Solar pinhole

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Solar pinhole

Solar pinhole

Base Stats

Type
Psycast

Solar pinhole is a level 1 psycast that creates a source of light and heat for a duration.

Acquisition

There are two ways to acquire the psycast Solar pinhole:

  1. Upon reaching psylink level 1, a random psycast of level 1 is granted regardless of how this level up is achieved. This won't apply if the psycaster already knew one or more level 1 psycast.
  2. Solar pinhole can also be acquired from a psytrainer naming it. See the psytrainer page for further details.

Summary

Analysis

Solar pinhole can be used to warm rooms during a cold snap if you don't have enough heaters. Since solar pinholes are relatively inexpensive psyfocus-wise, multiple can be cast if needed.

Use it when mining deep underground to avoid the darkness work speed penalty without having to build long, temporary, and/or redundant infrastructure.

Also good for icesheet or other places where heat and light are hard to fuel pre-electricity. Getting lucky with the right random psycast can lessen a colony's dependence on geysers and allow more rapid and/or flexible expansion.

Version history

  • 1.2.2719 - Added.
  • 1.4.3580 - Fix: Solar Pinhole cannot be created over non-edifice buildings.