How do rooms work?

[CoLS Firestar]

One survivor with a 3x5 room gets the private room buff. +9
Another survivor has a 5x5 room and gets spacious bedroom +18 (but does not note it's private.
Another survivor with a 2x12 room just gets the comfy bed buff, but not the private, nor spacious buff and I'm not sure why.

[Jaggid Edje]

4 x 5 is the minimum size for the spacious bedroom buff. Private bedroom requires no other beds or sleeping spots in the room (other than lovers/fiance/spouse). Comfy bed just requires a bed, rather than sleeping spot.
The private bedroom and spacious bedroom are not stackable. You get whichever is highest (i.e. if you have a spacious bedroom you will not get the private one because spacious is basically a higher 'tier' of the same buff).

Without seeing screenshots of your rooms, I can't really comment on the why's and why nots beyond the above info. Though I can speculate that the 2 x 12 is too narrow for a "spacious" rating. There's even a debuff for "cramped quarters" when there's not good room to get around furniture and what not.

[CoLS Firestar]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976846927

If I could get the 2x12 to work, I could just shove all the furniture against one wall and leave the other wall for pathing, but the game won't even recognize it as a private room despite it being the only bed in there and assigned to a survivor.

[Jaggid Edje]

My guess is that there is a minimum width. There is definitely game logic wherein the people like to have elbow room.

I noticed it when I added a bit more furniture in the kitchen/dining area of my last game. Suddenly they all started getting "cramped quarters" debuffs whenever they were in there with other people. The kitchen was 6 x 6, so not small at all, but with all the furniture, it was considered cramped.

[CoLS Firestar]

It looks like the best spacious room is a 3x7.

They don't seem to mind my long dining room.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977054086

[Flin Fredstone]

I use a 3x3 in the first house and they just have to suck it up. Later on i make them a 4x5 at least and that gives the max. Then i add a rack with various healing resources in each room and it's happy sleep and quick heal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2975989950

[MaxwellJoneZ]

As far as I understand, room size is giving the buff not a specific dimension.
You may have any room design thus be the 2x wide or whatever else.
A bedroom is a room containing a bed. When the room is over 20sqm (or 20 tiles) then it gets the "Spacious Bedroom" buff.

See this in images:
https://imgur.com/gallery/stranded-alien-dawn-spacious-bedroom-size-lgXyDbo

[chrisbamb]

Originally posted by CoLS Firestar:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976846927

If I could get the 2x12 to work, I could just shove all the furniture against one wall and leave the other wall for pathing, but the game won't even recognize it as a private room despite it being the only bed in there and assigned to a survivor.

I think the question is, if you had a 2x12 room in real life, would you think it spacious?

[Tao]

Originally posted by chrisbamb:

Originally posted by CoLS Firestar:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976846927

If I could get the 2x12 to work, I could just shove all the furniture against one wall and leave the other wall for pathing, but the game won't even recognize it as a private room despite it being the only bed in there and assigned to a survivor.

I think the question is, if you had a 2x12 room in real life, would you think it spacious?

Hell NO! 2x12 room looks more like a private cell than a room And that maked my camp as a jail but not a HOME