Drum
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Drum
A large wooden drum used as a music source for tribal rituals and parties.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Ideology (Buildings)
- Mass
- 5 kg
- HP
- 100
- Flammability
- 0%
- Path Cost
- 50 (21%)
Building
- Size
- 1 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 35%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
- Recreation
- music
Creation
- Work To Make
- 800 ticks (13.33 secs)
- Stuff Tags
- Leathery, Fabric
- Resources to make
30 + 
50- Deconstruct yield
- 15 + 25
- Destroy yield
- 7 - 8 + 12 - 13
- Has Quality
- False
- thingCategories
- BuildingsJoy
- tradeTags
- MusicalInstrument
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 | |||||
 Alpaca wool |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 177  |
 Bearskin |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 165 |
 Birdskin |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 117 |
 Bison wool |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 144 |
 Bluefur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 132 |
 Camelhide |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 132 |
 Chinchilla fur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 260 |
 Cloth |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 108 |
 Devilstrand |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 230 |
 Dog leather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 123 |
 Dread leather  |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 168 |
 Elephant leather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 150 | 0% | 136 |
 Foxfur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 168 |
 Guinea pig fur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 60 | 0% | 215 |
 Heavy fur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 150 | 0% | 162 |
 Human leather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 189 |
 Hyperweave |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 240 | 0% | 335 |
 Lightleather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 120 |
 Lizardskin |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 126 |
 Megasloth wool |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 144 |
 Muffalo wool |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 144 |
 Panthera fur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 153 |
 Patchleather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 108 |
 Pigskin |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 120 |
 Plainleather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 126 |
 Rhinoceros leather |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 150 | 0% | 189 |
 Sheep wool |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 100 | 0% | 144 |
 Synthread |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 183 |
 Thrumbofur |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 200 | 0% | 485 |
 Wolfskin |
0 | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 130 | 0% | 153 |
Version history
- Ideology DLC Release - Added.
- Ideology
- Altar (Small, Medium, Large, Grand) • Burnbong • Cannibal platter • Christmas tree • Drum • Effigy • Gibbet cage • Ideogram • Incense shrine • Kneel pillow • Kneel sheet • Lectern • Pew • Pyre • Reliquary • Ritual spot • Sacrificial flag • Skullspike • Styling station
- (research)
- Autobong • Biosculpter pod • Lightball • Loudspeaker • Neural supercharger • Sleep accelerator