Gold tile

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Gold tile

Gold tile

For overbearing extravagance, nothing beats gold tiles. They are exceptionally expensive, and exceptionally beautiful, and people will think you're exceptionally snobbish if you actually live on them.

Base Stats

Type
Floor
Market Value
705 Silver
Beauty
11
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
Gold 70
Deconstruct yield
Gold 35

Gold tile is one of several types of floor that can be constructed.

Acquisition

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

Summary

Gold tiles gives +11 beauty, the highest of any floor in the game, and has a Cleanliness of +0.2. It also takes 60% the time to clean filth. They are not flammable and do not penalize walk speed.

Analysis

Gold tiles are generally impractical for most colonies. A normal quality gold sculpture provides a beauty of 20 gold tiles, for 7.1 tiles worth of gold. Creating silver, marble, or even wood sculptures are even more cost efficient than using gold.

Gold tiles are non-flammable, cannot be destroyed by raiders, and do not take any space. These factors are rarely an issue for interior decoration, but gives a theoretical use for defensive areas, where the beauty can help prevent mental breaks from occuring. The clean time also helps when dealing with blood.

However, for any use of flooring, silver tile is a more practical choice. Silver is also a fine floor, has the same clean time, and gives 36% of the beauty, for only 10% of the market value. Even with 0% Trade Price Improvement, you are better off just selling the gold and making silver tiles and statues.

If you have infinite resources and have already reached the raid points cap (1 million storyteller wealth or 10000 raid points), then there's no reason not to use the statistically best floor, whenever possible. Other floors can add to style dominanceContent added by the Ideology DLC, but many buildings also contribute to style.

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