Editing Stool

{{infobox main|furniture|
| name = Stool
| image = Stool north.png
| description = A simple platform on which to sit. Not very comfortable, but much better than nothing. Can be used at tables, work stations, and elsewhere.
| type = Building
| type2 = Furniture
| placeable = true
| path cost = 30
| cover = 0.2
| minifiable = true
| size = 1 ˣ 1
| mass base = 3
| flammability = 1
| hp = 75
| sell price multiplier = 0.7
| beauty = 0
| comfort = 0.5
| terrain affordance = light
| work to make = 450
| stuff tags = Metallic, Woody, Stony
| resource 1 = Stuff
| resource 1 amount = 25
}}
A '''stool''' is a type of [[furniture]] which your colonists can sit on. Stools can be placed at [[table]]s to allow your colonists to eat there; in front of [[television]]s to let them watch; or in front of [[production]] benches to provide [[comfort]] as they work, improving their [[mood]] and allowing them to work longer before needing a break.

== Acquisition ==
It is constructed with {{Required Resources}} in {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}}.

== Summary ==
=== Comfort ===
[[Comfort]] is a measure of how high a pawn can refill their comfort meter while using the piece of furniture. A pawn sitting in a chair with a higher comfort value can achieve a higher level. It does not affect the rate at which comfort increases only the maximum level. Comfort levels over 100% have no additional effect.
Comfort varies by [[quality]] but not material. Stools of the same quality level will all have the same quality, regardless of what they're constructed from.
{{Comfort Quality Table}}

== Analysis == 
Stools are the worst possible seating, with less comfort than [[dining chair]]s and [[armchair]]s. They require no research or Construction skill to make, and take the least time and resources to make. They can also be made from [[stone]], as well as wood or metals. They are the first available seating for a [[New Tribe]], can be used as cheap furniture for [[prison]] cells, and can see use in [[Biomes|wood-poor environment]].

Seating of any kind is required to eat at a [[table]] or play at a [[poker table]]. The comfort is otherwise very low, even before considering the alternatives. A pawn resting in a normal [[bed]] with any [[end table]] and [[dresser]] will get to 85% comfort in 1.4 hours of rest takes over 18 hours before getting {{--|3}} ''Uncomfortable''. Any stool below Excellent quality will never provide enough comfort for any ''Comfortable'' moodlet. While pawns could get uncomfortable during extended [[draft]]ing situations, assigning pawns to "nap" in the middle of the day prevents being uncomfortable at all. A Legendary stool can mantain the maximum +8 comfort bonus all day. However, even a good [[armchair]] provides max comfort, and is significantly more likely to be created. 

So, outside of [[New Tribes]] - which don't immediately have access to beds, end tables / dressers, and dining chairs - placing stools for comfort is rarely beneficial. Unless you're stuck in a [[sleeping spot]] or Awful bed/bedroll,  regular stools simply provide too little of a benefit. And if your colonist created an awful bed, chances are that they'll make an awful stool.

=== Cover baiting ===
Stools have the dubious distinction of providing only 20% [[cover]]. While this seems like a purely negative trait, it makes stools very effective at luring [[raiders]] into very poor [[defense structures#Cover baiting|defensive positions]] to predictably position them without affording them too much of an advantage.

=== Resource Compression ===
A niche use for the stool is resource compression for [[caravan]]ing or using [[transport pod]]s. A constructed stool has a base mass of 3 kg but can be deconstructed into 12-13 units of its component material (or x10 for small volume materials). As these 12-13 units often weigh more than the 3kg of the stool, more material can be carried for the same mass by keeping it in stool form and deconstructing it at the end of travel, if you are willing to lose some resources to transport more. 

: For example, 25 units of [[steel]] can be compressed into a 3 kg stool, which then gets deconstructed for at least {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Mass Base}}*12}} kg, allowing you to carry at least twice the steel you normally would. 

Resource compression has a drawback in that you will lose 50% of the invested resources,  12-13 out of the 25 units of material used. However, when the alternative is abandoning 50% of the material anyway due to weight restrictions, there is no reason not to do so if time permits.

However, due to the increased work to make the stool, as well as rounding losses, the use of [[Plant pot]]s is typically superior for this purpose.

{{Building Material Table}}

== Styles ==
{{Ideology|NoCategory}}
[[Ideoligion]]s allow the selection of styles which then change the texture of the certain items and buildings when constructed by the colony. These style variants can be crafted if the colony has the selected style, or can be looted from raiders from factions with the requisite style.

<gallery>
Stool north.png|Base Variant
Morbid stool.png|Morbid Variant
Totemic stool.png|Totemic Variant
</gallery>
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[[Category:Furniture]] [[Category:Chair]]