Small altar

Small altar

A small platform that plays a role in ideoligious rituals.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Misc

Beauty

10

Style Dominance

10

HP

50

Flammability

0%

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

Small altars are miscellaneous buildings added by the Ideology DLC which act as a focus for colonists 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. Altars also act as alternative to the ideogram.

Acquisition

Small altars can only be constructed by colonists whose ideoligion has them selected as one of their buildings. They require  50 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony) and 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) of work.

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	003,500 ticks (58.33 secs)	33	0%	73
Granite Small altar	50	10	030,140 ticks (8.37 mins)	85	0%	153
Limestone Small altar	50	10	030,140 ticks (8.37 mins)	78	0%	153
Marble Small altar	50	14	027,640 ticks (7.68 mins)	60	0%	144
Sandstone Small altar	50	11	025,140 ticks (6.98 mins)	70	0%	135
Slate Small altar	50	11	030,140 ticks (8.37 mins)	65	0%	153
Jade Small altar	50	35	025,000 ticks (6.94 mins)	25	0%	340
Golden Small altar	500	60	004,500 ticks (1.25 mins)	30	0%	5015
Plasteel Small altar	50	10	011,000 ticks (3.06 mins)	140	0%	490
Silver Small altar	500	26	005,000 ticks (1.39 mins)	35	0%	520
Steel Small altar	50	10	005,000 ticks (1.39 mins)	50	0%	113
Uranium Small altar	50	5	009,500 ticks (2.64 mins)	125	0%	335

^{Assuming Normal quality, for the effect of other qualities, see Quality.}

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.

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Architect

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