Decorative plants

Roses are a decorative plant that have are relatively beautiful, and need to be replanted occasionally. They can be grown indoors, simply using the light from a torch or standing lamp.

Acquisition

Roses can be sown by Growers in plant pots or in Growing zone. Sowing requires Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work.

Analysis

Roses are a quick and cheap way to increase a room's beauty, and therefore, impressiveness. A plant pot is unnecessary; simply keeping a section, or even all, of the floor as dirt saves on having to build a pot in the first place.

In essence, they are a way to turn work time into positive moodlets, before you can build sculptures for a more permanent mood increase. Roses take need to be resown less often, meaning they take less work to maintain than daylilies. However, daylilies have a higher beauty, and give more beauty per time spent sowing. Roses are better than daylilies if you have to plant flowers in multiple separate areas, as the time spent traveling to each area quickly outstrips the extra work spent sowing new flowers.

Planting flowers can have a large impact and significantly improve room impressiveness. Planting in a dual-use dining and rec room can provide larger mood bonuses from both room roles, in addition to mood from a full beauty need.

Later on, you will want to switch to sculptures, as they don't require constant maintenance, can be placed on regular floor, and are significantly better at filling the beauty need. Sculptures increase wealth but this amount is trivial outside of 500% difficulties - see Wealth for a more detailed analysis. Sculptures also unlock the "Viewing Art" solitary recreation activity, however the effect of this is usually minor.

Plant	Lifespan (Days)	Sowing Work	Min Light	Beauty /Tile	Beauty-Days /Work
Dandelions	20	170 ticks (2.83 secs)	50%	4	0.47
Rose	7.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	14	0.14
Daylily	4.5	540 ticks (9 secs)	30%	18	0.15
Bonsai tree	13.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	15	0.27

Version history

0.2.363 - Added.
Beta 19/ 1.0 - Sow work 440 -> 600. Lifespan reduced.

Plants

Domesticated plants: Cocoa tree • Corn plant • Cotton plant • Devilstrand mushroom • Haygrass • Healroot • Hop plant • Potato plant • Psychoid plant • Rice plant • Smokeleaf plant • Strawberry plant • Tinctoria • Fibercorn • Gauranlen pod • Nutrifungus • Toxipotato plant
Decorative plants: Dandelions • Daylily • Rose • Bonsai tree
Wild plants: Agarilux • Agave • Alocasia • Ambrosia bush • Astragalus • Berry bush • Brambles • Bryolux • Bush • Chokevine • Clivia • Giant rafflesia • Glowstool • Grass • Low shrubs • Moss • Pincushion cactus • Tall grass • Wild healroot • Anima grass • Gauranlen moss
Trees: Bamboo tree • Birch tree • Cecropia tree • Cypress tree • Drago tree • Maple tree • Oak tree • Palm tree • Pine tree • Poplar tree • Saguaro cactus • Teak tree • Willow tree • Timbershroom • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree
Special: Anima tree • Gauranlen tree • Polux tree • Harbinger tree
Tree stumps: Burned stump • Chopped stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger ) • Smashed stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger )

Daylilies are a decorative plant that have relatively high beauty, but need to be replanted often. They can be grown indoors, simply using the light from a torch or standing lamp.

Acquisition

Daylilies can be sown by Growers in plant pots or in Growing zone. Sowing requires Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work.

Analysis

Daylilies turn a simple 13x13 dining room from Mediocre to Very Impressive at the cost of work.
All buildings placed are of normal quality.

Daylilies are a quick and cheap way to increase a room's beauty, and therefore, impressiveness. A plant pot is unnecessary; simply keeping a section, or even all, of the floor as dirt saves on having to build a pot in the first place.

In essence, they are a way to turn work time into positive moodlets, before you can build sculptures for a more permanent mood increase. Daylilies take more work to maintain than roses. However, daylilies have a higher beauty. With a higher beauty per time sowing, they are better if you are growing multiple flowers in a single, centralized area. (Roses would be better if you have to plant flowers in separate areas, as they reduce walking time).

As shown in the picture, planting daylilies can have a large impact. With this example, colonists will gain a net +10 mood from the room bonuses alone - +5 each for the room as a dining room and as a rec room, in addition to mood from a full beauty need. Filth would quickly lower this room back down to Somewhat impressive. But the simple addition of 3 dining chairs will bring this room up to 94 Impressiveness, which is enough to prevent small specks of filth from lowering it further.

Later on, you will want to switch to sculptures, as they don't require constant maintenance, can be placed on regular floor, and are significantly better at filling the beauty need. Sculptures increase wealth but this amount is trivial outside of 500% difficulties - see Wealth for a more detailed analysis. Sculptures also unlock the "Viewing Art" solitary recreation activity, however the effect of this is usually minor.

Plant	Lifespan (Days)	Sowing Work	Min Light	Beauty /Tile	Beauty-Days /Work
Dandelions	20	170 ticks (2.83 secs)	50%	4	0.47
Rose	7.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	14	0.14
Daylily	4.5	540 ticks (9 secs)	30%	18	0.15
Bonsai tree	13.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	15	0.27

Gallery

Daylily variant A
Daylily variant B

Version history

Beta 19/ 1.0 - Sow work 440 -> 600. Lifespan reduced

Plants

Domesticated plants: Cocoa tree • Corn plant • Cotton plant • Devilstrand mushroom • Haygrass • Healroot • Hop plant • Potato plant • Psychoid plant • Rice plant • Smokeleaf plant • Strawberry plant • Tinctoria • Fibercorn • Gauranlen pod • Nutrifungus • Toxipotato plant
Decorative plants: Dandelions • Daylily • Rose • Bonsai tree
Wild plants: Agarilux • Agave • Alocasia • Ambrosia bush • Astragalus • Berry bush • Brambles • Bryolux • Bush • Chokevine • Clivia • Giant rafflesia • Glowstool • Grass • Low shrubs • Moss • Pincushion cactus • Tall grass • Wild healroot • Anima grass • Gauranlen moss
Trees: Bamboo tree • Birch tree • Cecropia tree • Cypress tree • Drago tree • Maple tree • Oak tree • Palm tree • Pine tree • Poplar tree • Saguaro cactus • Teak tree • Willow tree • Timbershroom • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree
Special: Anima tree • Gauranlen tree • Polux tree • Harbinger tree
Tree stumps: Burned stump • Chopped stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger ) • Smashed stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger )

Dandelions are a common beautiful flower that can be sown but also grows naturally in .

Acquisition

Dandelions can be sown by growers in growing zones. Sowing requires Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work. Unlike roses and daylilies they cannot be planted in plant pots.

Analysis

Dandelions are modestly beautiful, and they can be grown indoors. While they provide comparatively little beauty per plant, each dandelion lasts for 20 days, which cuts down on work. If you have a big room with a dirt floor and open roof, they can be viable for raising the rooms beauty. In smaller rooms, the higher beauty per tile of roses or daylilies will be preferred.

Dandelions can also be used as quick-growing feed for grazing animals. However, unless food is urgently needed, growing and harvesting crop plants such as corn and haygrass are far more work efficient.

Plant	Lifespan (Days)	Sowing Work	Min Light	Beauty /Tile	Beauty-Days /Work
Dandelions	20	170 ticks (2.83 secs)	50%	4	0.47
Rose	7.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	14	0.14
Daylily	4.5	540 ticks (9 secs)	30%	18	0.15
Bonsai tree	13.5	750 ticks (12.5 secs)	30%	15	0.27