Rimworld Solar Roofing
Solar generators may be protected by surrounding them with walls but they must stay unroofed to operate.
Rimworld solar roofing. If there is no supporting wall or rock. Areas can be designated to have a roof or not have a roof by drawing either a build roof area or remove roof area. It has much smaller space requirements than a wind turbine but provides no power at night or during an eclipse it can be placed in a wind turbine s exclusion zone with no effect on the turbine. Orange overhead mountain yellow thin rock roof cyan constructed roof blue constructed steel roof teal constructed solar roof pink constructed transparent roof purple constructed transparent solar roof areabuildroof and arearemoveroof area zones.
This can be used to create outdoor roofed areas to prevent snowfall or item deterioration or indoor unroofed areas protected solar panels indoor growing areas. Reworked from vendan s original idea. Rimworld workshop ratysz s workshop. It will switch between the two automatically then a solar flare or an emi event starts stops.
A direct port of the github version made by aaroncrobinson. It always starts out in passive mode when you first give it power and it needs to be powered to be able to switch to active mode. Description adds customizable roofing with transparent greenhouse roofing and photovoltaic solar roofing. When you select roof zoning you can see the colored draw area of all different roof types.