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Impressiveness Reference Table

Impressiveness Level	Value Range	Bedroom Mood	Dining/Rec Mood	Notes
Awful	< 20	-5	-5	Ascetic pawns get +5 mood
Dull	20 - 34	-3	-3	Typical early game room
Mediocre	35 - 49	0	0	Neutral mood effect
Decent	50 - 59	+2	+2	Base goal for most rooms
Slightly Impressive	60 - 69	+3	+3	Knight throne room (60+)
Somewhat Impressive	70 - 99	+4	+4	Greedy pawns need 65+
Very Impressive	100 - 119	+5	+5	Praetor throne room (100+)
Extremely Impressive	120 - 169	+6	+6	Baron/Baroness (120+)
Unbelievably Impressive	170 - 239	+7	+7	Count/Countess (170+)
Wondrously Impressive	≥ 240	+8	+8	Stellarch (240+)

Why Room Impressiveness Matters

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🔧 Quick Room Management Actions

Master these essential room management commands: Deconstruct walls to expand space, Uninstall furniture to reorganize, Reinstall items for better placement, Reconnect power systems, and use Designate for automatic cleaning connections. These tools are your keys to rapid room improvements!

An impressive room isn't just for looks – it directly affects your colony's mood and can be required for certain quests and noble titles. Pawns who eat in a nice dining room or sleep in an impressive bedroom get positive mood thoughts (and bad thoughts if the room is ugly). If you're new to RimWorld, start with our beginner's guide to understand the basics before diving into room optimization.

DLC Importance

Royalty DLC: Nobles demand fancy rooms. A Knight's throne room must be at least "Impressive" (60+ impressiveness), and higher ranks expect even more lavish accommodations. Fail to meet these and your noble gets a −6 "Undignified throne room" debuff and might refuse ceremonies.
Ideology DLC: Your colony's ideoligion can change expectations. A "Rough Living – welcomed" precept means colonists prefer rough, unimpressive rooms (you'll actually get mood boosts for humble living!).
Biotech DLC: Adds new room types like Nurseries and Deathrest Chambers, where impressiveness can affect children's development and sanguophage mood.

In short – impressiveness impacts day-to-day mood stability, success of Royalty ceremonies, and even how you design your base under certain Ideology memes.

The 4 Factors of Impressiveness

Room impressiveness is an aggregate score based on four factors: Wealth, Space, Beauty, and Cleanliness. The lowest factor heavily weights the result – meaning if one aspect is abysmal, it drags the whole impressiveness down more than the others can lift it.

Space

Calculated with a weighting: open walkable tiles count more than occupied ones. Bigger is better—a 6x6 room (36 tiles) or larger is automatically on the high end.

0–12 tiles: "Cramped" (-5 mood)
13–28: "Rather tight"
29–54: "Average-sized"
55–69: "Somewhat spacious"
70–129: "Quite spacious"
130–349: "Very spacious"
350+: "Extremely spacious"

Beauty

How visually pleasing the room is. Affected by furniture quality, artwork, plants, floor type, and negative beauty like blood or vomit.

Artwork is king: A single sculpture can transform a room
Floors matter: Smooth stone/carpet give +2 Beauty per tile
Quality matters: Higher quality items provide more beauty
Plants help: Flower pots add +15 beauty when blooming

Wealth

Total market value of all items, structures, and flooring in the room. High-quality or precious material furniture contributes a lot of wealth.

Strong diminishing returns after $1500
Material matters: Gold/jade items add substantial wealth
Warning: Room wealth contributes to raid difficulty
Quality multiplies value: Masterwork items worth ~170% more

Cleanliness

Measured on a scale where 0 is neutral, positive is clean and negative is dirty. A dirty room can absolutely wreck impressiveness.

One patch of dirt/blood gives -0.4 cleanliness
Sterile tiles give +0.6 cleanliness (great for hospitals)
A single speck of dirt can drop a tier of impressiveness
Assign dedicated cleaners before important events

Remember:

Impressiveness is heavily weighted by the lowest factor. A clean, mediocre room often beats a filthy, wealthy one in impressiveness. Always address your weakest stat first!

5-Step Quick Fix Guide

Suppose you get a quest that demands an impressiveness of 60 in a throne room, or your new Baroness is whining about her bedroom. You need results now:

Deep Clean the Room

Remove all filth. Draft a pawn and right-click > clean on every dirt spot or use the Cleaning tool. Don't forget corners under furniture (use the "Toggle room stats display" to highlight dirt, if needed). This alone might take you from "Slightly Impressive" to "Impressive" if dirt was the only thing holding it back. (+Cleanliness, immediate effect)
Remove Ugly Items

Get any trash, corpse, rotten food out of there. Also check if you have ugly furniture (like a tattered armchair at -Beauty). If it's not crucial, uninstall it. Sometimes less is more – an empty room that's clean can be more impressive than one with an ugly lamp and dirty plant pot. (+Beauty, also easier to clean)
Increase Space (if possible)

Can you temporarily expand the room? For a throne room, maybe deconstruct a wall to make it bigger. Impressiveness updates live; if you knock out a wall and make that space part of the room, the stats will recalc once it's enclosed again. If expansion isn't an option, consider removing a non-required piece of furniture to free up a tile or two of space. (+Space, sometimes the needed push)
Add a Sculpture or Plant

Bring a sculpture from elsewhere (any quality) and install it in the room. Even a "poor" small sculpture adds +20 beauty. No sculpture handy? Place a plant pot and plant daylilies – that's +15 beauty when bloom (though it takes time to grow). In a pinch, even a stack of 1000 silver on the floor adds wealth (and has neutral beauty) to help bump impressiveness a tad. (+Beauty, +Wealth)
Upgrade Furniture Quality

If time allows and you have materials, re-build a key item with your best constructor. For example, replace that normal bed with an excellent bed. Higher quality = more beauty and more value. If it comes out Masterwork, you'll see a big impressiveness jump. Alternatively, build an end table or dresser (they're quick to make) and try for a good quality result to add into the room. (+Beauty, +Wealth)

Example:

For an Acolyte ceremony needing a 60 impressiveness throne room, you had 54 ("Decent") initially. You clean up (it jumps to 58). You uninstall a research bench that was in the room (+space, now impressiveness 62). Boom, it's "Slightly Impressive: 62" – requirement met. Then you toss in a sculpture and it goes even higher, giving some buffer. Quest complete, noble happy!

Visual Examples: Before & After

A recreation room in RimWorld with extremely impressive stats

✓ Extremely Impressive Recreation Room

This recreation room showcases perfect balance: spacious layout, high-quality furniture, beautiful decorations, and spotless cleanliness. Notice the strategic placement of sculptures and the fine flooring.

Details of Loughran's bedroom in RimWorld, showing an impressiveness rating of 47

⚠ Decent Bedroom (47 Impressiveness)

Loughran's bedroom shows a "Decent" rating at 47 impressiveness. While functional, it could benefit from better furniture quality, additional decorations, or improved flooring to reach "Impressive" status.

An unhygienic room in RimWorld with dirt and grime

✗ Cleanliness Nightmare

This room demonstrates how dirt and filth can completely destroy impressiveness. Even with good furniture and space, the poor cleanliness drags down the entire rating. Clean this up immediately!

A mediocre RimWorld kitchen with cleanliness issues affecting room impressiveness

⚠ Kitchen Cleanliness Issues

This kitchen shows how food preparation areas can quickly become messy. While kitchens don't need impressiveness for function, keeping them clean prevents negative mood effects and food poisoning.

An example of an impressive room layout in RimWorld

✓ Impressive Room Layout Example

This room demonstrates excellent layout principles: adequate space, quality furniture placement, decorative elements, and clean flooring. Use this as inspiration for your own room designs.

Common Problems & Solutions

Balancing the Weakest Link

Sometimes you spruce up a room and the stats still say "Dull" or "Mediocre". This is a sign that one of the four factors is lagging far behind. Always identify the weakest link:

Open the room stats and look at Wealth, Beauty, Space, Cleanliness. The one with the smallest contribution is your culprit.
Is the room clean (Cleanliness ≥0)? If not, dirt is the issue – clean more often or restrict traffic.
Is the Beauty low? You may need more decor or to remove ugly items.
Is Space low? Perhaps the room is too crowded or inherently small – see if you can reorganize or enlarge.
Is Wealth way lower? Maybe you have been using very cheap furnishings – a little gold or plasteel addition can push it over.

Diminishing returns means you can't compensate one extremely low stat by maxing others. Example: A spotless, gold-tiled 2x2 room will never be impressive because Space is terrible.

Appeasing Greedy, Jealous, and Ascetic Pawns

Greedy

Need "Greedy for impressive bedroom". If their bedroom isn't at least Somewhat Impressive (50+), they get -8 mood constant. Make their bedroom a priority with the first sculpture, best bed, maybe even gold tiles. For more details on managing colonist traits, see our comprehensive traits guide.

Jealous

If any other bedroom has higher impressiveness, the Jealous pawn gets -8 mood. Ensure they have the best room in the colony, or equal to the best. Give them the royal bed and best furniture.

Ascetic

They get a mood buff for an awful or dull bedroom (up to +5 for "Awful" room). Keep their room small and bare – 3x3 with a bedroll, maybe even ugly things in it. Don't accidentally make it nice!

Barracks vs. Private Rooms

Early game, you might put all colonists in one barracks to save space:

Mood effects: Barracks give a mood debuff for shared sleeping (-3 to -8), but if you make it impressive, pawns get a positive moodlet that can offset the negative.
Efficiency: A single barracks is easier to make extremely impressive early on. One big room means one heater/cooler, one room to keep clean.
Disturbed Sleep: When someone walks through a barracks at night, others wake up (-1 mood per incident).
Transition: Many players stick with a barracks until they have resources for good individual rooms.

Do I Need to Care About Every Room?

Most work areas do not need impressiveness. It only gives mood buffs for:

Bedrooms - Sleeping pawns get mood buffs
Dining Rooms - Eating in impressive rooms gives mood
Recreation Rooms - Playing in nice rec rooms boosts mood
Hospital - Patients get a small mood boost

Other rooms like workshops, research labs, and kitchens don't give mood buffs for impressiveness. Focus on function for these rooms (cleanliness for kitchens/labs, layout for workshops). For comprehensive base planning, check our optimal colony layout guide.

Royalty DLC: Noble Requirements

Dealing with Royalty requirements is a mini-game of its own. Each title (Acolyte, Knight, Baron, etc.) has minimum room size and impressiveness needed for bedroom and throne room.

Title	Throne Room Size	Throne Room Impressiveness	Bedroom Size	Bedroom Impressiveness	Special Requirements
Esquire	24 tiles	40+	-	-	Throne
Knight	30 tiles	60+	-	-	Brazier (2)
Praetor	42 tiles	100+	30 tiles	40+	Columns (4), Harp/Harpsichord
Baron/Baroness	60 tiles	120+	30 tiles	70+	Fine floor, Grand throne
Count/Countess	70 tiles	170+	40 tiles	100+	Royal bed, Drapes
Stellarch	80 tiles	240+	50 tiles	140+	Grand throne, Piano

Tips for Royal Rooms

Use Fine Flooring: Nobles of certain rank require fine floors in throne rooms. Even if not required, using fine marble tile or carpet helps impressiveness.
Required furniture doubles as decor: Build braziers, columns, harps out of the best materials you have. Gold or jade columns provide a ton of beauty (a gold column = 40 beauty each!).
Lighting: Keep throne rooms well-lit (darkness gives an "undignified" vibe).
Over-shoot requirements: If a Baron needs 120, aim for ~130. This way a little dirt won't drop it below the threshold.
Buffer space: Make rooms slightly larger than required to account for furniture taking up space.

Ideology DLC: Precepts & Living Spaces

Ideology DLC adds precepts that can dramatically change how your colonists perceive their living spaces. Some ideoligions completely flip the script on room impressiveness:

Rough Living – Welcomed

Colonists with this precept actually prefer unimpressive rooms! They get mood buffs for:

+3 mood for "Awful" rooms
+2 mood for "Dull" rooms
+1 mood for "Mediocre" rooms

And they get penalties for fancy accommodations:

-1 to -3 mood for "Slightly Impressive" to "Very Impressive" rooms
-4 mood for "Extremely Impressive"
-5 mood for "Unbelievably Impressive" or better

Strategy: Don't waste resources decorating! Deliberately keep rooms small and basic.

Small Spaces – Don't Care

Colonists with this precept ignore the cramped space mood debuff.

No -5 mood penalty for "Cramped" interiors
Great for compact bases or mountainous terrain
Still benefits from beauty and cleanliness

Strategy: You can build tiny but beautiful bedrooms (3x3 or 4x4) without the usual space penalties.

Comfort – Ignored

While not directly about impressiveness, this precept lets colonists ignore comfort considerations.

No comfort-related mood bonuses or penalties
Don't need high-comfort chairs/beds
Can save wealth by using basic furniture

Strategy: Focus only on beauty and space; skip expensive armchairs and quality bedding.

Conflict with Royalty Requirements

There's an interesting tension if your colony has both "Rough Living" ideology and noble titles. Your nobles still require impressive rooms for their titles even if they ideologically prefer dull spaces.

Solution: Build the fancy throne room for ceremonies, but give the noble a separate, deliberately unimpressive bedroom for sleeping. They'll be happier that way!

Biotech DLC: New Room Types

Biotech adds several new room types with their own considerations:

Nursery

While not having special impressiveness requirements, a nursery benefits from being clean, well-decorated, and spacious:

Keep it clean - babies are susceptible to disease
Add toys and decorations for beauty
Ensure good temperature control
Impressiveness doesn't directly affect growth but creates a better environment

School Room

The place where children learn should be treated like a workshop with some considerations:

Beautiful surroundings help with learning focus
Cleanliness prevents disease
Space helps accommodate multiple children
Consider adding sculptures with educational themes

Deathrest Chamber

For sanguophages, impressiveness does matter:

More impressive chambers give better mood bonuses during deathrest
Darkness is preferred - avoid windows and excessive lighting
Consider using fine or rich materials fitting for an immortal being
Sanguophages appreciate beauty and wealth reflecting their status

Gene Lab Considerations

While not requiring impressiveness, gene labs benefit greatly from cleanliness (like hospitals):

Use sterile tiles (+0.6 cleanliness)
Keep separate from high-traffic areas
Restrict animals from entering
Consider a dedicated cleaner for the lab

The gene-editing and gene-extraction processes benefit from clean environments, not impressive ones.

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Conclusion

Think of crafting an impressive room like cooking a fine meal. You need the right balance of ingredients: enough space (meat of the dish), some beauty (spices and herbs), a base of wealth or quality (the staple carbs), and absolutely no dirt (you wouldn't want a fly in your soup!). Too much of one ingredient can't save a dish if another is missing – just like a gold floor (wealth) can't fix a cramped closet (lack of space). But follow the recipe and you'll serve up a room that makes your colonists say "Wow!" every time they walk in.

Action Steps Recap:

Clean regularly, add beauty smartly, expand when able, and balance all four factors – do this, and even the most demanding noble or picky pawn will be impressed!

Further Resources

RimWorld Wiki – Rooms & Impressiveness: Technical details on how impressiveness is calculated and tables of impressiveness levels.
"RimWorld Room Stats and Mood" – Guide by Julian: Explains in simpler terms how room stats affect moods, with examples.
Royalty and Ideology Official Manual Pages: Details the specific requirements of titles and effects of Ideology precepts on rooms.
Community Thread: "Barracks vs. Bedrooms": Discussion with many players chiming in on the pros and cons of barracks.
YouTube – "RimWorld Base Design: Interiors": Shows examples of efficient room setups for different purposes.