Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Craft The World comfort is a critical game mechanic which influences how fast your dwarves recover health within your shelter. In this comprehensive comfort guide I explain the best ways to increase comfort and optimisation tips on how to make a shelter for all game difficulties and DLCs.
Table of Contents:
– What Does Comfort Do
– How To Increase Comfort Level
– Comfort Levels
– Comfort Won’t Rise Debugging
What Does Comfort Do
The primary purpose of comfort is to reduce the overall time for your dwarves to heal in your shelter beds. This significantly boosts your chances of survival as dwarves will have higher health for each monster attack and longer time periods to acquire resources between attacks. Once comfort is above 50% rats nests will also stop spawning which means they will no longer destroy your wheat crops or steal food in your shelter.
How To Increase Comfort Level
Your level of comfort is based on these factors:
- Number of beds within your shelter (additional beds lower comfort)
- Quality of material used in external walls
- Quality of material used for internal walls
- Quality of material for doors and hatches
- The amount of lighting in your shelter (requirements increase with shelter size)
- Overall size of your shelter (larger is better to reflect each dwarf wanting their own space)
- Bonuses from furniture and decorations placed within the shelter
The best methods to progress from comfort 0 to comfort 100 are:
- Minimise the number of beds by only building beds equivalent to the number of dwarves you currently have.
- Use high quality materials on external walls, I recommend stone or stone walls as these are readily available early, don’t use important raw materials and sufficient to reach maximum comfort.
- Use high quality materials on internal walls, similar to above I recommend stone or wood as they are readily while providing nearly the best possible comfort for this category.
- Use the best possible hatches or doors you currently have access to which is also important for shelter defence.
- Place lighting throughout your shelter structure, I recommend torches as they are sufficient when placed 2 to 3 squares away from each other. Players can also upgrade to wall lamps when available for aesthetics or if you are struggling to reach comfort 100%.
- Ensure your base is large enough, expand your base as your needs increase to build crafting stations and beds.
- Place high value furniture and decorations on any spare wall space. Use options that don’t waste a significant amount of important resources while providing high comfort such as wooden furniture items, stained glass windows, leather chairs, black and white pennants, statues, landscape paintings, portraits, wall carpet and the wall skin rug.
Comfort Levels
There are several comfort levels that provide an indication of your progress. This is displayed when placing your cursor over the Totem and is also represented visually by the coloured circle above the Totem head and its facial expression.
The Craft The World comfort levels are:
- Comfort No (0%)
- Comfort Poor (1% – 14%)
- Comfort Moderate (15% – 29%)
- Comfort Average (30% – 49%)
- Comfort Good (50% – 69%)
- Comfort Excellent (70% – 100%)
Comfort Won’t Rise Debugging
If you are having trouble with your comfort not rising then the first thing to check is if you have a complete shelter for your dwarves. If you have the “Comfort No” status and a red circle above your Totem that means you have not met the shelter criteria yet.
In order to make a shelter players must have walls (and backdrops unless underground) surrounding a Totem. In order to have no gaps for the shelter requirement any opening for dwarves to enter and exit must have a hatch or door.
If you have another comfort level on your Totem then follow the tips above for increasing comfort. If you aren’t seeing it increase it’s likely that adding more beds as your settlement expands is offsetting any other comfort gains you are making.
