Electric crematorium

Electric crematorium

A huge stone crematorium which vaporizes corpses with extremely high temperatures.

Base Stats

Type

Production

Beauty

-10

HP

300

Flammability

100%

Building

Size

3 × 2

Placeable

Yes

Power

- 250 W

Creation

Skill Required

Construction 4

Work To Make

4,500 ticks (1.25 mins)

Stuff Tags

Stony

Resources to make

150 + 20 + 2

Deconstruct yield

112 + 15 + 1

A crematorium is an appliance used to destroy corpses and unwanted clothing or armor. Bills are worked by haulers. Corpses are cremated together with all of their equipped gear.

Crematoriums have -10 beauty, which is significantly less ugly than corpses that have -50 beauty and negatively impact nearby colonists' beauty opinion and mood. It has a cleanliness value of -20.

Crematoriums produce heat comparable to output of one heater while burning things. No heat is produced when idle, even if powered on.

If the Electric Crematorium left is out in the rain, a short-circuit can start a fire.

Acquisition

After Electricity is researched, the crematorium can be built for  150 Stuff (Stony),  20 Steel,  2 Components (Stuff = Stony) in 4,500 ticks (1.25 mins).

Analysis

The Electric crematorium is generally useless. Corpse disposal is much more convenient, easier, and takes less work with Molotov cocktails. Using minimal resources, molotovs can erase multiple corpses from existence in just one throw. On the other hand, the crematorium requires a worker to burn the corpses and also takes up large amounts of electricity. See corpse for more details.

As a counter argument, unlike molotovs, electric crematoria don't require Machining to be researched to be be constructed and can be fully automated with bills. This can give it a niche use in some playthroughs.

Stats table

Electric crematorium	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flamma­bility	Market Value
Material
Granite blocks	-10	027,140 ticks (7.54 mins)	510	0%	335
Limestone blocks	-10	027,140 ticks (7.54 mins)	465	0%	335
Marble blocks	-9	024,890 ticks (6.91 mins)	360	0%	325
Sandstone blocks	-10	022,640 ticks (6.29 mins)	420	0%	320
Slate blocks	-10	027,140 ticks (7.54 mins)	390	0%	335
Jade	0	022,500 ticks (6.25 mins)	150	0%	935

Notes

"Tainted" apparel cannot be sold to traders and you can only get rid of such clothing by burning them on a campfire. An alternative, lower labor method to using a crematorium is build a stone room (or seal off an existing ruin) and use Molotov cocktails to burn all corpses at once with their apparel after forbidding the entrance or clearing the Home Zone area marker to ensure no firefighters attempt to put out the cremating fire within. This does carry the drawback of adding hefty mood penalties to any colonist who adds to the furnace due to seeing many corpses, as well as having slightly less customization for deciding what is to be burnt.

Alternatively, they can be loaded onto transport pods and launched to other faction's settlements for a modest relationship gain.

Version History

• 0.4.460 - Added as "Crematorium"

• 

  The Old Crematorium Texture

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Architect

Production | Neolithic

Art bench • Brewery • Butcher spot • Butcher table • Campfire • Crafting spot • Fueled stove • Fermenting barrel • Simple research bench

Medieval

Fueled smithy • Hand tailor bench • Stonecutter's table

Industrial

Biofuel refinery • Deep drill • Drug lab • Electric crematorium • Electric smelter • Electric smithy • Electric stove • Electric tailor bench • Fabrication bench • Hi-tech research bench • Hydroponics basin • Machining table • Nutrient paste dispenser (Hopper)