Idling Locations

[slink]

Idling creates happiness of varying types.  According to the rsc files, the following types exist.  I may have missed some.

Entertainment:
Tavern

Goods:
Trading Post
Market

Health:
Hospital

Safety:
Well

Spirit:
Cemetery
Chapel

Edit:  I see there is a sixth type, but no one idles around these two buildings.

Detraction:
Mine
Quarry

[mariesalias]

The hospital idlers must be the thrill-seekers and risk-takers of Banished.

[irrelevant]

Different types of happiness; interesting. Wonder what effect the different types might have. Or do you suppose each type just represents one of the 5 stars? I wonder are there also five types of health?

The hospital idlers must be the thrill-seekers and risk-takers of Banished.

The hospital idlers are the idiots of Banished     

[mariesalias]

Hmm, I read it as 5 types of happiness that contribute to the overall happiness of the idlers. From game play, I don't think you have to have all of them. I did not have Taverns for the longest time, for example, and I still had 5-star health and happiness in my towns.

[slink]

I often have no wells, and never have taverns.  I usually have five stars.  Maybe these five types of happiness were related to a feature that was not in the released game?

[RedKetchup]

markets and TP, graveyards and churchs have a nice good happiness circles around them, which affect all houses around them.

[irrelevant]

"Happiness circles," wait, what?

[RedKetchup]

those happiness circles

and also quarries and mines have the opposite, it suppresses the happiness around them

[irrelevant]

 

[mariesalias]

This changes the strategy when placing homes a bit.

[slink]

I see there is a sixth happiness type, called Detraction.  That is what mines and quarries possess, but no one idles around them.

[irrelevant]

Do we have access to the sizes of the various happiness and detraction circles? Would some kind person please list them here?

[slink]

I think these are the numbers.

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Building Happiness Idle Range
Cemetery Spirit 0 30
Chapel Spirit 3 35
Hospital Health 5 30
Market Goods 0 45
Mine Detraction 0 30
Quarry Detraction 0 30
Tavern Entertainment 3 30
Trading Post Goods 5 20
Well Safety 2 20

[irrelevant]

@slink, thanks much!

[rkelly17]

I think these are the numbers.

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Building Happiness Idle Range
Cemetery Spirit 0 30
Chapel Spirit 3 35
Hospital Health 5 30
Market Goods 0 45
Mine Detraction 0 30
Quarry Detraction 0 30
Tavern Entertainment 3 30
Trading Post Goods 5 20
Well Safety 2 20

I'm assuming that 0 is the highest desirability because of how many people I see idling in the 0 locations.

When I tried and failed to do a hospital mod I was also trying to move the hospital's health happiness to the herbalist. After seeing this I think that I might have left out a modded version of this table. I'm going to look at it again.

I'm also interested in the "Detraction" item. These locations actually seem to decrease happiness inside their circles. I wonder whether it might be a good thing to put some detraction on other more negative structures when doing mods.

Did @RedKetchup add some spirit happiness to his small chapel?