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Acoustics Laboratory
From A Tale in the Desert
The Acoustics Laboratory lets you tune fine glass rods into wind chimes.
Source
This building becomes available after you have learned the Crystal Acoustics tech.
Cost
- 50 Steel Sheeting (Fireproof Surface)
- 25 Steel Wire to hang the curing chimes
- 25 Cut Stone (Foundation Base)
- 700 Rigid Fireproof boards for Brazier Support (Bottom)
- 400 Hard Fireproof boards for Brazier Support (Top)
- 600 Soft, pliable boards for Finishing Area
- 550 Hard but pliable boards for Finishing Area supports
- 500 Black Raeli Tiles (Bench Surface)
- 500 White Raeli Tiles (Bench Surface)
- 250 Concrete (Base)
Build in a Compound. Uses ?x? cells.
Upgrades
There are 14 upgrades that can be installed on an Acoustics Lab. Each one enables a different treatment that may be performed on a chime as it is being worked. Upgrades may be purchased in any order.
- Pour a Heavy Block of Concrete (1000 concrete)
- Install Shearing Clamp (12 steel sheeting, 20 iron bars)
- Add a Quicksilver Bath (12 quicksilver)
- Install a Cold Water Bath (4 Oyster Shell marble, 20 linen, 100 water in jugs)
- Add a Spirits Cistern (10 Worm Spirits of Fire or better)
- Set up a Reflectory (3 mirrors)
- Create a Tumbling Chamber (3 steel sheeting, 400 White_Sand)
- Install a Hot Water Bath (40 canvas, 100 water in jugs)
- Attach a Cauldron of Beeswax (500 beeswax)
- Store a supply of Cactus Sap (20 cactus sap)
- Fill Fine Mill with Aluminum Powder (200 aluminum powder)
- Fit a Marble Base (1 Leopards Paw marble)
- Outfit with a set of Silks (12 silk cloth)
- Line Slide Winch with Rabbit Pelts (20 rabbit pelts)