Does stone and metal give more benefits?

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It does not say anywhere if you "upgrade" to stone or metal that it gives more benefits. Does it? Metal bed vs wooden bed for example.

[Roda]

Building rooms will have differend thermal qualities based on your choise of material
I dont think it affects furniture tho

[ferus]

I am still on my first play through, building most of the things from wood…. but doesn’t integrity play a role in this metal vs wood battle?

[NukeAJS]

I don't think metal has higher HPs for furniture, but if your furniture is getting attacked, you've already lost.

I'm 90% sure it's just an aesthetic choice. So, go with wood or stone for functionality at first and then make it look nice with metal/brick/concrete when you have an abundance -- assuming that you care.

On the other hand, material type does matter for insulation and HPs when it comes to the actual structure/defensive walls/fences. You can mouse over a wall material and it will clearly state its HP as well as how well it insulates.

So -- furniture material doesn't matter and structural material does.

[MrPrez]

The fact that there is no difference what material you use to create furniture with shows how hastily this game is being rushed out the door.

[fenlander]

Originally posted by MrPrez:

The fact that there is no difference what material you use to create furniture with shows how hastily this game is being rushed out the door.

I just make stone buildings and wooden furniture. No point in electric cookers either or electric furnace. They don't make items quicker nor more per completion. Just a waste of materials to make those two items. Same with powered research benches, no change in research speed.

I had more fun watching my team butcher the vegan and eat her.

[thebear05]

The advantage of wood is that the supply is endless As soon as possible plant trees for your ongoing supply. The only buildings I build out of stone or concrete are for food storage. Place two air conditioners set at -10c and better and cheaper that a freezer.

[Swato85]

Functional importance is only on the construction/building parts in term of insulation from environment and resistance. All other items have alternatives in order to reflect your options based on your immediate location what makes sense. You can have a lot of one material, but barely enough or none of the other depending on wheter you are in forest, plains, rocky mountain, desert etc. So you can build based on what is available. Secondary benefit is that you can take is decoration variability if you have enough of all.

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Originally posted by thebear05:

The advantage of wood is that the supply is endless As soon as possible plant trees for your ongoing supply. The only buildings I build out of stone or concrete are for food storage. Place two air conditioners set at -10c and better and cheaper that a freezer.

Ah thanks for making me realize that. I really like the discovery of depth in this game. It is really in the details.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by :-):

Originally posted by thebear05:

The advantage of wood is that the supply is endless As soon as possible plant trees for your ongoing supply. The only buildings I build out of stone or concrete are for food storage. Place two air conditioners set at -10c and better and cheaper that a freezer.

Ah thanks for making me realize that. I really like the discovery of depth in this game. It is really in the details.

Its best to build refrigerators, they have better capacity than shelves and are quite cheap to build. Just turn them off, and keep them in a room with air conditioner set to - 10. This will turn your fridges to freezers for quite a cheap cost, as long as the room temperature is below 0, everything inside the fridge is frozen too. One air conditioner has electricity requirement like two fridges, but he can even freeze everything inside them. The more turned-off fridges you can get into a room with subzero temperature, the more efficient your built is. And there is second benefit that in case of massive heatwave you can turn ON your fridges/freezers in this room and improve protection of your goods as these heatwaves tend to penetrate even best inaulated houses.

In terms of materials. Use and plant trees as a start. But get a pacifier crossbow ready soon and acquire scissorhands (male and female) at the nearest base defense when they appear. They will be producing stone for you simply for your caretaking and you will have enough stone/concrete to turn you whole base into solid fortress. Basicaly making stone a repkenishable resource 😎.