Core Devices

Device Overview

These are the 49 devices implemented in Crystal (Alpha v0.7).

• Blueprints allow you to combine two to four formulas.
• One device is used for waypoints, and others can be used for blueprints.
• More than 160,000 total devices are possible.
• 170,000 custom blueprints are available for waypoints.
• There are three different types of drones, each with about 15,000 custom blueprints.
• All these numbers are estimates because some formulas can be used more than once in a blueprint.

Exceptions

• Patterns cannot have two "drones" formulas in them.
• Drones cannot carry ground-only formulas (most shields and all miscellaneous devices). YTech shields are light enough for a drone to carry.

Device Summary

As of Jan 25, 2023, all of these devices have been tested and implemented for Alpha.

Drones

• Player Specific
  • Drone: Player is a drone with a built-in camera that can move freely from the chamber.
  • Player: Mod 3x Height modifies a player drone enabling the player to zoom further away from the street.
• Followers Specific
  • Drone: Follower is a drone that can follow a player drone. Once attached, this creates a constellation. Constellations can be saved as a pattern to be recreated in a future "time thread".
  • Drone: Harvester Follower is the same as a regular follower, except this drone can harvest "up to five" crystals, hardware and batteries from any residential block. The harvester cannot carry keys or time crystals.
  • Logistics: Supply Depot increases the number of objects a harvester can carry by five. The depot must be within the harvester's radius.

Scanners

• Your: yTech Noise, Citizen Movement/Sound/Heat/Chemistry shows your noise that aliens can sense.
• Alien Dectors: yTech, Movement, Sound, Heat, and Chemical allows you to detect aliens with these to determine what to shield against.
• Alien: Bio Mist detects areas deadly to citizens.
• Alien: Tech Bombs detects areas where your equipment will malfunction and self-destruct.
• Target: Patrol AI, Stationary AI, Drone AI, or Organism Aliens shows stealthy aliens. Target is required with their detectors to mark them.

Shields

• yTech, Movement, Sound, Heat or Chemistry shield your technology or citizens in a way that prevents alien detection.
• Shield: Bio Mist or Tech Bombs prevent destructive alien fields from forming.
• Shield: Invisibility Cloak prevent aliens from seeing citizens.

Speed

• Speed: 125%, 250% or 400% allow the object to move faster by the noted percentage.
• Speed: Normalize Speed causes a citizen's speed to be set based on a uniform speed.

Distraction, EMP, Kill

• Patrol AI, Stationary AI, Drone AI, Organisms identifies the type of alien that can be affected.
• Distract, Stun or Kill only works if the alien is visible (aka marked):
  • Distract causes marked aliens to investigate another location.
  • Stun causes marked aliens to become inoperable for 30 seconds.
  • Kill causes marked aliens to terminate their operation.
    • Suggested Mod killed aliens can be harvested.

Miscellaneous

• Transport Waypoint allows you to add a point on the guideway connecting your city's buildings to the Chamber. (Note: This device does not use a crystal and does not appear on any blueprint listing.)
• Visual: Camera creates a camera on a waypoint so that you can monitor the area that falls within its radius.
• Miscellaneous: Guideway allows you to extend a waypoint to any location within its radius, including over rivers.
• Miscellaneous: Artificial Wall trick aliens into believing there is a wall there when there isn't.

Time

• tbd (2 planned)