Holding platform
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This article relates to content added by Anomaly (DLC). Please note that it will not be present without the DLC enabled. |
Holding platform
A platform for holding dangerous entities. The corners have eyelets where strong chains can be attached.
Downed entities can be captured and secured on a holding platform, where they can be studied for Anomaly knowledge. Increase containment strength by building strong walls and doors, and other special containment devices.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Anomaly (Buildings)
- Market Value
- 76
[Note] - Mass
- 30 kg
- HP
- 500
- Flammability
- 50%
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 30 (30%)
Building
- Size
- 3 × 3
- Minifiable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 40%
- Room Role
- Containment cell
Creation
- Required Research
- Entity containment
- Work To Make
- 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs)
- Resources to make
40- Deconstruct yield
- 20
- Destroy yield
- 10
Containment
- Containment Factor
- ×100%
- defName
- HoldingPlatform
- thingCategories
- BuildingsMisc
- buildingTags
- Anomaly
Holding platforms are buildings added by the Anomaly DLC that allow for the containment of some entities.
They can be considered the upgraded form of the holding spot.
Acquisition[edit]
Holding platforms can be constructed once the Entity containment research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires 40 Steel and 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder.
Summary[edit]
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Formula[edit]
Below is the formula for containment strength without any modifiers.
| Containment strength = Current Average Door HP + Current Average Wall HP + (Average Light Level (%) * 100/10) (ɪꜰ[Active shard inhibitor ] −20 ᴇʟꜱᴇ +0) - electric(-10) inhibitor - active bioferrite harvester(-15) - electroharvesters(-25) |
Where current HP is the HP accounting for any damage to the building.
Analysis[edit]
The holding platform is the more advanced version of the holding spot, providing ×142% more containment, which in turn reduces escape chance and improves study rate. The extra containment can help counteract the penalty from harvesting resources from entities.
When making a holding cell, it is also important to keep in mind the walls and doors of the room. It is recommended to keep platforms in rooms surrounded by stone walls or better. A room out of a mountain is a very cheap way to boost containment. Multiple entities can be contained within the same room at the cost of weakening the containment strength. Lowering the temperature will also inhibit certain types of enities (fleshbeasts, shamblers, ghouls) while not boosting the escape rate of any other entity.
Containing entities without proper containment level[edit]
If an entity has enough brain damage, gets both/all of its legs/moving body parts destroyed, or otherwise loses enough of its moving or consciousness to permanently down it, the escape interval reduces to "never". This allows you to safely store the entity anywhere, as long as it can't regenerate permanent damage. As such, this strategy won't work with ghouls, but will work with nearly any fleshbeast, sightstealer, and noctol, with all of them allowing you to gain effectively infinite research, bioferrite and, in some cases, power at no cost. Some entities will eventually die if used with an electroharvester.
Meditation[edit]
Holding platforms or holding spots are a decent early game option for void meditation focus
pawns, as they are fairly cheap and can be placed anywhere (unlike Natural). Once void sculptures and shard beacons are built, psychic ritual spots are better for void focus.
Version history[edit]
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added
