Editing Plant pot

{{Infobox main|furniture

| name = Plant pot

| image = Plant_pot.png

| description = Plant decorative flowers here to improve the mood of people nearby.

| type = Building

| type2 = Furniture

| placeable = true

| passability = pass through only

| cover = 0.2

| minifiable = true

| size = 1 ˣ 1

| mass base = 2

| flammability = 1

| hp = 75

| sell price multiplier = 0.7

| terrain affordance = light

| work to make = 250

| stuff tags = Metallic, Woody, Stony

| resource 1 = Stuff

| resource 1 amount = 20

== Acquisition ==

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== Summary ==

Once constructed, the plant pot can be sown with the following decorative plants by colonist assigned to [[Work#Grow|Growing]]: {{#ask: [[sowTags::~*Decorative*]] [[sowTags::!~*DecorativeTree*]]}}.

The pot has a [[Plants#Fertility|fertility]] of 100%.

! Plant !! Beauty !! Sow Work !! Lifespan

| {{Q|Rose|Sow Work}} ticks

| {{Q|Rose|Lifespan Days Per Grow Days}} days

| {{Q|Daylily|Sow Work}} ticks

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== Analysis ==

Plant pots can be a cheap and fast way to increase beauty, at the cost of a grower's time. But there may be better alternatives:

* You can grow decorative plants indoors without needing a plant pot. Simply leave a portion of the floor - or the entire floor - as dirt, then place a [[growing zone]] of the desired flower. This is even cheaper than a plant pot. However, having dirt floor is slightly less beautiful, lowers Cleanliness, and may create [[filth]]. Specifically, when a colonist steps from dirt to constructed floor, they may create filth. So if a room doesn't have the floor entirely out of dirt, plant pots may be appealing to avoid the filth creation.

* [[Jade]], if available, can be used to create beautiful [[fence]]s. Jade fences have a beauty of {{Q|Jade|Beauty Offset}}, with a market value of {{Silver}} 6.3, and do not require constant replanting. Wood plant pots have a beauty of 14 or 18, but have a value of {{Silver}} 25. Thus, jade fences are more [[wealth]]-efficient, and do not take up valuable colonist time. However, jade may not be available in the very early game. Also, jade fences take up more space, which can hamper the Impressiveness of a small room (e.g. bedrooms).

Therefore, plant pots are mostly useful in the early game, in places with constructed floor, and before you have access to a high skill artist. Try to place pots in a central location so your growers don't have to spend so much time walking.

A niche use for the plant pot is resource compression for [[caravan]]ing or using [[transport pod]]s. A constructed plant pot has a base mass of 2 kg but can be deconstructed into 10 units of its component material, or 100 for small volume materials. As these 10 units often weigh more than the 2 kg of the pot, more material can be carried for the same mass by keeping it in pot form and deconstructing it at the end of travel. For example, 10 effective* units of [[steel]] weighing {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Mass Base}}*10}} kg can be compressed into 2 kg of plant pot, allowing you to carry {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Mass Base}}*10/2}} times the steel you normally would.  

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