Durability and repair

Equipment wears when people use it. It does not decay on a timer while it sits idle. The scale is 0 to 100. A missing save value counts as a full object. Zero is really broken.

Thresholds

Inspect can also show (needs repair) once it is under the service line but not yet broken.

How things wear

• Each item processed at a sort station costs 0.12 durability.
• Fixtures (toilets and similar) lose 0.65 per use. Furniture loses 0.2. Doors lose 0.08.
• Clumsy multiplies that wear by 2.75. See Staff and traits.

Tracked objects include toilets, sinks, coffee, desks, chairs, filing cabinets, trash cans, the time clock, ash trays, benches, fans, AC, heaters, lights, fire extinguishers, key storage, conveyors, the secure cage, scanner bays, and both fuseboxes. Sort stations use the same 0 to 100 scale. Mobile mail containers break on their own rule when durability hits 0.

An empty Service Counter is out of stamp sheets, not broken. See Stamps.

Who repairs

Maintenance

Maintenance staff install floors, walls, doors, objects, and utilities, and they repair. Repair runs at 32 per second (times their supervision bonus) and restores all the way to 100. They claim the nearest object under 40, or one that is not full. Mail containers can be a maintenance target too.

Handy

Anyone except a Maintenance hire, if they have the Handy trait, can patch a broken object while idle or on a rest or coffee break. Speed is 8 per second and the cap is 31. They will not start an idle patch while you are possessing them. Details are on the staff page.

You

There is no click-to-repair tool. You hire Maintenance, or you possess a maintenance worker and do the job yourself (Possessing staff).

Nearby systems that are not this repair

• Janitors fight fires and mop pipe-burst puddles. They do not restore durability.
• Fire extinguishers themselves wear when used, like other tracked props.
• A tripped fusebox is a power fault, not a durability break. Reset it from the fusebox once the load is down. See Utilities.