Who Smoothes Floors?

[Mynoris]

What labor type will smooth floors? I can't seem to get my people to smooth the floors without manually prioritizing each square.

[bigsengineer]

its construction but its the very last thing they will do

[Mynoris]

OK. Thanks!

[Spice Whale]

Why is the floor that costs nothing the best one behind gold?

[ExoticButts]

Originally posted by Spice Whale:

Why is the floor that costs nothing the best one behind gold?

Because it requires naturally-generated stone in order to be constructed. Without natural "rough-hewn stone", you can't smooth the ground to make smooth stone flooring. Also if you've ever walked on a smoothed natural stone floor irl, it's BLOODY AMAZING and actually does look really good

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Spice Whale:

Why is the floor that costs nothing the best one behind gold?

It's only the best in beauty, (not counting gold-not sure where that falls) the smoothed floors actually have zero value, so in the long run they aren't the best for making impressive rooms. They are pretty great early game though.

[Dragonhead Gaming]

Smooth stone floors are pretty but come at the cost of a chance of having an infestation happen. :D

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Floors have no bearing on infestation. That is up to whether there is an overhead natural roof or not.

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Originally posted by Spice Whale:

Why is the floor that costs nothing the best one behind gold?

It's only the best in beauty, (not counting gold-not sure where that falls) the smoothed floors actually have zero value, so in the long run they aren't the best for making impressive rooms. They are pretty great early game though.

value just means raids ♥♥♥♥ u more so not sure i see a problem with that

[ExoticButts]

Originally posted by bigsengineer:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

It's only the best in beauty, (not counting gold-not sure where that falls) the smoothed floors actually have zero value, so in the long run they aren't the best for making impressive rooms. They are pretty great early game though.

value just means raids ♥♥♥♥ u more so not sure i see a problem with that

Raiders don't pull up golden floors bro XD They only steal distinct items of value sitting on the ground, like plasteel and components.

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by ExoticButts:

Originally posted by bigsengineer:

value just means raids ♥♥♥♥ u more so not sure i see a problem with that

Raiders don't pull up golden floors bro XD They only steal distinct items of value sitting on the ground, like plasteel and components.

yea but the value of the coloney affect the size of raids. has nothing to do with what they steal. if they steal ♥♥♥♥ from u well u are just bad

[ExoticButts]

Originally posted by bigsengineer:

Originally posted by ExoticButts:

Raiders don't pull up golden floors bro XD They only steal distinct items of value sitting on the ground, like plasteel and components.

yea but the value of the coloney affect the size of raids. has nothing to do with what they steal. if they steal ♥♥♥♥ from u well u are just bad

True, colony wealth does certainly affect raid size. None of my raids have even gotten close to my base though, and no droppods can land in it since it's in a mountain (in retrospect not the best choice cuz DAMN BUGS)

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by ExoticButts:

Originally posted by bigsengineer:

yea but the value of the coloney affect the size of raids. has nothing to do with what they steal. if they steal ♥♥♥♥ from u well u are just bad

True, colony wealth does certainly affect raid size. None of my raids have even gotten close to my base though, and no droppods can land in it since it's in a mountain (in retrospect not the best choice cuz DAMN BUGS)

bugs mean free kibble meat :)

[ExoticButts]

Originally posted by bigsengineer:

Originally posted by ExoticButts:

True, colony wealth does certainly affect raid size. None of my raids have even gotten close to my base though, and no droppods can land in it since it's in a mountain (in retrospect not the best choice cuz DAMN BUGS)

bugs mean free kibble meat :)

Bugs means free kibble meat, sure.

Infestations also mean Megaspiders in enclosed spaces and large numbers. Those things are at least as resilient as a Warg, and very hard to kill in close quarters, tbh.

[Modo]

Smoothing stone to make the 0 beauty floor takes a lot of time compared to putting down some wood (also 0 beauty, also not flammable). That is time spent not building other critical stuff. If you want a pretty floor early on, use stone bricks (2 beauty, crafting training for stone cutters).

[ExoticButts]

Originally posted by Modo:

Smoothing stone to make the 0 beauty floor takes a lot of time compared to putting down some wood (also 0 beauty, also not flammable). That is time spent not building other critical stuff. If you want a pretty floor early on, use stone bricks (2 beauty, crafting training for stone cutters).

Smoothing a floor is fantastic construction XP, especially for larger floors that require smoothing. Building wooden floors or stone bricks isn't as good, and more often than not in the early game you won't get crafting XP for stonecutters since a large amount of your bricks will come from deconstructed structures and walls pre-gen'd on the map.