Building Insulation?

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Hey, does anyone have any numbers for how much insulation buildings provide? I know the different tiers have different insulation but can't find Data on just how much, and I was also wondering if things like structure size, windows, etc. Have an impact.

[Yuri Oorlov]

I have added a 2nd floor to my stone hut so i am now at 4x4x4 and on the 2nd floor in the middle i have the Industrial grill. With oil being so readily available in the north it is a easy to maintain resource and provides a great deal of heat for the entire building even when adding a 3rd floor.

[CrookedTube]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

Okay, so results are in, and it seems like all structures give the same insulation, regardless of material, size, or height. I got 113 hypothermal and 56 hyperthermal from all of them :/

As far as heat sources go, the grill wins out by far. I got +193 standing right next to it, 126 one foundation away, and 43 two foundations away.

Campfire, cooking pot, and furnace all provided about +95 right next to them, 50 one foundation away, and about 10 two foundations away.

Standing torches gave +95 right at them, 65 one foundation away, and 35 two foundations away.

Air conditioner gives +110 right on it, 60 one foundation away and 10 two foundations away.

Seems like standing torches and grills win here. A grill dead center in a 5x5 structure will give decent heat to the whole floor, but two standing torches will give about the same effect in the same spot. 100 sparkpowder will fuel a standing torch for almost 24 hours realtime, so a pair of standing torches seems to be the best bet economically unless you're putting in a grill anyway.

+1 Thank you for the research

[Yuri Oorlov]

really need this pinned as it is beyond useful especially with breeding.

[Pleauser]

the type of material is unimportant. as long as you get the house icon you have the max insulation. (tested with wood, stone and metal, didn't bother with thatch lol)

[Kody Gloval]

Also as a note, as a building gets larger at some point it loses the insulation and is no longer considered a house (i.e. no icon and no insulation).

Prior to the great biome incident of 2015 when our former base went poof and vanished, we had a large structure that was based around the front door being a behemoth gate. So roughly 13 x 13 cube.

In the cube with doors shut, no insulation. However I built a small 2 x 2 cube within it and inside that, it was treated as a house. I did not experiment past that to see at what size it stops being considered a house.

[Yuri Oorlov]

Behemoth gates are not counted as doors they do not insulate. The Dino gates are fine (tested and verified) but the Behemoth gates do not count, hence why you cannot make its a sealed room with them sadly.

[Zetskey]

What i've found:

All housing structures no matter material it is made out of give the same amount of insulation.

Door ways and open windows detract from insulation if said structure is "open". If a door is open or a window doesn't have covers it will detract from insulation. This "insulation" is a sphere approximately the radius of 1.5 small crop plots with a linear increase from the origin (where the window/door block is located).
------> This is bad for those who create small houses as too many open windows can detract from the insulation of the house.

Gates up to behemoth do give insulation if placed on a foundation with walling enclosing the entire thing around it. Whether that stems from the door or it just happens that the enclosed structure meets the pre-reqs for insulation I don't know. The open door insulating theory also applies to gates.

AC gives +100 in Hypo/Hyper and acts both like an "Cooler" and a Heater and requires no 'switch' to change between them. They do stack indefinitely and have an insulating sphere of about 2 or 3 foundation pieces, where the insulation degrades the further from the AC you are. This makes them ideal for incubation.

As far as whether or not you lose the insulating icon if a building gets too large I'll have to check.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

For the dino gates, snapping a fence foundation to a foundation edge and placing the gate on that assists with placement and seems to work fine insulation-wise. Helps keep my eyrie on my top floor tidy.

Also, thanks for the great responses guys :)