Grave

Grave

A decent final resting place. Colonists will visit full graves to gain meditative joy.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Misc

Flammability

0%

Building

Size

1 × 2

Minifiable

False

Placeable

True

Passability

standable

Terrain Affordance

Diggable

Creation

Work To Make

800 ticks (13.33 secs)

A grave provides a place to bury corpses.

Acquisition

Graves do not have a material cost, but require 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work, using the Construction skill. They can only be built on diggable terrain.

Summary

A grave stores one corpse of any size, hiding its beauty. 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. Graves can be stood on.

Pawns can visit graves as part of Solitary recreation.

Pawns with the Morbid meditation focus type can use graves in a 10-tile radius to increase psyfocus. By default, graves have a 6% psyfocus strength. This increases by 10% if the grave is full, and a further 10% if the grave is occupied by a pawn with a relationship to the meditator. Up to 4 other graves or sarcophagi can connect to a grave; each grave/sarcophagi gives +1% psyfocus if empty, or +2% psyfocus if filled, for a maximum bonus of 8%.

Analysis

Human corpses are ugly, create filth, and cause negative moodlets when a pawn sees one. Graves are an early game way to dispose of corpses, if you don't have any better options. Note that, despite its name, the 'colonist left unburied' moodlet does not care if a colonist's corpse is buried; destroying the corpse by any means will end the moodlet without penalty.

Once Electricity is available, an electric crematorium is more efficient. Each cremation only takes 180 ticks (3 secs) ticks of work, compared to the 800 ticks (13.33 secs) ticks just to make the grave. Also, when you're dealing with dozens or hundreds of raider corpses, a crematorium does not take nearly as much space. Alternatively, molotov cocktails can be used - just burn the corpses in a controlled, nonflammable room - though this cannot be automated.

Graves or sarcophagi can be used to store corpses of pawns you want to resurrect, without the risk of the corpse being cremated or butchered. Make sure to keep the grave in a frozen room.

Graves also prevent pawns from being resurrected into Shamblers during Death pall, graves can be quickly constructed next to bodies and buried to prevent the shambler from being resurrected again.

Fellow colonists will occasionally visit graves, even if it is placed far from the base, which can be inefficient. Setting an allowed area to exclude a gravesite will prevent this behavior.

Trivia

• Until Alpha 4, there used to be another version called gibbet cage which caused "Fear" mood debuff to characters passing nearby. The Ideology DLC re-added the gibbet cage as a separate object.

Gallery

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  Empty grave facing south

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  Empty grave facing north

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  Empty grave facing east

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  Full grave facing south

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  Full grave facing north

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  Full grave facing east

See also

• 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.

Version history

• 0.12.906 - ‘Open’ designator added. Can now be visited as a joy activity.
• Beta 19/1.0.0 - Burying corpses takes 2x longer. Digging graves takes 20% longer. Now show the person's date of death
• 1.1.2654 - Increase psyfocus gain range of grave from 4~20 to 6~26.

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  Old sprite

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Architect

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