Utility Buildings

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  Supply Chest
  (in Central Receiving)

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  Generator
  (in Electrical Closet)

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  Machining Mill
  (in Tooling Station)

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  Chemical Processor
  (in Quality Control Room)

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  Supercomputer
  (in Data Warehouse)

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  Bookshelf
  (in Accounting Office)

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  Enchanting Table
  (in Automation Hub)

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  Bioreactor
  (in Just-in-time Manufacturing Augmentation Hub)

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  Painting
  (in Central Logistics Hub)

Description

Utility Buildings contain specialty blocks and inventories (shown above) that help your Village advance through the ages by transforming the Village from a safe place to stay for a few days before moving on to a thriving community to build a new life and raise a family. The Community Buildings bestow certain benefits on the neighboring population, as seen in the Scoring section of the 2021 Best Robotics 3D Printing Challenge. The first of the Community Buildings you should build is the Storeroom with at least one and ideally multiple Community Chests. These will be how you can best take advantage of the industrious nature of your Villagers.

Utility Buildings

Every Technology Level you reach will unlock an additional utility building for your Distribution Center. Each utility building has specific items that need to be inside for it to function, and a Key Item that determines how close it is to each Conveyor Belt to calculate distribution scores.

Pro Tips:

1.) Utility buildings can start to be constructed with the construction material at the Technology Level at which they are unlocked, and can later be re-built as any higher Technology Level structure.

2.) Any structure that you build that contains the special block for Utility Buildings will default to a Utility Building instead of a Warehouse (e.g., if you build a really nice house and put a Generator in it, that structure will no longer count as a Warehouse. It will count as an Electrical Closet and any Conveyor Belts inside will not contribute to your Distribution Center's Robot Population.) If you have multiple special blocks, the type of Utility Building is based on the first special block found following a pathing algorithm starting at the door and exploring the interior space.

3.) There is no minimum or maximum size limit for Utility Buildings as long as you have a.) the special block, b.) a valid framed door, c.) the the inside entry block open and d.) outside access to the sky. A big storeroom and efficient other Utility Buildings could be a nice strategy.

4.) Remember to check the Bonus Points page for extra ways to improve your final score.

5.) Each Warehousing structure receives a Distribution score based on the two nearest Utility Buildings of each type.

Tech Level to Unlock	Utility Building	Key Item Block	Required Items to Function
1	Central Receiving	Supply Chest	1 Supply Chest. Central Receiving can have up to 1 Supply Chest per Tech Level of its primary construction material (e.g. a Polexiglas Central Receiving can have 4 Supply Chests). This allows for more goods to be distributed and routed by your Delivery Bots as your Distribution Center grows. Build this first in your Distribution Center Plot!
1	Electrical Closet	Generator	1 Generator.
2	Tooling Station	Machining Mill	1 Machining Mill
3	Quality Control Room	Chemical Processor	1 Chemical Processor.
4	Data Warehouse	Supercomputer	4 Supercomputer.
5	Accounting Office	Bookshelf	10 Bookshelves
6	Automation Hub	Enchanting Table	3 Enchanting Tables
7	Just-in-time Manufacturing Augmentation Hub	Bioreactor	1 Bioreactor
8	Central Logistics Hub	Painting	25 Paintings

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