Tool Crate
Overview
Tool Crate is a piece of world flavor: a packing crate originally intended for safety equipment that has been repurposed for tool storage. Its description suggests a practical, makeshift reuse, fitting the game’s general tendency to turn ordinary industrial packaging and supplies into everyday colony infrastructure.
As a result, Tool Crate reads less like a specialized machine and more like an ambient building or prop that reinforces the setting’s improvised maintenance culture. It implies that tools are being kept in a readily accessible container rather than in their original packaging, and its presence helps sell the idea of a colony that constantly reuses whatever materials and storage it has on hand.
- The object is explicitly described as a former packaging crate for safety equipment.
- Its current function is tool storage, showing a simple repurposing rather than a redesigned device.
- The item is mostly notable for its flavor text and setting detail rather than for any complex gameplay behavior.
Other entities of this type
- [DEPRECATED] Steam Turbine
- Acoustic Art Panel
- Aero Pot
- Airborne Critter Bait
- Airborne Critter Condo
- Airborne Critter Lure
- Airborne Critter Trap
- Airflow Tile
- Algae Distiller
- Algae Terrarium
- Amber Fossil
- Anatomy Poster
- Ancient Specimen
- AND Gate
- Anti Entropy Thermo-Nullifier
- Apothecary
- Arcade Cabinet
- Artifact Analysis Station
- Artifact Transport Module
- Atmo Sensor
- Atmo Suit Checkpoint
- Atmo Suit Dock
- Atmo Switch
- Auto-Sweeper
... +534 (see sidebar for full list)