Beauty - cant get it

[Cdr. Toomuchsheep]

Hey all,

so i got all slate tiles or smoothed floor in my whole base. Daylilies blooming in every corner, dresser in every bedroom, lit everything and some statues here and there. Still they all really dislike how it looks. Can i actually do anything else? Dont really know if i actually have to put down a statue every 5 cells or how it works. Advice appreciated. :)

[Daffy]

check the quality of the beds / tables / chairs etc.

It matters :)

[Takeda]

Keeping the colony clean is part of it .. and as some bright spark said somewhere else - running your power cables over walls hides them effectively.

I also deconstruct the manky furniture and remake it working toward everyone having good or better items. If your guys live under a mountain then smooth the walls .. or knock out the cave walls and replace them with bricks.

Or have a statue every 5 paces ofc ;)

[imwithdummy]

Everyone says to smooth floors...but I'll be danged, that is a LOT of labor...seems to take forever. I put wood down...its quick and it cancels out the ugly at least.

flower pots are also a decent beauty item...I try to have one in every room.

[liosalpha]

things have levels of qualety. going from poor to exelent.
if you bed and dressers are made in poor qualety they will still be ugly. you can check this in the info pannel with the furniture selected.
making higher qualety can take some time and need a somewhat skilled pawn to make it. (even better if they are inspired.)

also you can see the room stats with some of the icons in the lower right. there is one that looks like some statisics bar and one with a face profile. click one of them and move to the room you wanne inspect. click again on the icon to make it go away.

maybe those smooth tiles and flowers are not enough to off set the bad things.

rooms can also be dirty

[Diarmuhnd]

Originally posted by Toomuchsheep:

Hey all ...
... Advice appreciated. :)

Good advice from the posts before me.

One thing to think of using, is the Toggle switch for the Room Beauty Overview List
Its located on the bottom right, its a toggle you click to turn that function ON/OFF.

That will show you at a quick glance total Positives (wealth, etc) and Negatives (dirt) for each room you hover over with youor pointer. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1551402158

To repeat others, dirt and badly made furniture really are an eye sore. Better to have NO bad furniture.

Good luck have fun.

[Cdr. Toomuchsheep]

oh dear i did not know that the cables are a factor! something i will definitely have to rework. i also never checked the quality of my old furniture. now i can make very good stuff, but i never thought about replacing the things i made at the start! Thanks for all the advice! hopefully they will have a beautiful home soon :D

[Myriad]

Check the beauty display (Press 'T' for the hotkey.) Anything in the negative is bad, and positive greenish numbers are good. Besides dirt on the floors, items dropped on the floors are ugly too. Use shelves or keep your stockpile in a separate room with a door. Beauty is measured per room.

[esculapio]

Originally posted by Takeda:

Keeping the colony clean is part of it .. and as some bright spark said somewhere else - running your power cables over walls hides them effectively.

I also deconstruct the manky furniture and remake it working toward everyone having good or better items. If your guys live under a mountain then smooth the walls .. or knock out the cave walls and replace them with bricks.

Or have a statue every 5 paces ofc ;)

You can smooth the walls? How did I miss that.
Or is it a mod?

[Stormsong]

Originally posted by esculapio:

Originally posted by Takeda:

Keeping the colony clean is part of it .. and as some bright spark said somewhere else - running your power cables over walls hides them effectively.

I also deconstruct the manky furniture and remake it working toward everyone having good or better items. If your guys live under a mountain then smooth the walls .. or knock out the cave walls and replace them with bricks.

Or have a statue every 5 paces ofc ;)

You can smooth the walls? How did I miss that.
Or is it a mod?

Not a mod, it's been added to vanilla. Notice the subtle word change on the smoothing command. It is no longer smooth floors, instead, it is smooth surface. That includes walls. It is still found under the floors category though, which was probably easier than moving the whole button.

[Ziehn]

Unless the values have changed since B18, one high quality (good+) grand sculpture is all you need to get lots of beauty.

[SuburbanHermit]

If you're making stone bricks, those can be used too as floor tiles for +1. Also, marble bricks are good for making walls. (Easier than smoothing) They give a +1 each. Not sure about other stone types. Some are neutral and give 0.

[Defektiv]

Originally posted by Ziehn:

Unless the values have changed since B18, one high quality (good+) grand sculpture is all you need to get lots of beauty.

This, although art beauty value contributions to a room seem to have been nerfed in one of the last updates. It still does work though and if you have a pawn with a passion for art then making art is a good way to keep them happy. Art is still a really great way to boost faction too, by gifting it. Even the awful and poor stuff will up your faction 2 or 3 points each.

[Slye_Fox]

Originally posted by Stormsong the Fallen:

It is still found under the floors category though, which was probably easier than moving the whole button.

It was also added to the orders menu.

[fnorgby]

I've heard that smooth floors don't change the beauty of the room. But if a floor is "smoothable" in the first place, there's a better way to fix it -- tiles or wood floors. That wood goes in fast.

Same youtuber also suggested making a gold or silver floor tile in the room, to boost the dollar-value of the room. Total value of all the stuff in the room counts as much as beauty and cleanliness. And remove any chunks or slag and ffs keep it clean.

5x5 internal space with marble walls, stone tile floors, one silver tile, marble bed, two nightstands and a dresser should come in around "slightly impressive" when sparkly clean.

[fnorgby]

Note: That's a marble *double* bed because they're more expensive.