Small Satellite Dish

Overview

Small Satellite Dish (StructureSmallSatelliteDish) in Stationeers: device, hash -2138748650, 10 W. With build steps, 23 IC10 logic values and connection…

The small satellite dish is how you get in touch with traders. It scans the sky for signals, and when enough power reaches a contact, the signal becomes a trader who can land. The dish is the cheapest way into trading.

Its power range is 50 to 200 W according to the game data. That fits the trader classes: utility and basic traders need 25 to 30 W at the contact, medium ones 180 to 200 W. Large traders and exotics need 6,000 to 8,000 W – too much for the small dish; only the medium (500 to 7,500 W) or the large dish will do.

It is aimed via Horizontal (0 to 360°) and Vertical (0 to 90°), the power via Setting. The full power only reaches the contact when the dish is aimed to within 2°; at 5° off it is 90 %, at 22.5° only 10 %. SignalStrength reports exactly this deviation in degrees, 0 being a direct hit. While a signal is still being resolved, SignalStrength, WattsReachingContact and MinimumWattsToContact report −1. Keep the dish still meanwhile: every movement and every change to Setting restarts the resolving. With TargetPadIndex you choose the landing pad: counting starts at 0 among the landing pads on the dish's data network, sorted by ReferenceId.

According to the game code it draws power in three stages: at rest the 10 W base draw, while resolving signals a tenth of Setting, and during contact the full value of Setting. At 200 W that is 20 W while searching and 200 W while connecting. The electronics printer makes the kit from 5 gold and 10 copper. It is built in three stages: kit, one iron sheet with the welding torch, one cable coil. How contact, landing pad and trading fit together is explained in Trading: satellite dish, trader classes, landing pad.

IC10 and logic

23 logic values, 23 readable and 7 writable.

Power R 1
Error R 4
Activate RW 9
Setting RW 12
Horizontal RW 20
Vertical RW 21
On RW 28
RequiredPower R 33
Idle R 37
PrefabHash R 84
SignalStrength R 86
SignalID R 87
InterrogationProgress R 157
TargetPadIndex RW 158
SizeX R 160
SizeZ R 162
MinimumWattsToContact R 163
WattsReachingContact R 164
ContactTypeId R 198
ReferenceId R 217
BestContactFilter RW 267
NameHash R 268
ContactSlotIndex R 282

Example: address by name

Reads Setting, shows the value on the IC housing and writes On. Name the device with the labeller first; devices with the same name are addressed together.

# Small Satellite Dish address by name
define DEVICE -2138748650  # StructureSmallSatelliteDish
define NAME HASH("Small Satellite Dish")  # name in game (labeller)
define TARGET 1  # On 1 = on
alias value r0

start:
yield
lbn value DEVICE NAME Setting 0  # 0 = average of all with this name
bnan value start  # no device with this name
s db Setting value  # show on the housing
sbn DEVICE NAME On TARGET  # set value
j start

Academy: devices by name Academy: batch modes IC10 academy IC10 editor

Connections

Schematic: inputs left, outputs right, waste on top, power and data at the bottom. Position and spacing do not match the model.

1Data
2Power · input

Building and deconstruction

Grid: small grid (0.5 m) · mounting: free in the grid

1
Place
- Kit (Small Satellite Dish)
Take back with Hand Drill
2
Build stage 2
- Tool Welding Torch
- Iron Sheets
Take back with Angle Grinder
3
Build stage 3
- Cable Coil
Take back with Hand Drill

Total material

Deconstruction returns

Built with: Kit (Small Satellite Dish)

Raw values from the game code (9)

Field names as in the game code, untranslated. Useful for mods and exact limits.

`SatelliteDish.strongestSignal`	0
`SatelliteDish._isDirty`	true
`SatelliteDish.dishFov`	360
`SatelliteDish.minWattage`	50
`SatelliteDish.maxWattage`	200
`SatelliteDish.stepSmall`	1
`SatelliteDish.stepNormal`	10
`SatelliteDish.baseTimeToResolve`	10
`Electrical.ConnectionType`	FlatExhaustive