Hidy ho all,
I wanted to know if there was a good rule of thumb for how large bedrooms were?
At the beginning, it doesn't matter it's more important that they don't sleep on ground and got an own room.
Later 5x4 or 5x5 are a good size for a bedroom. Ofcouse you can made it bigger to have more room for wealthy objects.
I think 4x4 is mostly enough. When your wealthy 6x6, but more is wasted.
Not sure, but I think 12 walkable tiles are necessary to get the slight tiny-room-debuff which is -1 I think.
Always place your bed in the middle for freedom buff - pawns sleep with all eyes open.
In the end its More about the one wealthy sculpture but the space they have.
I like to use either 4x5 or 5x6. With both an even number and odd number it makes it easy to have the door centered in the odd wall, and then if you have a single bed put it along the odd wall, if you have a double bed put it along the even wall. This lets you center either type of bed in any bedroom. Not important, but I do prefer the look.
Neither of those are large enough to get the bonus for having a large bedroom, but i don't really worry about that.
Like Canute I prefer the 5x4 or 5x5 size since it creates racher big rooms to get that impressive mood buff.
Since B18 (or A17?) room quality is the minimum of size, beauty and cleanliness. Therefore if you have a 2x2 room with a single bed and a legandary gold statue, the room quality will still be bad. However if you increase room size that impressive beauty will actually have an effect and your colonists will feel better.
In the beginning I start with 3x2 rooms, so I can get a lot of them ready to get rid of the disturbed sleep and barracks debuff. Bed and
Couples get the walls removed so two 3x2 rooms become one 3x5.
Later I upgrade too 4x3 and 5x4 .. but I don't bother with lots of beauty Items.
If you are into non square rooms, aim for 20 to 25 tiles for an ok room. Bigger for roomyness. 16 is about as low as I can recommend.
An end tables need to be placed next to the pillow to work. Just saying.
I do the 3x2 to 3x5 rooms too or go straight to 3x5. Those 3x5 rooms will get you through quite easily even late game and it's all I used to build. It's worth to expand if you want those mood buffs.
Man, I spoil my colonists with 6x6 rooms and double beds :o
Since everyone's saying things, I like 5x7. That's enough to fit a double bed (I hate playing Musical Beds with couples), an end table + dresser, a door in the middle of a wall instead of off to the side (WWDWW instead of WDWW), a medium statue (or plant pots, or paintings, depend on what you want/have modded), and a light in the middle, all comfortably. Also doesn't loose too much heat if you connect three of them together with one heater/cooler and some vents (which you'll also have room for!).
These are the standard bedroom sizes and contents I'm using in my current game.
(https://i.imgur.com/mdSfase.jpg)
5x5 has worked for me for quite awhile. Wood permitting, I usually build double beds for each room so when they hook up with someone you don't have to bother with new construction.
I like to keep things a bit tighter with 3x5 as my standard go to size.
However my bases are always organic and I will end up with some odd sizes along the way. I don't like breaking down the old buildings on the map as this adds flavour and makes each base different.
Once I get over 8 people I move from individual rooms to a barrack for the new comers. One nice big room with carpets, good quality beds side tables and high quality large sculptures. You can get the debuff down to -1 for sharing the room which is easily offset by good food or even a good Rec room.
You can run with a barrack from the start but you will need to spam some sculptures nice and early. The quality of the beds will count big time too.
My standard 11x11 building footprint can be easily subdivided into Six 3x5 rooms.
Quote from: Dashthechinchilla on January 11, 2018, 02:29:48 PM
If you are into non square rooms, aim for 20 to 25 tiles for an ok room. Bigger for roomyness. 16 is about as low as I can recommend.
An end tables need to be placed next to the pillow to work. Just saying.
End tables need to be placed /beside/ the pillow (& only 1 for double beds); if you place them /above/ the pillow they currently give no bonus other than beauty
http://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Room_stats#Space
Quote from: Yoshida Keiji on January 12, 2018, 01:07:59 AM
http://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Room_stats#Space
15-tile bedrooms it is. Ain't no way I'm spending 30+ tiles of floor-space just to get to the next increment.
Quote from: Hans Lemurson on January 13, 2018, 04:54:19 AM
15-tile bedrooms it is. Ain't no way I'm spending 30+ tiles of floor-space just to get to the next increment.
15 is too small, then you just can do it with 6 tile too.
Don't forget you need to substract from the 15, 2 tiles for the bed, 3 tiles for endtable/dresser.
Sure with just the bed only, 15 might work.
Wiki says furniture only subtracts half a tile.
6 by 6 works for me. A double for everyone, a dresser, an end table, sculptures and a light if I'm feeling fancy. A 2x2 table and a chair for greedy colonists or ones far from the kitchen.
I go 6x7, unless in swamp biomes where rooms will be as close to that as possible but don't mind of smaller due to construction obstructions.
I settled on 5x5 just because. Nice to see I picked a good size for any pawn that isn't jealous or greedy.
16 tiles with flooring gets rid of "awful". 16 tiles with statues can get to "slightly impressive".
Considering space consumption adds up fast this is good enough for me. I use 2x6 to better allow centralized heating/cooling.
Now we are getting confused between space and beauty.
A 15 tile room with side table dresser and bed puts you dead on half for the space bar so no plus no minus. The game will tell you its a little tight but as long as your pawn go's outside at some point in their day your fine.
Now add carpets and make sure the furniture is of a good or better quality and hay presto you max out the beauty bar. Which is more important in my opinion as everything in the "natural" world is ugly, grass is ugly, dirt is ugly, trees are ugly, rocks are ugly..... Water isn't which is nice.
I've been using 5x6 since Alpha 3... good to see it still fits the bill as the minimum for "average sized". It used to give "spacious interior" back before room type distinctions were a thing.