Mech booster
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Mech booster
A remote energy and computation enhancement device. Any friendly mechanoids in its effect radius will move and work faster.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Production
- Market Value
- 345
[Note] - Beauty
- 0
- HP
- 150
- Flammability
- 50%
- Path Cost
- 42 (24%)
Building
- Size
- 2 × 2
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 75%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
- Power
- 200 W
Creation
- Required Research
- High mechtech
- Skill Required
- Construction 5
- Work To Make
- 8,040 ticks (2.23 mins)
- Resources to make
100 + 
4- Deconstruct yield
- 50 + 2
- Destroy yield
- 25 + 1
Mech boosters are a building added by the Biotech DLC that provides a speed bonus to nearby Mechanoids, allowing them to move and work faster.
Acquisition
Mech boosters can be constructed once the High mechtech research project has been completed. They require 100 Steel, 4 Components, 8,040 ticks (2.23 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 5.
Summary
Mech boosters consume 200 W of power and provide a ×150% multiplier to Global Work Speed and a ×115% multiplier to move speed to mechs operating within 9.9 tiles of the lower left corner of the booster. After exiting the radius, the effect disappears after 30 ticks (0.5 secs). The effects of multiple mech boosters do not stack.
The bonuses from mech boosters are applied before the additive increases from control sublinks or the Mechanoid Labor: Enhanced precept
; the mech booster does not further increase the effects of either.
All labor mechanoids except the tunneler have a Global Work Speed of 50%. Therefore, the mech booster will increase their work speed by +25%, regardless of any other factors.
| Control Sublinks |
Work Speed | Mech Boosted | Mech Boosted + Labor: Enhanced
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 75% | 95% |
| 1 | 56% | 81% | 101% |
| 2 | 62% | 87% | 107% |
| 3 | 68% | 93% | 113% |
| 4 | 74% | 99% | 119% |
| 5 | 80% | 105% | 125% |
| 6 | 86% | 111% | 131% |
Analysis
Mech boosters provide a substantial boost to mech productivity. Prioritize placing them where mechs will do a lot of work, such as a kitchen, hopsital, workshop, or greenhouse. While you could make another labor mech for the same cost as a booster, the mech booster can support multiple mechs at once and doesn't consume bandwidth.
They do little to help combat mechs, only increasing their movement speed in a small radius.
Version history
- Biotech DLC Release - Added
- Families
- Relationships (Reproduction • Children)
Life stages (Babies • Children • Adults)
Furniture (Crib • Baby sleeping spot • Growth vat • Toy box • Baby decoration • School desk • Blackboard) - Mechanoids
- Laborers (Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler)
Combatants (Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron)
Commanders (Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen • War urchin) - Mechanitors
- Control (Mechlink • Band node • Mech boosters • Mech signallers • Control pack • Airwire headset)
Mechanoid creation (Basic subcore • Standard subcore • High subcore • Subcore encoder • Subcore softscanner • Subcore ripscanner • Mech gestator)
Maintenance (Mech recharger) - Genetics
- Xenohumans (
Dirtmoles • 
Genies • 
Highmates • 
Hussars • 
Impids • 
Neanderthals • 
Pigskins • 
Sanguophages • 
Wasters • 
Yttakin)
Genes Germline • Xenogene • Metabolic efficiency
Genetic Modification Genepack • Gene extractor • Gene bank • Gene assembler • Gene processor • Xenogerm • Archite capsules
Deathrest (Deathrest accelerator • Deathrest capacity serum • Deathrest casket • Glucosoid pump • Hemogen amplifier • Hemopump • Psychofluid pump) - Pollution
- Nature (Toxalope • Toxipotato plant • Waste rat • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree • Stasis cocoon)
Mitigation (Wastepacks • Atomizers • Pollution pumps • Polux trees)
Adaptation Face mask • Gas mask • Tox grenades • Tox pack • Tox shell • Toxic needle gun • Toxbomb launcher • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung
Nonchalance Toxifier generator