architect > Zones) to choose the crop.

Materials: 70 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Hydroponics
Power demand: 150 W

Defense

Barricade

Low cover. Shooters behind it are much harder to hit.

Materials: 8 Stone blocks
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Spike trap

Hidden spikes that injure hostiles walking over them. Single use.

Materials: 10 Steel, 30 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Smithing

Auto-turret

An electric turret that shoots hostiles automatically. Only fires while powered.

Materials: 80 Steel, 20 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Mechanics
Power demand: 150 W

Power

Power conduit

Carries electricity. Runs under floors, walls and furniture; anything electric touching it joins the network.

Materials: 1 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Electricity

Wood-fired generator

Burns wood to produce 1000 W. Colonists refuel it (Haul work).

Materials: 60 Steel, 30 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 2 cells
Research: Electricity
Maximum output: 1000 W

Solar panel

Up to 1400 W in full daylight, nothing at night or under a roof. Pair it with batteries.

Materials: 100 Steel
Footprint: 2 × 2 cells
Research: Renewable energy
Maximum output: 1400 W

Wind turbine

Up to 1800 W depending on the wind; nothing under a roof. Trees, walls, rock, roofs and buildings in the clear zone around it reduce its output.

Materials: 120 Steel, 40 Wood
Footprint: 2 × 2 cells
Research: Renewable energy
Maximum output: 1800 W

Battery

Stores surplus power (600 Wd) and releases it when the network needs it.

Materials: 70 Steel, 10 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 2 cells
Research: Electricity

Sun lamp

Lights an area like the midday sun: crops in its light grow at full speed, even under a roof. It stays on all night, so the crops never rest. Build a greenhouse around it. Uses 2900 W.

Materials: 40 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Electricity
Power demand: 2900 W

Electric lamp

A bright electric light. Uses 75 W.

Materials: 20 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Electricity
Power demand: 75 W

Temperature

Campfire

Burns wood to warm the room it is in, as much as a heater but up to 28 °C, and gives some light. Colonists refuel it (Haul work). Useless outdoors.

Materials: 20 Wood
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Available from the start

Heater

Warms the room it is in up to its target temperature: one keeps a 7x7 room at 20 °C with -17 °C outside. Uses 175 W (17 W idle). Share it with neighbouring rooms through vents.

Materials: 50 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Electricity
Power demand: 175 W

Cooler

Built into a wall: cools the room on its blue side down to its target and blows the heat (a quarter more) out of its red side, so point that outdoors. Works worse the hotter the red side is. Uses 200 W (20 W idle). Below 0 °C in a roofed storeroom it makes a freezer.

Materials: 90 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Air conditioning
Power demand: 200 W

Vent

Built into a wall: lets air flow between the rooms on either side, so one heater or cooler serves both. Colonists open or close it (Power on / off toggle). No power needed.

Materials: 30 Steel
Footprint: 1 × 1 cells
Research: Complex furniture