Silver tile

Silver tile

For a futuristic but royal look, silver tiles fit perfectly into luxurious rooms. They are quick to clean and get a bonus to cleanliness.

Base Stats

Type

Floor

Market Value

73 

Beauty

4

Flammability

0%

Building

Size

1 × 1

Placeable

True

Cleanliness

+0.2

Move Speed Factor

100%

Creation

Required Research

Smithing

Skill Required

Construction 3

Work To Make

800 ticks (13.33 secs)

Resources to make

70

Deconstruct yield

35

Silver tile is a type of floor. It is naturally clean, non-flammable, and quite beautiful.

Acquisition

Silver tiles can be constructed once the Smithing research project has been completed. Each tile requires  70 Silvers, 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work, and a Construction skill of 3.

Summary

Silver tiles gives +4 beauty and has a Cleanliness of +0.2. It also takes 60% the time to clean filth on it. It is not flammable and does not penalize walk speed.

Silver tiles also count as a fine floor for the purposes of nobles.

Analysis

Compared to other general floors, they are quite beautiful, but resource intensive and add a significant amount of Wealth to the colony. While it is a trivial-to-defend way to improve area beauty and cleanliness, its practical use as flooring is limited. It is considerably more efficient to construct sculptures to improve room beauty in most circumstances.

There may be some merit to its use in defensive areas, such as killboxes, where non-flammability is important, where more beauty will improve the mood of colonists in combat and help prevent mental breaks occuring at inopportune times, but where sculptures would be at risk of destruction. The clean time factor can also help against blood.

Fine flooring

Silver tiles are surprisingly competitive as a fine floor, which are all resource intensive. Impressiveness weighs heavily towards the lowest stat, so the small Cleanliness of silver and gold tiles help. Gold tiles are 10x more expensive - while more beautiful, sculptures are usually a superior form of beauty.

• Silver tiles have the same beauty of fine carpets, while only being 6 Market Value higher. Meanwhile, silver tiles are much faster to construct, have +0.2 Cleanliness, are 333% faster to clean, and are non-flammable. However, cloth is easier to grow in massive quantities when the biome supports it. If the cloth needs to be bought, then silver tile usually comes out ahead.
• Fine stone tiles are also nonflammable, but only have +3 beauty and no Cleanliness. Stone takes longer than even fine carpet to construct, and creating stone blocks is a time-consuming task. The main appeal is that stone is very cheap; stone is nearly always available, and fine stone has half the wealth of silver. Fine stone floor also has a cleaning time of 80% (25% more than silver).

Note that carpet requires the separate Carpet making research. Both silver and fine stone require the Smithing instead, a pre-requsite for many other essential projects.

Version history

• 1.1.2562 - Now considered fine floor.
• 1.4.3523 - Beauty decreased from 5 to 4 and cleaning time factor added. Description changed from For a futuristic but royal look, silver tiles fit perfectly into luxurious rooms. They get a bonus to cleanliness. to For a futuristic but royal look, silver tiles fit perfectly into luxurious rooms. They are quick to clean and get a bonus to cleanliness.

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Architect

Floors

Burned floors (Carpet, Straw matting, Wood floor, Bioferrite plate) • Concrete • Flagstones (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Gold tile • Paved tile • Silver tile • Steel tile • Sterile tile • Straw matting • Wood floor • Fungal gravel • Hex tile • Spikecore plates • Totemic boards

(research)

Carpet • Stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Fine carpets • Fine stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Hex carpet • Mindbend carpet • Morbid carpet • Morbid stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Spikecore stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Totemic stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Bioferrite plate

Floor coverings

Animalist slab (Medium, Broad) • Morbid slab (Medium, Broad) • Rustic rug (Medium, Broad) • Spikecore floor-star (Medium, Broad) • Totemic slab (Medium, Broad)

Related

Bridge • Smooth stone • Void metal