Grand stele

A grand stele is a purely decorative Miscellaneous structure. A stele provides less beauty than most sculptures and require more resources, but have no quality.

They cannot be roofed over, and, despite their size, do not count as a wall.

They are the larger, more beautiful version of the large stele.

Acquisition

Constructing a grand stele requires Complex Furniture to be researched and 125 of any one type of stone and 16,000 ticks (4.44 mins) of work to construct.

They can also be found in ruins.

Analysis

Since they cannot be roofed over, that all but excludes them for any "indoor" beautification. However, as outdoor art, they have their uses.

Grand steles provide twice the amount of beauty, and health as large steles for twice the material and build cost, while being 1 tile larger in both axes. They are also sometimes required for monuments. However, neither stele type should be constructed. While they have no quality, and thus you can build steles without skilled artists, this is not cost or space effective.

For the same cost as a single grand stele, you can construct 5 small sculptures. Small sculptures have 25 beauty at Poor quality, and even a Skill 0 artist will average 1.8 Poor quality or better sculptures with the same resource investment, each one of which offers almost as much beauty while also taking up far less space. Even a modestly skilled artist will quickly and massively outstrip the beauty per material of steles of both kinds. Thus steles should only be built when required by a monument, and those found in ruins are better deconstructed for their blocks than integrated into builds.

Stats table

Grand stele	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Material	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Granite blocks	30	096,140 ticks (26.71 mins)	680	0%	570
Limestone blocks	30	096,140 ticks (26.71 mins)	620	0%	570
Marble blocks	41	088,140 ticks (24.48 mins)	480	0%	540
Sandstone blocks	33	080,140 ticks (22.26 mins)	560	0%	515
Slate blocks	33	096,140 ticks (26.71 mins)	520	0%	570
Jade	85	080,000 ticks (22.22 mins)	200	0%	1,540