Horseshoes pin

Horseshoes pin

A simple ancient game played with a horseshoes and a large pin in the ground. Players toss horseshoes to try to get them to land on the pin. It's relaxing, and trains shooting skills.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Recreation

Mass

3 kg

HP

75

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

14 (48%)

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

True

Placeable

True

Terrain Affordance

Light

Recreation

100% dexterity play

Creation

Work To Make

100 ticks (1.67 secs)

Stuff Tags

Metallic, Woody, Stony

Resources to make

10

Deconstruct yield

5

Destroy yield

2 - 3

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsJoy

A horseshoes pin is used by colonists to take a break and gain recreation. It is the cheapest to construct of all the joy-related buildings, and tied for the quickest to produce with the hoopstone ring.

Acquisition

Horseshoes pins can only be constructed by "New Arrivals" colonies. They require  10 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 100 for SMVs) and 100 ticks (1.67 secs) of work. "New Tribes" can instead only build the Hoopstone ring.

Regardless of the material used, a horseshoe pin has no quality level. Once placed it can be uninstalled and then reinstalled in a new location.

Summary

Up to three colonists can use a single horseshoes pin at once, taking turns throwing horseshoes at it. Each instance of this activity lasts 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins), and it increases Recreation need at a rate of ?? per second. It provides Dexterity Play-type recreation.

To be usable, a horseshoe pin must have a standable spot five spaces away. It also needs line of sight to it in a straight line (many structures like chairs, lamps, and tables, do not block line of sight). Colonists can throw through a held open doorway into an adjacent room while playing horseshoes. Mood bonuses for room impressiveness are determined by the thrower's location.

A pawn must have Sight and Manipulation capacities above 0% to play.

Playing horseshoes increases the player's shooting skill at a rate of 0.003 XP per 1 tick (0.02 secs), or 0.18 XP per second.

Analysis

The horseshoes pin is the second weakest of all recreation objects, tied with the Chess table and the Hoopstone ring with a recreation power of only 100%. The only recreation object worse is the Game-of-Ur board, with a meager recreation power of 80%. Because of its low cost and ability to slowly raise colonist shooting skill, it is often advisable to build a horseshoe pin early after starting a colony.

Stats table

Horseshoes pin	Beauty	Recreation power	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value
Material
Bioferrite	0	1	000,250 ticks (4.17 secs)	150	75%	8.4
Gold	20	1	000,090 ticks (1.5 secs)	45	40%	1,000
Granite blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	128	0%	12
Limestone blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	116	0%	12
Marble blocks	1	1	000,690 ticks (11.5 secs)	90	0%	12
Plasteel	0	1	000,220 ticks (3.67 secs)	210	0%	91
Sandstone blocks	0	1	000,640 ticks (10.67 secs)	105	0%	11
Silver	6	1	000,100 ticks (1.67 secs)	53	40%	100
Slate blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	98	0%	12
Steel	0	1	000,100 ticks (1.67 secs)	75	40%	19
Jade	10	1	000,500 ticks (8.33 secs)	38	0%	52
Uranium	0	1	000,190 ticks (3.17 secs)	188	0%	61
Wood	0	1	000,070 ticks (1.17 secs)	49	100%	12

Version History

• 0.10.785 - Added with the addition of Joy

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Architect

Recreation

Horseshoes pin ^(Colony) • Hoopstone ring ^(Tribal) • Game-of-Ur board ^(Tribal)

Complex Furniture

Billiards table • Chess table ^(Colony) • Poker table

(research)

Tube television • Flatscreen television • Harp • Harpsichord • Piano

(trade)

Megascreen television • Telescope

Related

Books (Novel • Schematic • Textbook • Tome) • Snowman