Vacstone

This article is about the wall-like, stone structure. For the material that items and structures can be made from, see Vacstone blocks.

See also: Smoothed granite

Vacstone

Vacstone

Compacted rock and dust harvested from asteroids.

Base Stats

Type

Structure

Beauty

-2

HP

600

Flammability

0%

Rotatable

False

Building

Size

1 × 1

Passability

impassable

Cover Effectiveness

75%

Blocks Wind

True

Technical

defName

Vacstone

Color

(105,95,97)

Vacstone is a natural structure that can be mined to obtain a vacstone chunk. Do note that this is not a guarantee. Vacstone is only found within asteroids in orbit.

Summary

Vacstone tiles have 600 health each, making it the third hardest stone block to mine. Each mined block has ~25% chance base to yield a vacstone stone chunk, each of which can be transform into 20 vacstone blocks.

This tile can also be smoothed to create Smoothed vacstone.

Analysis

Vacstone is used to craft advanced gravstructures like large thrusters, gravlite panels, and gravlite power cores. Therefore, the player needs to visit orbit to improve their gravship (it is unknown if vacstone can drop as a meteorite). The fact that vacstone is mined in orbit necessitates some preparation. Vacstone can be mined without vacuum protection suits if done right. For that, the player lands with one of the gravships' doors on the side of the asteroid and mines a room into the asteroid, which is then equipped with oxygen pumps (and heaters if necessary). The player can then gradually mine out the asteroid while being protected from the vacuum. Extreme caution should be taken, as even minor mistakes can kill colonists from vacuum exposure. Mining using vacuum-resistant suits is therefore much safer. If the Biotech DLC is enabled, then a combination of Tunnelers and Lifters can be used to quickly gather vacstone while pawns safely reside inside the ship.

The player can alternatively consider hauling the vacstone chunks onboard the ship and wait until they are back on solid ground to cut them. While this method is less space-efficient, it allows the player to retreat from orbit as soon as possible instead of waiting for all chunks to be cut into blocks.

Gallery

• Vacstone.png

  Natural vacstone wall

• Smoothed vacstone.png

  Smoothed vacstone wall

• Vacstone chunk A.png

  Vacstone chunk variant A

• Vacstone chunk B.png

  Vacstone chunk variant B

• Vacstone chunk C.png

  Vacstone chunk variant C

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  Single stack of vacstone blocks

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  Stack of multiple vacstone blocks

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  Full stack of vacstone blocks