Beauty

[Kinsume]

So most of my base is currently underground and I'm doing what I can to improve the beauty score of it. Minus dropping statues all over the place, does anyone have any ideas as to how I can improve the looks for my colonists? All of the floors are currently smoothed granite, all of the rooms are walled in granite blocks, and I have a couple of pawns on priority cleaning to keep stuff situated.

[A Friend]

Legendary furniture made of gold, silver or marble blocks if you can't afford the previous two.

[Facepunch]

Theres some mod (I think its not vanilla, anyways), that adds golden and silver floors. Expensive as hell, but they look pretty. You could also always tell your colonists to stop being girly-men (If they're female, I guess it wont work as well).

[REMworlder]

If you're like me and tend to not have a lot of gold/silver/unobtainium lying around to spend, here are three actions you can take:

I. Use a colonist with high construction skill to build your furniture. Shoddy furniture has negative beauty and lowered efficiency (like how fast it restores rest), while good furniture has good beauty. Also, royal beds are more beautiful than regular beds.

II. Potted plants inside and fields of plants outside. They look *really* nice, and can also be useful for marking the effective ranges and lines of fire of your colonists' weapons. This is also why graveyards have flowers IRL.

III. Avoid stockpiling especially ugly goods like hides or meat near where colonists see them.

[Kinsume]

Yeah I was aware of the construction quality thing, all of my royal beds are superior quality or higher, same with my tables/chairs. My stockpile is out of my colonist's way for the most part, the weapon's stockpile is in their primary pathing route, but the materials are off on there own. I've heard about the potted plants idea, but doesn't your colonist have to replant them on a daily basis? Seems like it'd occupy alot of work time for them.

Sadly I've yet to even find gold on this map to mine, so buying it would be my only option and I have higher priorities for my silver currently.  I've found a couple nodes of uranium but nothing that'd give me enough to build things out of.

In terms of flooring itself, if I add carpet on top of flooring will it give both the smooth bonus and the carpet bonus or only one?

[FridayBiology]

lighting and artwork will effect colonists.

only one floor bonus though remember that roof stats (bottom right UI) will effect work and feeling of colonists.

[cultist]

Theres some mod (I think its not vanilla, anyways), that adds golden and silver floors. Expensive as hell, but they look pretty. You could also always tell your colonists to stop being girly-men (If they're female, I guess it wont work as well).

It's in vanilla, but I think it was only added in A12.