Paths and Structures

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Paths and Structures are core functionalities for Beavers to navigate the area, and supporting large builds in the colony. Use of these buildings enable beavers to traverse distances separated by terrain, and also provide supporting frameworks for other buildings to be constructed on otherwise uneven ground.

Paths and Bridges

Beavers can only find their way to most of their destinations through  Paths, and  Stairs allow for access to the next immediate height level of the area.

When there is a river or ravine that needs crossing,  Suspension Bridges are an option to quickly construct and traverse. Suspension bridges are also easy to clean up after demolition, compared to other methods like a row of platforms each built from the ground up.

Platforms

Support structures are used to elevate buildings, create even spaces for uneven terrain, and allow passage of water underneath buildings.

Wooden Platforms are basic supporting structures a colony would have the quickest access to with the lowest  Science and material cost relative to the others in the group. These usually have 1x1 footprints and are easy ways to address simple access problems relating to access heights and uneven terrain for building large buildings.

 Overhangs are more advanced versions of wooden platforms, requiring  Metal Blocks to be built but allows for more outward spaces over the base 1x1 footprint. These are usually not taller than 1 unit high, but Overhangs can be stacked on each other at the far ends, enabling beavers to create far-reaching builds without having to consider what's below.

Metal Platforms are large simple squares to quickly add flat areas in an elevation. When used in conjunction with the other platforms, these are rapid ways to create more even surfaces for more buildings without having to resort to multiple  Overhangs if the design can be helped.

Transport

Transport Buildings enable beavers to traverse long distances even quickly.

The  Folktails'  Ziplines are an efficient way to go from point A to point B without having to traverse the variable geography of the area.

The  Iron Teeth  Tubeway System enables the inhabitants to simply move a lot quicker, perhaps not on feet, but through the constructed series of tubes that would bring them to their destinations, even vertically. The tubeways also allow builders to work inside any point in the network, as if they were regular  Paths, but will need an exit to actually arrive at any other destination.

Foot-travel estimates are adjusted accordingly, depending on each faction's transport boon. Lengths of  Ziplines, in a straight and level path to explain simply, are represented to be 0.4x the same physical length in  Paths. Similarly, lengths of the  Tubeway System has a representation of 0.25x the same physical length in  Paths.

In other words, a 100 tile distance represented in  Paths are reduced to 40 with  Ziplines, or 25 in the  Tubeway System

Workplace Reach Amplification

Field workplaces - like  Lumberjacks and  Farmhouses - gains extended reach when placed near a transport station, provided that the total distance the assigned worker travels to a tile would still be within its maximum distance range.

Another useful implementation of workplace reach amplification is to keep the flags above-water while making a shortcut to a deeply-submerged resource

For a simplified straight-line distance example, if a lumberjack:

• has a reach of 20 tiles in a single direction from the workplace, and
• there is a  Tubeway Station 5 tiles away that travel and exits 20 tiles later,

Lumberjacks leaving the other end of the station would have traveled 5 + (20 * 0.25) units, or 10 units in total, and would have 20-10 = 10 remaining units of distance at the exit to reach trees for logging nearby.

If a workplace hits the maximum distance inside or within the transport line itself, there would be no extended reach for it.

List of Structures

Paths and Structures	Factions	Unlock	Footprint	Bounding Box	Material Cost	Cost Per Square	Attributes	Build Time	Notes
Path			1x1	1x1, flat				Instant
Wooden Stairs		70	1x1	1x1, 2h	1, 4	1, 4		Linear
Platform		100	1x1	1x1, 1h	6	6	Solid	Linear
Double Platform		150	1x1	1x1, 2h	8	8	Solid	Linear
Triple Platform		200	1x1	1x1, 3h	10	10	Solid	Linear
Suspension Bridge 1x1		150	1x1, edge	2x1, 1h	4, 4	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Suspension Bridge 2x1		250	1x1, edge	3x1, 1h	8, 8	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Suspension Bridge 3x1		400	1x1, edge	4x1, 1h	12, 12	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Suspension Bridge 4x1		600	1x1, edge	5x1, 1h	16, 16	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Suspension Bridge 5x1		1.0k	1x1, edge	6x1, 1h	20, 20	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Suspension Bridge 6x1		1.8k	1x1, edge	7x1, 1h	24, 24	4, 4		Linear	[a]
Zipline Station		700	2x3	x,h	20, 40, 20	n/a		Linear
Zipline Pylon		500	1x1	x,h	20, 10, 10	n/a		Linear
Zipline Beam		600	1x1, outward	x,h	20, 10, 10	n/a		Linear
Tubeway Station		700	2x3	2x3, 3h	40, 20, 20	n/a		Linear
Tubeway		500	1x1	1x1, 1h	2, 1	2, 1		Linear
Solid Tubeway		600	1x1	1x1, 1h	4, 1	4, 1	Solid	Linear
Overhang 2x1		350	1x1, outward	2x1, 1h	10, 10, 4	5, 5, 2	Solid	Linear
Overhang 3x1		550	1x1, outward	3x1, 1h	15, 15, 6	5, 5, 2	Solid	Linear
Overhang 4x1		1.0k	1x1, outward	4x1, 1h	20, 20, 8	5, 5, 2	Solid	Linear
Overhang 5x1		1.8k	1x1, outward	5x1, 1h	30, 30, 10	5, 5, 2	Solid	Linear
Overhang 6x1		3.0k	1x1, outward	6x1, 1h	36, 36, 12	5, 5, 2	Solid	Linear
Metal Platform 3x3		1.0k	1x1, centered	3x3, 1h	30	3.33	Solid	Linear
Metal Platform 5x5		2.0k	1x1, centered	5x5, 1h	90	3.6	Solid	Linear
Paths and Structures	Factions	Unlock	Footprint	Bounding Box	Material Cost	Cost Per Square	Attributes	Build Time	Notes

[a] The base of Suspension Bridges occupy the tile it is set on, and does not allow Paths thoroughfare like how Platforms would; Cost Per Square excludes this base square.