Beauty

Beauty refers to one of the following, depending on context.

• Environmental beauty
• Perceived beauty
• Beauty meter
• Physical beauty

Environmental beauty

Environmental beauty is the numeric value, a positive or negative integer; or zero, assigned to each map tile based on the sum physical beauty of everything in that tile.
See Environment

Perceived beauty

Perceived beauty is what a colonist sees of the environmental beauty. Perceived beauty is calculated as the average of the environmental beauty of the visible tiles in an 8-tile radius from the colonist's position.

The icon for Show Beauty tool is located above the Overview button. The Beauty Tool is used to show the environmental beauty. The perceived beauty is shown in a larger font beside the mouse pointer.

Beauty meter

The beauty meter is found in a colonist's Needs tab and is impacted by the colonist's perceived beauty. Perceived beauty is indicated by a small white arrow below the meter. The beauty meter has certain thresholds that trigger one of six certain thoughts to indicate the colonist's opinion of their surroundings.

Physical beauty

Physical beauty is a stat of certain objects such as sculptures, structures, and plants.
Beauty is a stat: How enjoyable an object is to be around and look at. Its minimum allowed value is -1000. Its maximum allowed value is 1000. Its default value is 0.

	Beauty Base
Defoliator	-200
Crashed ship parts	-200
Toxic wastepack	-40
Chinchilla fur	-30
Patchleather	-30
Geothermal generator	-30
Deep drill	-25
Ship chunk	-20
Autocannon turret	-20
Uranium slug turret	-20
Mini-turret	-20
Unstable power cell	-20
Wood-fired generator	-20
Chemfuel powered generator	-20
Mini-slugger turret	-20
Mortar	-20
Mech node	-20
Auto mortar	-20
Auto charge turret	-20
Auto inferno turret	-20
Mech low-shield	-20
Watermill generator	-20
Count-down activator	-20
Proximity activator	-20
Mech assembler	-20
Mech drop beacon	-20
Mech capsule	-20
Mech high-shield	-20
Foam turret	-20
Rocketswarm launcher	-20
Spike trap	-18
Battery	-15
Wind turbine	-12
Marble blocks	-12
Limestone blocks	-12
Sandstone blocks	-12
Slate blocks	-12
Granite blocks	-12
Ancient concrete barrier	-10
Infinite chemreactor	-10
Ancient lamppost	-10
Electric crematorium	-10
Sandbags	-10
Firefoam popper	-8
Ground-penetrating scanner	-8
Moisture pump	-8
Long-range mineral scanner	-8
Rock chunk	-8
Steel slag chunk	-8
Burned stump	-8
... further results