Gold tile
Gold tile
For overbearing extravagance, nothing beats gold tiles. They are exceptionally expensive, and exceptionally beautiful, and people will think you're exceptionally snobbish if you actually live on them.
Base Stats
- Type
- Floor
- Market Value
- 705
- Beauty
- 11
- Flammability
- 0%
Building
- Size
- 1 × 1
- Placeable
- True
- Cleanliness
- +0.2
- Move Speed Factor
- 100%
Creation
- Required Research
- Smithing
- Skill Required
- Construction 3
- Work To Make
- 800 ticks (13.33 secs)
- Resources to make
70- Deconstruct yield
- 35
Gold tile is one of several types of floor that can be constructed.
Acquisition
Gold tiles can be constructed once the Smithing research project has been completed. Each tile requires 70 Gold, 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work, and a Construction skill of 3.
Summary
Gold tiles gives +11 beauty, the highest of any floor in the game, and has a Cleanliness of +0.2. It also takes 60% the time to clean filth. They are not flammable and do not penalize walk speed.
Gold tiles also count as a fine floor for the purposes of nobles.
Analysis
Gold tiles are generally impractical for most colonies. A normal quality gold sculpture provides a beauty of 20 gold tiles, for 7.1 tiles worth of gold. Creating silver, marble, or even wood sculptures are even more cost efficient than using gold.
Gold tiles are non-flammable, cannot be destroyed by raiders, and do not take any space. These factors are rarely an issue for interior decoration, but gives a theoretical use for defensive areas, where the beauty can help prevent mental breaks from occuring. The clean time also helps when dealing with blood.
However, for any use of flooring, silver tile is a more practical choice. Silver is also a fine floor, has the same clean time, and gives 36% of the beauty, for only 10% of the market value. Even with 0% Trade Price Improvement, you are better off just selling the gold and making silver tiles and statues.
If you have infinite resources and have already reached the raid points cap (1 million storyteller wealth or 10000 raid points), then there's no reason not to use the statistically best floor, whenever possible. Other floors can add to style dominance
, but many buildings also contribute to style.
Version history
- Floors
- Burned floors (Carpet, Straw matting, Wood floor, Bioferrite plate
) • Concrete • Flagstones (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Gold tile • Paved tile • Silver tile • Steel tile • Sterile tile • Straw matting • Wood floor • Fungal gravel • Hex tile • Spikecore plates • Totemic boards - (research)
- Carpet • Stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Fine carpets • Fine stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Hex carpet • Mindbend carpet • Morbid carpet • Morbid stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Spikecore stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Totemic stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Bioferrite plate
- Floor coverings
- Animalist slab (Medium, Broad) • Morbid slab (Medium, Broad) • Rustic rug (Medium, Broad) • Spikecore floor-star (Medium, Broad) • Totemic slab (Medium, Broad)
- Related
- Bridge • Smooth stone • Void metal