Pen marker
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Pen marker
A post with a sign designating an animal pen. It must be placed in an area enclosed by fences, barricades, walls, and doors. You can assign each pen marker a set of animals to accept, and handlers will bring animals to an appropriate pen.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 1 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 15%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
Creation
- Work To Make
- 600 ticks (10 secs)
- Stuff Tags
- Metallic, Woody, Stony
- Resources to make
30- Deconstruct yield
- 15
- Destroy yield
- 7 - 8
- thingCategories
- BuildingsMisc
Pen markers provide a zone for pen animals to be held.
Acquisition
A pen marker can be built with 30 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 300 for SMVs) and 600 ticks (10 secs) of work.
Summary
In Version 1.3 pen animals were introduced. While all animals are tamable, pen animals can no longer be trained or set to an allowed area and instead must be led to a designated pen; if they are not led to a designated pen or have an accessible path to exit the map, pen animals will slowly wander away. Pens can only be defined by a pen marker.
Analysis
Pen markers are cheap and a requirement if you are to tame any pen animals. A pen is defined when a pen marker is placed within fences, walls, and doors preventing any exit to the sides of the map. However, unlike rooms pens take into account held open doors / fence gates and animal flaps allowing you to expand or restrict the area when needed.
In addition to defining a pen, Pen markers provide various tools to help manage cattle. These are:
- An animals menu in order to select what animals are allowed in the pen (male / female option included).
- A food menu in order to determine the natural nutrition growth within the pen and the total consumption calculation.
- An auto-cut menu to designate what plants are allowed to grow within the pen and what are not.
When managing pens make sure to check the nutrition grown compared to the nutrition consumed, if there nutrition grown is less than the nutrition consumed then animal starvation is inevitable.
Pen Marker Menus
Animal Menu
Food Menu
Auto-cut Menu
Stats table
 Pen marker
|
Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | |||||
 Bioferrite  |
0 | 1,500 ticks (25 secs) | 200 | 75% | 28  |
 Gold |
20 | 540 ticks (9 secs) | 60 | 40% | 3,000 |
 Granite blocks |
0 | 3,740 ticks (1.04 mins) | 170 | 0% | 41 |
 Limestone blocks |
0 | 3,740 ticks (1.04 mins) | 155 | 0% | 41 |
 Marble blocks |
1 | 3,440 ticks (57.33 secs) | 120 | 0% | 39 |
 Plasteel |
0 | 1,320 ticks (22 secs) | 280 | 0% | 275 |
 Sandstone blocks |
0 | 3,140 ticks (52.33 secs) | 140 | 0% | 38 |
| Silver |
6 | 600 ticks (10 secs) | 70 | 40% | 300 |
 Slate blocks |
0 | 3,740 ticks (1.04 mins) | 130 | 0% | 41 |
 Steel |
0 | 600 ticks (10 secs) | 100 | 40% | 59 |
 Jade |
10 | 3,000 ticks (50 secs) | 50 | 0% | 161 |
 Uranium |
0 | 1,140 ticks (19 secs) | 250 | 0% | 184 |
 Wood |
0 | 420 ticks (7 secs) | 65 | 100% | 38 |
Version History
- 1.3.3066 - Added
- 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