Ship landing beacon

Ship landing beacon

Marks the corner of a landing area. Four of these placed at the corners of a clear area (minimum 9x9) create a landing pad. Spacecraft usually land on pads if possible.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Misc

Market Value

111  ^[Note]

Mass

5 kg

HP

75

Flammability

50%

Path Cost

14 (48%)

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

True

Placeable

True

Cover Effectiveness

15%

Terrain Affordance

Light

Power

-50 W

Light Radius

0.96

Creation

Required Research

Electricity

Work To Make

800 ticks (13.33 secs)

Resources to make

40 + 1

Deconstruct yield

20 + 0 - 1

Destroy yield

nothing

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsMisc

The ship landing beacon tells shuttles where to land. Four of them must be placed on the corners of a clear area at least 9x9 to create a landing pad. Shuttles will use the cleared area if possible.

Acquisition

Ship landing beacons can be constructed once the electricity research project has been completed. Each requires  40 Steel,  1 Component and 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder.

Ship landing beacons will also spawn, in the correct orientation and on a floored landing pad, in Empire faction bases, often with a shuttle on it about to take off.

Summary

When 4 beacons are placed in a rectangle of minimum size 9x9 and provided with power the area becomes a landing pad. Shuttles will land there if possible for dropoff and pickup of characters for quests. It does not work for crashed shuttle quests.

The landing pad must be clear of any objects you cannot build on top of such as trees, chunks and other buildings. Additionally, the interior area of the landing pad not including the rows and columns of tiles with the beacons themselves, i.e. a 7x7 area for the minimum size, must be unroofed for the pad to function. The tiles in all 4 cardinal directions of each beacon, and the beacons themselves, can be roofed without issue.

Analysis

Cover the landing area in flooring, such as concrete, to prevent tree growth blocking the pad.

Trivia

Ancient nav beacons that can be spawn as part of map generation bear a strong resemblence to ship landing beacons, though with visible damage. Similar to landing beacons, nav beacons will often spawn in the corners of partially incomplete, 11x11 areas of concrete, with anywhere between 1 and 4 ancient nav beacons being present - presumably representing ship landing zones.

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  Ship landing beacon from Royalty DLC

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  Ancient nav beacon from Ideology DLC

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  An ancient landing pad

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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