Retaining Wall

Retaining Wall (Long)

Wall that retains ground level.

Construction	12 + 40
Workers	None
Electricity	None
Maintenance	None
Footprint	2x4
Required Research	Retaining Walls
Designation	Terraforming
Variants	Retaining Wall (Short) Retaining Wall (Long) Retaining Wall (Cross) Retaining Wall (Tee)

Retaining Walls is a structure that prevents the falling of already existing or dumped Loose products while the tile behind it is excavated or dumped on.

It exists in 5 variants with with different footprints: (1x2, 2x2 and 2x4):

Image	Name	Footprint	Recipe
	Retaining Wall (Short)	1x2	4 + 10
	Retaining Wall (Corner)	2x2	6 + 12
	Retaining Wall (Cross)
	Retaining Wall (Tee)
	Retaining Wall (Long)	2x4	12 + 40

Retaining wall can be built with different levels of submersion to the ground. On perfectly flat ground theres 6 different levels of submersion, on steep slopes there can be none.

Retaining walls, as other buildings (with the exception of pipes?), will start to take damage as any of it's 8 foundation tiles is lowered below the bottom or risen above top of its 3D model.

Retaining Wall (Long) is exactly the length of a mining/dumping tile, which is 4x4.

Using the "toggle_terrain_designations_over_entities" console command will allow the user place mining / dumping designation onto the same tile as the retaining wall. A demonstration of this can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtdFC6bjJ98&t=943s