Column
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Column
A column capable of holding a roof. Does not block sight or movement and looks quite nice.
Base Stats
- Mass
- 10 kg
- Beauty
- 5
- Style Dominance
- 10
- HP
- 160
- Flammability
- 100%
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 0
Building
- Size
- 1 ˣ 1
- Minifiable
- False
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 25%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
Creation
- Work To Make
- 750 ticks (12.5 secs)
- Stuff tags
- Metallic, Woody, Stony
- Resources to make
20- Deconstruct yield
- 10
- Destroy yield
- 5
Columns are passable structures primarily used to hold up roofs
Columns are capable of supporting roofing up to 6 tiles away in all directions. If a wall is destroyed or deconstructed, any unsupported roofing will instantly fall and injure any pawn below it, possibly fatally.
In this way they are similiar to walls. In contrast to walls, they provide significantly less cover, can be shot over/through, don't block LoS or Line of Effect, and can be walked though without even slowing a pawn down. They are also somewhat beautiful, have less HP and require significantly more resources than a wall.
Columns are built and repaired by colonists assigned to Construct. Columns construction may sometimes fail and waste the materials, more often with lower construction skill.
They are required for Nobles
of Knight or above.
Acquisition
Columns require 20 Stuff (Wood/Metals/Stone) and take 750 ticks (12.5 secs) to build.
Analysis
Columns are useful for stockpiles as they do not block the radius of Orbital trade beacons, unlike walls. On the other hand, they are 4 times more expensive.
Material table
| Material | Stuff cost | Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Column | 20 
|
5 | 525 ticks (8.75 secs) | 104 | 100% | 26 
|
| Granite Column | 20 
|
5 | 4,640 ticks (1.29 mins) | 272 | 0% | 34
|
| Limestone Column | 20 
|
5 | 4,640 ticks (1.29 mins) | 248 | 0% | 34
|
| Marble Column | 20 
|
8 | 4,265 ticks (1.18 mins) | 192 | 0% | 33
|
| Sandstone Column | 20 
|
5 | 3,890 ticks (1.08 mins) | 224 | 0% | 32
|
| Slate Column | 20 
|
5 | 4,640 ticks (1.29 mins) | 208 | 0% | 34
|
| Jade Column | 20 
|
22 | 3,750 ticks (1.04 mins) | 80 | 0% | 114
|
| Golden Column | 200 
|
40 | 675 ticks (11.25 secs) | 96 | 40% | 2000
|
| Plasteel Column | 20 
|
5 | 1,650 ticks (27.5 secs) | 448 | 0% | 186
|
| Silver Column | 200
|
16 | 750 ticks (12.5 secs) | 112 | 40% | 205
|
| Steel Column | 20 
|
5 | 750 ticks (12.5 secs) | 160 | 40% | 41
|
| Uranium Column | 20 
|
2 | 1,425 ticks (23.75 secs) | 400 | 0% | 125
|
