Standing lamp

See also: Sun lamp

Standing lamp

An electrical standing lamp that lights an area. People need light to move and work at full speed.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Furniture

Market Value

39  ^[Note]

Mass

4 kg

Style Dominance

5

HP

50

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

14

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

True

Placeable

True

Passability

pass through only

Cover Effectiveness

20%

Terrain Affordance

Light

Power

-30 W

Light Radius

9.09

Creation

Required Research

Electricity

Work To Make

300 ticks (5 secs)

Resources to make

20

Deconstruct yield

10

Destroy yield

nothing

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsFurniture

A standing lamp is a furniture item that produces light at 50% up to seven squares away. Placing standing lamps in dark rooms eliminates the debuff "In darkness". Unlike most other powered structures, the lamp will not short circuit when unroofed in the rain. Standing lamps are constructed with  20 Steel in 300 ticks (5 secs) after Electricity has been researched.

Illumination area

Standing lamps light areas to 50% in a "7 tile" radius circle, then lighting fades rapidly, as shown in the image below.

The white area (7 tiles out) is 50% illumination, required for best surgery success chance; the yellow (8-9 tiles) represents 30% or better, adequate for all general labor, avoiding mood penalties, and for growing decorative plants indoors in plant pots.

Note that 50% illumination is the maximum available for this kind of lamp, no matter how many are used. Only the sun or the sun lamp give "Brightly lit" (100%), necessary for most plant growth, but pawns are perfectly fine with "Lit" (30%) or better.

Visual representation

Also, the lighting that can be seen represented by in-game visual differences does not always correspond to the actual % of light on a tile. Also note that areas that are not in direct line of sight with a lamp can be quite well lit.

Line of sight is not always a limitation with light sources.

In the image above, the entire corridor is fully lit at 50%, even though the lamps are not in direct line with each tile. However, the tiles diagonally above the lamps, on the other side of walls, are in total darkness, whereas they appear to be partially lit in the screenshot.

Colored lights

See also: Standing lamp (blue), Standing lamp (red), and Standing lamp (green)

There are three varieties of colored light: red, blue and green. The functionally is similar to the regular standing lamp but an aesthetic variant. However while the colored lights affect the brightness of tiles in same radius as the regular standing lamp, they are slightly less bright meaning tiles are only considered "lit" within 7 tiles of a colored lamp, instead of the 9 of the regular lamp.

By using colored lights near each other, you can combine the colors.

Using multiple lamps close to each other also gives the appearance of "white light" and a more well-lit area, though this has no actual effect in-game.

Combining different colored lights for a "rainbow" feel to your colony.
Screenshot courtesy of reddit user 'i_cant_even_english'.

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Architect

Furniture

Animal bed • Animal sleeping box • Animal sleeping spot • Bedroll (Double) • Plant pot • Sculptures (Small, Large, Grand, Terror ) • Sleeping spot (Double, Baby ) • Stool • Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3) • Torch lamp • Urn • Animus stone • Darktorch • Fungus darktorch • Crib

Complex Furniture

Armchair • Bed (Double) • Dining chair • Dresser • End table • Royal bed • Shelf (Small) • Brazier (Darklight ) • Drape • Grand meditation throne • Meditation throne • Slab bed (Double) • Baby decoration • Blackboard • School desk • Toy box

(research)

Hospital bed • Standing lamp • Sun lamp • Bonsai pot