Skullspike
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Skullspike
A spike mounted upright for the purpose of piercing and displaying a human skull. To some, displayed skulls are a symbol of power. To others, they represent barbaric evil. Skullspikes are an especially brutal and effective way to terrorize slaves.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 1 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 50%
- Blocks Wind
- True
- Terrain Affordance
- Medium
Creation
- Skill Required
- Construction 4
- Work To Make
- 1,600 ticks (26.67 secs)
- Stuff Tags
- Woody, Metallic
- Resources to make
25 + 
1- Deconstruct yield
- 12 - 13 + 0 - 1
- Destroy yield
- 6 - 7 + 0 - 1
- thingCategories
- BuildingsMisc
A Skullspike is a decoration added by the Ideology DLC. It inflicts terror on slaves and gives a mood buff or debuff to other pawns depending on their ideology.
Acquisition
Constructing a skullspike requires 25 Stuff (Woody/Metallic, 250 for SMVs), 1 Skull, and 1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) of work. They can be created regardless of ideoligion.
They can also be found in the faction bases of factions with the Skullspike: Desired precept as part of their ideoligion.
Summary
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Skullspikes give a mood buff or malus depending on the Skullspike precept. Pawns with Skullspikes: Desired gain a +1 moodlet for being near 1-3 of them, +2 mood for being near 4-8, and +3 mood for being near 9 or more. Pawns with Skullspikes: Disapproved get −1 to −3 mood at the same thresholds.
Worth 25 terror to slaves in a 4 tile radius. When slaves are near a terror structure, they will gain suppression.
Skullspikes will display the name of the pawn from whom the skull used to construct it was extracted.
Analysis
Skullspikes are a rather cheap way to get up to +3 mood for suitable ideoligions, simply by being near them. Install them in dining/recreation rooms, so that all your pawns will see them.
There is no functional reason to not have the Skullspikes: Desired precept; this precept can be put on any ideoligion, it does not penalize you for not having skulls around, and the Skullspikes: Disapproved precept offers no benefit.
Their improvement in slave suppression is small, and redundant when slaves are in slave collars and slave body straps and not wearing any suppression loss increasing apparel. If there is cause to put slaves in other apparel, then skullspikes are a cheap way to slightly reduce reliance on wardens, especially if they already provide the small mood buff to your colonists.
Stats table
 Skullspike
|
Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | |||||
 Bioferrite  |
0 | 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) | 300 | 0% | 38  |
 Gold |
20 | 1,440 ticks (24 secs) | 90 | 0% | 2,510 |
 Plasteel |
0 | 3,520 ticks (58.67 secs) | 420 | 0% | 245 |
| Silver |
6 | 1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) | 105 | 0% | 260 |
 Steel |
0 | 1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) | 150 | 0% | 58 |
 Uranium |
0 | 3,040 ticks (50.67 secs) | 375 | 0% | 166 |
 Wood |
0 | 1,120 ticks (18.67 secs) | 98 | 0% | 39 |
Version history
- Ideology DLC Release - Added.
- 1.3.3101 - Can now be walked through.
- 1.3.3117 - Now displays whose skull is contained inside on their inspect pane. Path cost 0 -> 30.
- Misc
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• Nature shrine (Large, Small) - (research)
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