Sculptures

Sculptures are artistic buildings that typically have a high beauty stat. There are four types of traditional sculpture:

• Small sculpture
• Large sculpture
• Grand sculpture
• Terror sculpture

Cube sculptures are identified as sculptures and do provide beauty, but have a number of unique mechanics. Their similarities to more traditional sculptures are also shared by any building in the game. As such they are not considered on this page.

Summary

Unfinished sculpture

All four sculptures are created from an art bench using Wood, Stony, or Metallic ingredients. Counterintuitively, stone sculptures are not made from stone chunks, but from stone blocks.

The sculptor's Artistic skill is the primary factor in determining the sculptures' quality. A sculptor cannot work on another sculptor's piece.

The three sculptures in Core have a high beauty rating, which depends on the sculpture size, material, and quality. Terror sculptures do not increase beauty, but instead increase suppression of slaves.

All sculptures have a 1.1x Sell Price Multiplier, making them sell for more when compared to other items of the same market value.

All sculptures will have a name and story, like items of excellent or higher qualities. See #Story Generation below for more details.

The following table compares the four sculptures:

Sculpture	Size	Materials	Base Beauty	HP	Work to make
Small sculpture	1 × 1	50 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 500 for SMVs)	50	90	18,000 ticks (5 mins)
Large sculpture	1 × 1	100 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 1000 for SMVs)	100	150	30,000 ticks (8.33 mins)
Grand sculpture	2 × 2	400 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 4000 for SMVs)	400	300	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)
Terror sculpture	1 × 1	100 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 1000 for SMVs)	-5	150	30,000 ticks (8.33 mins)

Meditation

Pawns with the Artistic meditation focus can use sculptures in a 10-tile radius to increase psyfocus. This includes all pawns who are not Tribal or Ascetic.

The highest quality sculpture is the primary source of psyfocus:

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Base Strength	+12%	+16%	+20%	+22%	+24%	+26%	+28%

The other, surrounding sculptures give a much smaller boost:

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Strength Offset	+0%	+0%	+1%	+1%	+1%	+2%	+2%

The maximum meditation focus strength is thus 44% for a legendary sculpture surrounded by 8 additional sculptures of masterwork or legendary quality.

Analysis

Sculptures can quickly increase the Impressiveness of a room through Wealth and Beauty, in addition to fulfilling the actual beauty need. Certain rooms give increasing mood buffs for being more impressive:

• Dining room
• Rec room
• Bedroom (inc. Barrack, Prison Room)
• Hospital
• Throne room & Ritual room

Other than these rooms, place art where pawns will stay for a long time, such as work stations. For extra efficiency, you can combine these rooms to make the most out of the sculptures. If Dining, Recreation, and Work all happen in the same room, then the same sculpture can apply to all 3 rooms, in addition to the general increase to Wealth.

Note that sculptures increase a room's beauty rating from anywhere inside, but will only fulfill the beauty need when in an 8-tile radius from a pawn.

Which sculpture to create

An initial consideration is the material the sculpture is to be constructed from - some materials, namely Gold, Marble blocks, Silver, Jade, have a beauty offset. This offset is added after the beauty multiplier and only applied once per item. As such, there is an advantage in beauty per tile for large sculptures over grand sculptures when made of one of those materials. For example, Jade has beauty factor of 2.5 and an offset of 10. As such a Jade grand sculpture would have a total beauty of (400 × 2.5) + 10 or 1010. Conversely, the 4 large sculptures you could construct with the same materials would have a total beauty of 1040. In a similar vein, there is an advantage in beauty per material for small sculptures and, to a lesser extent, large sculptures. The effects of this offset are most visible at lower qualities, and the other factors in choosing a sculpture size are usually more relevant, however, it should be considered if one of the aforementioned materials will be used.

Small sculptures are the worst for beauty. For each point of beauty, they require the most work and take up the most space. Yet, because small sculptures take the most work, they have the highest Market Value per material. Therefore, small sculptures are the most profitable to sell per material. Small sculptures also have another advantage when selling: quality is a multiplier to market value, but can only increase value up to a flat cap. Small sculptures, especially of gold or silver, are less impacted by the cap than the larger sculptures. Plus, traders likely won't have enough money to afford a masterwork grand sculpture.

Conversely, large and grand sculptures are better to actually place around your base. Both are equally as space efficient (before rounding). You can place 4 large sculptures in 4 separate locations, as opposed in a grand sculpture needing a 2x2 space. This makes large sculptures a better solution for bedrooms and other smaller rooms, and a more flexible option generally.

Making grand sculptures exhibits a greater risk - if it turns out awful, you've had wasted 4 sculpture's worth of time. Conversely, grand sculptures are the best when you have inspired creativity, assuming you can actually complete it. It may be wise to work on a grand sculpture, suspend it before it's completed, and finish it once the inspiration hits. Grand sculptures are also the most wealth efficient way to provide beauty of all sculptures, due to the aforementioned market value cap. A gold grand sculpture costs 40340 at Normal quality and 43340 at Legendary quality, an increase of 3000 . Four large sculptures would cost 40380 at Normal quality and 52380 at Legendary quality, an increase of 12000 .

If managing wealth, carefully consider how much beauty a sculpture gives for its wealth footprint. A legendary gold grand sculpture provides 12960 beauty, but only 0.3 beauty per wealth. Weigh this against a legendary quality jade grand sculpture which provides 1.46 beauty per wealth. Excellent quality marble grand sculpture are much easier to obtain and provide 1.37 beauty per wealth. For single tile sculptures, excellent quality marble large sculptures provide 1.28 beauty per wealth. Masterwork large and grand marble sculptures are negligibly close in beauty per wealth to their excellent counterpart.

Material table

Note: The table below assumes Normal quality. For the effect of other qualities, see the Quality table or the Quality page. Keep in mind that while Beauty is multiplied by the factor from quality directly, the market value increase from quality is capped. As such, the qualitative differences between 2 sculptures may be different at different qualities. The ratios of Beauty/Value, Value/Work, and Value/Material are provided as a rough guide only.

Sculptures	Material	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value	Beauty /Work	Beauty /Value	Value /Work	Value /Material
Small sculpture	Bioferrite	12	045,000 ticks (12.5 mins)	180	75%	200	0	0.06	0.004	4
Small sculpture	Gold	220	016,200 ticks (4.5 mins)	54	40%	5,060	0.014	0.043	0.312	10.12
Small sculpture	Granite blocks	50	023,400 ticks (6.5 mins)	153	0%	129	0.002	0.388	0.006	2.58
Small sculpture	Limestone blocks	50	023,400 ticks (6.5 mins)	140	0%	129	0.002	0.388	0.006	2.58
Small sculpture	Marble blocks	68	020,700 ticks (5.75 mins)	108	0%	120	0.003	0.567	0.006	2.4
Small sculpture	Plasteel	50	039,600 ticks (11 mins)	252	0%	595	0.001	0.084	0.015	11.9
Small sculpture	Sandstone blocks	55	019,800 ticks (5.5 mins)	126	0%	116	0.003	0.474	0.006	2.32
Small sculpture	Silver	106	018,000 ticks (5 mins)	63	40%	565	0.006	0.188	0.031	1.13
Small sculpture	Slate blocks	55	023,400 ticks (6.5 mins)	117	0%	129	0.002	0.426	0.006	2.58
Small sculpture	Steel	50	018,000 ticks (5 mins)	90	40%	160	0.003	0.313	0.009	3.2
Small sculpture	Jade	135	025,200 ticks (7 mins)	45	0%	340	0.005	0.397	0.013	6.8
Small sculpture	Uranium	25	034,200 ticks (9.5 mins)	225	0%	425	0.001	0.059	0.012	8.5
Small sculpture	Wood	50	012,600 ticks (3.5 mins)	59	100%	105	0.004	0.476	0.008	2.1
Large sculpture	Bioferrite	25	075,000 ticks (20.83 mins)	300	75%	345	0	0.072	0.005	3.45
Large sculpture	Gold	420	027,000 ticks (7.5 mins)	90	40%	10,095	0.016	0.042	0.374	10.095
Large sculpture	Granite blocks	100	039,000 ticks (10.83 mins)	255	0%	230	0.003	0.435	0.006	2.3
Large sculpture	Limestone blocks	100	039,000 ticks (10.83 mins)	233	0%	230	0.003	0.435	0.006	2.3
Large sculpture	Marble blocks	136	034,500 ticks (9.58 mins)	180	0%	215	0.004	0.633	0.006	2.15
Large sculpture	Plasteel	100	066,000 ticks (18.33 mins)	420	0%	1,140	0.002	0.088	0.017	11.4
Large sculpture	Sandstone blocks	110	033,000 ticks (9.17 mins)	210	0%	210	0.003	0.524	0.006	2.1
Large sculpture	Silver	206	030,000 ticks (8.33 mins)	105	40%	1,110	0.007	0.186	0.037	1.11
Large sculpture	Slate blocks	110	039,000 ticks (10.83 mins)	195	0%	230	0.003	0.478	0.006	2.3
Large sculpture	Steel	100	030,000 ticks (8.33 mins)	150	40%	300	0.003	0.333	0.01	3
Large sculpture	Jade	260	042,000 ticks (11.67 mins)	75	0%	650	0.006	0.4	0.015	6.5
Large sculpture	Uranium	50	057,000 ticks (15.83 mins)	375	0%	805	0.001	0.062	0.014	8.05
Large sculpture	Wood	100	021,000 ticks (5.83 mins)	98	100%	196	0.005	0.51	0.009	1.96
Grand sculpture	Bioferrite	100	262,500 ticks (72.92 mins)	600	75%	1,245	0	0.08	0.005	3.113
Grand sculpture	Gold	1620	094,500 ticks (26.25 mins)	180	40%	40,340	0.017	0.04	0.427	10.085
Grand sculpture	Granite blocks	400	136,500 ticks (37.92 mins)	510	0%	850	0.003	0.471	0.006	2.125
Grand sculpture	Limestone blocks	400	136,500 ticks (37.92 mins)	465	0%	850	0.003	0.471	0.006	2.125
Grand sculpture	Marble blocks	541	120,750 ticks (33.54 mins)	360	0%	795	0.004	0.681	0.007	1.988
Grand sculpture	Plasteel	400	231,000 ticks (64.17 mins)	840	0%	4,430	0.002	0.09	0.019	11.075
Grand sculpture	Sandstone blocks	440	115,500 ticks (32.08 mins)	420	0%	775	0.004	0.568	0.007	1.938
Grand sculpture	Silver	806	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)	210	40%	4,380	0.008	0.184	0.042	1.095
Grand sculpture	Slate blocks	440	136,500 ticks (37.92 mins)	390	0%	850	0.003	0.518	0.006	2.125
Grand sculpture	Steel	400	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)	300	40%	1,140	0.004	0.351	0.011	2.85
Grand sculpture	Jade	1010	147,000 ticks (40.83 mins)	150	0%	2,530	0.007	0.399	0.017	6.325
Grand sculpture	Uranium	200	199,500 ticks (55.42 mins)	750	0%	3,120	0.001	0.064	0.016	7.8
Grand sculpture	Wood	400	073,500 ticks (20.42 mins)	195	100%	745	0.005	0.537	0.01	1.863

Quality table

Quality	Base Beauty Modifier	Base Value Modifier
Awful	-10%	50%
Poor	50%	75%
Normal	100%	100%
Good	200%	125% (max +500)
Excellent	300%	150% (max +1000)
Masterwork	500%	250% (max +2000)
Legendary	800%	500% (max +3000)

Story generation

Each sculpture has its own semi-randomly generated story based on past events in the colony and pre-written story segments. These stories tend to contain any of the following:

• A past event occurring in or to the colony (see below)
• A seemingly random event with no relation to the colony (e.g. "hundreds of doctors and engineers eating mushrooms")
• A border to the art (e.g. "a triangular border")
• A texture (e.g. "insert texture example")
• A design style (e.g. "conveys a feeling of rage and happiness")
• A location (e.g. "in a town")

The events sometimes depicted in the story can be about any of the following that occurred in the colony's history:

• killings
• social fights
• drunkenness
• vomiting
• landing in drop pods
• artwork created
• struck ore
• person captured
• person recruited
• animal trained
• animal hunted
• surgery done
• someone was on fire
• someone went psychotic
• someone gave up

Alternatively, they can contain something random, without relating to any events in the colony at all (e.g. "this sculpture bears a portrayal of a cube"). Because of this grammar generator, artwork can have some humorous descriptions

Version history

• 0.9.722 - Sculptures now have sizes - small, large, and grand. Now have generated descriptions of what they depict. Will depict events that happened earlier in a colony’s life, include: killings, drunkenness, vomiting, landing in drop pods, artwork created, struck ore, person captured, person recruited, animal hunted, surgery done, someone was on fire, someone went psychotic, someone gave up
• 1.1.2654 - Increase psyfocus gain of sculptures by 2, up to a max of 28 at legendary quality.

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Architect

Furniture

Animal bed • Animal sleeping box • Animal sleeping spot • Bedroll (Double) • Plant pot • Sculptures (Small, Large, Grand, Terror ) • Sleeping spot (Double, Baby ) • Stool • Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3) • Torch lamp • Wall torch lamp • Wall lamp • Animus stone • Darktorch • Fungus darktorch • Crib

Complex Furniture

Armchair • Bed (Double) • Bookcase (Small) • Couch • Dining chair • Dresser • End table • Royal bed • Shelf (Small) • Brazier (Darklight ) • Drape • Grand meditation throne • Meditation throne • Slab bed (Double) • Baby decoration • Blackboard • School desk • Toy box

(research)

Flood light • Hospital bed • Standing lamp • Sun lamp • Bonsai pot

(uncraftable)

Urn • Blood torch