Pressure Pad

Power that flows only while someone stands on it. Wood, gears and a spring turn a square of floor into a trigger for a door or an alarm.

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Characteristics

Category: Electrical

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 200

Overview

In-game description

A gate which allows power to flow while a player is standing on it

Step on it and the line goes live; step off and it dies. No hand on a key, no code, and no idea who is standing on it. Everything a pad is good for comes from those three facts.

The sneaky use is in the loot room. Lay a pad just inside its door and wire it into a smart alarm: while you are offline, nobody but a raider stands there, and the moment one does, your phone knows. A pad in the corridor that leads to the cupboard works the same way.

The comfortable use is a hands-free inner door. A pad in front of a door with a door controller opens it as you walk up from the farm with a stack of berries. It shuts once you step off, so test the spot before you rely on it.

Watch out

The pad does not check who is on it. Lay one outside the base and any roamer who walks up opens your door.

It is one of the few electrical parts made mostly of wood, plus a set of gears and a metal spring. The recycler gives a chance at both parts back if you rework the circuit later.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
High Velocity Rocket cheapest	2	400
Satchel Charge	1	480
Beancan Grenade	4	480
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	20–23	500–600
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	2	60
Homing Missile	1	200
Mortar Shell	2	600
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Survey Charge	15	900
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	4	—
Hammerhead Bolt	7	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.