Deathrest accelerator

Acquisition

Constructing a deathrest accelerator requires Deathrest to be researched, 300 Steel, 4 Components, and 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) of work.

Summary

Active deathrest accelerators require a pawn capable of deathrest, and must be connected to a deathrest casket. As a pawn deathrests, it consumes 800 W of power. Each accelerator speeds deathrest time by +20%, reducing the minimum time to avoid Deathrest Interrupted by 0.6 days per building. Up to 2 accelerators can be connected at a time.

Like other deathrest buildings, accelerators permanently bind to a pawn once used, with no penalty for deconstruction. Deathresting pawns have their own separate limit to the buildings they can connect to, which can be increased with a deathrest capacity serum.

Analysis

Deathrest accelerators provide an extra 1.2 days of a deathrester's time per year. This can help pawns awaken before the next raid appears, as well as give more work time. They have a general and generally helpful benefit, as opposed to specialized buildings like psychofluid pumps and hemogen amplifiers. As building capacity is limited for a long time, accelerators should be one of the first deathrest buildings you make. But depending on the pawn, you may prefer the combat and movement benefit from a glucosoid pump instead.

Once you have enough deathrest capacity serums for a single pawn, you can use the maximum of 4 glucosoid pumps and 2 accelerators. Afterwards you can use whatever buildings you want.

As with all other deathrest machines, these cost a non-negligible amount of steel and components. Consider holding off on building them until you are more well established and are able to produce steel and components reliably with deep drills and fabrication benches.

Unlike other deathrest machines, the deathrest accelerator does not consume hemogen. However, it does consume much more power when in use. They also do not consume power while idling, unlike their contemporaries such as sleep accelerators. Hence, they can be left idle without consequence.