Base Command Unit

Base Command Unit (BCU)
The Base Command Unit or BCU is the essential component to a players base and effectively marks ownership of a base to the player who crafted it. Once crafted and placed, the BCU will be marked on the players screen, constantly giving the player it's location in the map. This can be turned off.

The BCU is required to craft other base objects such as generators and workbenches.

The BCU passively generates 0.33 electricity and 0.07 mass per second until the BCU reaches 500 electricity and 100 mass, by then which the player must generate power and mass through other means such as the generator, solar panel, wind turbine, mass fabricator and mass recycler.

Although the initial BCU will have a free lock pick, future BCUs will not.

BCUs also have a range (shown by a blue sphere when trying to place certain items), beyond which no BCU equipment, such as the bed, can be placed. The range can be extended by crafting a BCU Range Extender somewhere within the blue sphere of the BCU this will create a new blue sphere extended off of the initial one.

Once a BCU is placed, if Hunters are enabled, they will shortly soon build bases around the player.

Players or hunters BCU has 15,000 hitpoints, making it one of the strongest objects in the game.

Crafting
The Base Command Unit is utilized to construct the following:


 * Base light (3 scrap metal, 2 electrical parts, 2 planks, 250 power and 50 mass)
 * Floodlight (5 scrap metal, 6 electrical parts and 1 alloy sheet)
 * Mounted Floodlight (
 * Floodlight Switch (
 * Woodburner (7 scrap metal, 7 planks, 3 cloth, 450 power and 75 mass)
 * Refinery (12 scrap metal, 10 planks, 12 electrical parts, 500 power and 100 mass)
 * Bed (6 scrap metal, 10 feathers, 5 cloth, 500 power and 70 mass)
 * Small power generator (6 scrap metal, 5 electrical parts, 4 planks, 250 power and 60 mass)
 * Plant bed (6 scrap metal, 10 planks, 8 cordage, 500 power and 100 mass)
 * Power storage (7 scrap metal, 6 electrical parts, 7 planks, 500 power and 100 mass)
 * Mass storage (6 scrap metal, 6 electrical parts, 6 planks, 500 power and 75 mass)
 * Workbench (8 scrap metal, 10 electrical parts, 10 planks, 750 power and 120 mass)
 * Fridge (12 scrap metal, 15 electrical parts, 10 planks, 1,200 power, 200 mass)
 * Oven (20 scrap metal, 6 metal ingots, 30 electrical parts, 1,000 power and 150 mass)
 * Recycler (9 scrap metal, 8 electrical parts, 6 planks, 1,000 power and 100 mass)
 * Mass fabricator (10 scrap metal, 7 electrical parts, 8 planks, 500 power and 100 mass)
 * Animal housing (8 planks, 12 nails, 7 scrap metal, 2 ropes, 450 power and 90 mass)
 * Mining drill (10 planks, 12 electrical parts, 10 scrap metal, 3 ropes, 600 power and 120 mass)
 * Solar panel (10 scrap metal, 4 adhesive, 20 electrical parts, 3 sinews, 500 power and 150 mass)
 * Hammer (3 cloth, 2 planks, 4 scrap metal, 250 power and 50 mass)
 * Lock pick (4 scrap metal, 2 planks, 18 iron fragments, 500 power and 75 mass)
 * Armchair (
 * Sofa (8 planks, 5 padded cloth, 10 metal scraps, 2 ropes, 600 power and 100 mass)