Editing Ship landing beacon

{{Royalty}}{{infobox main|misc|
| name = Ship landing beacon
| image = Ship Landing Beacon.png
| description = 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.
| type = Building
| type2 = Misc
| placeable = true
| path cost = 14
| cover = 0.15
| minifiable = true
| size = 1 ˣ 1
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0.5
| hp = 75
| sell price multiplier = 0.7
| power = -50
| glowradius = 2
| glowcolor = (164, 255, 138)
| terrain affordance = light
| research = Electricity
| thingCategories = BuildingsMisc
| work to make = 800
| resource 1 = Steel
| resource 1 amount = 40
| resource 2 = Component
| resource 2 amount = 1
| destroyyield = nothing
}}

The '''ship landing beacon''' tells [[shuttle]]s where to land. Four of them must be placed on the corners of a clear area larger than 9x9 to create a landing pad. Shuttles will use the cleared area if possible. 

== Acquisition ==
Ship landing beacons can be constructed once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed. They require {{Required Resources}} and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work.

Ship landing beacons will also spawn, in the correct orientation and on a [[floor]]ed landing pad, in [[Empire]] [[faction base]]s, often with a [[shuttle]] on it about to take off.

== Summary ==
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When 4 beacons are placed in a rectangle of minimum size 9x9 and provided with power the area becomes a landing pad. [[Shuttle|Shuttles]] will land there if possible for dropoff and pickup of characters for [[quests]]. It does not work for [[Quests#Shuttle Crash|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 [[roof|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 ==
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Cover the landing area in flooring, such as concrete, to prevent tree growth blocking the pad.

== Trivia == 
[[Ancient nav beacon]]s{{IdeologyIcon}} 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 beacon|ship landing zones]].

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Ship Landing Beacon.png|[[Ship landing beacon]] from [[Royalty DLC]]
Ancient nav beacon.png|Ancient nav beacon from [[Ideology DLC]]
Ruined landing pad.png|An ancient landing pad 
</gallery>

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