Medical Room
| Medical Room | |
|---|---|
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| Category: | Facility |
| Function: | provides healing, respawn point, and character customization |
| Fits large grid | |
| Mass: | 4257.0 kg |
| PCU: | 30 |
| Size: | 2x1x2 |
| Time to Build: | 50 sec |
| Data Controls: | [edit] [purge] (?) |
The 
Medical Room is a block in Space Engineers that recharges the Space Engineer's Life Support in Survival Mode. It also serves as respawn point and suit customisation station.
The Corner Medical Room is the Decorative Pack 3 DLC variant of the same block. It has the same functionality and same recipe
For related blocks with similar functions, see also Survival Kit and Cryo Chamber. For a similar decorative block, see Medical Station.
Usage
The block has two configurable LCD Surfaces on the inner side at the health recharging station.
In a combat situation, Medical Rooms become a target for attackers, both as a relatively expensive piece of equipment to loot, and also to starve a ship or station of its reinforcements, or deny the enemy the ability to heal themselves or recharge energy.
How to heal and recharge
Energy intensive activities, such as mining with a Hand Drill, constructing, and salvaging by Welder and Grinder in space, drains suit power quickly. Visit the Medical Room regularly to recharge your suit reservoirs, with or without health restoration. Players in Survival Mode use the Medical Room as Life Support to recharge both suit energy and health.
Face the display panel on the inner terminal of the block and hold the USE key F key to recharge.
- If the Medical Room is conveyored to sources of gas such as tanks, interacting with this terminal also refills your suit oxygen and hydrogen reservoirs. It does not, however, refill gas bottles carried in your inventory.
- If the block is not conveyored to filled tanks, the Medical Room only recharges power and health.
The Medical Room heals five times faster than the Survival Kit.
How to respawn
After death, your Medical Rooms are available as possible respawn points on the spawn screen. The location is available for the player who constructed and owns the block, and for any other players of the faction with which the block was shared and who have used the Medical Room before.
To control whether respawn points are listed as ready or not ready, see Enable Autorespawn in the World Settings.
If your world has several Medical Rooms/Survival Kits/Cryo Chambers, it's a best practice to give each a Spawn Name on the Control Panel Screen. Naming your respawn points makes it easier for you to tell them apart.
How to customize the space suit
The Medical Room is commonly used in the spawn room of Multiplayer Scenarios to allow participants to select team colours. The suit customisation functionality works in Survival Mode as well as Creative Mode (see trivia below).
- Go to the outside-facing portion of the medical room that looks like a booth, to the right of the recharge terminal.
- Face the booth and press F key to enter.
- On the Character Screen, change your suit color and select a skin for your space suits.
Trivia
In Creative Mode, players can use the Medical Room's Character Screen to turn their Engineer skin into various spiders or a wolf skin.
- Disguised engineers will still be attacked by wolf/spider NPCs (if they are enabled).
- Disguised engineers cannot use the jetpack, switch to first-person view, strafe, close their helmets, use handheld weapons / tools.
- Disguised engineers can interact with blocks, can stand in cockpits, push buttons, use their flashlight, use their suit antenna, and place blocks.
- Disguised engineers cannot move in zero gravity, on the other hand, they don't die in the vacuum of space either.
If you switch the game back to Survival Mode, you turn back into an engineer.
Gallery
Medical Rooms are used as respawn points and for suit customisation.
Terminal: Suit and health recharging. Booth on the right: Character customization. The empty space in front of the terminal is the respawn area.
Players can customise the look and color of the space suit on the character screen.
In Creative Mode, the suit options also contain NPC skins.
Construction
If progression is enabled, you must build a Basic Assembler first to unlock this block. You can build it after you have found 
Cobalt Ore and 
Silver Ore and can refine them.
The Medical Room must be powered to work. The Medical Room exists for large grid only, for a small grid alternative, see Survival Kit. It has two conveyor ports in one corner, one on the top and one on the bottom. Visually, there is 1 block of empty space in its middle; you cannot place any other blocks in this area because this is where respawning characters will stand.
When placing the block,
- Choose a safe room with clear exits because this will be your respawn point.
- Choose a location near areas where players need to recharge quickly.
- Optimally, connect the ports to a conveyor system that has access to oxygen and hydrogen tanks.
- Optionally, keep the suit customisation booth accessible if you intend to use it.
Access to the suit customisation and suit refill functionalities is not required for its main functionality as a respawn point.
Recipe
 Corner Medical Room | ||||
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| Component | Large Ship/Station Required | Large Ship/Station Optional | Small Ship Required | Small Ship Optional |
 Small Steel Tube | 20 | — | — | — |
 Metal Grid | 60 | — | — | — |
 Medical Components | 15 | — | — | — |
 Large Steel Tube | 5 | — | — | — |
 Interior Plate | 220 | 20 | — | — |
 Display | 10 | — | — | — |
 Construction Comp. | 80 | — | — | — |
 Computer | 10 | — | — | — |
