Room Design & Environment Effects
SEED features a sophisticated room environment system that significantly impacts your Seedlings' mood, behavior, and productivity. Understanding how room design affects your community is essential for creating successful living and working spaces.
Housing & Location Organization
SEED organizes the world using a hierarchical house and room system that helps track where Seedlings spend their time and what activities they can perform.
House and Room Structure
Each building or structure has a unique House ID that serves as the primary identifier for that location. This system allows the game to track ownership, access permissions, and location-specific activities.
Within each house, spaces are organized by Level and Room numbers. This creates a precise addressing system that Seedlings use for navigation and activity planning. When you see references to specific room locations, this is how the game internally organizes and references different spaces.
Location Tracking & Time Management
The housing system includes sophisticated time tracking that monitors how long Seedlings spend in different locations. This information feeds into various game systems including productivity analysis, social interaction tracking, and caretaking effects.
The system specifically tracks time spent in designated workplace locations, which affects Seedling productivity and satisfaction. This data helps you understand how effectively your community is using different spaces and identifies areas that might need redesign to encourage more community interaction.
Room Scoring & Environmental Effects
Room environments actively affect the people within them. The room scoring system evaluates multiple factors to determine the overall quality of each space, and these scores directly influence how Seedlings feel when they spend time in different rooms.
How Room Scores Affect Behavior
Different room score thresholds trigger specific behavioral responses from your Seedlings:
Harmonious Environments encourage positive behaviors like cheering, laughing, singing along, and dancing. Seedlings in well-designed spaces will express joy and contentment through these spontaneous activities. You'll see activities like "sings along to the harmonious room environment" when your room design is working well.
Peaceful Spaces promote contemplative behaviors like deep thinking and humming. These environments help Seedlings relax and recharge between more demanding activities. You'll notice activities like "hums along to the peaceful room environment" in well-designed quiet spaces.
Noisy or Unpleasant Rooms trigger negative responses including crying, screaming, and covering ears. Poor room design creates stress and discomfort that spreads throughout your community. Seedlings will express thoughts like "This room makes me want to cover my ears" in poorly designed spaces.
Room Creation Process
Every building floor starts as one large room by default, but you can customize room structure through Build Mode to create specialized spaces.
Creating Rooms
- Enter Build Mode through the Properties App or by clicking on your building
- Select Room Blocks from the Interior construction options
- Position room blocks to divide floor space into separate areas
- Add Interior Doors to connect rooms and maintain accessibility
- Complete the construction process to finalize your room structure
Room Design Principles
Design rooms for specific activities like sleeping, working, or socializing. Plan room size and layout to accommodate necessary furniture and machines while supporting smooth movement and activity sequences.
Remember that rooms must not be fully closed off without door access. Completely sealed rooms create problems for Seedling navigation and will prevent proper use of your building spaces.
Multi-Floor Buildings
Multi-floor buildings maximize space efficiency and enable sophisticated architectural designs that serve multiple functions within your available space.
Why Build Multi-Story
Vertical expansion allows you to get more functional space from your building investments. You can dedicate entire floors to specific activities - such as work areas, living spaces, or storage - creating better organization and workflow efficiency.
Elevator Requirements
Elevators are mandatory for Seedling movement between floors. Without elevators, Seedlings cannot access upper floors, making vertical construction pointless. Plan elevator placement strategically for convenient access to all building areas, and consider multiple elevators for larger buildings to handle expected Seedling movement patterns.
Floor Planning Strategies
Consider organizing floors functionally: ground floors work well for public areas and businesses, middle floors for work areas and specialized activities, and upper floors for private residences and quiet activities. This organization creates natural privacy zones and supports efficient workflow patterns throughout your building.
Strategic Room Planning
Understanding room scoring helps you design spaces that support your society's goals. A well-planned residential area with harmonious room scores keeps your Seedlings happy and productive, while poorly designed spaces create ongoing morale problems that affect your entire community.
Consider how different furniture and objects contribute to the overall room environment. The placement, types, and condition of objects all influence the final room score, creating complex optimization challenges as your society grows.
Group related objects together to create efficient workflows while maintaining the environmental quality that keeps your Seedlings content and productive. Balance functional requirements with room scoring considerations to create spaces that serve both practical needs and emotional well-being.
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