Armored Ladder Hatch: Roof Access and Cost

Overview

In-game description

An armored hatch that opens and changes into a ladder.

Where the floor is armoured and you still need a way through it, this hatch goes in. Closed, it is part of the floor; opened, it turns into a ladder, so you get between floors or onto the roof without a stairwell eating a whole room.

The price is steep. Each one wants 35 high quality metal, more than an armoured door, plus six gears and a wooden ladder, all at a Level 3 bench. Learning it is the cheap part: 60 scrap, half of what the door costs. And the recycler only sometimes gives the ladder back.

Build a square floor frame where the hatch should go.
Place the hatch in it and put a code lock on it, as on any door.
Open it with E, climb through and close it behind you.

Why not the regular ladder hatch? It costs frags instead of HQM, but it is the softer piece. Picture a raider on your armoured roof with a couple of charges: he will not blow the floor, he will blow the hatch. On a stone or sheet metal roof the cheap hatch is fine. A triangle floor frame takes the triangle version instead.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	250	6,250
Timed Explosive Charge	3	6,600
Rocket	5	7,000
Satchel Charge	15	7,200
High Velocity Rocket	42	8,400
Beancan Grenade	82	9,840
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	125	1,500
Propane Explosive Bomb	5	4,500
Mortar Shell	21	6,600
Survey Charge	155	9,300
Homing Missile	125	12,600
MLRS Rocket	4	—
40mm HE Grenade	36	—
Hammerhead Bolt	50	—

Explosive

Quantity

Sulfur