Simple research bench
Simple research bench
A simple bench with writing implements and simple measurement devices. Colonists work here to discover new things.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Production
- Mass
- 20 kg
- HP
- 250
- Flammability
- 100%
- Path Cost
- 50 (21%)
Building
- Size
- 3 × 2
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 50%
- Terrain Affordance
- Medium
- Efficiency
- 75%
Creation
- Work To Make
- 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs)
- Stuff Tags
- Metallic, Woody, Stony
- Resources to make
75 + 
25- Deconstruct yield
- 37 - 38 + 12 - 13
- Destroy yield
- 18 - 19 + 6 - 7
A simple research bench is a Production bench at which your colonists (not prisoners) can research new technology. Once you've selected a project in the Research tab, your research-capable colonists will operate the bench when not otherwise occupied. Multiple researchers can contribute toward a project at the same time, so long as sufficient research benches are available and/or double shifts. Simple research benches are incapable of researching certain advanced technologies. Getting further along on the research tree requires using a hi-tech research bench. It produces research at only 75% the rate of the high-tech research bench.
Building research benches outdoors imposes a x0.75 penalty to research speed. Indoors, the cleanliness of the room the bench is in comes into play, granting modifiers ranging from x0.75 for very dirty rooms to x1.09 for sterile. You can reinstall them at convenience. Because research projects are such long-term projects, it is strongly advised you place dining chairs or armchairs at each bench to keep your researchers comfortable.
Acquisition
The simple research bench is built with 75 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 750 for SMVs), 25 Steel in 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs).
Analysis
The simple research bench should be one of the first things to be set up in a new base, after building beds, a cookhouse, storage, and, possibly, a freezer. Multiple research benches can be used concurrently; as soon as you have the manpower to spare, you may want to have 2 researchers operating at once.
However, hi-tech research benches research faster; as soon as you have stable power and finish the Microelectronics research, simple benches should be replaced. Also, hi-tech research benches are outright required for technologies past Microelectronics.
If resources are tight, but several researchers are available, old simple research benches can be retained in order to research less complex technologies (such as hydroponics, firefoam, and prosthetics). Simple and hi-tech research benches may be used together, though pawns will automatically abandon any simple benches when hi-tech is required.
Stats table
 Simple research bench
|
Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | |||||
 Bioferrite  |
0 | 7,000 ticks (1.94 mins) | 500 | 75% | 129  |
 Gold |
20 | 2,520 ticks (42 secs) | 150 | 40% | 7,555 |
 Granite blocks |
0 | 16,940 ticks (4.71 mins) | 425 | 0% | 176 |
 Limestone blocks |
0 | 16,940 ticks (4.71 mins) | 388 | 0% | 176 |
 Marble blocks |
1 | 15,540 ticks (4.32 mins) | 300 | 0% | 171 |
 Plasteel |
0 | 6,160 ticks (1.71 mins) | 700 | 0% | 745 |
 Sandstone blocks |
0 | 14,140 ticks (3.93 mins) | 350 | 0% | 166 |
| Silver |
6 | 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs) | 175 | 40% | 810 |
 Slate blocks |
0 | 16,940 ticks (4.71 mins) | 325 | 0% | 176 |
| Steel |
0 | 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs) | 250 | 40% | 200 |
 Jade |
10 | 14,000 ticks (3.89 mins) | 125 | 0% | 475 |
 Uranium |
0 | 5,320 ticks (1.48 mins) | 625 | 0% | 515 |
 Wood |
0 | 1,960 ticks (32.67 secs) | 163 | 100% | 145 |
Version history
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