Blackboard
This article relates to content added by Biotech (DLC). Please note that it will not be present without the DLC enabled. |
Blackboard
A flat stone-like surface for writing on with chalk. Placed near a lesson desk, blackboards increase childrens' learning rate during lessons. Up to three blackboards can be used at a time.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 2 × 1
Creation
- Required Research
- Complex furniture
- Work To Make
- 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs)
- Stuff Tags
- Woody, Stony
The blackboard is a furniture item added by the Biotech DLC
Acquisition
Blackboards can be constructed once the Complex furniture research project has been completed. They require 15 Stuff (Woody/Stony), 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs) of work, and a [[]] skill of .
Summary
When connected to a school desk, each blackboard increases a student's Learning rate from Lesson Learning by 20%. This effect can stack up to three times per desk. A blackboard can connect to multiple desks. It does not matter which way the blackboard is facing.
Analysis
If you have a comms console and a means of going outside, then blackboards are technically unnecessary. Children can easily reach growth tier 8 with just a school desk, so long as the other learning types are available. However, these buildings still increase average growth points. Therefore, blackboards will make up for extended periods of non-Learning, such as when resting from disease.
Ironically, blackboards can actually lower a child's skill growth. While lesson learning with an adult, children will gain skill XP at a constant rate, unaffected by blackboards. But when a children reaches 100% learning, they will stop learning entirely. Blackboards speed up learning, which decreases the time spent lesson learning, which reduces skill gain.
Stats table
Blackboard | Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Material | |||||
Granite blocks | 2 | ticks (1.71 mins) | 6,140102 | 0% | 36 |
Limestone blocks | 2 | ticks (1.71 mins) | 6,14093 | 0% | 36 |
Marble blocks | 4 | ticks (1.57 mins) | 5,64072 | 0% | 34 |
Sandstone blocks | 2 | ticks (1.43 mins) | 5,14084 | 0% | 32 |
Slate blocks | 2 | ticks (1.71 mins) | 6,14078 | 0% | 36 |
Jade | 15 | ticks (1.39 mins) | 5,00030 | 0% | 93 |
Wood | 2 | ticks (11.67 secs) | 70039 | 100% | 21 |
Version history
- Biotech DLC Release - Added.