Weight Plate

Weight Plate

Sends a Green Signal when an object or Duplicant is placed atop of it.
Cannot be triggered by Gas or Liquids.

Weight plates can be used to turn on amenities only when Duplicants pass by.

Research

Generic Sensors

Dimensions

1×1 tiles

Category

Automation

Decor

-5 (Radius: 1 tile)

Effects

Runspeed: +25%

Auto Out

Green: Object or Duplicant present on top
Red: No Object or Duplicant on top

Materials

Refined Metal

50 kg

Weight Plate is an Automation building that outputs a Green/Red signal to automation grids. The signal changes when an item (e.g. solid debris), critter (including Slicksters) or Duplicant of sufficient weight is placed on it.

To provide a signal it must be connected to buildings by Automation Wire.

A Weight Plate compares pressure to the set threshold. You can select whether it activates if it is above or below that threshold.

The plate can function as a normal Tile.

It cannot be triggered by gas or liquids.

Pressure threshold is between 0 kg and 2000 kg.

Tips

• The mass of critters can be looked up in their parameters tab. A Duplicant, for example, has mass of 30 kg.
• It cannot detect the mass of buildings in the tile above it. For example it cannot detect the mass of rocket engine above it.
• There are several scenarios where the weight plate registers, or doesn't register mass contrary to intuition or expectation:
  • Wall-walking critters (Pips, Dreckos, Voles, Slugs) will trip the weight plate whenever they are inside the cell above it, not necessarily standing on the plate.
  • Similar applies to Aquatic Critters who do trip weight plates if immediately above them, both when swimming and flopping.
  • Levitating Slicksters walking over it without stopping will trip the weight plate in absence of substantial liquid mass, but won't trip the plate if moving above a liquid above the plate.
  • Flying critters generally don't trip the plate, but Beetas sleeping in CO2 do trip it, even though sleeping baby Pufts or Shine Bugs do not.
  • Large critters spanning multiple cells (Grubgrubs, Lumbs, Dreckos, Slugs, Bammoths) trigger the weight plate only by their front-most cell. However, slugs will not trip the weight-plate while hanging in a 2-high tunnel despite appearing as sleeping head-down. An adult Jawbo trips the plate by its hind cell.
  • Any solid tiles, including closed Airlocks of any kind and bunker doors, and natural tiles, register as the mass of the tile only if the solid cell is created after the weight plate is built

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