Useful Constants

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This page will list constants either useful because they are missing from the official constants or because they might be interesting to know when solving certain ingame problems.

Missing constants (hardcoded in engine)

Knowing "constant worthy" values that do not have a constant set up in the engine yet is important especially now that private servers get more and more modifiable. This list will be useful to users since they can just use values without having to look them up in the engine code, but it might also help request missing constants from the devs (in case changing these currently hardcoded values might make the game more moddable).

Description	Value	Code sample
Creep fatigue removal multiplier. It works like this in the engine: newFatigue = Math.max(0, oldFatigue - ( MOVEparts * multiplier))	-2	const MULT_CREEP_FATIGUE_REDUCTION = -2;
Max bucket value. The CPU bucket fills up to 10000	10000	const MAX_BUCKET = 10000;
Hits (Health/HitPoints) per-part of a creep	100	const CREEP_HITS_PER_PART = 100;
username for the Invader NPCs	'Invader'	const INVADER_USERNAME = 'Invader';
username for Source Keeper NPCs	'Source Keeper'	const SOURCE_KEEPER_USERNAME = 'Source Keeper';
username for the Caravan NPCs & unclaimed ruins	'Screeps'	const CARAVAN_USERNAME = 'Screeps';
Rate at which energy (progress) is dropped from construction sties, when stomped (moved onto) by creeps.	0.5	const CONSTRUCTION_SITE_STOMP_RATIO = 0.5;
Power of RANGED_MASS_ATTACK, dependent on range.	{ 1: 10, 2: 4, 3: 1}	const RANGED_MASS_ATTACK_POWER = { 1: 10, 2: 4, 3: 1};
The max amount of CPU that can be used in one game tick, any CPU over the user's assigned amount comes out of the bucket	500	const MAX_CPU_PER_TICK = 500;
The ranges creeps have to be within to execute certain actions.	{ attack: 1, attackController: 1, build: 3, claimController: 1, dismantle: 1, generateSafeMode: 1, harvest: 1, heal: 1, pickup: 1, pull: 1, rangedAttack: 3, rangedHeal: 3, rangedMassAttack: 3, repair: 3, reserveController: 1, transfer: 1, upgradeController: 3, withdraw: 1};	const CREEP_ACTION_RANGES = { attack: 1, attackController: 1, build: 3, claimController: 1, dismantle: 1, generateSafeMode: 1, harvest: 1, heal: 1, pickup: 1, pull: 1, rangedAttack: 3, rangedHeal: 3, rangedMassAttack: 3, repair: 3, reserveController: 1, transfer: 1, upgradeController: 3, withdraw: 1};
Maximum size of the default memory (per shard) in characters	2048	const MEMORY_SIZE = 2048;
Maximum size of an intetershard memory (per shard) in characters	1024	const MEMORY_INERSHARD_SIZE = 1024;
Maximum size of a rawMemory segment (per shard) in characters	1024	const MEMORY_RAW_SEGMENT_SIZE = 1024;
Maximum size of a rawMemory total (per shard, 10 active segments) in characters	10240	const MEMORY_RAW_TOTAL_SIZE = 10240;
Hits (Health/HitPoints) per power creep level	1000	const POWER_CREEP_HITS_PER_LEVEL = 1000;
'value' of plains terrain (Note: absence of value could always be considered a 'plains' since its 0)	0	const TERRAIN_MASK_PLAIN = 0;
	3	const CREEP_BUILD_RANGE = 3;
	3	const CREEP_RANGED_ATTACK_RANGE = 3;
	3	const CREEP_UPGRADE_RANGE = 3;
	3	const CREEP_REPAIR_RANGE = 3;
	3	const CREEP_RANGED_HEAL_RANGE = 3;
	1	const CREEP_HARVEST_RANGE = 1;
	1	const CREEP_WITHDRAW_RANGE = 1;
Base cost of any successful action that changes game state	0.2	const CONST_COST = 0.2;
The distance labs need to be within to beable to runReaction() or reverseReaction()	2	const LAB_REACT_RANGE = 2;
The distance a creep and a lab need to be to boostCreep() or unboostCreep()	1	const LAB_BOOST_RANGE = 1;
The maximum amount of deals that can be done on the market in one tick.	10	const MARKET_MAX_DEALS_PER_TICK = 10;
The maximum amount of characters a controller sign can have.	100	const CONTROLLER_SIGN_MAX_LENGTH = 100;
The maximum amount of characters a creep name can have.	100	const CREEP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH = 100;
The maximum amount of characters a power-creep name can have.	100	const POWER_CREEP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH = 100;
The maximum amount of characters a flag name can have.	60	const FLAG_NAME_MAX_LENGTH = 60;
The maximum amount of characters a spawn name can have.	100	const SPAWN_NAME_MAX_LENGTH = 100;
The maximum amount of characters a creep can say()	10	const SAY_MAX_LENGTH = 10;
The fatigue reduction of a move part per tick when hits > 0	2	const MOVE_POWER = 2;

Other beneficial constants

Description	Value	Code Sample
Energy-per-tick income for a given source	10*	const SOURCE_GOAL_OWNED = SOURCE_ENERGY_CAPACITY / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
	5*	const SOURCE_GOAL_NEUTRAL = SOURCE_ENERGY_NEUTRAL_CAPACITY / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
	13.3334*	const SOURCE_GOAL_KEEPER = SOURCE_ENERGY_KEEPER_CAPACITY / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
Optimal number of work parts	5*	const SOURCE_HARVEST_PARTS = SOURCE_ENERGY_CAPACITY / HARVEST_POWER / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
	2.5*	const SOURCE_HARVEST_PARTS_NEUTRAL = SOURCE_ENERGY_NEUTRAL_CAPACITY / HARVEST_POWER / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
	6.6667*	const SOURCE_HARVEST_PARTS_KEEPER = SOURCE_ENERGY_KEEPER_CAPACITY / HARVEST_POWER / ENERGY_REGEN_TIME;
Optimal number of carry parts	0.2*	const SOURCE_CARRY_PARTS_PER_DISTANCE_OWNED = SOURCE_GOAL_OWNED / CARRY_CAPACITY;
	0.1*	const SOURCE_CARRY_PARTS_PER_DISTANCE_NEUTRAL = SOURCE_GOAL_NEUTRAL / CARRY_CAPACITY;
	0.26667*	const SOURCE_CARRY_PARTS_PER_DISTANCE_KEEPER = SOURCE_GOAL_KEEPER / CARRY_CAPACITY;
Average energy per tick upkeep cost	0.03*	const RAMPART_UPKEEP = RAMPART_DECAY_AMOUNT / REPAIR_POWER / RAMPART_DECAY_TIME;
	0.001*	const ROAD_UPKEEP = ROAD_DECAY_AMOUNT / REPAIR_POWER / ROAD_DECAY_TIME;
	0.005*	const ROAD_UPKEEP_SWAMP = (ROAD_DECAY_AMOUNT * CONSTRUCTION_COST_ROAD_SWAMP_RATIO) / REPAIR_POWER / ROAD_DECAY_TIME;
	0.15*	const ROAD_UPKEEP_TUNNEL = (ROAD_DECAY_AMOUNT * CONSTRUCTION_COST_ROAD_WALL_RATIO) / REPAIR_POWER / ROAD_DECAY_TIME;
	0.1*	const CONTAINER_UPKEEP = CONTAINER_DECAY / REPAIR_POWER / CONTAINER_DECAY_TIME_OWNED;
	0.5*	const REMOTE_CONTAINER_UPKEEP = CONTAINER_DECAY / REPAIR_POWER / CONTAINER_DECAY_TIME;
Boolean indicator of world type	false	const IS_PTR = !!(Game.shard && Game.shard.ptr);
	false	const IS_SIM = !!Game.rooms['sim'];
	true	const IS_MMO = !!(Game.shard && Game.shard.name && Game.shard.name.startsWith('shard'));

* values marked with the asterisk are just examples and subject to change should the underlying constants change