Blackboard

Blackboard

A flat stone-like surface for writing on with chalk. Placed near a lesson desk, blackboards increase childrens' learning rate during lessons. Up to three blackboards can be used at a time.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Furniture

Mass

7 kg

Beauty

2

HP

60

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

50 (21%)

Building

Size

2 × 1

Room Role

Classroom

Creation

Required Research

Complex furniture

Work To Make

1,000 ticks (16.67 secs)

Stuff Tags

Woody, Stony

Resources to make

15

Deconstruct yield

7 - 8

Destroy yield

3 - 4

The blackboard is a furniture item added by the Biotech DLC that improves the rate a child learns at a school desk.

Acquisition

Blackboards can be constructed once the Complex furniture research project has been completed. Each requires  15 Stuff (Woody/Stony) and 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder and the work to build factor and offset of the material.

Summary

When connected to a school desk, each blackboard increases a student's Learning rate from Lesson Learning by 20%. This effect can stack up to three times per desk. A blackboard can connect to multiple desks. It does not matter which way the blackboard is facing.

Blackboards also increase children's skill XP gain from learning with an adult by 20% per blackboard. Meanwhile adult's social XP gain remains unaffected.

Analysis

Blackboards are technically unnecessary. Children can still reach growth tier 8 without blackboards attached to their school desk. Blackboards will make up for extended periods of non-Learning, such as when resting from disease. And, because they are so cheap, you might as well build them.

Stats table

Blackboard	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value
Material
Granite blocks	2	006,140 ticks (1.71 mins)	102	0%	36
Jade	15	005,000 ticks (1.39 mins)	30	0%	93
Limestone blocks	2	006,140 ticks (1.71 mins)	93	0%	36
Marble blocks	4	005,640 ticks (1.57 mins)	72	0%	34
Sandstone blocks	2	005,140 ticks (1.43 mins)	84	0%	32
Slate blocks	2	006,140 ticks (1.71 mins)	78	0%	36
Wood	2	000,700 ticks (11.67 secs)	39	100%	21
Obsidian	12	005,500 ticks (1.53 mins)	30	0%	95
Vacstone blocks	2	006,140 ticks (1.71 mins)	108	0%	52

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - Added.

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Architect

Furniture

Animal bed • Animal sleeping box • Animal sleeping spot • Bedroll (Double) • Plant pot • Sculptures (Small, Large, Grand, Terror ) • Sleeping spot (Double, Baby ) • Stool • Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3) • Torch lamp • Wall torch lamp • Wall lamp • Animus stone • Darktorch • Fungus darktorch • Crib

Complex Furniture

Armchair • Bed (Double) • Bookcase (Small) • Couch • Dining chair • Dresser • End table • Royal bed • Shelf (Small) • Brazier (Darklight ) • Drape • Grand meditation throne • Meditation throne • Slab bed (Double) • Baby decoration • Blackboard • School desk • Toy box

(research)

Flood light • Hospital bed • Standing lamp • Sun lamp • Bonsai pot

(uncraftable)

Urn • Blood torch