Sandbags

See also: Barricade

Sandbags

Bags of locally-sourced dirt or sand, stacked for use as cover. Sandbags are ugly, but provide better cover than other low objects.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Security

Beauty

-10

HP

300

Flammability

0%

Path Cost

42 (24%)

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

False

Placeable

True

Passability

pass through only

Cover Effectiveness

55%

Terrain Affordance

Light

Creation

Work To Make

180 ticks (3 secs)

Stuff Tags

Fabric, Leathery

Resources to make

5

Deconstruct yield

2 - 3

Destroy yield

1 - 2

Sandbags can be placed to cover your colonists from gunfire, but not melee attacks, thrown projectiles, or explosions. Sandbags take damage from bullets and explosions. Raiders can also use sandbags as cover, so place them in a way so enemy units cannot take advantage of them.

Sandbags provide 55% cover effectiveness, meaning that bullets aimed at targets behind sandbags have a 55% chance to hit the bags, and a 45% chance to cross over. Sandbags slow down pawns walking over them.

Sandbags require  5 Stuff (Fabric/Leathery) and 180 ticks (3 secs) to build.

Material Table

As Barricades and Sandbags are largely interchangeable except for their aesthetics and material properties, both are included in the following table for convenience.

A basic take-away from the table below is that the only significant difference between cloth sandbags and wooden barricades is that wooden barricades have 195 hit points while the cloth sandbags have 300. Both can be constructed on terrain that supports only "light" structures.

Note that cover effectiveness is 55% regardless of material.

Material	Stuff cost	Beauty	Work	Mass	HP	Flammability	Terrain Affordance	Market Value
Wood	-3	000,224 ticks (3.73 secs)	195	100%	Light	6.8
Granite blocks	-3	002,060 ticks (34.33 secs)	510	0%	Heavy	12
Limestone blocks	-3	002,060 ticks (34.33 secs)	465	0%	Heavy	12
Marble blocks	-2	001,900 ticks (31.67 secs)	360	0%	Heavy	11
Sandstone blocks	-3	001,740 ticks (29 secs)	420	0%	Heavy	11
Slate blocks	-3	002,060 ticks (34.33 secs)	390	0%	Heavy	12
Jade		001,600 ticks (26.67 secs)	150	0%	Heavy	31
Gold		000,288 ticks (4.8 secs)	180	40%	Medium	500
Plasteel	-3	000,704 ticks (11.73 secs)	840	0%	Medium	48
Silver		000,320 ticks (5.33 secs)	210	40%	Medium	51
Steel	-3	000,320 ticks (5.33 secs)	300	40%	Medium	11
Uranium	-3	000,608 ticks (10.13 secs)	750	0%	Medium	32
Bearskin	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	18
Birdskin	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	9.6
Bluefur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	12
Camelhide	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	12
Chinchilla fur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	33
Dog leather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	11
Elephant leather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	450	0%	Light	13
Foxfur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	18
Guinea pig fur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	180	0%	Light	26
Heavy fur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	450	0%	Light	17
Human leather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	22
Lightleather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	10
Lizardskin	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	11
Panthera fur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	16
Patchleather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	8.1
Pigskin	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	10
Plainleather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	11
Rhinoceros leather	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	450	0%	Light	22
Thrumbofur	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	600	0%	Light	71
Wolfskin	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	16
Alpaca wool	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	20
Bison wool	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	14
Cloth	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	8.1
Devilstrand	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	28
Hyperweave	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	720	0%	Light	46
Megasloth wool	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	14
Muffalo wool	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	14
Sheep wool	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	300	0%	Light	14
Synthread	-10	000,180 ticks (3 secs)	390	0%	Light	21

Version history

In earlier versions (Alpha 16/17?) it used to have 70% cover rating.

• Beta 19 - received a new, extended description and a retexture, and its cost was reduced from 6 steel to 5.
• 1.1 - crafting recipe was changed to use textiles rather than steel, and its health was nerfed (450 -> 300), along with its cover value (65 -> 57%).
• 1.3.3066 - fill percent (i.e. cover) reduced from 57% to 55%.

• 

  Old Sandbag Texture

See also

• Defense tactics
• Defense structures

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Architect

Security

Barricade • Sandbags • Spike trap

(research)

Autocannon turret • Foam turret • Mini-turret • Rocketswarm launcher • Uranium slug turret • Mortar

IEDs

IED trap • IED incendiary trap • IED EMP trap • IED firefoam trap • IED smoke trap • IED antigrain warhead trap • IED tox trap • IED deadlife trap

Related

Antigrain warhead • EMP shell • Firefoam shell • High-explosive shell • Incendiary shell • Smoke shell • Tox shell • Deadlife shell