Ancient unstable fuel node
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Ancient unstable fuel node
Ancient unstable fuel nodes are ruins added by the Ideology DLC. They spawn in ancient complexes, and act as traps, exploding and setting fires when pawns enter rooms.
Summary
When destroyed or damaged beyond 99% of its health, i.e. any attack that deals damage, it will spark and emit a hissing sound and explode after 480 ticks (8 secs), dealing 10 Flame damage in a 6.9 tile radius around itself. This explosion leaves Chemfuel puddles on 25% of the tiles covered by the explosion which will then ignite and burn.
They spawn in ancient complexes, and act as traps, exploding and setting fires when pawns enter rooms.
Analysis
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Tips and Tricks
1. Bringing a firefoam popper on the caravan trip and placing it nearby the fuelnode is a good way of stopping the fire from spreading too much and destroying everything(since some of the ancient ruins contain flammable objects)
2. Deconstructing the wall will consider the indoors areas as being outdoors, which will prevent the fire from heating up the room and burning any pawns that are inside(NOTE: the pawns can get burnt from nearby fire sources still)
3. Sometimes the fuelnode can be completely avoided, if there are no hostiles on the map and if the map is not a colony Rushing for the closed off loot before the fuelnode explodes and forming a caravan can prevent your pawns and unsure the loot is kept safe from the fire
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Version history
- Ideology DLC Release - Added.