Room roles

Room roles are assigned to a room based on what is inside them, such as a bedroom or barracks.

Summary

Rooms have stats. This includes Impressiveness and its 4 composite stats (Beauty, Cleanliness, Wealth, Space). These values are defined from the items inside. Stats can be inspected using the room inspection tool found in the bottom right of the screen. Rooms can fulfill multiple roles at once, despite the game displaying only 1 label at a time.

Certain room types grant a moodlet based on how impressive it is, and rely on all of its substats. To gain it, the room must be used by a character for its associated purpose (ex. eating at a table in a dining room). They are typically applied when a colonist begins said activity in the room, and last for 24 hours. Not all rooms have moodlets related to Impressiveness.

In addition, hospitals, laboratories, and kitchens make direct use of the Cleanliness stat. In other words, a medical bed, simple research bench, and electric stove all function off Cleanliness. Players may put several of these buildings in the same room, to take advantage of the stat for all of them.

Pawns also have separate needs for beauty and space, which every room can fulfill. Unlike the room stat, these needs are checked within a certain radius from the pawn, as opposed to anywhere in the room.

List of roles

Label	Mood Impact	Related Stats	Requirements
Room	None	None	No
Bedroom	Yes	Impressiveness	A single* bed, sleeping spot, or other bed equivalent
Barracks	Yes	Impressiveness	Multiple beds, sleeping spots, or other bed equivalent
Prison cell	Yes	Impressiveness	A single prisoner's bed, sleeping spot, or other bed equivalent
Prison barracks	Yes	Impressiveness	Multiple prisoner's beds, sleeping spots, or other bed equivalent
Dining room	Yes	Impressiveness	Table
Rec room	Yes	Impressiveness	Billiards table, chess table, horseshoes pin
Hospital	Yes	Impressiveness, Cleanliness	Hospital bed, or any bed marked as Medical
Laboratory	No	Cleanliness	Simple research bench or Hi-tech research bench
Workshop	No	None	Smithing bench, Hand tailor bench, Electric tailor bench, Art bench, Stonecutter's table, Butcher table, Machining table, Electric smelter, Brewery, Drug lab, Fabrication bench, or Crafting spot
Throneroom	No	Impressiveness	Meditation throne or Grand meditation throne
Temple **	No	None	A Small/Medium/Large Altar / Ideogram
Kitchen	No	Cleanliness	Electric stove, fueled stove or butcher table
Tomb	No	None	Sarcophagus
Barn	No	None	Animal sleeping spot, Animal bed
Storeroom	No	None	Shelf
Nursery	Yes?	Testing needed	Crib or Baby Sleeping Spot
Playroom	Yes?	Testing needed	Toy Box
Classroom	Yes?	Testing needed	School Desk
Deathrest Chamber	Yes	Impressiveness, Testing needed	Deathrest casket

* = Bedrooms are not turned into barracks if lovers, or their babies / children, share the same bedroom, even in separate beds. Also, cribs and animal sleeping areas have no impact on creating barracks.
** = This room changes to the ideoligion's set temple name if its altar/ideogram was placed.

Other pieces of furniture not mentioned, such as chairs, should not affect the role of the room. For rooms with the bedroom role, when the bed is given an owner the role of the room will change to "Owner's Bedroom".

Version history

• 0.12.906 - Added
• 1.4.3523 - Added a “storeroom” role for rooms with lots of shelves.
• Biotech DLC Release - Nursery, Playroom, Classroom, and Deathrest Chamber roles added.