smoothing floor vs. laying tile

[MiguelCairo]

Before Royalty I always smoothed as many tiles of floor as I can inside my mountain bases, and laid tile in the rest. But now with Royalty requiring laying flooring in throne room and noble bedroom, I tend to just lay tile in my entire base.

Is there any reason to smooth floors instead of laying tile? To me it seems strange that smoothing floors doesnt count towards noble room requirements...

[HunterSilver]

Total work and material travel time to smooth is significantly less than building stone tiles, especially fine stone tiles. Nobles specifically want fine materials (gold, silver, fine carpets, fine stone) for the regal decadence of it all. For the most part, depending on the traits of your noble and whether you recruited them when they were a noble or earned the noble title yourself, they only care about flooring in their throne room.

[patrol]

Well smooth stone is just that, smoothed rock, it helps with removing the beauty penalty but that's about it. You ever stopped to look at a smooth rock? I know irl they made carvings in stone to make the place look nicer, but rimworld doesn't have that

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by patrol:

Well smooth stone is just that, smoothed rock, it helps with removing the beauty penalty but that's about it. You ever stopped to look at a smooth rock? I know irl they made carvings in stone to make the place look nicer, but rimworld doesn't have that

Would be nice to have engravings, but it would probably end up being 100+ engravings of the same guy eating cheese interspersed with the occasional battle or an engraving of an engraving of an artefact's engravings.

[gussmed]

Originally posted by patrol:

Well smooth stone is just that, smoothed rock, it helps with removing the beauty penalty but that's about it.

It's a bit more than that. It's +15% movement speed compared to rough stone, and +2 beauty (going from -1 to +1). "Removing the penalty" would be if it were just 0 beauty.

There's no material cost, unlike stone tile. It's not going to compete with the better flooring options, though.

[gussmed]

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

t it would probably end up being 100+ engravings of the same guy eating cheese interspersed with the occasional battle or an engraving of an engraving of an artefact's engravings.

It's kind of cool that the game has somewhat plausible art descriptions, but after a while I got bored with art telling the story of how the alpaca gave birth to the alpaca.

[starbabylon]

smooth then build tiles to get construction XP.