Editing Mechband antenna

{{Biotech}}
{{Infobox main|building
| name = Mechband antenna
| image = MechbandAntenna north.png
| description = A mech-band signaling device. When activated, it puts out a powerful mech signal pulse, which will attract an ultra-heavy feral mechanoid to attack with its escorts. If you can defeat it, you can collect special technologies from its corpse. The signal pulse burns out the transmitter, so this building can only be used once.
| type = Building
| type2 = Biotech (Buildings)
| placeable = 
| path cost = 
| passability = pass through only
| blockswind = 
| cover = 0.3
| minifiable = 
| mass base = 25
| size = 2 * 1
| flammability = 0.5
| hp = 80
| beauty = 
| power = 
| terrain affordance = 
| research = Standard mechtech
| skill 1 = 
| skill 1 level =
| work to make = 8000
| resource 1 = Steel
| resource 1 amount = 50
| resource 2 = Component
| resource 2 amount = 4
| destroyyield = {{Icon Small|Steel slag chunk||3}}
| thingCategories = BuildingsMisc
| buildingTags = Biotech
}}
A '''mechband antenna''' is a [[building]] added by the [[Biotech DLC]] that allows a [[mechanitor]] to summon the [[war queen]].

== Acquisition ==
Mechband antennae can be constructed once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed. Each requires {{Required Resources}} and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work.

== Summary ==
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A mechband antenna can be activated by a [[mechanitor]] to summon the hostile [[war queen]], which will drop a [[powerfocus chip]] when defeated. This destroys the antenna, turning it into 2-4 [[steel slag chunk]]s.

It cannot be used in the time between another mechanoid boss being summoned and that boss arriving. In addition, there is a 2 day cooldown between summoning any mech boss, regardless of when the mechs actually arrive.

=== Summoning ===
Each time an antenna is activated, the number of mechanoids escorting the war queen increases.{{Check Tag|Detail|reason=Per colony map or world wide?}}
# 1x War queen with heavy shield unit, 5x [[pikeman]], 2x [[scyther]]
# 1x War queen with heavy shield unit, 7x [[militor]], 2x [[centipede]] (burner)
# 1x War queen with heavy shield unit, 5x [[pikeman]], 2x [[tesseron]], 3x [[Tunneler (Mechanoid)|tunneler]]
# 2x War queen with heavy shield unit, 8x [[militor]], 4x [[lancer]], 2x [[centipede]] (burner)
# 2x War queen with heavy shield unit, 5x [[pikeman]], 5x [[lancer]], 3x [[legionary]], 3x [[centipede]] (burner)
# 2x War queen with heavy shield unit, 14x [[scyther]], 4x [[centipede]] (burner), 1x [[centurion]]
# 2x War queen with heavy shield unit, 8x [[centipede]] (burner), 18x [[scorcher]]
# 3x War queen with heavy shield unit, 6x [[scyther]], 6x [[lancer]], 3x [[legionary]], 8x [[centipede]] (burner), 1x [[centurion]]

Like the other mechanoid bosses, after being summoned 8 times, the next summon will be the same as wave 3. The wave count is per playthrough, not per colony or map.{{Check Tag|Archonexus?|Confirm the wave count doesn't reset after archonexus transfer}} If the war queen is summoned once on one map, summoning another on a second map will bring the second wave.

== Analysis ==
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Build a mechband antenna when you are ready to fight the [[war queen]]. In terms of actual cost, the war queen arrives with 600 steel worth of [[war urchin]]s, and its allies can be shredded down, too. This results in the antenna being a complete positive in steel once [[Research#Fabrication|Fabrication]] is available. Even when you can't fabricate components, the cost of an antenna is quite small for what a powerfocus chip gets you.

== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Super-mechanoids cannot be called when there is already another super-mechanoid on the way.

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[[Category:Biotech (Buildings)]]