Laboratory

Researches devices and preserved kits, copies blueprints and layouts, and develops the next step of a chain. A blueprint taken from a sample is needed to manufacture the same devices.

Work time depends on the device and on Laboratory level: higher level, shorter cycle. The chance to take a blueprint from a sample comes from the Engineer skill: 0% with no skill, each level adds 8%, 80% at level 10. Building level does not change the chance. The sample is taken at once; on failure the part is lost.

Copying always succeeds. Development takes twice as long; the previous blueprint is not consumed. Not everything is accepted: complex devices, artifacts of other civilizations, and items with no manufacturing time — the Laboratory answers "Technologically infeasible".

Requires an Assembly shop to build.

Warehouse for mined minerals: 500
Initial construction time: 180 seconds; reduced when studying the Builder science
Energy consumption: 35

Object mass: 100000