Beauty items

[Hanuman]

Do you place +beauty items like sculptures in common areas or bedrooms where pawns are most for the longest consecutive time?

[di eshor ribly]

I don't usually bother with art items as my pawns tend to appreciate the bases I build enough without them, and they tend to attract raids. With a decent builder most of your general furniture qualifies as art too.

My exception is Jealous pawns who demand a better bedroom, a statue or two boosts their room enough to make them happy.

In theory and practice, it's best to put them in areas where you need the mood boosts: bedrooms, rec rooms, dining rooms, *hospitals, "ugly" areas that could use a boost for nearby workers with long tasks, and maybe one in prison cells to help reduce resistance.

[Raymond]

as far as I know of, you cant build wonderous room without statue. If you building high impressiveness room, excellent grade statue will give you more impressiveness value than furniture and flooring of the same cost.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Artist formerly known as Bob:

Do you place +beauty items like sculptures in common areas or bedrooms where pawns are most for the longest consecutive time?

Both. Rooms have a beauty stat which is a large part of the room's impressiveness. By placing art in bedrooms for example you increase the impressiveness of that room and give them a potentially better mood buff for their bedroom quality. Pawns also have a beauty need and by filling it up you give them a huge +15 mood boost, so by placing statues around where they spend a lot of time, like in rec rooms or near their work stations you provide them with a stable mood boost throughout the day.

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

and they tend to attract raids

To clarify, art specifically does not attract raids or raiders. Having higher wealth in your colony overall increases the size of raids (not frequency), but it takes tens of thousands of wealth to add one additional weak raider to an attack on 100% scaling. You may not want to rush giant sculptures and floors made out of solid gold on day one, save that for late game, but some cheap wood sculptures around you base can make a pretty big difference in mood without really affecting difficulty at all.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Artist formerly known as Bob:

Do you place +beauty items like sculptures in common areas or bedrooms where pawns are most for the longest consecutive time?

Putting it in bedrooms is somewhat of a waste. Beauty need only changes while the pawn is awake, so most of the time they won't benefit in that manner in a bedroom, as they'll be asleep. If they're awake in their bed because they're praying/meditating as solitary recreation, or lovin', they'll benefit from it, but otherwise it's largely just room impressiveness.

[RCMidas]

Make the artwork out of wood, which you should have more than enough of unless you start in a rough biome, just to boost impressiveness and give your crafter something to practice with. If a trader comes along, uninstall the pieces and sell them off. Maybe send them as gifts to appease the faction you just arrested and converted a pawn of because you liked the look of them so very much.