Spacetime Beacon

The **Spacetime Beacon** is a spatial positioning device used when building a base. It can send signals to receive supplies, and marks your territory over a radius of 96 meters (33 foundations). When stocked with repair materials, it will automatically repair all structures within 33-72 meters (11-24 foundations depending on beacon rank). On PVP servers, you can set the protection time for base structures at your Spacetime Beacon, preventing those structures from being attacked for a certain period of time. The Spacetime Beacon can be unlocked from the Structures tab of the Tech interface (O).

The Spacetime beacon has 2 different important capacities, Rank and Territory Level :

* **Rank** : increase Beacon Energy, Beacon Durability, Beacon Decay and Auto-repair range.
* **Territory Level** : every single building part (structure, device, decoration, etc) added into your territory will increase the territory level. Thus increasing the Auto-repair cost and reducing the Auto-repair duration (i.e. must add repair materials more often). If not auto-repairing, your base will start decay and disappear.

## Spacetime Beacon Ranks

Once the Spacetime Beacon I is placed, the territory size has 96 meters radius. This can't be increased. Only the Auto-repair radius inside this perimeter will increase when upgrading the Beacon rank.

The Beacon ranks increase Energy, Durability and Auto-repair range.

It has 6 ranks : I to VI.

## Territory Level

Every single building part (structure, device, decoration, etc) added into your territory will increase the Territory Level. Thus increasing the Auto-repair cost and reducing the Auto-repair duration (i.e. must add repair materials more often). If not auto-repairing, your base will start decay and disappear.

It has 8 levels (to be updated soon) :

The number of building parts is not limited (but space). Above 8000, building parts can still be placed and the Auto-repair cost will still increase.

The materials for Auto-repair can be very costy above some amount of building parts installed depending of your team size and farm time, see chart below :

Outdated (This chart was before update 18 - 12 december 2023)

## How to use a Spacetime Beacon

Each player can only have one Spacetime Beacon. So a team can have 1-10 beacons but they can't overlap.

Click and hold F on the Beacon for the wheel menu. There are 5 options :

### Open inventory

The inventory displays many infos :
1. **Rank of the Spacetime Beacon** : I to VI. Can be upgraded from the "Upgrade" option of the wheel.
2. **Level of the Territory size** : Tier of the territory. Tiers will define what type of materials are needed for Auto-repair.
3. **Number of building parts** : Number of building parts installed within territory (see tiers here).
4. **Auto-repair cost** : Materials needed to increase Auto-repair duration.
5. **Auto-repair duration** : Time remaining before the base stops Auto-repair and decay forever.
6. **Submit Resources** : Button to add repair materials from inventory.
7. **Inventory Bar** : 12-slots inventory to store repair materials before submitting. Can be used as a storage for anything else.

### Destroy

Click "Destroy" and wait the circle to complete to definitely destroy the Spacetime Beacon.
Destroying a Beacon will lose all its ranks. A new Beacon will be rank I.
The Creature Lure will automatically disappear as well.
However, the Supplies count is kept.

### Upgrade

Upgrading a Spacetime Beacon will increase its Rank, Energy, Beacon Durability, Beacon Decay and Auto-repair range.

Upgrade materials

### Defense Settings

This a PvP setting only.
Set a 3h time slot (not more, not less) where the player's base can be attacked. The left and right arrows can move time slot for 3-4 minutes interval. Not less.
The minimal time slot is **00:00-03:00** and the maximal is **21:00-24:00**. It can't be over two days (like 23:00-02:00).
Note that when changing the time slot, the effect will take place only 24h after. So you can't move the time slot all the time to avoid attack period, you clever one :)

### Receive Supplies

Receiving supplies is not free. Before receiving the reward, you have to defeat waves of enemies that will attack your base. Summoned enemies have only one objective : seek and destroy your Spacetime Beacon. Note : they don't really destroy it, they just reduce its energy to zero. If it happens, all enemies disappear and round is failed (no reward, except the enemies loot on ground).

**How it works?**

1. A Spacetime Beacon must be installed.
2. Install a Creature Lure within your territory. Put it as far as possible from your Spacetime Beacon.
3. Click and hold F on the Spacetime Beacon and choose "Receive Supplies".
4. On the "Terminal Supplies" screen, select a "Round" and click "Receive".
5. Rounds of enemies will start to attack and find a path to your Spacetime Beacon.
6. When all enemies are defeated, a "Victory" notification appears on top left.
7. Click and hold F on the Spacetime Beacon and click "Receive supplies" to get your reward.
8. There is a timer before starting a new round of supplies (depending on round number, 10-30 minutes).

Note : During a round/wave, you can cancel it anytime by click and hold F on Beacon and select "Receive Supplies", a window to confirm will appear.

**Spacetime Points**

* 1000 Spacetime Points maximum are available.
* Every round consumes some Spacetime Points (depending on round number, from 10 to 30 points).
* Spacetime Beacon restores 1 point every 5 minutes.
* If zero Spacetime Points, no round can be launched. Have to wait.

**Round infos** (top left of screen)

#### Rounds stats

Titanium blueprints are given as rewards after **Round 40** on the following rate :

* Rounds 40-60 : chance to receive 0-2 Titanium blueprints.
* Rounds 60-80 : chance to receive 0-3 Titanium blueprints.

1. ↑ Timer of 5 minutes after a failed round.