Life support unit

Life support unit

A unit connected to the orbital platform's larger life support network. It keeps rooms heated and pressurized.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Ruins

HP

35

Building

Size

1 × 1

Power

3200 W

Heat Per Second

30

The Life support unit is a wall-mounted building that produces power, heat, and oxygen.

Acquisition

Life support units cannot be constructed or minified. They can only be found in-situ on abandoned orbital platforms, where they are typically abundant.

Summary

Every 250 ticks (4.17 secs), a life support unit lowers the vacuum percentage of its current room. The room must be enclosed by airtight structures and roofed. It changes the vacuum percentage at a base rate of −5% per second per 100 tiles, scaling proportionally to the number of tiles enclosed; for instance, a room with 25 tiles will reduce the vacuum percentage by −20% per second, while a room with 200 tiles will drop by −2.5% per second. Multiple oxygen sources may be required to pressurize especially large rooms.

Life support units will attempt to heat the room so long as the room temperature is lower than 20 °C (68 °F). As opposed to a heater, the target temperature cannot be configured.

Unlike most other buildings, the life support unit does not occupy a tile and instead mounts to side of any wall or similar object, including natural stone and ore. Note that merely being impassable is not sufficient to mount one, and it must be akin to a wall. An object can mount one wall mount building on each cardinal direction. Whether the object to which it is mounted is claimed by the player, or not, is irrelevant.

For the purposes of areas of effects originating from the life support unit, it is considered to occupy the tile adjacent to the wall it is mounted upon and visually projects over.^{[Wb incoming damage?]} Otherwise, it has essentially no other effect on the the tile. It does not affect path cost, nor prevent the construction of other building on the tile. This includes walls and, so long as they are mounted to different objects, other wall mounted objects.

If the object to which it is mounted is deconstructed or destroyed, the life support unit will be destroyed.^{[Destroy yield?]}

Analysis

Although these cannot be built or claimed, like all power buildings power can be drawn from it by connecting power conduits of any kind to it. Set up a base in an abandoned orbital platform and never worry about power, heat, or vacuum again.

Version history

• Odyssey DLC Release - Added.

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Ruins

Structures

Wall • Column • Door

Floors

Concrete • Stone tiles • Flagstones

Furniture

Urn • Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3) • Stele (Large, Grand)

Loot containers

Hermetic crate • Security crate  • Advanced component box  • Chemfuel canister  • Component box  • Malfunctioning transport pod  • Medicine pallet  • Rusted safe  • Sealed container  • Sealed crate  • Steel scrap box  • Steel scrap pallet  • Survival meal pallet 

Other buildings

Crashed shuttle • Ship chunk • Ship part (defoliator) • Ship part (psychic droner) • Life support unit • Mechanoid ship chunk

Ancient buildings

Ancient bed • Ancient concrete barrier • Ancient container • Ancient equipment blocks • Ancient fence • Ancient jet engine • Ancient lamppost • Ancient machine • Ancient mega-cannon platform • Ancient band node  • Ancient exostrider cannon  • Ancient exostrider head  • Ancient exostrider leg  • Ancient exostrider midsection  • Ancient large mech gestator  • Ancient mech gestator  • Ancient standard recharger  • Ancient toxifier generator  • Ancient car  • Ancient car frame  • Ancient comms console  • Ancient cryptosleep pod  • Ancient dropship  • Ancient dropship engine  • Ancient enemy terminal  • Ancient lamp  • Ancient pipeline section  • Ancient pod car  • Ancient ruined APC  • Ancient ruined tank  • Ancient tank trap  • Ancient terminal  • Ancient troop carrier  • Ancient truck  • Ancient unstable fuel node  • Ancient warspider remains  • Ancient warsprinter remains  • Ancient warwalker claw  • Ancient warwalker foot  • Ancient warwalker leg  • Ancient warwalker shell  • Ancient warwalker torso  • Ancient chemtruck  • Ancient container  • Ancient container  • Ancient drill rig  • Ancient excavator  • Ancient explosives crate  • Ancient heat vent  • Ancient mining charge  • Ancient smoke vent  • Ancient toxic vent  • Ancient tunneler claw  • Ancient tunneler husk  • Ancient uplink  • Ancient wind turbine 

Ruined buildings

Ruined forklift 

Rusted buildings

Rusted bed  • Rusted double bed  • Rusted industrial truck  • Rusted open container 

Decorative Ruins

Ancient buildings

Ancient barrel • Ancient basic recharger • Ancient crate • Ancient display bank • Ancient engine block • Ancient generator • Ancient hydrant • Ancient ATM  • Ancient air conditioner  • Ancient giant wheel  • Ancient kitchen sink  • Ancient large crate  • Ancient locker bank  • Ancient long crate  • Ancient macro-engine block  • Ancient mech drop beacon  • Ancient mega-cannon barrel  • Ancient microwave  • Ancient nav beacon  • Ancient operating table  • Ancient oven  • Ancient pipes  • Ancient postbox  • Ancient razor wire  • Ancient refrigerator  • Ancient security turret  • Ancient shopping cart  • Ancient small crate  • Ancient storage cylinder  • Ancient stove  • Ancient system rack  • Ancient toilet  • Ancient vending machine  • Ancient washing machine  • Ancient wheel  • Ancient antenna  • Ancient armchair  • Ancient brewery  • Ancient butcher table  • Ancient chembarrel  • Ancient chembarrel pallet  • Ancient cold storage  • Ancient crate pallet  • Ancient drug lab  • Ancient electric tailor bench  • Ancient fueled smithy  • Ancient hand tailor bench  • Ancient industrial shelf  • Ancient machining table  • Ancient military barrier  • Ancient military generator  • Ancient pipe  • Ancient plant pot  • Ancient transport pod 

Broken buildings

Broken autocannon turret • Broken uranium slug turret • Busted mortar • Busted television • Cracked bathtub • Cracked shower

Ruined buildings

Ruined crane arm  • Ruined crane arm  • Ruined crane base  • Ruined crane column  • Ruined forklift 

Rusted buildings

Rusted lockers  • Rusted metal crate  • Rusted microwave 

Other buildings

Large concrete barrier • Old cardboard box • Old wooden crate • Rubble pile