Utilities

**Utilities** are the second crafting category, covering functional elements of the colony that generate air, electricity, and other essentials.

## List of utilities

* **Beacon**: A beacon can be placed to help keep track of interesting locations in the world. You can cycle throught interset points by equipping the map and clicking [LMB]
	+ Adds location to compass

* **Furnace**: An outdoor crafting station that can be used to make items that require high heat prior to having a Forge. Replaced Stone Oven.
* **Space Debris Chest**: An outdoor storage container when you can store items, less storage space than Depository.
* **Workbench**: An outdoor crafting table that you can use to make many different tools.
	+ Shape metal
	+ Shape stones
	+ Build flares

* **Wall Corner**: Wall used to keep the indigenous at bay.
* **Wall Straight**: Wall used to keep the indigenous at bay.
* **Large Solar Panel**: A large solar pael serves as an energy source for other nearby structures as well replenishment aonz for vehicules and droids.
* **Small Solar Panel**: A small solar panel serves as an portable energy source for other nearby structures as well as a replenishment zone for vehicules and droids.
* **Path Light**: A chem light can be placed in the world as a helpful navigation tool tha is easily visible from far away.
	+ An emissive light that acts as a bread-crumb

* **Marker**: A marker is a simple flag that can be placed to keep track of interesting places in the world. Can easily be seen from far away.
* **Depository**: A depository is an outdoor storage container where you or your bot can drop inventory off.
	+ 40 available storage slots

* **Flag**: A flag can be placed to claim territory and welcome faction and colony friends while warning enemy players.
* **Forge**: A forge is an outdoor crafting table that can be used to make items that require high heat.
	+ Forge ingots and forms some basic metals -Forge bullets -Forge kits for building deployable solar panels or onflatable domes -Forge tools

* **Flood Light**: A powerful outdoor light use to illuminate your surroundings.
	+ Requieres near by power supply
	+ Provides illumination to nearby areas

* **Excrement Collector**: Collects feces from your space suit
	+ Collect human waste every 30 minutes

* **Land Mine**: An explosive device that is used for defending you and your colony.
	+ 5 meter radius

* **Chem Station**: A chem station is a specialiezd outdoors crafting table that transforms many gases and liquids int more complex compounds.
	+ Can create basic drugs
	+ Can make different compounds

* **Gas Tank**: A gas tank is storage container for gases that can be used for storing gases or fueling vehicules which require a gaseous fuel.
* **GT 36-0 Ground Turret**: Use this to automatically blast anything that is considered an enemy to it's owner
	+ 50 meter radius

* **Liquid Tank**: A liquid tank is storage container for liquide that can be used for storing liquids or fueling vehicules which require a liquid fuel.
* **Printer**: The printer is an outdoor crafting table that uses advanced technology to print new complex items from basic materials.
	+ Requires near by power supply
	+ Print shaped glass
	+ Prints standard medical bandages
	+ Prints many standard blueprints