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[Rowanas]

...it's the artefacts you put in it.

Yes, noble forum goers, I ask of you a simple task. Find out for me, the smallest a room can be while being of royal quality. Smoothing and engraving by the finest stoneworkers will, of course, be a necessity. High value buildable artefacts, cages with expensive beasts, a room entirely made from gems, all that stuff. But you must actually build it.

Bonus points if everything in the room is vulnerable to magma and can be cleansed with the press of a (possibly artefact quality) lever.

[Quietust]

If it's declared from an artifact of sufficient value, then a single tile of dirt without surrounding walls can be made into a royal room.

[Urist McUristy]

If it's declared from an artifact of sufficient value, then a single tile of dirt without surrounding walls can be made into a royal room.

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[Eugenitor]

Even better/worse: A single artifact of sufficient value and type can, with four patches of dirt and three other cheapo bits of furniture, create a shared royal dining room, bedroom, throne room, and tomb.

[ISGC]

I think if you get a metal artifact going and go quantum on it, you'll eventually make something of enough value.

[Rowanas]

Of course, in theory. If you're lucky enough to get planepacked, fantastic. But I want to know the actual, achievable room size.

[Xenos]

Of course, in theory. If you're lucky enough to get planepacked, fantastic. But I want to know the actual, achievable room size.

a 1x1 room that is occupied solely by the artifact furniture used to create it.  Now if we rule out artifacts things get more interesting...(I recommend using solid segments of the cotton candy stand.  plenty of highly valuable floors there.)

[NecroRebel]

Get a big dwarf civilization, like, say, 6+ world tiles contained in their territory. Embark on a map with sand. Get magma and a magma glass furnace, start pumping out raw green glass, then have a gem cutter cut said raw glass and a gem setter set the cut glass onto stuff. Repeat until you've got a legendary+5 gem setter.

Sometime while you're accomplishing this, when the dwarven liaison comes by, order at least one of every form of gem available, including clear and crystal glass. Purchase at least one of every form of gem when the caravans show up again.

Make a piece of furniture that a room can be defined from, for instance a bed. Stockpile the piece of furniture, a bunch of food and drink, and all your cut gems in a place that has a bed, table, chair, jeweler's shop, and your legendary+5 gem setter. Seal that sector so no one may enter or leave (or use burrows to isolate your gem setter inside), then set your gem setter encrust that single piece of furniture with every single gem that exists.

That piece of furniture will now easily be worth 25,000 or more, well above what is needed to make a 1x1, wallless piece of dirt into a legendary room were that piece of furniture to be placed on it. No artifacts, quantum or otherwise, needed. No metal needed, either, though you could of course repeat this process with a legendary+5 metal crafter and every single metal in the game to get an even more overly-decorated object.

[Xenos]

Get a big dwarf civilization, like, say, 6+ world tiles contained in their territory. Embark on a map with sand. Get magma and a magma glass furnace, start pumping out raw green glass, then have a gem cutter cut said raw glass and a gem setter set the cut glass onto stuff. Repeat until you've got a legendary+5 gem setter.

Sometime while you're accomplishing this, when the dwarven liaison comes by, order at least one of every form of gem available, including clear and crystal glass. Purchase at least one of every form of gem when the caravans show up again.

Make a piece of furniture that a room can be defined from, for instance a bed. Stockpile the piece of furniture, a bunch of food and drink, and all your cut gems in a place that has a bed, table, chair, jeweler's shop, and your legendary+5 gem setter. Seal that sector so no one may enter or leave (or use burrows to isolate your gem setter inside), then set your gem setter encrust that single piece of furniture with every single gem that exists.

That piece of furniture will now easily be worth 25,000 or more, well above what is needed to make a 1x1, wallless piece of dirt into a legendary room were that piece of furniture to be placed on it. No artifacts, quantum or otherwise, needed. No metal needed, either, though you could of course repeat this process with a legendary+5 metal crafter and every single metal in the game to get an even more overly-decorated object.

Do this with an adamantine cabinet and then give it to the fort's first cheesemaker.  Because dwarves really really like cheese.

[Eugenitor]

Don't forget bone, shell, and ivory!

[Trammelkey]

IIRC You can create a royal bedroom that is only 5 tiles big if: 1. It's made of gold and 2. Masterfully engraved.

I remember seeing the math somewhere here before, gonna look into it.

[Knarfle]

Also, stud with gold, platinum, and maybe silver?

[Urist Imiknorris]

You can make a royal room with a single masterwork (not even artifact) (native) aluminum/platinum statue. For (raw) adamantine, well-crafted will do. Note that it's just those three metals and their ores, as masterful gold and steel statues have values of ☼9000.

To answer the OP's question, one tile of space for bedrooms/tombs/offices, two for dining rooms (chair and table). Just get good artifacts (decorated with adamantine or lots of stuff).

[ISGC]

well, it would also be possible for a barrel or bin to be placed in the room containing many high cost items
if it's forbidden does it still effect the value?

[NecroRebel]

IIRC You can create a royal bedroom that is only 5 tiles big if: 1. It's made of gold and 2. Masterfully engraved.

I remember seeing the math somewhere here before, gonna look into it.

I was the one who did the math. In my first post on the forums no less. Hadn't realized that until I just looked into it myself.

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Quick one on architectural value, I got into the idea of engraving a little late so I'm fairly unaware of just how much value it adds, so, what would be more valuable in everyone's opinion, a room built of gold blocks, or a room smoothed and (masterfully) engraved out of limestone? Trying to entice some royalty and just tapped into a half dozen veins of gold ore deep underground.

From the wiki, an engraved flux surface has a value of 20 times the item quality, assuming I'm reading it correctly. A legendary+5 skill engraver has a 73.3% chance of making an exceptional (x5) engraving, and a 26.7% chance of a masterful (x12) engraving. This means that, overall, an engraved flux surface by such an engraver has an average value of 137.38. Gold (or steel, which has the same matvalue) blocks, as well as floors and walls constructed out of them, have a value of 150, so it's somewhat better to make a gold block room than an engraved flux one.

However, do note that there is no penalty to building gold block floors or walls over those unfortunate exceptional engravings, so if you don't care how the room looks to you you could just engrave the whole chamber, keep the 240-value masterful engravings, and then build nicer 150-value gold block floors over the 100-value exceptional engravings.

Though, as others have suggested, engraved gold floors and walls have a value of 300xquality, so the more of that you can take advantage of, the better. A pure native gold room engraved by a legend+5 averages 2060.7 per tile, so about 5 tiles is enough to make that room royal, even with plain stone no-quality furnishings.

well, it would also be possible for a barrel or bin to be placed in the room containing many high cost items
if it's forbidden does it still effect the value?

Items that aren't part of a building don't affect the value of the room they're in, so placing a bin full of artifacts in a room wouldn't help.

Of course, in theory. If you're lucky enough to get planepacked, fantastic. But I want to know the actual, achievable room size.

You say that as if Planepacked is some ineffable, unique thing that you'd have to be very fortunate to get. It's not (anymore). The method of creating quantum artifacts is known now, and possible to use basically any time. Why, in my current fort I had a moody mason gathering stones for well over 2 years, eventually to make Balekast, "Tonesave," a gypsum millstone worth 3,474,000 Urists, almost entirely from common stone. Had he produced a piece of furniture that is actually useful, I'd have any number of legendary rooms from such a thing.