Damage vs Damageable Types

TerraTech Update 1.4.22 introduced some really useful quality-of-life improvements, including a new quick select feature and new damage and damageable types in block descriptions.

We’ve had some questions on what exactly the damage and damageable types are so I wanted to take this opportunity to explain these concepts in more detail. The Damage Type is pretty straightforward. Every weapon block in TerraTech has a type of damage it deals with when it hits.

Our Junior Designer, Taku, had this to say about the design process behind the new Damage and Damageable types:

With damage & damageable types we want to present players with easy to understand indications/cues that showcase specific properties of blocks and scenery objects in TerraTech. Every weapon block in TerraTech has a type of damage it deals with when it hits something. Damage types dictate whether a hit is effective or ineffective against certain damageable types. Every destructible object in TerraTech whether it’s a block or scenery object has a damageable type assigned to it. A damageable type dictates the resistance an object has against a hit from certain damage types. With this information, players are able to build Techs that take advantage of damage and damageable types

Here is a list of each damage type:

• Standard
• Bullet (Ballistic)
• Energy
• Explosive (Blast)
• Impact
• Fire
• Cutting
• Plasma
• Electric

As for the damageable types, every destructible object in TerraTech whether it’s a block or scenery object has a damageable type assigned to it. A damageable type dictates the resistance an object has against certain damage types.

Here is a list of each damageable type:

• Standard
• Armour
• Rubber
• Volatile
• Shield (energy)
• Wood
• Rock
• Compound

A damage type dictates whether a weapon is effective or ineffective against certain damageable types. This handy chart shows exactly what damageable types resist which damage type and by how much.