Difference between revisions of "Mech node"

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A Mech nodes can be claimed from a Mechanoid cluster once it is defeated, assuming it is not damaged in the fight.

Acquisition

Mech nodes can be claimed from a Mechanoid cluster once it is defeated. Simply claim and uninstall it.

Summary

A mech node provides 50% light to tiles directly adjacent. It also provides a small amount of cover. It has a beauty value of -20, so is very ugly to look at.

Mech nodes can be deconstructed for 22 plasteel and 1 component. It cannot be sold.^[Verify]

Analysis

Mech nodes are a reward for not destroying everything in a mech cluster. If they are preserved, nodes can be deconstructed for a decent amount of resources, enough for a multi-analyzer. Whenever this is worth mostly depends on whenever it is possible to destroy the mech cluster without causing a massive explosion. This itself depends on cluster arrangement and your colony's combat prowess.

Mech nodes aren't very useful as actual buildings. They can provide cover, but a plasteel barricade has more health. You can use them to lure raiders into (poor) cover, but stools are easier to build. They can provide emergency light for surgeries during a solar flare, but a torch lamp is easier to make if wood is available at all.

Trivia

Like all mech cluster buildings, they not only have a Flammability of 0%, but also take no damage from attacks with the Flame damage type. This is in contrast to, for example, a stone wall which will not be ignited by molotov cocktails, but will take the 10 flame damage from the initial attack.

Version history

1.2.2719 - Added.
1.3.? - Renamed from Gloomlight to Mech node. Description changed from "A self-powered mechanoid light. Gloomlights can be deconstructed to yield valuable resources, or used as lights - but only if they are captured intact. The internal micro power cell will flame out and ruin the materials"

Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core: Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
Combat: Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron
Command: Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
Labor: Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
Cluster | Buildings: Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
Turrets: Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
Creation | Pawn: Mechanitor
Buildings: Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish

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-{{Info|A '''Mech nodes''' can be claimed from a [[Mechanoid cluster]] once it is defeated, assuming it is not damaged in the fight. It provides light of 50% to the tiles immediately adjacent, and no further, without the need for external power sources.}}
+{{Info|A '''Mech nodes''' can be claimed from a [[Mechanoid cluster]] once it is defeated, assuming it is not damaged in the fight.}}
 == Acquisition ==
 Mech nodes can be claimed from a [[Mechanoid cluster]] once it is defeated. Simply claim and uninstall it.
-== Analysis ==
+==Summary==
-It is rather terrible. It provides very little lighting, which means lighting up areas meaningfully requires many of them, Their unattractiveness, uglier than [[filth]], makes the node only useful for lighting areas where [[beauty]] does not matter. There might be a niche case to keep one in the hospital for emergency light for surgeries or treatment when a [[solar flare]] or other power outage occurs, but even then, so long as [[wood]] is commonly available in your [[biome]], a [[torch lamp]] is all but free and provides far more light, making it superior in even this niche in all but the most extreme of biomes.
+A mech node provides 50% [[light]] to tiles directly adjacent. It also provides a small amount of [[cover]]. It has a [[beauty]] value of -20, so is very ugly to look at.
-It cannot be sold.{{Check Tag|Verify}}
+Mech nodes can be deconstructed for {{Icon small|Plasteel}} 22 [[plasteel]] and {{Icon small|Component}} 1 [[component]]. It cannot be sold.{{Check Tag|Verify}}
-They provide full [[cover]], but their low HP makes them a poor choice for this role. This can be exploited to bait raiders into using it as cover, only for it to be destroyed and expose them, however its generally not worth the hassle in acquiring them for this purpose when [[stool]]s can be easily constructed instead.
+== Analysis ==
+Mech nodes are a reward for not destroying everything in a mech cluster. If they are preserved, nodes can be deconstructed for a decent amount of resources, enough for a [[multi-analyzer]]. Whenever this is worth mostly depends on whenever it is ''possible'' to destroy the mech cluster without causing a massive explosion. This itself depends on cluster arrangement and your colony's combat prowess.
-The base components of a mech node are more valuable, and one or two can provide you with enough plasteel to build a [[multi-analyzer]], should you get one during the early game.
+Mech nodes aren't very useful as actual buildings. They can provide cover, but a plasteel [[barricade]] has more health. You can use them to lure [[raider]]s into (poor) cover, but [[stool]]s are easier to build. They can provide emergency light for surgeries during a [[solar flare]], but a [[torch lamp]] is easier to make if [[wood]] is available at all.
 == Trivia ==
-Like all mech cluster buildings, they not only have a [[Flammability]] of 0%, but also take no damage from attacks with the [[Damage Types|Flame]] damage type. This is in contrast to, for example, a [[stone]] [[wall]] which will not be ignited by [[molotov cocktails]] but will take the 10 flame damage from the initial attack.
+Like all mech cluster buildings, they not only have a [[Flammability]] of 0%, but also take no damage from attacks with the [[Damage Types|Flame]] damage type. This is in contrast to, for example, a [[stone]] [[wall]] which will not be ignited by [[molotov cocktails]], but will take the 10 flame damage from the initial attack.
 == Version history ==