Template:Node building destruction

You could be more precision oriented in the decision to attack a city. Let's say it's a rival node that's trying to reach a node stage five or something and you want to disable their ability for the religious system to progress so you target the temple during the attack, or you want to disable their scholars academy from reaching a higher level so that your nodes can; or you want to disable multiple buildings that allow for experience and quests to be undertaken by its citizenship, which prevents them from keeping up in pace of experience gained with your node. These can be more precision oriented and don't have to effectualize an actual takeover of the node.^[2] – Steven Sharif

Node buildings (including player housing) have hit points and can be damaged or destroyed by different systems.^[3]^[4]

NPC-driven events that are a response to story arcs or node atrophy.^[3]
Node sieges and node wars.^[3]
- Attackers may not be capable of destroying a node during a siege. Instead they may carry out precision attacks to disable specific service-oriented buildings within the node. These buildings can be targeted with siege weapons and bombs.^[2]
Hazardous events such as tornadoes or hurricanes.^[5]^[3]
Mayors have the ability to demolish constructed node buildings. This will have a node mandate cost and will require player buy-in via a vote.^[6]^[7]

Mayors will also have the ability, if they want, to demolish constructed buildings. So if they if they so choose they can destroy a building if they don't think it's needed anymore. But this will have mandate cost and a player buy-in votes. So we want to make sure that [the] mayor can't just go and blow up the whole node if they're trying to grief or something. So this is very important and impactful decision.^[6]^[7] – John Collins

If building maintenance is not paid, or a building is damaged as the result of an event or siege, the building will enter a state of disarray.^[6]^[7] Any NPCs or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.^[8]^[4]

Players must contribute materials to repair disarrayed buildings and restore them to an operational state.^[6]^[7]^[3]^[4]^[9]

If a node siege is successful, or if buildings otherwise take significant damage, they are destroyed and appear as rubble on the plot they occupied.^[6]^[7]^[3]

Node governments must clear any rubble on plots before any buildings can be reconstructed. Any prerequisites for the building reconstruction must be satisfied beforehand.^[3]
Buildings also live within a prerequisite system. So in order to build down the tech tree of what these buildings provide, as the node grows larger to access stronger building types, you may get a kink in that chain if it's destroyed and you'll have to stand that back up in order to support the service again.^[3] – Steven Sharif
If the node is destroyed by a node siege, the debris field will contain spoils that are lootable by attackers or defenders.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[4]^[13]^[14]
- Player housing that is destroyed during a node siege can no longer be sold.^[15] Furnishing and decorations are retained and can be placed again later.^[15]^[16]^[17]