Ship landing beacon
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Ship landing beacon
Marks the corner of a landing area. Four of these placed at the corners of a clear area (minimum 9x9) create a landing pad. Spacecraft usually land on pads if possible.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 1 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Cover Effectiveness
- 15%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
- Power
- -50 W
- Light Radius
- 0.96
Creation
- Required Research
- Electricity
- Work To Make
- 800 ticks (13.33 secs)
- Resources to make
40 + 
1- Deconstruct yield
- 20 + 0 - 1
- Destroy yield
- nothing
- thingCategories
- BuildingsMisc
The ship landing beacon tells shuttles where to land. Four of them must be placed on the corners of a clear area larger than 9x9 to create a landing pad. Shuttles will use the cleared area if possible.
Acquisition
Ship landing beacons can be constructed once the Electricity research project has been completed. They require 40 Steel, 1 Component and 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work.
Ship landing beacons will also spawn, in the correct orientation and on a floored landing pad, in Empire faction bases, often with a shuttle on it about to take off.
Summary
When 4 beacons are placed in a rectangle of minimum size 9x9 and provided with power the area becomes a landing pad. Shuttles will land there if possible for dropoff and pickup of characters for quests. It does not work for crashed shuttle quests.
The landing pad must be clear of any objects you cannot build on top of such as trees, chunks and other buildings. Additionally, the interior area of the landing pad not including the rows and columns of tiles with the beacons themselves, i.e. a 7x7 area for the minimum size, must be unroofed for the pad to function. The tiles in all 4 cardinal directions of each beacon, and the beacons themselves, can be roofed without issue.
Analysis
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- Misc
- Caravan hitching spot • Egg box • Grave • Marriage spot • Party spot • Pen marker • Sarcophagus • Tool cabinet • Meditation spot
• Nature shrine (Large, Small) - (research)
- Comms console • Cryptosleep casket • Firefoam popper • Ground-penetrating scanner • Long-range mineral scanner • Moisture pump • Multi-analyzer • Orbital trade beacon • Pod launcher • Stele (Large, Grand) • Transport pod • Vitals monitor • Ship landing beacon