Weather Station

A programmable local storm station and live receiver. It measures immutable local reports, hears event transmissions on broadcast and biome channels, and may publish to its Signal Board.

Stats: Type Sensors · Power in -50 W (draws from grid)

How to obtain: Requires the Weather Program research (Terraform Index 330,000). Buy from the Shop for 60,000 cr.

Access: self / get_component(id) · Like every component, exposes .id and .name.

Methods

.outpost

The outpost where this building is deployed, as an OutpostRef.

.observe() `SELF ONLY`

Measure one immutable local report. The station refreshes at most once per world-clock hour; faster calls return the same report id. The report includes local coverage, active storm snapshots, and a local forecast reaching 8 world-clock hours ahead (24 once Weather Forecasting is researched). It never contains an aftermath coordinate.

Returns: WeatherReport · Raises: RuntimeError when the station is unfinished or unpowered

.last_report()

The last measured report without taking a new observation, for startup recovery and stale-data handling. None means this station has never completed observe(). The snapshot stays readable while stale or unpowered.

Returns: WeatherReport or None

.signal_board

This station’s programmable Weather display. reveal() publishes a transmission into a numbered slot, reject() counts a refused copy, resolve() publishes labelled values. The board displays what your script supplies without interpreting it.

.signal_receiver

Live receiver. transmissions() returns only the raw copies audible to this powered station now and stores no history. Dust reception uses local biome channels; thunder reception broadcasts planet-wide.

.strikes()

This station’s bounded strike history: each WeatherStrike includes its event id, observation time, energy, and whether a Lightning Rod banked it. Exact strike positions and Storm Glass eligibility are not included. Only strikes this station physically observed are returned, oldest first.

Returns: List of WeatherStrike

Command mailbox

peek_command() · next_command() · command_count() · clear_commands() (SELF ONLY): see Script Commands.