Grand sculpture

Grand sculptures are 2x2 sculptures and require 400 materials or 4000 for small volume materials like silver or gold. Although the grand size occupies 2x2 tiles, the beauty of the piece is attributed to one of the four tiles only. This means that for materials with no beauty offset it yields the same overall beauty per tile as four large sculptures, which would also cost the same materials but take more work. However, as the beauty offset from materials like marble and gold only applies once per item, four large sculptures will have slightly higher beauty when using those materials.

Unlike the smaller sculptures, they can sometimes be found in ancient shrines.

Sculptures are buildings of art that have a high beauty stat. There are four types of sculptures:

Acquisition[edit]

Unfinished sculpture

All four sculptures are created from an art bench using Wood, Stony, or Metallic ingredients. Counter-intuitively, stone sculptures are not made from stone chunks, but from stone blocks.

Small sculptures require 50 materials and 18,000 ticks (5 mins) of work, large sculptures require 100 materials and 30,000 ticks (8.33 mins) of work, and grand sculptures require 400 materials and 105,000 ticks (29.17 mins) of work. Note that small volume materials (silver and gold) require ten times more items to create.

The sculpter's Artistic skill is the primary factor in determining the sculptures' quality. A sculptor cannot work on another sculptor's piece.

Summary[edit]

Sculptures have a high beauty rating, which depends on the sculpture size, material, and quality. For the same material and quality, a small sculpture has half the beauty of a large sculpture, which has 4x less beauty than a grand sculpture. Small and large sculptures take 1 tile, and grand sculptures take a 2x2 grid of tiles. Also, all sculptures have a 1.1x Sell Price Multiplier, making them sell for more when compared to other items of the same market value.

The following table compares the four sculptures:

Sculpture	Size	Materials	Beauty^{[* 1]}	HP^{[* 1]}	Work to make^{[* 1]}	Market value^{[* 1]}	Beauty/work	Value/Work	Value/Material
Small sculpture	1 ˣ 1	50 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony)	50	90	18,000 ticks (5 mins)	160	0.0028	0.0089	3.2
Large sculpture	1 ˣ 1	100 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony)	100	150	30,000 ticks (8.33 mins)	300	0.0033	0.01	3
Grand sculpture	2 ˣ 2	400 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony)	400	300	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)	1140	0.0038	0.0109	2.9
Terror sculpture	1 ˣ 1	100 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony)	-5	150	30,000 ticks (8.33 mins)	300	-0.0002	0.01	3

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Base values. Ignoring multipliers and offsets from materials or quality.

Terror sculptures do not increase beauty, but instead increase suppression of slaves.

All sculptures will have a name and story, like items of excellent or higher qualities. See #Story Generation below for more details.

Meditation[edit]

Pawns with the Artistic meditation focus can use sculptures in a 10-tile radius to increase psyfocus. This includes all pawns who are not Tribal or Ascetic.

The highest quality sculpture is the primary source of psyfocus:

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Base Strength	+12%	+16%	+20%	+22%	+24%	+26%	+28%

The other, surrounding sculptures give a much smaller boost:

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Strength Offset	+0%	+0%	+1%	+1%	+1%	+2%	+2%

The maximum meditation focus strength is thus 44% for a legendary sculpture surrounded by 8 additional sculptures of masterwork or legendary quality.

Analysis[edit]

Sculptures can quickly increase the Impressiveness of a room through Wealth and Beauty, in addition to fulfilling the actual beauty need. Certain rooms give increasing mood buffs for being more impressive:

Dining room
Rec room
Bedroom (Barracks, Prison Rooms)
Hospital
Throne room & Ritual room

Other than these rooms, place art where pawns will stay for a long time, such as a research station. For extra points, you can combine these rooms to make the most out of the sculptures. If Dining, Recreation, and Work all happen in the same room, then the same sculpture can apply to all 3 rooms, in addition to the general increase to Wealth.

Note that sculptures increase a room's beauty rating from anywhere inside, but will only fulfil the beauty need when in an 8-tile radius from a pawn.

Which sculpture to create[edit]

Small sculptures are the worst for beauty. For each point of beauty, they require the most work and take up the most space. Yet, because small sculptures take the most work, they have the highest Market Value per material. Therefore, small sculptures are the most profitable to sell (per material). Small sculptures also have another advantage when selling: quality is a multiplier to market value, but can only increase value up to a flat cap. Small sculptures, especially of gold or silver, are less impacted by the cap than the larger sculptures. Plus, traders likely won't have enough money to afford a masterwork grand sculpture.

Conversely, large and grand sculptures are better to actually place around your base. Both are equally as space efficient (before rounding). You can place 4 large sculptures in 4 separate locations, as opposed in a grand sculpture needing a 2x2 space. This makes large sculptures a better solution for bedrooms and other smaller rooms, and a more flexible option generally.

Making grand sculptures exhibits a greater risk - if it turns out awful, you've had wasted 4 sculpture's worth of time. Conversely, grand sculptures are the best when you have inspired creativity, assuming you can actually complete it. It may be wise to work on a grand sculpture, suspend it before it's completed, and finish it once the inspiration hits. Grand sculptures are also the most wealth efficient way to provide beauty of all sculptures, due to the aforementioned market value cap. A gold grand sculpture costs 40340 at Normal quality and 43340 at Legendary quality, an increase of 3000 . Four large sculptures would cost 40380 at Normal quality and 52380 at Legendary quality, an increase of 12000 .

Quality table[edit]

Quality	Base Beauty Modifier	Base Value Modifier
Awful	-10%	50%
Poor	50%	75%
Normal	100%	100%
Good	200%	125% (max +500)
Excellent	300%	150% (max +1000)
Masterwork	500%	250% (max +2000)
Legendary	800%	500% (max +3000)

Story generation[edit]

Each sculpture has its own semi-randomly generated story based on past events in the colony and pre-written story segments. These stories tend to contain any of the following:

A past event occurring in or to the colony (see below)
A seemingly random event with no relation to the colony (e.g. "hundreds of doctors and engineers eating mushrooms")
A border to the art (e.g. "a triangular border")
A texture (e.g. "insert texture example")
A design style (e.g. "conveys a feeling of rage and happiness")
A location (e.g. "in a town")

The events sometimes depicted in the story can be about any of the following that occurred in the colony's history:

killings
drunkenness
vomiting
landing in drop pods
artwork created
struck ore
person captured
person recruited
animal trained
animal hunted
surgery done
someone was on fire
someone went psychotic
someone gave up

Alternatively, they can contain something random, without relating to any events in the colony at all (e.g. "this sculpture bears a portrayal of a cube"). Because of this grammar generator, artwork can have some humorous descriptions.

Material table

Material	Stuff cost	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Wooden Grand sculpture	400	400	073,500 ticks (20.42 mins)	195	100%	00,745,00
Granite Grand sculpture	400	400	630,140 ticks (175.04 mins)	510	0%	00,850,00
Limestone Grand sculpture	400	400	630,140 ticks (175.04 mins)	465	0%	00,850,00
Marble Grand sculpture	400	541	577,640 ticks (160.46 mins)	360	0%	00,795,00
Sandstone Grand sculpture	400	440	525,140 ticks (145.87 mins)	420	0%	00,775,00
Slate Grand sculpture	400	440	630,140 ticks (175.04 mins)	390	0%	00,850,00
Jade Grand sculpture	400	1010	525,000 ticks (145.83 mins)	150	0%	02,530,00
Golden Grand sculpture	4000	1620	094,500 ticks (26.25 mins)	180	40%	40,340,00
Plasteel Grand sculpture	400	400	231,000 ticks (64.17 mins)	840	0%	04,430,00
Silver Grand sculpture	4000	806	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)	210	40%	04,380,00
Steel Grand sculpture	400	400	105,000 ticks (29.17 mins)	300	40%	01,140,00
Uranium Grand sculpture	400	200	199,500 ticks (55.42 mins)	750	0%	03,120,00

^{Assuming Normal quality, for the effect of other qualities, see Quality.}

Variants[edit]

Base variant (Abstract A)
Base variant (Abstract B)
Base variant (Abstract C)
Base variant (Abstract D)
Base variant (Abstract E)
Base variant (Abstract F)

Styles[edit]

Ideoligions allow the selection of styles which then change the texture of the certain items and buildings when constructed by the colony. These style variants can be crafted if the colony has the selected style.

Buddhist variant A
Buddhist variant B
Buddhist variant C

Christian variant A
Christian variant B
Christian variant C

Hindu variant A
Hindu variant B
Hindu variant C

Islamic variant A
Islamic variant B
Islamic variant C

Morbid variant A
Morbid variant B
Morbid variant C

Totemic variant A
Totemic variant B
Totemic variant C

Animalist variant A
Animalist variant B
Animalist variant C

Version history[edit]

0.9.722 - Sculptures now have sizes - small, large, and grand.
Beta 19 - Mass 5kg -> 3kg
1.1.2654 - Increase psyfocus gain of sculptures by 2, up to a max of 28 at legendary quality.

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 • Nature shrine (Small, Large) • 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)
(research): Hospital bed • Standing lamp • Sun lamp • Harp • Harpsichord • Piano • Bonsai pot

[quality-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Base values. Ignoring multipliers and offsets from materials or quality.

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