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[[Image:Ruin-1.PNG|frame|right|Ruined buildings are darker grey.]]
==Introduction of Ruins==
As per the [[News/2007#August 14|August 14, 2007 update]]:

"Some of the more territorial [[zombie]]s have taken to ruining buildings; [[ransack]]ing a building to such a thorough extent that the damage is visible from the street.  Ruined buildings can only be repaired by [[survivors]] with [[construction]] experience and a [[toolbox]].

==Creating a Ruin==
A building must be ransacked five times for the option to ruin it to be available. Ruined buildings appear on the map as regular buildings, but with a darker background and they can be noticed from adjacent blocks. 

Each block of a [[Building Types#Large_Buildings|Large Building]] ([[Malls]], [[Mansion]]s, [[Stadium]]s, [[Power Station]]s and [[Cathedral]]s) can be ruined individually.

[[Building Types#Junkyard|Junkyards]] and [[City Zoo|zoo enclosures]] can be neither ransacked nor ruined.  In the [[Borehamwood]] map, the unique building, [[A ruined abbey (Borehamwood)|a ruined abbey]], cannot be ruined.

[[Image:Ruin+Light-Small.png|frame|right|If a ruined building has power, it turns dull yellow with a gray background.]]

==Repairing a Ruin==
Ruined buildings can only be repaired by survivors with the construction skill and a toolbox.  Repairing a ruined building requires that all zombies be removed.  [[Dark]] ruined buildings must first be powered before being repaired.  Repairing a ruined building gives 1 [[XP]] and doesn't use up the toolbox. Repaired buildings have normal status (they are neither ruined nor ransacked).

As per the [[News/2008#May_28|28 May, 2008 update]] repairing ruin costs more [[AP]] the longer it has remained ruined. This seems to be equal to 1 AP per full 24 hours the building remains ruined, and does not appear to be capped. The  AP cost cannot be "split" (i.e. spent in parts) - the option to repair the ruin is a single action that consumes multiple AP, just as standing up from a [[headshot]] (or without [[Lurching Gait]]) or manufacturing a syringe. You may go under 0 AP (i.e. have negative AP) after a repair (as with the previous actions). No building can be permanently ruined.

==Ruin Effects==
Ruining buildings prevents survivors from:
* [[Barricades|Barricading]]
* Changing into new [[clothes]]
* [[Free running]] in (attempts land the survivor outside and may injure the survivor, though this injury never causes [[death]])
* [[Scout safehouse|Scouting their safehouse]]

[[Searching|Search Rates]] in ruined building are also severely reduced. 

Ruins (unless heavily or more barricaded, see [[piñata]]) can always be entered in the normal manner of entering a building.
Free running out of a ruin into an intact building works as normal; the survivor moves to the interior of the neighboring intact building for 1 AP.

==More information==
*[[Decay]]
*[[Big Game Ruin Hunting]]

[[Category:Glossary]]