Ship landing beacon

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Ship landing beacon

Ship landing beacon

Marks the corner of a landing area. Four of these placed at the corners of a clear area (minimum 9x9) create a landing pad. Spacecraft usually land on pads if possible.

Base Stats

Type
BuildingMisc
Market Value
111 Silver [Note]
Mass
5 kg
HP
75
Flammability
50%
Path Cost
14

Building

Size
1 × 1
Minifiable
True
Placeable
True
Cover Effectiveness
15%
Terrain Affordance
Light
Power
-50 W
Light Radius
0.96

Creation

Required Research
Electricity
Work To Make
800 ticks (13.33 secs)
Resources to make
Steel 40 + Component 1
Deconstruct yield
Steel 20 + Component 0 - 1
Destroy yield
nothing
Technical
thingCategories
BuildingsMisc


The ship landing beacon tells shuttles where to land. Four of them must be placed on the corners of a clear area at least 9x9 to create a landing pad. Shuttles will use the cleared area if possible.

Acquisition[edit]

Ship landing beacons can be constructed once the electricity research project has been completed. Each requires Steel 40 Steel, Component 1 Component and 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder.

Ship landing beacons will also spawn, in the correct orientation and on a floored landing pad, in Empire faction bases, often with a shuttle on it about to take off.

Summary[edit]

When 4 beacons are placed in a rectangle of minimum size 9x9 and provided with power the area becomes a landing pad. Shuttles will land there if possible for dropoff and pickup of characters for quests. It does not work for crashed shuttle quests.

The landing pad must be clear of any objects you cannot build on top of such as trees, chunks and other buildings. Additionally, the interior area of the landing pad not including the rows and columns of tiles with the beacons themselves, i.e. a 7x7 area for the minimum size, must be unroofed for the pad to function. The tiles in all 4 cardinal directions of each beacon, and the beacons themselves, can be roofed without issue.

Analysis[edit]

Cover the landing area in flooring, such as concrete, to prevent tree growth blocking the pad.

Trivia[edit]

Ancient nav beaconsContent added by the Ideology DLC that can be spawn as part of map generation bear a strong resemblence to ship landing beacons, though with visible damage. Similar to landing beacons, nav beacons will often spawn in the corners of partially incomplete, 11x11 areas of concrete, with anywhere between 1 and 4 ancient nav beacons being present - presumably representing ship landing zones.