building stuff out of better materials

[Hank Schrader]

does building stuff like production benches and spike traps out of better materials like plasteel and uranium make them better?

[Monoxide]

Depends on the object. It also depends on what each material in question is.

Art out of better materials is more valuable.
Weapons/armor out of better materials are generally stronger.
Benches out of better materials has no affect to my knowledge.
Traps out of better materials makes them stronger or faster to reload.

EDIT - potentially outdated and rough to read, but the wiki can give you some decent starting points: https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Materials

[bulbatrs]

different materials have different effects. you can have a look by clicking on them.
all materials have beauty number - that's it's effect on art (including tables, benches, beds etc)
they also have things like sharp damage effectiveness, blunt, attack speed, build time etc.
to check how much damage trap does - click on it.

[M.K.]

Walls, doors, spike traps, melee weapons... it makes a HUGE difference in their strength.
Wood is 45% damage, plasteel is 110%. For blunt weapons, Uranium is 150% the damage.
For doors, the mass of the material greatly affects the speed of the door, and its HP.


Production benches, no difference that i know of other than damage needed to destroy them (hp)

furniture.. Value, mostly. Plus don't make beds of stone.

[meieratlarger]

Could you explain why no stone beds? Thanks.

[flu007]

Because stone beds have a lower rest effectiveness than beds made out of pretty much any other material.
Which basically means the colonist's rest bar fills up slower while sleeping.
(It's possible it affects other stats for the beds as well, like surgery success chance etc, not sure.)

[meieratlarger]

Well, heck! Here I was trying to get fancy-smancy with the marble beds. Thanks for the info!

[flu007]

Originally posted by meieratlarger:

Well, heck! Here I was trying to get fancy-smancy with the marble beds. Thanks for the info!

Yeah, been there done that. :) I only learned this info a few weeks ago as well. (Though it's all in the game, when clicking on the 'i' of a bed, but it's one of those things I hadn't bothered looking at closely.)

[Monoxide]

Its a good idea to check the stats on the things you make (the i button for information). You can see all the info in there. For example, take your marble bed and compare it to a basic wood bed (try to have the same quality) and you can see how they differ. You should see a stat called "rest effectiveness" and that is the stat that makes you sleep better. IIRC wood is the best bed for sleeping, though fancier materials would be better for beauty (though rest is far more important in my opinion).

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Monoxide:

Its a good idea to check the stats on the things you make (the i button for information). You can see all the info in there. For example, take your marble bed and compare it to a basic wood bed (try to have the same quality) and you can see how they differ. You should see a stat called "rest effectiveness" and that is the stat that makes you sleep better. IIRC wood is the best bed for sleeping, though fancier materials would be better for beauty (though rest is far more important in my opinion).

Agreed. Except in the case of prisoners. I'd rather them sleep longer (side effect of the lower rest level from stone beds) especially if they come in with any kind of addiction that they will need to go through withdrawal. In that case, the longer they spend sleeping, the better!

[corisai]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Agreed. Except in the case of prisoners. I'd rather them sleep longer (side effect of the lower rest level from stone beds) especially if they come in with any kind of addiction that they will need to go through withdrawal. In that case, the longer they spend sleeping, the better!

Beds for prisoners? You're sooo kind :)

Originally posted by M.K.:

For doors, the mass of the material greatly affects the speed of the door, and its HP.

A large problem that plassteel door is still flammable. It's very easy to mod out, but keep in mind if you aren't doing it.

And stone doors are a lot slower to open so slowdown your pawns, even auto-doors.

[TwoTonGamer]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Agreed. Except in the case of prisoners. I'd rather them sleep longer (side effect of the lower rest level from stone beds) especially if they come in with any kind of addiction that they will need to go through withdrawal. In that case, the longer they spend sleeping, the better!

Wow! What a great idea!

[Grubfist]

Every time you select something in the game, press the little 'i' button. It is your best friend. Read everything.

[M.K.]

Originally posted by TwoTonGamer:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Agreed. Except in the case of prisoners. I'd rather them sleep longer (side effect of the lower rest level from stone beds) especially if they come in with any kind of addiction that they will need to go through withdrawal. In that case, the longer they spend sleeping, the better!

Wow! What a great idea!

You... i.....
That should work!
I think that a sleeping pawn is completely exempt for checks for mental breaks, they obviously don't interact in social fights, they won't be trying to escape while sleeping.... This could work.
And i never thought of it before, thank you BlackSmokeDMax for that insight.

[crgzero]

Vanilla wise, production benches it makes no difference what material they're made out of. However, there is a mod which name currently escapes me, the only one I've found and I regularly run 200+ mods, anyway, it adds in new materials which does effect work benches and even beds.

Err just remembered, It's https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1141721293

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by crgzero:

Vanilla wise, production benches it makes no difference what material they're made out of. However, there is a mod which name currently escapes me, the only one I've found and I regularly run 200+ mods, anyway, it adds in new materials which does effect work benches and even beds.

Err just remembered, It's https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1141721293

HardcoreSK also, either natively or via an included mod, has the feature where benches/other things from different materials have different stats.