Editing Shelf

{{See also|Small shelf}}

{{Infobox main|furniture

| name = Shelf

| image = Shelf south.png

| description = A shelf for storing miscellaneous items. Items stored in this will not affect room beauty and they won't deteriorate, even if outside.

| type = Building

| type2 = Furniture

| placeable = true

| path cost = 50

| passability = pass through only

| cover = 0.4

| minifiable = true

| size = 2 ˣ 1

| mass base = 8

| flammability = 1

| hp = 100

| sell price multiplier = 0.7

| beauty = 0.5

| terrain affordance = light

| research = Complex furniture

| work to make = 500

| stuff tags = Metallic, Woody, Stony

| resource 1 = Stuff

| resource 1 amount = 20

A '''shelf''' is an item of [[furniture]] item that stores up to six stacks of items and protects them from [[deterioration]].

== Summary ==

A shelf acts like a [[stockpile zone]] that can hold 3 items a tile, or 6 items per shelf. They cannot hold [[chunk]]s, minified [[buildings]], [[plants]], [[toxic wastepack]]s {{BiotechIcon}} or corpses with a body size greater than 0.75. For a list of corpses that fit in a shelf when fully grown, see {{#ask: [[Body Size::<0.75]] | ?Body Size| ?Type | sort = Type, Type2, Name | limit = 0| searchlabel = here}}. It also protects items from [[deterioration]] and removes their [[beauty]] penalty. Instead, the beauty of the area covered by the shelf is only the combined beauty of the shelf itself and the underlying [[floor]] or [[terrain]].

 

 

 

 

 

Shelves can be named, just like storage areas. It is done by clicking the "Rename" icon in the top left of the building info popup. This will give the shelf or the group it is linked to the name, which then can be used in [[bills]] to move the products to the specified shelf group. This allows for shelves to act in the same way as storage areas.

[[File:Shelf_trick.png|thumb|left|200px|The "shelf trick". Shelves next to a worker's seat increase efficiency.]]

A shelf's main use is to store items. Each shelf gives thrice the storage space. They can store and "mask" many ugly items in your workstation, allow more [[meat]] into your freezer, protect weapons and mortar shells from [[deterioration]], etc. The removal of beauty penalty and their slight beauty boost make shelves convenient anywhere you want quick access to items, like medicine in a hospital.

 

Shelves can also make workers more efficient. Unlike actual storage zones, shelves allow a pawn to place or remove an item without walking on top of them. Working pawns can pick items off an adjacent shelf without needing to leave their seat, which significantly improves crafting time. This technique is best combined with "drop on floor when finished" and having other pawns restock the shelves. Even outside of workstations, not having to stand on top of the tile saves a very small amount of hauling time.

Eventually, any item that can be put on a shelf should be stored on a shelf - this saves space, which saves walking time, reduces the number of [[cooler]]s and [[firefoam popper]]s required, decreases the [[wall]]s required, etc.

You should make the shelves as cheap as possible - the material of a shelf is largely irrelevant. Material impacts beauty, HP, and flammability. Of these stats:

* The beauty and wealth increases are minimal, unless impractical materials like [[gold]] are used. If colonists spend only a short time near the shelf, such as in warehouse storage areas, then both stats don't matter at all.

* HP is redundant, as shelves should be very rarely under attack. In any case, shelves of cheap materials are cheap to replace.

* Flammability rarely matters, as a nonflammable shelf doesn't protect any items on it. If flammability is a concern, then [[stone]] is cheap, durable, and nonflammable.

For the purposes of [[raid points#Wealth points|raid points]], wealth from buildings is halved. Therefore the impact of shelf material on raids is practically nonexistent, unless you're playing on a 500% threat scale [[difficulty]], or if you're using shelves made of [[gold]].

Compared to 2 small shelves, the regular shelf takes 83% the work, but is a bigger loss if destroyed from a targeted [[tantrum]]. Either way, the differences are small - place mini shelves where they would fit, and regular shelves elsewhere.

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* [[Version/0.17.1546|0.17.1546]] - Renamed from '''Equipment rack''' to '''Shelf''', can now store anything instead of only apparel, mortar shells, and weapons

* [[Version/1.1.0|1.1.0]] - Shelves were given a path cost. This made them slower to move on top of, but also enabled the behavior of placing items on them without walking on top of them. Prior to this, players would use the "stool trick" for crafting stations, where several stools were placed around a crafting station that had high-priority stockpiles on top of them. Stools had a path cost (but allowed stockpile zones), achieving a similar effect. Description now states that they hide beauty of things inside of them.

 

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