Grave
Grave
Place the dead in graves to give them a decent final resting place. Colonists will visit full graves to gain meditative joy.
Base Stats
- Type
- Miscellaneous – Thoughts
Building
- Size
- 1 × 2
- Placeable
- Yes
Creation
- Work To Make
- 800 ticks (13.33 secs)
A grave provides a place to bury corpses. Graves can be constructed without need of materials. The default storage setting only allows human corpses, but can be set to accept animals, strangers or mechanoids. A body can be removed (hauled) from a grave with the 'Open' command. Deconstructing will also release the buried.
Effects
- Unburied human corpses trigger 'observed corpse' negative thought for passersbys.
- Unburied colonist bodies trigger the 'colonist left unburied' negative thought.
- Unburied corpses have -150 beauty, resulting in an ugly environment.
- Colonists visiting graves of fellow members gain a recreation boost.
Graves cannot be stood on, though they can be walked through. This allows tactical usage by positioning graves to prevent enemies from standing on some locations.
Alternatives
- Molotov cocktails can be thrown on corpses for fire to burn them up.
- Electric crematorium can be used to burn corpses while requiring electricity.
- Sarcophagi are nicer but require materials to make.
Trivia
- Until Alpha 4, there used to be another version called Gibbet cage which caused mood debuff (Fear) to characters passing nearby.
Version history
- 0.12.906 - ‘Open’ designator added. Can now be visited as a joy activity.
- Beta 19/1.0 = Burying corpses takes 2x longer. Digging graves takes 20% longer
- Misc
- Caravan hitching spot • Egg box • Grave • Marriage spot • Party spot • Pen marker • Sarcophagus • Tool cabinet • Meditation spot
• Nature shrine (Large, Small) - (research)
- Comms console • Cryptosleep casket • Firefoam popper • Ground-penetrating scanner • Long-range mineral scanner • Moisture pump • Multi-analyzer • Orbital trade beacon • Pod launcher • Stele (Large, Grand) • Transport pod • Vitals monitor • Ship landing beacon