Rituals

Rituals are options for ideoligions. They allow pawns to participate, with a variety of props, in the hope of eliciting some outcome. These outcomes range from simple but significant mood boosts to attracting new recruits to the colony.

Mechanics

Reward options General mechanics Quality != Success chance etc.

Overview table

Image	Ritual	Factors	Outcomes			Notes
	Funeral	Participant count (10): +70% Moral guide present: +30%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Lackluster Good Heartwarming	−3 −1 +5 +8	If there is no corpse in the grave or sarcophagus, the ritual quality is only increased by 20% by the presence of the moral guide, and only by 60% by a full participant count.
	Social festival	Participant count (10): +25% Leader present: +25% Started at altar: +20% Lectern used: +20% Seats for everyone: +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Fun Unforgettable	−3 −1 +5 +8
	Dance party	Participant count (10): +30% Started at lightball: +20% Active loudspeakers (6): +30% Room Impressiveness (120): +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Fun Unforgettable	−3 −1 +8 +16	If the party is fun or unforgettable, there is a 90% chance that all participants will get +20% Global Work Speed for 24h. Only available to non-tribals.
	Drum party	Participant count (10): +30% Started at campfire: 20% Drums (6): +30% Room Impressiveness (120): +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Fun Unforgettable	−3 −1 +8 +16	If the party is fun or unforgettable, there is a 90% chance that all participants will get +20% Global Work Speed for 24h. Only available to tribals.
	Skylantern festival	Participant count (10): +100%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Unimpressive Beautiful Unforgettable	−3 −1 +6 +10	Each participant makes a skylantern out of 4 wood. If the festival is beautiful or unforgettable, there's a 80% chance friendly visitors see them and arrive with a gift.
	Christmas tree Symbol burning Smokeleaf circle Cannibal feast	Participant count (10): +80% Room Impressiveness (120): +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Fun Unforgettable	−3 −1 +5 +8	Destroys the ritual target.
	Scarification	Participant count (10): +25% Moral guide present: +20% Started at altar: +20% Lectern used: +15% Seats for everyone: +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Satisfying Spectacular	−2 −1 +1 +3	Scarifies the subject. Only available with the Pain is Virtue meme.
	Blinding ceremony	Participant count (10): +25% Moral guide present: +20% Started at altar: +20% Lectern used: +15% Seats for everyone: +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Satisfying Spectacular	−2 −1 +1 +3	Blinds the subject. The blinded person may get a psylink upgrade or unlock a new psychic power. There's a 50% chance for this to happen on a Satisfying ceremony, while it is guaranteed with a Spectacular one. Only available with the Blindsight meme.
	Animal sacrifice	Participant count (10): +25% Moral guide present: +25% Started at altar: +20% Lectern used: +15% Seats for everyone: +15%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Satisfying Spectacular	−3 −1 +5 +8	If the sacrifice is satisfying / spectacular, there is a 5% / 10% chance that a random participant gains an inspiration. Only available with the Human Primacy meme.
	Gladiator duel	Participant count (10): +20% Leader present: +20% Duelist dies: +100% Weapon used: +60%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Boring Good Unforgettable	−3 −1 +5 +8	The two necessary escorts count towards the participant count. The duellists must be capable of violence. All participants receive the mood effect from ritual quality, which last for 6 days and stack up to 3 times. On a Good Ritual outcome, all pawns gain 1000 melee experience and fill 25% of their recreation bars, while Duellist gain an additional 2500 melee experience. On a Unforgettable outcome, the participant pawns receive twice as much. Only available with the Pain is Virtue, Cannibal, Supremacist, or Raider memes.
	Prisoner execution	Participant count (10): +80% Started at altar: +20%	15% 65% 20%	Awkward Satisfying Spectacular	−1 +6 +8	Participating slaves are fully suppressed. Can be performed by all ideoligions.
	Leader speech	Participant count (10): +40% Leader's Social Impact (150%): +40% Room impressiveness (120): +20	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Uninspiring Encouraging Inspirational	−8 −4 +5 +8	The speech quality will also affect the listeners' opinions of the leader, with a terrible speech resulting in a −30 opinion, an uninspiring speech resulting in a −15 opinion, an encouraging speech in a +20 opinion, and an inspirational speech in a +40 opinion.
	Trial	Participant count (20): +60% Leader's Negotiation Ability * 0.25 Defendant's Negotiation Ability * -0.25	50% 50%	Exonerated Convicted		If the defendant is convicted, they are considered guilty for 15 days for the purpose of arrest, banishment, and executions. If the defendant has a mental break during the trial, their Negotiation Ability is effectively set to 0.
	Conversion ritual	Participant count (10): +40% Room impressiveness (120): +20% Moral guide's Social Impact (150%): +30% Convertee's Expectations (Very Low): +10%, (Sky High): -30%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Ineffective Effective Masterful	00 00 +3 +6	The convertee's certainty is offset by an amount depending on ritual quality: terrible: +20%; ineffective: +12%; effective: −30%; masterful: −100%. Moral guide must have Talking above 0%.
	Tree connection	Participant count (10): +100%				The connector will start with 25-45% connection strength, depending on ritual quality.
	Bestowing Ceremony	Participant count (17): +60% Room Impressiveness (170): +40%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Unimpressive Honorable Grandiose	−3 −1 +3 +6	Bonus honor based on number of gathered spectators and room impressiveness. The bonus does not depend on outcome. Provides 1 honor above 30% ritual quality, 2 above 60% and 3 above 90% quality. Requires New title's ceremony quest to start.
	Throne Speech	Participant count (10): +40% Organizer's social impact (150%): +40% Room Impressiveness (120): +20%	05% 15% 60% 20%	Terrible Uninspiring Encouraging Inspirational	−8 −4 +5 +10	If the speech is inspiring, participants may acquire Inspirations (5%) and be converted to the speaker ideology (2%). The speech quality will also affect the listeners' opinions of the speaker in the same way as a leader speech, up to +40 opinion at inspirational. 10 days cooldown on Begin Throne Speech ability. Expected ritual duration: 2 hours
	Child birth	Loved one present: +5% Mother's age (peaks at 20-30): +50% Doctor's medicine skill (20): +25% Indoors: +5% Room cleanliness (0.6): +10% Bed health effects (5): +5%	2.5% 7.5% 90%	Stillborn Sick Healthy		There is a chance the mother will die during birth: 20% at 0% quality, 5% at 20% quality and 0% above 90% quality. This is independent of the stillbirth chance. A successful birth gives the mother a +8 [name] was born healthy mood for 15 days, while a stillbirth gives her a −15 Stillbirth mood for 10 days. See Reproduction#Quality and Reproduction#Outcomes for details.

Analysis

Funeral

This is the only ritual involving the (possible) non-player caused death. It is generally considered the worst ritual, as it requires the death of a pawn - an expensive cost when other rituals are available with the same effects.

Dance party

This is tied with "drum party" for the most "success bonuses" and shortest cooldown.

Drum party

This is tied with "dance party" for the most "success bonuses" and shortest cooldown.

Gladiator duel

This ritual always has 100% quality if one of the fighters dies. There are a number of ways to maximize the chances of that happening:

• Give the fighters go-juice or yayo. Getting downed by pain shock will end the ritual with a lower score.
• Place a single melee weapon in the ring. One of the duelists will have an advantage and there will be a +20% Weapon used quality bonus even if nobody dies.
• Choose one fighter with a high and the other with a low Melee skill to give the first one an advantage.
• Remove one of the weaker fighter's hands. Do not remove both as pawns with 0% Manipulation cannot participate in the ritual.

Strip both gladiators before battle to prevent any clothes becoming tainted when they die.