Room roles

Room roles are assigned to a room based on what is inside them, such as a bedroom or barracks.

Summary

Rooms have stats. This includes Impressiveness and its 4 composite stats (Beauty, Cleanliness, Wealth, Space). These values are defined from the items inside. Stats can be inspected using the room inspection tool found in the bottom right of the screen. Rooms can fulfill multiple roles at once, despite the game displaying only 1 label at a time.

Certain room types grant a mood effect based on how impressive it is, and rely on all of its substats. To gain it, the room must be used by a character for its associated purpose (ex. eating at a table in a dining room). They are typically applied when a colonist begins said activity in the room, and last for 24 hours. Not all rooms have moodlets related to Impressiveness.

In addition, a room - and its associated building - may rely on a specific stat. For example, hospitals, laboratories, and kitchens all use Cleanliness. In other words, a medical bed, simple research bench, and electric stove all function off the Cleanliness stat. Players may put several of these buildings in the same room, to take advantage of Cleanliness for all of them.

Note that beauty and space are also seperate pawn needs, technically independent of the room stat. For example, increasing a tile's beauty will increase a pawn's beauty need within 8 tiles, as well as the room stat (anywhere in the room).

List of roles

Label	Mood Impact	Related Stats	Requirements
Room	None	None	No
Bedroom	Yes	Impressiveness	A single Bed, Bedroll or Sleeping spot
Barracks	Yes	Impressiveness	Multiple Beds, Bedrolls or Sleeping spots
Prison cell	Yes	Impressiveness	A single prisoner's bed, Bedroll or sleeping spot
Prison barracks	Yes	Impressiveness	Multiple prisoner's Beds, Bedrolls or sleeping spots
Dining room	Yes	Impressiveness	Table
Rec room	Yes	Impressiveness	Billiards table, chess table, horseshoes pin
Hospital	Yes	Impressiveness, Cleanliness	Hospital bed, or any bed marked as Medical
Laboratory	No	Cleanliness	Simple research bench or Hi-tech research bench
Workshop	No	None	Smithing bench, Hand tailor bench, Electric tailor bench, sculptor's table, Stonecutter's table, Butcher table, Machining table, Electric smelter, Brewery, Drug lab, Fabrication bench, or Crafting spot
Throneroom	No	Impressiveness	Meditation throne or Grand meditation throne
Temple *	No	None	A Small/Medium/Large Altar / Ideogram
Kitchen	No	Cleanliness	Electric stove, fueled stove or butcher table
Tomb	No	None	Sarcophagus
Barn	No	None	Animal sleeping spot, Animal bed
Storeroom	No	None	Shelf
Nursery	Yes?	Testing needed	Crib or Baby Sleeping Spot
Playroom	Yes?	Testing needed	Toy Box
Classroom	Yes?	Testing needed	School Desk
Deathrest Chamber	Yes	Impressiveness, Testing needed	Deathrest casket

* = This room changes to the ideoligion's set temple name if its altar/ideogram was placed.

Other pieces of furniture not mentioned, such as chairs, should not affect the role of the room. For rooms with the bedroom role, when the bed is given an owner the role of the room will change to "Owner's Bedroom".

Version history

• 0.12.906 - Added
• 1.4.3523 - Added a “storeroom” role for rooms with lots of shelves.
• Biotech DLC Release - Nursery, Playroom, Classroom, and Deathrest Chamber roles added.