Fine carpet

Fine carpet

Luxurious, ornately-patterned carpet made from fibers dyed a single color. Beautiful to look at, but cleaning it is a labor-intensive process.

Base Stats

Type

Floor

Market Value

67 

Beauty

4

Flammability

32%

Building

Size

1 × 1

Placeable

True

Move Speed Factor

100%

Creation

Required Research

Carpet making

Skill Required

Construction 6

Work To Make

4,000 ticks (1.11 mins)

Resources to make

35

Deconstruct yield

17 - 18

Fine Carpet is a type of flooring introduced in the Royalty DLC, to expand on the basic carpet of the core game. It has 100% walk speed and a higher beauty of 4 (vs. standard carpet's "2"), meaning it can cause a "pleasant environment" happy thought in sufficient amounts. They are also flammable. It has a cleaning time of 200%.

Fine carpets require more work and more resources than regular carpets but provide additional beauty and meet the requirements for nobility .

Colors can be be selected from a menu.

Acquisition

Fine carpet can be constructed once the Carpet making research project has been completed. Each tile requires  35 Cloth, 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 6.

Analysis

While extremely work and resource intensive, it has a very high beauty rating, and either it or fine stone tiles is required to meet the room requirements for high-ranking nobility.

There are two primary use cases for fine carpets, namely fine flooring for meeting the room requirements of nobles, and general flooring.

Fine flooring

See also: Fine floor

Against fine stone tiles, fine carpet has +1 beauty, takes less work to build, and the cloth takes less work to obtain, However, stone isn't flammable, which makes it easy to defend without using firefoam poppers, and more suited for combat. In addition, fine stone only takes 80% work to clean, rather than carpet's 200%. These differences are relatively small in practice (if you have firefoam available), meaning the two tiles are largely interchangable for royal rooms.

Silver tiles are suprisngly competitive. Silver is only 6 market value higher. But it has equal beauty, a 0.2 cleanliness bonus, requires only 60% clean time, and is much faster to create. Silver itself may be easier to obtain, depending on your colony's climate and Plants skill. If the colony is producing its own cloth for carpets, silver tiles are more expensive. But if the cloth needs to be bought, then they are directly comparable. Thus, silver tile is a strong competitor to fine carpets, even ones with a cloth industry.

For gold tiles, using gold sculptures with silver or fine stone tiles is typically superior. Gold itself is not easy to obtain, negating most of the benefits of the tile.

General flooring

Compared to other floors, they are quite beautiful, but work and resource intensive. While its a good way to train construction skill as, besides failure, there is no penalty for low skill constructors, their use as actual flooring is limited outside of player preference. It requires significantly less work to construct regular carpet and sculptures to improve room beauty.

• Footnote: The fine purple carpet is very nice when paired with gold tile to create that Imperial Roman feel in your noble's bedroom and throneroom.

Version history

• Royalty DLC release - added.
• 1.4.3523 - Cleaning time factor added and color system overhauled. Previously there were only 3 different colors with independent descriptions. Burgundy, Classic burgundy carpet for that classic rich look., Indigo, Soft and silky indigo carpet, for that extra sense of pomp., White, Sublime white carpet, glimmering with subtle patterns. Now there is one description: Luxurious, ornately-patterned carpet made from fibers dyed a single color. Beautiful to look at, but cleaning it is a labor-intensive process.

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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