Morale rooms

[ewpayne]

Newbie here. Read that completed rooms give morale to the dupes. However does it matter if i have several small barracks, or one huge barracks?

I tried making several tiny rooms all over the place with the hopes the dupes could get higher bonuses to morale. But if this pointless it'd be better for me to make one huge barracks and one huge latrine. The logic behind that is i'm using material to make extra walls and doors when i dont have to.

[asanger]

They only receive the bonus from each type of room once.

The only exception would be the recreation room since the morale bonus depends on which recreation building they use.

[zOldBulldog]

Also, Farm and ranch are recognized as a room type but receive no bonus.

Go figure. Probably a bug, seems kind of silly for it to be a room type but produce no benefit.

[asanger]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Also, Farm and ranch are recognized as a room type but receive no bonus.

Go figure. Probably a bug, seems kind of silly for it to be a room type but produce no benefit.

Well having a farm room lets you speed up the plant growth if you want.
Never really seems worth it though.

[fractalgem]

I find farm rooms+fertilizer stations useful to build if I want to multiply my seeds quickly.

For longterm use, not so much-it just takes too much dupe time.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Also, Farm and ranch are recognized as a room type but receive no bonus.

Go figure. Probably a bug, seems kind of silly for it to be a room type but produce no benefit.

The bonus to farm and ranch are you can use the job building in that room.

You can't use the farming station or the grooming station just anywhere.

[ewpayne]

Dang. Well at least now I know. I'll change all my barracks to 64 tiles instead.

[Prometheus]

The room bonus comes about when they use the prime function of the room. So for instance barracks the bonus comes when they awaken. They don't sleep in multiple rooms per day after all. Same with toilets. The bonus is applied after they use the toilet. Multiple bathrooms doesn't mean they use multiple toilets per pee for multiple morale bonuses. The mess hall/great hall the bonus is tied to eating food.

So while the great hall requires a morale building the morale building itself is a different bonus. Also yes, you can stack DIFFERENT morale buildings. So the music and arcade game do stack. Multiple music boxes just means more dupes can dance at the same time.

On a final note. Its not terrible policy to give them each individual bedrooms early. The upgraded bedroom for extra morale (requires the special bed) actually does require they get one room per bed to work.

[asanger]

If you have a masterwork artist and access to diamond window tiles you can build you can build 2 floors of barrack with the diamond window tiles and a room below them completely full of granite masterwork statues to really skyrocket the decor.
You can get up to +12 morale bonus from decor.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Promethian:

The upgraded bedroom for extra morale (requires the special bed) actually does require they get one room per bed to work.

This is completely false! Please don't spread such misinformation. You can have multiple comfy beds and you will get bedroom bonus.

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by Promethian:

The room bonus comes about when they use the prime function of the room. So for instance barracks the bonus comes when they awaken. They don't sleep in multiple rooms per day after all. Same with toilets. The bonus is applied after they use the toilet. Multiple bathrooms doesn't mean they use multiple toilets per pee for multiple morale bonuses. The mess hall/great hall the bonus is tied to eating food.

So while the great hall requires a morale building the morale building itself is a different bonus. Also yes, you can stack DIFFERENT morale buildings. So the music and arcade game do stack. Multiple music boxes just means more dupes can dance at the same time.

On a final note. Its not terrible policy to give them each individual bedrooms early. The upgraded bedroom for extra morale (requires the special bed) actually does require they get one room per bed to work.

No, despite the somewhat misleading description, you can put several beds in one of the tier 2 bedrooms-but they DO all have to be plastic beds.

[Maltsi]

Originally posted by Promethian:

On a final note. Its not terrible policy to give them each individual bedrooms early. The upgraded bedroom for extra morale (requires the special bed) actually does require they get one room per bed to work.

thats not true, i never give them their own rooms.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851185014

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Give them private bedroom room speed up a stamina recovery even more btw.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Give them private bedroom room speed up a stamina recovery even more btw.

Can you prove it? First time hearing about this.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Give them private bedroom room speed up a stamina recovery even more btw.

Can you prove it? First time hearing about this.

Never mind. I tried making different room in quick sandbox mode and found out they still get a Private Room bonus regardless of whatever it's actually private bedroom or not. Oof. Which mean the actual name of the upgraded barrack bonus is a Private Bedroom Room.

I like making private room for sake of beauty so didn't know that.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851204099
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851218871

[Dschinghis Pan]

To know what bonus a room gives - open the "room"overlay in the top. A window will open which not only explains what color signals which room, hovering with the mouse over those will also show what the room needs AND what the effects are. If there is no morale bonus listed, it won't give one.

Powerplants, farms and ranches don't give a bonus on their own, but only allow building certain stations. If you don't plan on using those stations, creating those rooms is actually a waste of space.