Statue

Statues are decorative buildings which can be built from the build menu under statue. They can be created from one stone at the mason's workshop, 3 metal at a metalsmith's forge, sand or rock crystals at a glass furnace, or clay at a kiln. Statues, like engravings, depict people, places, things and events. Statues will often depict creatures that the artisan likes or loathes, or other dwarves surrounded by the creatures they like or loathe.

Because of their high base value, statues can be quite valuable when crafted from valuable materials or when crafted by a highly skilled dwarf. This makes them a good choice for raising the value of a room, for instance, to meet nobles' requirements for rooms of a certain value. In addition to normal decorations, a stone or ceramic statue can be glazed by a glazer.

Sculpture gardens can be created from statues. Dwarves with no job will spend time at public statue gardens appreciating the statues (which generates a happy thought). If a sculpture garden is private (assigned) then the owner will hang out there when there's no job to do.

Building destroyers will topple statues, deconstructing but not destroying them. This can make statues a useful delaying tactic as tiles occupied by statues are impassable. However, creatures that topple statues located in temples, will be cursed (e.g. as a werebeast or vampire).

A killed iron man or bronze colossus will transform into a masterwork statue made of a corresponding material.