Gold

Gold

The most seductive metal of them all. While it is too soft to be of much practical use, it is strikingly beautiful and never tarnishes. Millions have died in attempting to feed the endless human thirst for gold.

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Type

Material – Metal

Stack Limit

500

Base Stats

Beauty

−4

Market Value

10

Mass

0.008

Stat Modifiers

Armor - Blunt

×0.36

Armor - Heat

×0.36

Armor - Sharp

×0.72

Beauty

×4+20

Door Opening Speed

×1

Flammability

×0.4

Insulation - Cold

×3

Insulation - Heat

×0

Max Hit Points

×0.6

Melee Blunt Damage

×1

Melee Cooldown

×1

Melee Sharp Damage

×0.75

Rest Effectiveness

×1

Work To Make

×0.9

Gold is a very beautiful and expensive resource. Can sometimes be found off the bodies of raiders, as well as those who pop out of random cryptosleep caskets in buildings around the map, but the primary source is by mining gold veins or drilling with deep drills. You can sell gold to certain traders to get a staggering amount of cash, or craft it into golden sculptures that are perhaps the most valuable items in the game. It can also be used to create extremely beautiful furniture and structures. Gold is also necessary to build the multi-analyzer and the ship computer core.

Gold art and furniture is the best way to get that coveted "Beautiful Environment" mood bonus for your colonists, though this may be wasteful unless you are swimming in cash already and don't need much extra.

Ore

Gold ore veins contain between 2 and 8 tiles. Each mined block yields 40 gold.