Drum

A Drum is a source of musical recreation, as well as being used in the Drum Party ritual. The Drum was added by the Ideology DLC.

Acquisition

Drums are constructed with 30 Stuff (Leathery/Fabric), 50 Wood. Pawns do not need an ideoligion with the drum party ritual in order to build this item.

Summary

At least 1 drum is required to start the drum party ritual. Each drum played adds +5% quality to the ritual, increasing the chance for a positive outcome. 50% of participants, rounded up, will actually play a drum.

Analysis

Drum parties are one of the strongest rituals, with the biggest good mood modifiers (+8 / +16), and a chance at a +20% Global Work Speed buff independent of the regular ritual reward. However, drums require a textile to create, which can be a little difficult to obtain at the start of the game, before your first cotton plants have finished growing.

Drums are generally cheaper than the loudspeakers used for the dance party; loudspeakers require 80 Steel, 2 Components per speaker. However, pawns do not have to play a loudspeaker - 6 loudspeakers will give max quality, regardless of how many pawns you have. Drums also take 1 more tile of space due to requiring an interaction spot. Dance Party and Drum Party are otherwise equivalent rituals, with the same moodlets and same possible Global Work Speed buff.

Drums are technically a cheap way to get musical recreation, however colonists will only play drums during drum rituals, gaining both the recreation from the ritual passively, and the recreation from the drum from actively playing it. For this reason Harps may be more practical but also require their own research to make.

Stats table

Drum	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Material	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Alpaca wool	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	177
Bearskin	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	165
Birdskin	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	117
Bison wool	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	144
Bluefur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	132
Camelhide	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	132
Chinchilla fur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	260
Cloth	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	108
Devilstrand	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	230
Dog leather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	123
Dread leather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	168
Elephant leather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	150	0%	136
Foxfur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	168
Guinea pig fur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	60	0%	215
Heavy fur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	150	0%	162
Human leather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	189
Hyperweave	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	240	0%	335
Lightleather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	120
Lizardskin	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	126
Megasloth wool	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	144
Muffalo wool	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	144
Panthera fur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	153
Patchleather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	108
Pigskin	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	120
Plainleather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	126
Rhinoceros leather	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	150	0%	189
Sheep wool	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	100	0%	144
Synthread	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	183
Thrumbofur	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	200	0%	485
Wolfskin	0	000,800 ticks (13.33 secs)	130	0%	153