Hoopstone ring

Hoopstone ring

A simple ancient game played with stones and a large ring in the ground. Players try to toss stones through the ring from a distance. It's relaxing, and trains shooting skills.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Recreation

Mass

4 kg

HP

100

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

20

Deconstruct yield

10

Destroy yield

5

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsJoy

A hoopstone ring is a simple ring placed on the ground. Pawns have fun by throwing stones, trying to get them to land inside the ring. To be usable, a hoopstone ring must have a standable spot five spaces away with clear line of sight. Playing with the hoopstone ring raises a pawn's joy and increases their shooting skill at a meager rate.

A hoopstone ring is the Tribal equivalent of a horseshoes pin. For other players, it may be purchased from a Tribal trader.

Acquisition

The hoopstone ring can be built by tribal colonies with  20 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 200 for SMVs) in 100 ticks (1.67 secs) of work.

Summary

Up to three colonists can use a single hoopstone ring at once, taking turns throwing stones 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.

To be usable, a hoopstone ring 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 hoopstone 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 hoopstone ring is the second weakest recreation object, tied with the Horseshoes pin, and the Chess table, with a recreation power of 100%. The only recreation object worse is the Game-of-Ur board, with a meager 80%. It is cheap, and should be built once a farm has been sowed and a basic building has been built.

Stats table

Hoopstone ring	Beauty	Recreation power	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value
Material
Bioferrite	0	1	000,250 ticks (4.17 secs)	200	75%	16
Gold	20	1	000,090 ticks (1.5 secs)	60	40%	2,000
Granite blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	170	0%	21
Limestone blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	155	0%	21
Marble blocks	1	1	000,690 ticks (11.5 secs)	120	0%	21
Plasteel	0	1	000,220 ticks (3.67 secs)	280	0%	181
Sandstone blocks	0	1	000,640 ticks (10.67 secs)	140	0%	20
Silver	6	1	000,100 ticks (1.67 secs)	70	40%	200
Slate blocks	0	1	000,740 ticks (12.33 secs)	130	0%	21
Steel	0	1	000,100 ticks (1.67 secs)	100	40%	38
Jade	10	1	000,500 ticks (8.33 secs)	50	0%	102
Uranium	0	1	000,190 ticks (3.17 secs)	250	0%	121
Wood	0	1	000,070 ticks (1.17 secs)	65	100%	24

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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