Engineering items
Items
Cable Coil
- Found in: Nearly everywhere
- Used for: Laying electrical wires, building things that use electricity
- Strategy: Wire is a resource, and can be used in many constructions and to lay down power lines. Make sure all APCs are connected to the main lines with wires, or you'll have black outs.
Can be laid down on the plating to distribute electrical power. Automatically connects to other wires on cardinal tiles. Read the guide to wiring to see how. Make sure you don't touch wired wires on the ground without insulated gloves. Can be placed onto three different layers. Toggle layers by ctrl-clicking the stack of cable coil.
By using wires in hand, you can craft layer bridges or 
, which are ghetto restraints used to tie someone down.
Power Cell
- Found in: Cargo, Engineering, EVA, Tech Storage, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics, inside APCs, inside Space Heaters
- Used for: Building things that use electricity
- Strategy: Used to power APCs, cyborgs and various electrical equipment.
Can be recharged in a 
Cell Charger.
Comes in five main varieties:
Standard (1 kW)
High-Capacity (10 kW)
Super-Capacity (20 kW)
Hyper-Capacity (30 kW)
Bluespace (40kW)
Tools
Rapid Construction Device (RCD)
Found in: EVA, Engi-Vend, Cargo and Engineering Protolathes (after research), hacked autolathes
Used for: Making and destroying walls, windows, airlocks, and floors.
An experimental device which can build, or deconstruct areas rapidly. This is held in the EVA for emergencies (and is the Chief Engineer's responsibility). However they can be made in the Engineering Protolathe, Cargo's Techfab and in hacked autolathes as well.
Use this tool in hand to open a radial menu, where you can choose mode and change many settings, such as airlock access, airlock type and window type.
- Build Floors (2 Ammo)
- Build a Wall (16 Ammo)
- Build a wall on top of a girder (8 Ammo)
- Build a Grille (4 Ammo)
- Build a Window (8 Ammo)
- Build a Reinforced Window (12 Ammo)
- Build an airlock (16 Ammo)
- Deconstruct a girder (13 Ammo)
- Deconstruct a wall (26 Ammo) (Can't deconstruct reinforced walls, unless it's a syndie cyborg or mech RCD)
- Deconstruct a floor tile into space (33 Ammo)
- Deconstruct a grille (4 Ammo)
- Deconstruct a window (8 Ammo)
- Deconstruct an airlock (32 Ammo)
Can be loaded with Compressed Matter Cartridges and regular metal and glass sheets. One Cartridge holds 40 units, with 160 being the maximum. Be forewarned that changing RCD mode can cause it to emit sparks, which can cause fires in plasma-rich environments.
It also can robust the shit out people. Or AIs, if needed.
- Can be upgraded with the RCD advanced design disks, which can be printed from the engineering protolathe after research. This lets the RCD create:
- RCD frames designs upgrade: Wired/wrenched computer and machine frames
- Simple circuits designs upgrade: Simple circuits, which contain the designs for firelock, air alarm, fire alarm, apc circuits and basic power cells. These work the same as the engineering cyborg's Electroadaptive Pseudocircuit.
- RCD furnishing upgrade: Chairs, and tables.
- RCD frames designs upgrade: Wired/wrenched computer and machine frames
- Can also be upgraded with an Advanced RCD silo link upgrade, which can be printed from the engineering protolathe after research. With this upgrade, the RCD can be used on an Ore Silo to permanently link it. Afterwards, use the radial menu of the RCD to select an option there which makes it pull materials directly from that silo. It can be toggled back to using its internal storage at any time.
Advanced Rapid Construction Device (ARCD)
Found in: Admin Magicks
Used for: Making and destroying walls, doors, and floors, from a distance
The ARCD is a RCD, except it can construct and deconstruct items from a distance. Unfortunately, short of serious admin fuckery, it cannot be obtained through normal play. Most often used for making Ratvar cry a river.
Rapid Piping Device (RPD)
Found in: Supermatter Chamber, Atmospherics, cargo and engi Protolathes after research
Used for: Dispensing pipes
The replacement of the old pipe dispenser, it can manufacture (but not deconstruct) several different pipes. More of an atmospherics tool than for engineering, but it's critical when setting up the Supermatter Engine. Does not consume any sort of ammo or materials to produce pipes. Most often used for spamming a shit ton of volume pumps.
It can dispense regular gas pipes, gas pipe devices, disposals pipes and transit tube pipes. Can be upgraded to unwrench pipes and devices, after research.
Rapid Light Dispenser (RLD)
- Found in: Engineering and Cargo Protolathes, after acquiring the tech disk from the B.E.P.I.S.
- Used for: Lighting up an area
- Strategy: A device used to rapidly provide lighting sources to an area. Reload with metal, plasteel, glass or compressed matter cartridges
The RLD has 3 different modes:
- Permanent Light Collection: The RLD can attach lights to the floor or to the wall. These lights will burn forever as long as the APC in the room is powered.
- Light Launcher: The RLD launches glowsticks at a distance
- Deconstruct: Tears apart wall/floor lights
Crowbar
- Found in: Nearly everywhere
- Used for: Opening airlocks, breaking things.
- Strategy: If the power goes out on the station, you will need a crowbar to open doors. Otherwise it's just for breaking things.
The crowbar can pry open things or pry closed things and is used in deconstructing objects like computers and airlocks. It will open powered down doors and fire doors. You can use it to remove floor tiles, especially useful when they are damaged or you believe wires have been cut. Comes in four flavors, gunmetal grey, robust red, bronze brass, and illegally fast black and red.
Screwdriver
- Found in: Auxiliary Tool Storage, Engineering, EVA, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics
- Used for: Construction and deconstruction
- Strategy: Almost every machine requires a screwdriver to build it or take it apart.
A simple, but often needed tool. Everything from APCs to windows to computers can be unscrewed. Grilles can be unscrewed and pulled away instead of broken. A screwdriver to the eyes is a dangerous weapon.
Wirecutters
- Found in: Auxiliary Tool Storage, Engineering, EVA, Tech Storage, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics
- Used for: Removing wires
- Strategy: One quick snip and you can remove wires from any machine, security camera, or from the floor. Make sure to wear gloves.
More or less an undo tool with wires. Can be used to disable cameras, and needed to take apart most machines. Can also be used to deconstruct grilles instantly.
Wrench
- Found in: Nearly everywhere
- Used for: Deconstruction, attaching bolts
- Strategy: Wrenches are usually used to take things apart, like wall girders, or tables. Only the emitters and computers use them in construction stages. They either fasten bolts, or take apart bolts.
This tool is used more to take the station apart than to put it together. Most departments need one to secure some machine or another.
Welding Tool
- Found in: Auxiliary Tool Storage, Engineering, EVA, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics
- Used for: Sealing airlocks, construction and deconstruction. Fighting aliens.
- Strategy: You can cut all manner of things apart, from lockers (open locker, click while lit) to walls. OR, You can weld shut doors and lockers. It is useless when out of fuel.
A must have for engineers. Most modifications you make to the station will require this tool. It does have an open flame, so it will light everything from cigarettes to plasma. Use it as a weapon against weeds and vines. Don't refuel it when lit unless you want an explosion. Be sure to use eye protection unless you like slowly going blind.
Industrial Welding Tool
- Found in: Engineering, Hacked Autolathe
- Used for: Welding stuff, even better
- Strategy: You can weld objects together, you can unweld objects together
It's a welding tool, but it has double fuel capacity. Most rounds, you don't have to refuel it at all. There also is the Upgraded Industrial Welding Tool with 80u of fuel, available in YouTool vendors and in the miner voucher's Minebot kit.
Multitool
- Found in: Cargo, Engineering, EVA, Maintenance, Tech Storage, Primary Tool Storage, Robotics
- Used for: Hacking, Ore Silo linking, Telecommunications, Surgery on cybernetics
- Strategy: Multitools are used to pulse wires while hacking anything. Having one gives you more control over the device you are hacking.
Used for hacking Airlocks, APCs, autolathes, mulebots, vending machines, and nearly anything else with a panel. See the guide to hacking for more information. Also used as a buffer for the Ore Silo and Tcomms.
Analyzer
- Found in: Toolboxes
- Used for: Scanning the air, analyze anomalies
- Strategy: If you ever needed a complex readout about your current atmosphere, this is the tool for you.
Can be used to scan the atmosphere, and shows you what's inside a Canister or a pipe. The analyzer can also be added to an unscrewed Security Camera to upgrade it to an X-ray camera, and will prove invaluable in the case of a anomaly.
Otherwise, made practically worthless by the PDA Air Scanner.
T-ray Scanner
- Found in: Auxiliary Tool Storage, Engineering, EVA, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics
- Used for: Seeing under floor tiles
- Strategy: If you are actually doing repair work, a T-ray scanner in your pocket will let you plan out wires and pipes.
Click on it on your hand to activate. When activated it will reveal wires and pipes (and "lost" satchels) under the flooring, as well as creatures such as monkeys, slimes and xenomorphs inside pipes, as well as make cloaked people flicker.
Rapid Pipe Cleaner Layer
- Found in: Engineering, Art_Storage
- Used for: Laying cosmetic pipe cleaners
- Strategy: Wield it with both your hands, walk slowly
The Rapid Pipe Cleaner Layer can hold 90 pieces of Pipe Cleaner. When wielded with a single hand, it can lay pipe cleaner manually. However, when it is wielded with both hands, it lays pipe cleaners under you as you walk. Used for wire art.
Airlock Painter
- Found in: Engineering, Autolathe
- Used for: Painting airlocks
- Strategy: Put a toner in it and use it on an airlock and select how you want it to look
An advanced autopainter preprogrammed with several paintjobs for airlocks. Use it on an airlock during or after construction to change the paintjob.
Emergency Welding Tool
- Found in: Emergency toolboxes through the station
- Used for: Same as a regular welding tool
- Strategy: Welding stuff
Functions identically to a normal welding tool, but only has 10 units of fuel.
Inducer
- Found in: Engineering's electrical locker, Engineering & Science Protolathes (after research)
- Used for: Recharging machines
- Strategy: Use and give away inducers to recharge essential machines (chem dispensers, APCs), especially when the power goes out.
You can click on a machine or an APC with an inducer to recharge it. Recharge the inducer itself by replacing the power cell within it.
Jaws of Life
- Found in: Chief Engineer's Toolbelt, Engineering Protolathe (after research)
- Used for: Prying open doors, cutting wires, popping out floor tiles
- Strategy: It's a crowbar and a pair of wirecutters combined into a single tool
While in cutting mode, you can cut wires and hack machines. While in prying mode, you can pop out floor tiles, and instantly open unpowered/fire doors. Similarly to the Fire Axe, you can pry open powered doors with a bit of effort.
Hand Drill
- Found in: Chief Engineer's Toolbelt, Engineering Protolathe (after research)
- Used for: Exposing wires, securing objects, building mechs
- Strategy: It's a screwdriver and a wrench combined into a single tool
Experimental Welding Tool
- Found in: Chief Engineer's Toolbelt, Engineering & Science Protolathes (after research)
- Used for: Welding stuff
- Strategy: It's a better welding tool
This welding tool contains more fuel (40u), welds objects quicker, and recharges fuel on its own, without any intervention.
Geiger Counter
- Found in: Radiation Locker
- Used for: Measuring Radiation.
- Strategy: Use it on people or objects to see whats causing all the radiation poisoning.
The Geiger Counter is useless used to measure radiations.
Construction Bag
- Found in: Engineering
- Used for: Carrying stock parts and circuit boards.
- Strategy: Put the parts in it needed to construct machines and other things.
Can hold stock parts, other common machine components, circuits, misc electronics and cable coils.
Engineering Gear
Equipment
Engi-Vend
- Found in: Engineering
- Used for: Supplying yourself with electronics and engineering equipment
- Strategy: Get
a loaded RCDsmart metal foam grenades from here.
SMES
Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
- Found in: Engineering, Solars, AI Chamber, Mining Station, Telecommunications
- Used for: Storing and distributing power
- Strategy: Set an input (how much power will be drawn from input wire terminal), set on output (preferably smaller than the input so something will actually be stored in the cell), and watch the station flourish!
Huge cell/battery for power distributing purposes. Maximum capacity 5 megawatts.
Remember: Wire connected to the floor terminal = power input. Wire under the SMES = power output.
Left lights represent how much of the SMES is loaded.
The top right light shows the input power status. If it's off = none, red = on but receiving no power, blinking yellow = receiving power and loading.
The middle right light shows the output power status. If it's off = not outputting power, green = outputting power.
Guide to building an SMES.
APC
Area Power Controller
- Found in: Every room with power
- Used for: Controlling the power for a sector on the station.
- Strategy: Have power equipment access, swipe your ID on it to unlock it and choose your action.
Actions available on the APC:
- Main Breaker: On/Off - Toggles power to the room
- Equipment: Auto/On/Off - Toggles power to computers, doors, and other electronic equipment.
- Lighting: Auto/On/Off - Toggles power to lighting in the area.
- Environmental: Auto/On/Off - Toggles power to the ventilation in the area, as well as the Air Alarm.
- Cover Lock: Engaged/Disengaged - Provides a cover to protect the battery.
Remember, 'Auto' power settings slowly cuts off each breaker when power runs low in this order:
<30 % = Equipment off, <15% = Lighting and Environment off.
Replacing the APC's Battery:
To replace the APC battery, you need an ID with sufficient access to unlock the APC itself.
Swipe ID with power equipment access to unlock the interface.- Open the panel and disengage the cover lock.
Use a crowbar on the APC to open the cover.
Take the battery out with a free hand.- place in the new battery.
- Close the cover again with your crowbar.
- Re-engage the cover lock.
- Swipe ID to secure the interface.
If an APC looks like this (blue with blinking red lights), it's either emagged or the AI is malfunctioning.
File:Apc charging.gifIf an APC looks like this (blue with moving bar) it is just charging and yelling MALF in the radio will make everyone 1. laugh at you and 2. not believe you when you actually find real hacked APCs.
Guide to building an APC.
Cell Charger
- Found in: Cargo, Engineering, Primary Tool Storage, R&D, Robotics
- Used for: Recharging power cells
- Strategy: Place power cells into these to charge them up
These will drain power directly from the room's File:APC2.gif APC unit to recharge Power Cells. Beware with high capacity cells, as they will drain the room's APC completely. Can be secured and unsecured using a wrench.
P.A.C.M.A.N.-Type Portable Generator
- Found in: Engineering Power Storage
- Used for: Portable backup generator
- Strategy: Mostly used to jump start the Engine
Needs solid plasma as fuel and be secured on an exposed powered wire to generate power. Can be secured and unsecured using a wrench.
Guide to building a P.A.C.M.A.N.-Type Portable Generator.
Emitter
- Found in: Engineering Secure Storage, Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: To power up the supermatter
- Strategy: Ensure it has a powered wire under it, wrench and weld it in place and turn it on. Lock with ID if needed
A heavy duty industrial laser. Shoots non-stop when turned on. There are a few at the engine to power the supermatter.
Can power Field Generators with laser shots.
Emitters are also useful as a weapon, if your target stands still long enough for you to set it up. (Hint: Blobs don't move.)
You can also slot in a custom energy weapon to be fired, instead of default emitter beams. Simply open the panel and insert the gun.
Field Generator
- Found in: Engineering Secure Storage, Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: Containing the singularity or other dangerous things
- Strategy: Point an Emitter at it and turn them both on
A large thermal battery that projects a high amount of energy when powered.
Gravitational Singularity Generator
- Found in: Engineering Secure Storage, Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: Creating a Singularity
- Strategy: Place in front of a Particle Accelerator
An odd device which produces a Gravitational Singularity when set up.
Tesla Generator
- Found in: Engineering Secure Storage, Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: Creating a Tesla
- Strategy: Place in front of a Particle Accelerator
An odd device which produces a Tesla when set up.
Anti-Breach Shielding Projector
- Found in: Engineering Secure Storage, Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: Used to seal minor hull breaches
- Strategy: Wrench it in place near a hull breach and turn it on
An energy shield used to contain hull breaches. All space tiles within a 2 square radius will be blocked off with a shield.
Shield Generator
- Found in: Teleporter, Xenobiology, more can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: To seal in/out aliens and such
- Strategy: Wrench it in place
Creates a barrier between two Shield Generators.
Gravity Generator
- Found in: Gravity Generator Room
- Used for: Creating gravity to the station
- Strategy: If broken, fix it with a screwdriver, welding tool, 10 units of plasteel and then a wrench.
Provides sweet sweet gravity when enabled. Provides sweet sweet anger when not. When powered, and toggled on, it will charge until 100%, which will then enable the gravity. If it isn't powered, via the APC on the environment channel, or it is toggled off then it will discharge until it hits 0%; which will then disable the gravity. While charging/discharging, the generator will emit a lot of radiation so make sure you wear a radiation suit.
Gas Turbine Generator and Compressor
- Found in: MetaStation
- Used for: Creating power through a contained small fire
- Strategy: Make inferno fire to compressor-side, turn Gas Turbine Generator on, open the turbine-end to space so fire moves through the machine to generate power. Higher airflow and temperature makes more power.
Removed/Unused
Particle Accelerator
- Found in: Engine, parts can be ordered from Cargo
- Used for: Creating and maintaining a Singularity
- Strategy: Set a Gravitational Singularity Generator in front of it and turn it on
S.U.P.E.R.P.A.C.M.A.N.-Type Portable Generator
- Found in: R&D
- Used for: Portable backup generator
- Strategy: If you really need to use that uranium for power.
Needs uranium as fuel and be secured on an exposed powered wire to generate power. Can be secured and unsecured using a wrench.
Guide to building a S.U.P.E.R.P.A.C.M.A.N.-Type Portable Generator.
Radiation Collector
Found in: Engine, more can be ordered from Cargo or constructed.
Used for: Creating energy from radiation.
Will generate energy when loaded with a 
Plasma Tank (filled with Plasma Gas), if anchored and activated near an active Supermatter.
Converts the Plasma into Tritium. Can alternatively be used to generate research points instead of power.
To change configuration to research mode, fill the tank with Tritium and Oxygen instead of Plasma. Then use a multitool on the Radiation Collector.
Examine it to see current configuration. A generic supermatter setup can produce a total of 10 points per minute for each Radiation Collector generating points.
In this research mode, the tank must also be refilled every 5 minutes or so.
Thermo-Electric Generator
- Found in: MiniStation
- Used for: Creating power through a contained huge inferno
- Strategy: See below.