Editing Large stele

{{Infobox main|misc
| name = Large stele
| image = Largestele.png
| description = A tall, thick slab with engravings on the sides. Steles have been used since ancient times to memorialize individuals, battles, and other important events.
| type = Building
| type2 = Misc
| placeable = true
| path cost = 50
| passability = pass through only
| cover = 0.5
| minifiable = false
| size = 2 ˣ 2
| flammability = 0
| hp = 200
| beauty = 15
| terrain affordance = medium
| research = complex furniture
| work to make = 8000
| stuff tags = Stony
| resource 1 = Stuff
| resource 1 amount = 125
}}
A '''large stele''' is a purely decorative [[Miscellaneous]] structure. A stele provides less [[beauty]] than most [[sculptures]] and require more resources, but have no [[quality]].

They are the smaller, less beautiful version of the [[grand stele]].

== Acquisition ==
Constructing a large stele requires [[Research#Complex furniture|Complex Furniture]] to be researched, 125 of any one type of [[stone]] and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work to construct.

Steles may also be found in [[ruins]] throughout the map.

== Summary ==
Large steles add [[beauty]] to its surroundings. The beauty rating is added to the single, bottom-left-most tile a pawn can see. Despite their size, they do not count as a [[wall]].

Large steles can also be used as an Artistic [[meditation focus]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Meditation Focus Strength of +15% psyfocus/day. It appears that no other modifiers exist for steles as they do for other foci.{{Check Tag|Fact Check Needed|Based on game code only}}

You may need to build steles for a [[Quests#Build_Monument|Momument quest]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, in which they act as a time and resource sink.

== Analysis ==
Steles are less beautiful when compared to [[sculpture]]s, even of the same material, with the only redeeming aspect being their higher HP and lack of [[quality]].

For the same cost as a single large stele, you can construct {{#expr: {{P|Resource 1 Amount}}/{{Q|Small sculpture|Resource 1 Amount}} }} [[small sculpture]]s. Small sculptures have {{#expr: {{Q|Small sculpture|Beauty Base}}*0.5}} beauty at Poor quality, and even a pawn with [[Artistic]] Skill 0 will average {{#expr: {{P|Resource 1 Amount}}/{{Q|Small sculpture|Resource 1 Amount}} * 0.3535 round 1}} Poor quality or better sculptures with the same resource investment. At even modest Artistic levels, sculptures are more efficient in terms of time, stone blocks, ''and'' space.

Compared to [[grand stele]]s, large steles take half the resource cost and half the work, for half the beauty and HP. Large steles are slightly more efficient for space, as a grand stele requires 9 tiles of space while 2 large steles of equal beauty require only 8.

While the examples that naturally spawn in ruins can be built around to benefit from their beauty, the beauty bonus is small enough for this to rarely be relevant. Instead, they are often better used by deconstructing them for their resources.

=== As a construction ===
Steles have some merit in training the construction skill. Have a pawn work on the stele, and right before it finishes, cancel the construction. You will get 75% of the resources back, and your pawn will have spent a lot of time constructing. In order to maximize building speed, slow your pawn as much as possible, such as by putting them in [[light|darkness]].

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== Gallery ==
<gallery>
LargeSteleA.png|Large stele variant A
LargeSteleB.png|Large stele variant B
LargeSteleC.png|Large stele variant C
LargeSteleD.png|Large stele variant D
LargeSteleE.png|Large stele variant E
LargeSteleF.png|Large stele variant F
</gallery>

== Version history ==
* 1.1.? - Added.
* [[Version/1.2.2719|1.2.2719]] - Now has terrain affordances appropriate for its size.

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