Small altar
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Small altar
A small platform that plays a role in ideoligious rituals.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 1 ˣ 1
- Minifiable
- False
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 50%
- Terrain Affordance
- Light
Creation
- Work To Make
- 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins)
- Stuff tags
- Metallic, Woody, Stony
- Resources to make
50- Deconstruct yield
- 25
- Destroy yield
- 12 - 13
A Small Altar is a type of furniture added by the Ideology DLC at which acts as a focus for pawns to perform and take part in rituals. It is the smallest size of altar, with the larger sizes being the Medium altar, Large altar and Grand altar.
Acquisition
The Small Altar can be built with 50 Stuff (Wood/Metals/Stone) in 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins).
Summary
The ritual focus(es) should be placed in your "Shrine" room, which itself has the "altar" or "ideogram" as a room role requirement.
Analysis
The small altar has the highest wealth, style dominance, and beauty per tile of all altar sizes. Small Altars have 10 style dominance/beauty per tile, when made of Wood.
It is also the only Altar option with a "light Terrain affordance", allowing it to be placed on any tile that can support a wooden wall, including a tile located on a wooden bridge.
These factors combined, makes it the best in class option in terms of efficiency of space, placement, "values" per tile and work/resources.
Material table
| Material | Stuff cost | Beauty | Work to Build | HP | Flammability | Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Small altar | 50 
|
10 | 3,500 ticks (58.33 secs) | 33 | 0% | 73 
|
| Granite Small altar | 50 
|
10 | 30,140 ticks (8.37 mins) | 85 | 0% | 153
|
| Limestone Small altar | 50 
|
10 | 30,140 ticks (8.37 mins) | 78 | 0% | 153
|
| Marble Small altar | 50 
|
14 | 27,640 ticks (7.68 mins) | 60 | 0% | 144
|
| Sandstone Small altar | 50 
|
11 | 25,140 ticks (6.98 mins) | 70 | 0% | 135
|
| Slate Small altar | 50 
|
11 | 30,140 ticks (8.37 mins) | 65 | 0% | 153
|
| Jade Small altar | 50 
|
35 | 25,000 ticks (6.94 mins) | 25 | 0% | 340
|
| Golden Small altar | 500 
|
60 | 4,500 ticks (1.25 mins) | 30 | 0% | 5015
|
| Plasteel Small altar | 50 
|
10 | 11,000 ticks (3.06 mins) | 140 | 0% | 490
|
| Silver Small altar | 500
|
26 | 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | 35 | 0% | 520
|
| Steel Small altar | 50 
|
10 | 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) | 50 | 0% | 113
|
| Uranium Small altar | 50 
|
5 | 9,500 ticks (2.64 mins) | 125 | 0% | 335
|
Styles
Ideoligions 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.
Base variant
Morbid variant
Totemic variant
Version history
- Ideology DLC Release - Added.
- Misc
- Caravan hitching spot • Egg box • Grave • Marriage spot • Party spot • Pen marker • Sarcophagus • Tool cabinet • Meditation spot
• Nature shrine (Large, Small) • Altar (Small, Medium, Large, Grand)
• Burnbong • Cannibal platter • Christmas tree • Drum • Effigy • Gibbet cage • Ideogram • Incense shrine • Kneel pillow • Kneel sheet • Lectern • Pew • Pyre • Ritual spot • Sacrificial flag - (research)
- Comms console • Cryptosleep casket • Firefoam popper • Ground-penetrating scanner • Long-range mineral scanner • Moisture pump • Multi-analyzer • Orbital trade beacon • Pod launcher • Stele (Large, Grand) • Transport pod • Vitals monitor • Ship landing beacon • Autobong • Biosculpter pod • Lightball • Loudspeaker • Neural supercharger • Sleep accelerator
