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| − | '''Floors''' are a type of | + | '''Floors''' are a type of construction that cover the natural [[terrain]] with an artificial surface. Floors do not prevent other constructions to be built on top of them. There are many types of floor, with different resource costs, flammabilities, beauties, cleanlinesses, and other effects. |
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== Effects == | == Effects == | ||
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Constructed floors can bring benefits such as increased movement speed, [[beauty]], and [[Room_stats#Cleanliness|cleanliness]], as well as preventing wild [[plants]] from growing and [[fire]] from spreading. | Constructed floors can bring benefits such as increased movement speed, [[beauty]], and [[Room_stats#Cleanliness|cleanliness]], as well as preventing wild [[plants]] from growing and [[fire]] from spreading. | ||
=== Movement speed === | === Movement speed === | ||
| + | Player made flooring virtually always provides a movement speed advantage over natural terrain, no floor, or any non-constructed flooring. Flooring a frequent path will reduce the time required to walk between the two areas. See [[Terrain|Environment#Terrain]] | ||
| − | Natural soil allows the growth of vegetation such as tall grass, bushes, and brambles, all of which cause a walking speed reduction | + | Flooring prevents natural plant growth. Natural soil allows the growth of vegetation such as tall grass, bushes, and brambles, all of which cause a walking speed reduction. [[Tree]]s prevent movement altogether, and also prevent [[roof]]s from being built over them. |
| + | [[File:Floors.png|500px|thumb|right|Different flooring (and unfloored areas) in different locations]] | ||
| − | === Beauty | + | === Beauty === |
| + | Colonists are affected by the beauty of the surrounding flooring in two ways - directly, by the [[Beauty]] status level, and indirectly, by the effect of beauty on the impressiveness of some [[Room roles|room types]]. Colonists have mood effects from the beauty of their direct surroundings, especially those locations where they spend most of the day or night such as a bedroom, kitchen, workshop, research lab, etc. See the [[Beauty]] page for further details. | ||
| − | + | The total beauty of a room also affects its impressiveness, which contributes to the mood benefit of rooms such as bedrooms, dining rooms, rec rooms, and hospitals. See the [[Room stats]] page for further details. | |
| − | + | Different floors can also be used for purely aesthetic purposes as per player preference, or to color-designate different rooms for different purposes. | |
| + | === Cleanliness === | ||
Flooring is an important factor when calculating a room's [[Room stats#Cleanliness|Cleanliness]], which is important for most rooms but particularly for kitchens, hospitals and laboratories. | Flooring is an important factor when calculating a room's [[Room stats#Cleanliness|Cleanliness]], which is important for most rooms but particularly for kitchens, hospitals and laboratories. | ||
| − | + | This is done in two ways. First, it covers up the existing [[terrain]] which almost always has a cleanliness penalty, and prevents that penalty from applying to the room. Second some floor types have a cleanliness bonus which further improves the cleanliness. | |
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| + | Flooring rooms and areas surrounding rooms where cleanliness is important reduces [[filth]] being tracked from the terrain into the clean room. Any time a pawn walks on a filth generating terrain like natural soil or sand, there is a 10% chance filth can stick to that pawn. Anytime a pawn with filth stuck to them walks over terrain capable of accepting filth, like flooring or natural stone, the filth has a 5% chance of dropping off the pawn and onto the ground. [[Straw_matting|Straw-Matting]] is the only floor with a filth-multiplier. When filth fails to drop on straw matting, it doesn't remove the filth from the pawn. It simply delays the dropping of the filth. | ||
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| + | Cleanliness improves success rates in hospitals as they help prevent the possibility of infection. It also affects [[research speed]] and the chance for food to cause [[food poisoning]]. | ||
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| + | === Cleaning time === | ||
| + | {{Main|Cleaning Time Multiplier}} | ||
| + | Different floors take different amounts of time to clean ranging from 60% to 200%. While most metal floors are cleaned at 60% of the usual time, floors made out of stone blocks and the other metal floors take 80% of the time. All types of carpet have the longest cleaning time at 200% with the remaining floors at 100%. | ||
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| + | === Flammability === | ||
| + | Unoccupied non-flammable flooring can act as a fire break if placed in two tile wide sections. Players may add additional non-flammable tiles to extend the fire break as a precaution against flammable items occupying one of the tiles within the fire break. | ||
=== No plant growth === | === No plant growth === | ||
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Any flooring placed outdoors will prevent grass, bushes or trees from spreading there. This can be useful to keep any trees from growing in the path of a [[wind turbine]] and reducing its power output. Surrounding fields with flooring will prevent trees growing there, which your growers must clear first before they sow nearby. It can also be used to create fire breaks to keep wildfires from spreading to your base if non-flammable materials were used. | Any flooring placed outdoors will prevent grass, bushes or trees from spreading there. This can be useful to keep any trees from growing in the path of a [[wind turbine]] and reducing its power output. Surrounding fields with flooring will prevent trees growing there, which your growers must clear first before they sow nearby. It can also be used to create fire breaks to keep wildfires from spreading to your base if non-flammable materials were used. | ||
Flooring can even help with security in certain biomes. While giving a movement bonus to raiders, covering your killbox in flooring will prevent any trees growing there for raiders to take cover behind. | Flooring can even help with security in certain biomes. While giving a movement bonus to raiders, covering your killbox in flooring will prevent any trees growing there for raiders to take cover behind. | ||
| − | === Removing | + | === Removing floors === |
Floors can be removed with the '''Remove floor''' order, which is found under the Architect/Floors tab. After floors are removed, the tile will retain its old terrain type. | Floors can be removed with the '''Remove floor''' order, which is found under the Architect/Floors tab. After floors are removed, the tile will retain its old terrain type. | ||
| − | Most | + | Most floors return, on average, half of the resources spent at construction when removed. This can be a useful source of materials when raiding settlements or temporary camps, or simply a way to recycle unneeded floors in your own colony. Notable exceptions include [[flagstone]], [[burned floors]] and smoothed floors. |
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| + | == Comparison table == | ||
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| − | == | + | == Version History== |
* [[Version/0.11.877|0.11.877]] - You can now remove floors to reveal the terrain underneath. | * [[Version/0.11.877|0.11.877]] - You can now remove floors to reveal the terrain underneath. | ||
| + | * [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Cleaning time factor added. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Latest revision as of 16:31, 28 March 2025
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Floors are a type of construction that cover the natural terrain with an artificial surface. Floors do not prevent other constructions to be built on top of them. There are many types of floor, with different resource costs, flammabilities, beauties, cleanlinesses, and other effects.
Effects[edit]
 | This section is suggested to be rewritten. Reason: Tone, detail, cleanup and expansion - bring information around to mechanical effects (e.g. Cleanliness good because directly affects impressiveness/research speed etc). Potential split needed - Summary (effects of flooring) and analysis (Selection and strategies) per Format Standard. You can help the RimWorld Wiki by improving it. |
Constructed floors can bring benefits such as increased movement speed, beauty, and cleanliness, as well as preventing wild plants from growing and fire from spreading.
Movement speed[edit]
Player made flooring virtually always provides a movement speed advantage over natural terrain, no floor, or any non-constructed flooring. Flooring a frequent path will reduce the time required to walk between the two areas. See Environment#Terrain
Flooring prevents natural plant growth. Natural soil allows the growth of vegetation such as tall grass, bushes, and brambles, all of which cause a walking speed reduction. Trees prevent movement altogether, and also prevent roofs from being built over them.
Beauty[edit]
Colonists are affected by the beauty of the surrounding flooring in two ways - directly, by the Beauty status level, and indirectly, by the effect of beauty on the impressiveness of some room types. Colonists have mood effects from the beauty of their direct surroundings, especially those locations where they spend most of the day or night such as a bedroom, kitchen, workshop, research lab, etc. See the Beauty page for further details.
The total beauty of a room also affects its impressiveness, which contributes to the mood benefit of rooms such as bedrooms, dining rooms, rec rooms, and hospitals. See the Room stats page for further details.
Different floors can also be used for purely aesthetic purposes as per player preference, or to color-designate different rooms for different purposes.
Cleanliness[edit]
Flooring is an important factor when calculating a room's Cleanliness, which is important for most rooms but particularly for kitchens, hospitals and laboratories.
This is done in two ways. First, it covers up the existing terrain which almost always has a cleanliness penalty, and prevents that penalty from applying to the room. Second some floor types have a cleanliness bonus which further improves the cleanliness.
Flooring rooms and areas surrounding rooms where cleanliness is important reduces filth being tracked from the terrain into the clean room. Any time a pawn walks on a filth generating terrain like natural soil or sand, there is a 10% chance filth can stick to that pawn. Anytime a pawn with filth stuck to them walks over terrain capable of accepting filth, like flooring or natural stone, the filth has a 5% chance of dropping off the pawn and onto the ground. Straw-Matting is the only floor with a filth-multiplier. When filth fails to drop on straw matting, it doesn't remove the filth from the pawn. It simply delays the dropping of the filth.
Cleanliness improves success rates in hospitals as they help prevent the possibility of infection. It also affects research speed and the chance for food to cause food poisoning.
Cleaning time[edit]
Main article: Cleaning Time Multiplier
Different floors take different amounts of time to clean ranging from 60% to 200%. While most metal floors are cleaned at 60% of the usual time, floors made out of stone blocks and the other metal floors take 80% of the time. All types of carpet have the longest cleaning time at 200% with the remaining floors at 100%.
Flammability[edit]
Unoccupied non-flammable flooring can act as a fire break if placed in two tile wide sections. Players may add additional non-flammable tiles to extend the fire break as a precaution against flammable items occupying one of the tiles within the fire break.
No plant growth[edit]
Any flooring placed outdoors will prevent grass, bushes or trees from spreading there. This can be useful to keep any trees from growing in the path of a wind turbine and reducing its power output. Surrounding fields with flooring will prevent trees growing there, which your growers must clear first before they sow nearby. It can also be used to create fire breaks to keep wildfires from spreading to your base if non-flammable materials were used.
Flooring can even help with security in certain biomes. While giving a movement bonus to raiders, covering your killbox in flooring will prevent any trees growing there for raiders to take cover behind.
Removing floors[edit]
Floors can be removed with the Remove floor order, which is found under the Architect/Floors tab. After floors are removed, the tile will retain its old terrain type.
Most floors return, on average, half of the resources spent at construction when removed. This can be a useful source of materials when raiding settlements or temporary camps, or simply a way to recycle unneeded floors in your own colony. Notable exceptions include flagstone, burned floors and smoothed floors.
Comparison table[edit]
For naturally generated surfaces, see Terrain.
| Name | Variants | Fine | Resources per tile | Work to Build | Beauty | Move Speed Modifier | Flammability | Cleanliness | Cleaning Time Multiplier | Filth Multiplier | Wealth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge | – | 
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 12
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1,500 ticks (25 secs) | 0 | 100% | 80% | 0 | 100% | 100% | 20 |
| Burned floor | Carpet, Straw matting, Wood floor |
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Any Carpet/Straw matting/Wood floor | – | −6 | 93% | 0% | 0 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| Carpet | 63 colors |
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 7
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800 ticks (13.33 secs) | +2 | 100% | 32% | 0 | 200% | 100% | 13 |
| Concrete | – |
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100 ticks (1.67 secs) | −1 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 2.3 |
| Flagstone | Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
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 4 (Stony)
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500 ticks (8.33 secs) | 0 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 5.5 |
| Gold tile | – | 
|
 70
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800 ticks (13.33 secs) | +11 | 100% | 0% | +0.2 | 60% | 100% | 705 |
| Paved tile | – |
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2
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300 ticks (5 secs) | 0 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 4.9 |
| Silver tile | – |
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 70
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800 ticks (13.33 secs) | +4 | 100% | 0% | +0.2 | 60% | 100% | 73 |
| Steel tile | – |
|
7
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800 ticks (13.33 secs) | 0 | 100% | 0% | +0.2 | 60% | 100% | 16 |
| Sterile tile | – |
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3 + 12
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1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) | −1 | 100% | 0% | +0.6 | 60% | 100% | 24 |
| Stone tile | Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
|
4 (Stony)
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1,100 ticks (18.33 secs) | +1 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 8 |
| Straw matting | – |
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 2
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120 ticks (2 secs) | −1 | 93% | 150% | −0.1 | 100% | 5% | 1.6 |
| Wood floor | – |
|
3
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85 ticks (1.42 secs) | 0 | 100% | 22% | 0 | 100% | 100% | 3.9 |
Bioferrite plate 
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– |
|
 4
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840 ticks (14 secs) | −2 | 100% | 15% | +0.2 | 60% | 100% | 5.5 |
| Flesh
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– |
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– | – | −10 | 87% | 32% | −3 | 150% | 100% | 0 |
| Void metal
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– |
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– | – | 0 | 100% | 0% | +1 | 60% | 100% | 0 |
Fungal gravel 
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– |
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Overhead mountain | 1,000 ticks (16.67 secs) | −1 | 87% | 0% | −1 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| Hex carpet
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63 colors |
|
35
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4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) | +4 | 100% | 32% | 0 | 200% | 100% | 67 |
| Hex tile
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– |
|
12
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 60% | 100% | 41 |
| Mindbend carpet
|
Diamond, Purple, Green, Blue, Yellow |
|
35
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4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) | +4 | 100% | 32% | 0 | 200% | 100% | 67 |
| Morbid carpet
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63 colors |
|
35
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4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) | +4 | 100% | 32% | 0 | 200% | 100% | 67 |
| Morbid stone tile
|
Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
|
20 (Stony)
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 36 |
| Spikecore plates
|
– |
|
12
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 60% | 100% | 41 |
| Spikecore stone tile
|
Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
|
20 (Stony)
|
5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 36 |
| Totemic boards
|
– |
|
20
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 22% | 0 | 100% | 100% | 42 |
| Totemic stone tile
|
Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
|
20 (Stony)
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 36 |
Fine carpet 
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63 colors |
|
35
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4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) | +4 | 100% | 32% | 0 | 200% | 100% | 67 |
| Fine stone tile
|
Limestone, Marble, Granite, Sandstone, Slate |
|
20 (Stony)
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5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | +3 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 80% | 100% | 36 |
Version History[edit]
- 0.11.877 - You can now remove floors to reveal the terrain underneath.
- 1.4.3523 - Cleaning time factor added.
See also[edit]
- Floors
- Burned floors (Carpet, Straw matting, Wood floor, Bioferrite plate) • Concrete • Flagstones (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Gold tile • Paved tile • Silver tile • Steel tile • Sterile tile • Straw matting • Wood floor • Fungal gravel • Hex tile • Spikecore plates • Totemic boards
- (research)
- Carpet • Stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Fine carpets • Fine stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Hex carpet • Mindbend carpet • Morbid carpet • Morbid stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Spikecore stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Totemic stone tiles (Sandstone, Granite, Limestone, Slate, Marble) • Bioferrite plate
- Floor coverings
- Animalist slab (Medium, Broad) • Morbid slab (Medium, Broad) • Rustic rug (Medium, Broad) • Spikecore floor-star (Medium, Broad) • Totemic slab (Medium, Broad)
- Related
- Bridge • Smooth stone • Void metal