Video Highlights
- Houses are double-instanced: Inside your house is one instance, outside is another instance, shared with your persistent neighborhood.
- You can decorate outside and inside separately, they don’t need to match.
- Current limits are 10 rooms organized in up to 3-story houses.
- Items can be moved or rotated in any direction, can even be placed inside walls or the floor to emulate other designs.
- In the demo, only five wallpaper options were available, so much of what was shown and done was using assets to mimic walls.
- There’s a “buffer” zone between floors to prevent items inside the ceiling or floor from bleeding into other floors.
- Most decorations can be dyed with a lot of freedom. Pieces allow you to dye them based on the material. For instance, for a given piece, you can dye all its metal parts and all its wooden parts separately.
- Assets from older expansions can’t be dyed currently, but that may change.
- When using advanced mode to move objects around, you can assign a keybind to most of the movement options, so you’re not as reliant on mouse movement.
- Player Housing offers such a degree of customization that we will likely see a lot of “room building” content in the future, similar to Minecraft build tutorials, showing how something was achieved.
- There will be options for low-poly decorations for players looking for a more vanilla look to their house.
- You can make jump puzzle rooms! Or mazes. Anything is possible and available.
- Player Housing will arrive between Pre-Patch and Midnight Launch.
For more details and images, make sure to check the full video on Dratnos’ YouTube channel.
Dratnos’ Screenshots from Play Testing
Jump Puzzle
Night Elf Interior
Blood Elf Interior
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