What's jade good for?

[CrazyBikerBear]

So what exactly does jade excel at? Gold's more valuable and has more beauty. I'd much rather just sell the jade and make gold statutes. Uranium does/absorbs more damage in weapons/walls/armor. Jade is also never a required ingredient as far as I'm aware.

Is there any reason not to just sell all your jade at every stage of the game?

[Praeceptorem Poloniae]

Originally posted by MayoCulpa:

But those rest effectiveness stats were last updated in October 2018. I don't know offhand if those are the same in 1.0 or if that was changed.

October 2018... Wasn't then 1.0 released, and since then there were no major changes, so that data should be quite accurate

Originally posted by Dapper:

[...] Jade has a beauty value of 200 at base, Silver has 155 and gold has 320 for comparison. Also important to note that Gold beds have a market value of 10660, while a jade bed only has 1900. Jade beds do however need a staggering 4000 work units to be made lol.

Well, this can be used as training for builders, as quality is only applied by builder that finished the bed - for me, no problem, especially if my builder has (proper) inspiration

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Unless it changed in 1.0, beds make no difference whatsoever. The only time you want to up a room beauty is when a trait ask for it. For the rest, when they sleep their sliders don't move and they usually spend so little time in their bedroom it is not worth the effort trying to up the room beauty either way.

I usually just place rock statues where I need room to be pretty(er). No point doing anything else.

[MayoCulpa]

Ahh you're right Praeceptorem, it says Oct 17, 2018 right on the store page. Lol I only heard of it in like February 2019, I think that's why I was confused about that.

In that case the wiki values are correct and wood or steel beds are best.

[Reyggor]

It's actually pretty good for firedoors too; it's the fastest opening door with that can't be set alight, combined with the fact it has a +10 beauty modifier means when attached to a door it'll offer +10 to 2 rooms (assuming used indoors)

[Astasia]

All stone blocks have a rest effectiveness of x0.90, so it's really not ideal to make beds out of them. In most cases the game treats jade as a stone block, except here, jade does not have a rest effectiveness penalty so it's fine to use for royal beds.

[AlP]

Jade beds counts as wood/metal beds, and they have identical stats:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/9vf1sg/bed_quality_science_10/

[Security Cam #7]

Originally posted by H0dg1k1ll3r:

Gold's more valuable

And if you build out of gold your colony wealth rises by a lot which in turn gives you larger raids, so that's another reason to use jade. But if you don't care about wealth then of course gold is prettier

[M.K.]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Unless it changed in 1.0, beds make no difference whatsoever. The only time you want to up a room beauty is when a trait ask for it. For the rest, when they sleep their sliders don't move and they usually spend so little time in their bedroom it is not worth the effort trying to up the room beauty either way..

So you feel the mood modifier for a nice room is worthless?
"Wondrously impressive bedroom: My bedroom is the best place one can ever imagine. It's wonderful. +8Mood"
That's 17 better than the "awful barracks" mood, at the other end of the scale.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

If you actually need that then you are doing something wrong. Also, like it already been mentioned, you have to use so much resources that you are going to attract way too much raiders every time you get attacked. Which mean you are never going to do that for a static room they don't really have a use for unless you are in very late game.

You are also comparing apple to oranges. A barrack mean you have several persons sleeping in the same room. Simply building a 9x9 room for each of your pawns will be enough to start getting positive bonuses if everything you have inside said room is wood of the highest quality. Maybe throw in a statue inside if you absolutely need to raise it above impressive.

If you have barracks by mid game you are also doing something wrong my friend.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

If you actually need that then you are doing something wrong.

Getting colonists to 100 mood and creating a buffer above that to deal with psychic drones and such is a good idea, it keeps your inspirations flowing at a good rate. High quality jade furniture will not boost wealth enough to really hurt in terms of raids, which is again the point of jade.

[AlP]

It's pretty ugly though.

[Friti Firecaster]

Given how I don't tend to acquire alot of jade and the costs per unit of effectiveness therein, the best use for Jade I tend to find is to turn them into doors. Tends to require not a lot of it (25 units vs 250 for gold/silver), and counts towards I believe the room's beauty (+10) unless my memory is faulty. I think if I recall it opens as quickly but has less HP than wooden doors. As such, I tend to prioritize making it doors to Barracks, the Dining Hall, Entertainment rooms, and Bedrooms, roughly in that order.

I'd have to look to see if using Jade for statues and sellable items is worth more, but given how rarely I encounter much of it I find this to me is the best bang for buck so to speak for the material. I can thus prioritize silver for purchasing things (or flooring for cleanliness) and gold for trade/crafting purposes. Jade is just in an odd place and while valuable I find the beauty as a door most worth it.

[poop]

Wasting gold on statues when there are advanced components to make?

I just made a jade statue with a beauty of 5050. Don't underestimate the value of a barracks so nice nobody minds sharing the sleeping area.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Friti Firecaster:

Given how I don't tend to acquire alot of jade and the costs per unit of effectiveness therein, the best use for Jade I tend to find is to turn them into doors. Tends to require not a lot of it (25 units vs 250 for gold/silver), and counts towards I believe the room's beauty (+10) unless my memory is faulty. I think if I recall it opens as quickly but has less HP than wooden doors. As such, I tend to prioritize making it doors to Barracks, the Dining Hall, Entertainment rooms, and Bedrooms, roughly in that order.

I'd have to look to see if using Jade for statues and sellable items is worth more, but given how rarely I encounter much of it I find this to me is the best bang for buck so to speak for the material. I can thus prioritize silver for purchasing things (or flooring for cleanliness) and gold for trade/crafting purposes. Jade is just in an odd place and while valuable I find the beauty as a door most worth it.

Jade has a door opening speed of 90%. Metals are 100% and wood is 120%. It's not as bad as stone block doors, which are 45%, or uranium, which is 75%, but it's still somewhat on the slow side. It's inflammable unlike Wood, Steel, and Gold though which might possibly be of some value, but if flammability is really a concern you should use plasteel instead.

Jade is the second most beautiful material in the game, second only to gold, so if you want to use it in your base, you can make extremely beautiful statues from it. Or, you could use it for walls where sturdiness isn't an issue (which by the way it's 5x as efficient at creating beauty than if you use it for doors, since they have the same beauty but doors cost 5x as much).
Also, for very early game (particularly for tribal start), a jade club outclasses every other material for a club other than uranium, and is about equivalent to a normal quality steel mace.

[ROE]

Thrones of course. My pawn's royal ass always sits upon a jade throne.