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 a piece of recreation furniture that provides dexterity recreation when used by colonists, It is the cheapest to construct of all the recreation-related buildings, and tied for the quickest to produce.

It is the equivalent to the Neolithic hoopstone ring, and only available to factions of Medieval tech level or above.

Acquisition

Horseshoes pins can only be constructed by New Arrivals. They require  10 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 100 for SMVs) and 100 ticks (1.67 secs) of work. New Tribes can never construct horseshoes pins, and instead have the exclusive ability to construct hoopstone rings.

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 the Joy system.

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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