Shard beacon
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Shard beacon
A shard of dark archotechnology mounted on a bioferrite pedestal. The shard, focused by the bioferrite, shapes nearby dark psychic flows. When placed near a psychic ritual spot, it improves the ritual quality.
A ritual can benefit from up to four shard beacons.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Anomaly (Buildings)
- Market Value
- 425
[Note] - Mass
- 10 kg
- HP
- 100
- Flammability
- 0%
Building
- Cover Effectiveness
- 15%
Creation
- Work To Make
- 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs)
- Resources to make
1 + 
30- Deconstruct yield
- 0 - 1 + 15
- Destroy yield
- 0 - 1 + 7 - 8
Shard beacons are buildings added by the Anomaly DLC that improve the quality of psychic rituals.
Acquisition
Shard beacons can be constructed, each requiring 1 Shard, 30 Bioferrite and 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder.
Summary
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Each beacon within 10 tiles of a psychic ritual spot[Multiple spots?] provides an +8% bonus to ritual quality, up to a maximum of +32% with four beacons.
Analysis
Shard beacons represent a significant improvement to the efficacy of psychic rituals, making them much more efficient for a one-time investment.[Examples?] Any colony making frequent use of rituals should invest in beacons eventually.
The primary concern is the cost of a shard per beacon. Shards can be in short supply even when encountered regularly as they have a number of powerful uses. When to invest becomes a balancing act that depends on the focus of a colony - a colony using rituals as soon as they leave cooldown may build beacons as soon as they have infused a couple of ghouls, while less frequent users can stand to delay for other infrastructure especially if they have particularly psychically sensitive invokers to make up the short fall.
Version history
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added
