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=== Strategy ===
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* ''Steel'' autodoors offer the best compromise of durability and speed.  Even unpowered they are only slightly slower than wooden doors, but a lot less flammable.
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* If fire immunity is required, a ''granite'' autodoor offers the highest durability (425 hit points).
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* Due to the non-trivial power and materials cost, most bases want to use ''autodoors'' only in select locations.
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* Stone autodoors are risky to use, because in times of power failure they will slow down colonists tremendously.  This is especially painful, because a blackout situation is very often also an emergency situation, where free movement is important.
  
 
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Revision as of 08:50, 3 September 2019

Autodoor

Autodoor

Divides rooms. Powered operation allows people to move through the door without slowing them down.

Base Stats

Type
Structure
HP
240

Building

Size
1
Placeable
Yes
Power
-50 W

Autodoors are powered doors that open and close a lot faster than regular doors of the same material.

The autodoor draws 50 W of power at all times. If not enough power is available, the autodoor behaves just like a regular door of the same material.

Contrarily to the in-game description, not all autodoors allow unimpeded movement. Actually, a powered autodoor opens at 400% speed. This means that all powered autodoors not made of stone do not slow colonists down. Stone autodoors open slightly faster than regular wooden doors.

A very fast moving pawn would be slowed even by the fastest autodoors, because none of them open instantly.

Since autodoors also close faster, they help in situations when a pawn needs to flee from a threat. The door will more likely than a regular door. close before the pursuer can step through or block the door from closing.

The below animation displays the difference in slow down and door opening/closing speed (the animals all have an identical movement speed of 5 c/s).

Door materials from left to right: none, wood, steel, auto-wood, auto-steel, auto-stone, stone

Strategy

  • Steel autodoors offer the best compromise of durability and speed. Even unpowered they are only slightly slower than wooden doors, but a lot less flammable.
  • If fire immunity is required, a granite autodoor offers the highest durability (425 hit points).
  • Due to the non-trivial power and materials cost, most bases want to use autodoors only in select locations.
  • Stone autodoors are risky to use, because in times of power failure they will slow down colonists tremendously. This is especially painful, because a blackout situation is very often also an emergency situation, where free movement is important.