Egg box

Egg box

A box with soft material made to hold eggs. Egg-laying animals will lay eggs in egg boxes if they can. Your haulers will take all the eggs out only when the box is full, to save time. The box also protects eggs from deteriorating outdoors, though it does not protect from temperature damage.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Misc

Mass

3 kg

HP

50

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

10 (56%)

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

True

Placeable

True

Cover Effectiveness

30%

Terrain Affordance

Light

Creation

Work To Make

2,000 ticks (33.33 secs)

Stuff Tags

Metallic, Woody

Resources to make

20

Deconstruct yield

10

Destroy yield

5

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsMisc

Egg boxes is a miscellaneous building that egg-laying animals will try to lay eggs in. They do not protect eggs from temperature spoilage, but do prevent deterioration from exposure.

Acquisition

Egg boxes can be constructed, each requiring  20 Stuff (Metallic/Woody, 200 for SMVs) and 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder and the work to build factor and offset of the material.

Summary

Hold up to 25 eggs of a single type. Once it has 20 eggs it will be emptied by haulers. They do not protect eggs from temperature spoilage, but do prevent deterioration from exposure. Egg-laying animals will try to lay the egg in the box if they are within range^{[What Range?]} and the box is accessible, allowing them to be both protected and easily collected.

Analysis

Egg laying animals will always lay egg in an egg box if one is available in their assigned pen,^[Verify] therefore, egg boxes are extremely useful to control the environment in which the eggs are placed.

Egg boxes function as shelves preventing weather and outdoors degradation types e.g. "Outdoors", "Unroofed", "Rain", "Shallow Water", etc., however, they do not prevent eggs from rotting (rotting eggs vanish just like all other food stuffs). Additionally, egg boxes do not prevent fertilized eggs from being spoiled, despite this, they can be used to force animals to lay eggs in a heated or cooled room, preventing temperature spoilage.

Strategically placing egg boxes can also minimize the amount of hauling work to be done, as it a. prevents pawns from hauling eggs until the egg boxes egg count reaches 20 (or until they are manually tasked to do so); b. by collecting all eggs in a single location rather then having them be spread across a room or pen distance traveled by a pawn tasked with hauling will be greatly reduced.

Stats table

Egg box	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value
Material
Bioferrite	0	005,000 ticks (1.39 mins)	100	75%	33
Gold	20	001,800 ticks (30 secs)	30	40%	2,005
Plasteel	0	004,400 ticks (1.22 mins)	140	0%	196
Silver	6	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	35	40%	205
Steel	0	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	50	40%	45
Uranium	0	003,800 ticks (1.06 mins)	125	0%	134
Wood	0	001,400 ticks (23.33 secs)	33	100%	29

Version history

• 1.3.3066 - Added.

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Architect

Misc

Caravan hitching spot • Egg box • Grave • Marriage spot • Party spot • Pen marker • Sarcophagus • Tool cabinet • Meditation spot • Nature shrine (Large, Small)

(research)

Comms console • Cryptosleep casket • Firefoam popper • Ground-penetrating scanner • Long-range mineral scanner • Moisture pump • Multi-analyzer • Orbital trade beacon • Pod launcher • Stele (Large, Grand) • Transport pod • Vitals monitor • Ship landing beacon