Housing ideas: More stuff to do in homes

Jamdarius

I thought that in homes beside decorating, target dummies, use of crafting stations and mundus we pretty much have nothing to do inside homes so my idea is to make it possible to for example:
1. Add purchasable fishing holes to homes - you would be able to fish only white fish (no achievement ones) from the homes - your private spot for relaxing and fishing without worry of being attacked. Or at least animated fishes for the lakes/ponds/oceans so that they do not look so empty.
2. We have plenty of furniture that is supposed to be a game (Hlaalu gaming table foxes and felines, Alinor Gaming Table, Punctilious Conflict) so why not make those mini-games be usable items to play with either NPC or friends? Maybe even make a global tournament or something.
3. As much as I like the idea of music boxes, we need to have our huge homes brimming with more life and living beings we can speak to, I would love Bard for example that can be placed and we can talk to + choose a song he/she sings (please make both male and female Bards)
4. NPC that walks randomly over inside of our houses and just sweeps dust, and when we interract with it she/he makes some jokes or complains how tough the job is and we could give her a raise.
5. We need stablemasters at our homes, I bet everyone would love to see it happen.

Edit:

6. Got recently very into fishing and I can say some fishes are way harder to catch than making vet dungs, would be nice to see the blue/purple quality achiev fish to have become trophy racks much like normal bosses heads are. I would love to place fishing trophy in some kind of fisherman hut.
7. All pots should have option to be filled with earth, so that our plants actually are in some soil, not hanging in the air. Wrote that as an option so that players who use them, without any soil for other purpose would not be mad by having their projects ruined.
8. Would be interesting to see achievement boats for different races along with master fisher achiev, for example if you do it with Dunmer, you get also to buy twice as much pricy "Dark Elfish" boat. that would also be interesting to see as there are 10 races playable.
An example:

9. We need more sandbox style furnishings not just alinor, I would love to play around with Dark Elves style for example like we can with Alinor furnishings.
10. Water inside Common Trough, Hay Stack (without blankets, covers, crates etc. just a simple hay stack piled in 1 place). Also beside the hay stack some basic craftable fence would be nice like in picture below.

11. Weapon and armor racks, we could use known styles to place weapons/armors in our homes in said styles, also some kind of forge furnishing so we can make a blacksmith home and there is no blacksmith without a forge, I mean we got so many tools for blacksmithing already, adding one or 2 won't be a problem ha ha.
12. We have now around 350 books readable and available to place at homes (+/- 10 books, could be wrong but I tried to count them and it seemed endless to start counting again to confirm it), would be nice to not use housing space to place a book, also would be lovely to have the ability to slot books in bookshelves with 1 click instead of trying to align every single one of them, book collections from mages guild for example should come with ability to place whole row of them (if you do not "unpack them") or if you do open container you can slot 1 by 1.
13. We should have more space, the idea my friend suggested to me was make for homes which have gardens/2nd buildings (like Serenity Falls estate for example) have 700 slot for the interior of the home and 700 for the garden so in total we would have 1400 items to play around with but 700 in the homes mansion and 700 in the garden.
14. We need more luxury vendor statues or achievement statues, what I mean is for every race we have in game we should have acces to some "normal" statues of warriors (for example Redguards do have warrior/battlemage statues), same for fountains, here are examples of what I have in mind and I would really love Sotha Sil statue we see in clockwork city (sorry I always show in Dark Elf style most of the time but it is my beloved race btw so deal with it ^^) WE HAVE IT NOW
15. We should be able to decon our unused furnitures. Honestly I have placed a lot items in 1 of the homes I have just so I can store them, would be nice to get back some of the mats from those we have no use anymore.
16. Items like cupboards for example should auto-detect flat surface of walls and be able to be glued to them with 1 click, as of now we need to work quite hard so that it is perfectly aligned to surface - not to deep inside wall and not to much from it so that there is no visible slit (surface drag on does not work well).

17 Would love to see us being able to place multiple same named pets/mounts/collectibles in homes instead of just 1 collectible with same name. For example you have betty baby netch pet, you can place it as many times as you want as long as you got slots for it.



Items from game My Wishlist ;-)

Different Quill and inkwell, as you can see we can loot it and sell it to fence but why not make it a furnishing items scholars/magicians drop? It looks better than the standard inkwell and quill we can craft if you ask me or just make it a new recipe.

Update to the armor racks wish, how I see it in future for us and why not make it possible to also slot costumes on the racks??

We need more maps, not just Tamriel map to hang

We need different fireplaces/provisioning crafting stations, the current one only fits outdoors/shack homes

Some instruments would be nice to have

We have so many incense holders and yet we can only get this by stealing, stole from priests and pilgrims for 8h and got just 1... this is insane, we need recipe badly so we can create it.

My own wish as I am great Dunmer fanboy, for some future housing projects, big huge Ash Pit, not just the small one from Luxury Vendor:

Just give us such plant pots pls

Last 2 items I would love to have, bells audible ofc

Lord_Wrath

I love the idea of NPC hirelings, as long as they keep quiet unless spoken to. I would hate to hear the same phrases for years to come. Homes definitely need more incentive for people to visit, mini games would help. I think i have heard something about gardening to come?

dave011

Jamdarius wrote: »

4. NPC that walks randomly over inside of our houses and just sweeps dust, and when we interract with it she/he makes some jokes or complains how tough the job is and we could give her a raise.
5. We need stablemasters at our homes, I bet everyone would love to see it happen.

4 I would like to add a NPC "old lady duel welding rolling pins" that chases down player's that turn off you lights

5 Agree with that 100%

I would also like to be able to pick up and drop off daily writs

TonyRockaroni

Stablemaster? Yes please.

Fishing hole? YES please.

One thing I would add, however? Weather control. Nothing would please me more than to have the ability to make it rain and just relax under a homemade canopy. Like I've done IRL!
Also, I always play an Argonian. So it makes sense for me to want to stay moist. XP

Jamdarius

dave011 wrote: »

Jamdarius wrote: »

4. NPC that walks randomly over inside of our houses and just sweeps dust, and when we interract with it she/he makes some jokes or complains how tough the job is and we could give her a raise.
5. We need stablemasters at our homes, I bet everyone would love to see it happen.

4 I would like to add a NPC "old lady duel welding rolling pins" that chases down player's that turn off you lights

5 Agree with that 100%

I would also like to be able to pick up and drop off daily writs

You know there is option now called Limited Visitor to not allow players turning on/off lights? Go to your home settings and change the default rights.


The stablemaster could come with stack of hay, and he/she would go from spot A to spot B and doing something with the stack of hay much like Stablemaster in Craglorns Belkarth does.

Edit: new idea about fishing achiev.

Mason_King

I was decorating last night, and thought, it would be cool to have armor stands. I have a character where Blacksmithing is his thing, and I want him to craft (IMO) the Best Armor, wear it to battle, then put them on display.

How come pets can't roam the house with you? I thought If you had a Non combat Pet and you summoned them out they would follow you everywhere? Like the Eternal Guardian does a Warden but when I enter my house It disappears back into my slots like a Pokemon.

Love the idea of Music Boxes.

NPCs I would love, It would work for when I purchase one of my bigger Estate goals.
And maybe you could go thought Tamriel and "Hire" the NPC you want.

To me a Stable Master, maybe a Chef, Clothier, Banker Fence.

Jamdarius

Mason_King wrote: »

I was decorating last night, and thought, it would be cool to have armor stands. I have a character where Blacksmithing is his thing, and I want him to craft (IMO) the Best Armor, wear it to battle, then put them on display.

How come pets can't roam the house with you? I thought If you had a Non combat Pet and you summoned them out they would follow you everywhere? Like the Eternal Guardian does a Warden but when I enter my house It disappears back into my slots like a Pokemon.

Love the idea of Music Boxes.

NPCs I would love, It would work for when I purchase one of my bigger Estate goals.
And maybe you could go thought Tamriel and "Hire" the NPC you want.

To me a Stable Master, maybe a Chef, Clothier, Banker.

oh yes would love for pets to roam free on our posessions and maybe add small chance of them finding some small things like sea shell furniture or something

Jamdarius

Another obvious idea came to me when I visited my Dunmer home: All pots should have option to be filled with earth, so that our plants actually are in some soil, not hanging in the air. Wrote that as an option so that players who use them, without any soil for other purpose would not be mad by having their projects ruined.

Also would be interesting to see achievement boats for different races along with master fisher achiev, for example if you do it with Dunmer, you get also to buy twice as much pricy "Dark Elfish" boat. that would also be interesting to see as there are 10 races playable.

prof-dracko

I like the idea of trophy fish, I'd love those. But then there'd be the issue of them probably being achievement-tied special furnishings which would limit the already limited category. unless they just made the items themselves placable. Maybe a new merchant that can convert any green/blue/purple fish into a mounted one?

I also had the idea that, when digging up chests and such, you could have a chance at receiving mounds of dirt as furnishings. Several sizes for all different pot types.

Vahlyance

Give me a chess board, and I'll be so damn happy.

Jamdarius

Another edit: We need more sandbox style furnishings not just alinor, I would love to play around with Dark Elves style for example like we can with Alinor.

ghastley

Jamdarius wrote: »

The stablemaster could come with stack of hay,

I'd like the stack of hay as a starter. That simple furnishing item is one of the most glaring omissions. You can get bedding, with various cloth and pelts laid over the hay, but not plain hay! Or you can get hay in a cart, but not plain hay. Why no plain hay?

Jamdarius

ghastley wrote: »

Jamdarius wrote: »

The stablemaster could come with stack of hay,

I'd like the stack of hay as a starter. That simple furnishing item is one of the most glaring omissions. You can get bedding, with various cloth and pelts laid over the hay, but not plain hay! Or you can get hay in a cart, but not plain hay. Why no plain hay?

I would also love to have water in this

CGPsaint

UndauntedValiance wrote: »

Give me a chess board, and I'll be so damn happy.

A playable chess board!

MattT1988

Jamdarius wrote: »

I thought that in homes beside decorating, target dummies, use of crafting stations and mundus we pretty much have nothing to do inside homes so my idea is to make it possible to for example:
1. Add purchasable fishing holes to homes - you would be able to fish only white fish (no achievement ones) from the homes - your private spot for relaxing and fishing without worry of being attacked. Or at least animated fishes for the lakes/ponds/oceans so that they do not look so empty.
2. We have plenty of furniture that is supposed to be a game (Hlaalu gaming table foxes and felines, Alinor Gaming Table, Punctilious Conflict) so why not make those mini-games be usable items to play with either NPC or friends? Maybe even make a global tournament or something.
3. As much as I like the idea of music boxes, we need to have our huge homes brimming with more life and living beings we can speak to, I would love Bard for example that can be placed and we can talk to + choose a song he/she sings (please make both male and female Bards)
4. NPC that walks randomly over inside of our houses and just sweeps dust, and when we interract with it she/he makes some jokes or complains how tough the job is and we could give her a raise.
5. We need stablemasters at our homes, I bet everyone would love to see it happen.

Edit:

6. Got recently very into fishing and I can say some fishes are way harder to catch than making vet dungs, would be nice to see the blue/purple quality achiev fish to have become trophy racks much like normal bosses heads are. I would love to place fishing trophy in some kind of fisherman hut.
7. All pots should have option to be filled with earth, so that our plants actually are in some soil, not hanging in the air. Wrote that as an option so that players who use them, without any soil for other purpose would not be mad by having their projects ruined.
8. Would be interesting to see achievement boats for different races along with master fisher achiev, for example if you do it with Dunmer, you get also to buy twice as much pricy "Dark Elfish" boat. that would also be interesting to see as there are 10 races playable.
9. We need more sandbox style furnishings not just alinor, I would love to play around with Dark Elves style for example like we can with Alinor furnishings.
10. Water inside Common Trough, Hay Stack (without blankets, covers, crates etc. just a simple hay stack piled in 1 place).
11. Weapon and armor racks, we could use known styles to place weapons/armors in our homes in said styles, also some kind of forge furnishing so we can make a blacksmith home and there is no blacksmith without a forge, I mean we got so many tools for blacksmithing already, adding one or 2 won't be a problem ha ha.

1. Sure why not.
2. Absolutely.
3. Yes, but leave both options available.
4. Would make the homes feel more alive.
5. I can see the negatives in this as ZOS still wants people to visit the cities, but there’s still enough to do in the cities like crafting writs and guild bank access that we should be able to have the stablemaster.
6. Not just fish. Any collectable you get should become a furnishing if you’d like.
7. Don’t care either way for this one.
8. See 7.
9. Absolutely, I think they’ll be added in time anyway.
10. Yeah sure.
11. This is a must. I would love to display some high end weapons around my house on racks or some of my retired armour on armour dummies.

Here’s a couple more:

1. The ability to place your alt characters around your home. I’d rather they move around and interact with the environment (for example: my Sorc has his head buried in some books near my book case, my DK practicing on a dummy outside) that might be a bit too ambitious so I’d settle for them just standing around like the merchant and banker. Another thing about this one and THIS IS A MUST, we need to be able to trade gear directly with them. Would be a massively welcome quality of life upgrade for inventory management.
2. Do away with the restrictions of different types of furnishings like collectable furnishings limits etc. if I want to put up another awesome undaunted bust in my house at the expense of another friggin chair, I should be able too.

Jaimeh

UndauntedValiance wrote: »

Give me a chess board, and I'll be so damn happy.

@UndauntedValiance You might have seen this already but someone made this incredible structure at their house: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/435103/giant-playable-chessboard-at-coldharbour-surreal-estate-house-transforms-with-eht-triggers#latest

Jamdarius

Bump, added my personal furniture wishlist

Ertosi

These are all fantastic ideas. All of these ideas have been things I've also been wanting.


I'd like to add how I'd like to see Armor/Weapon Stands set up... In order to get the most use out of them, I think they would be amazing set up so if you "Used" them, they'd swap out whatever gear they had with whatever gear you were wearing - armor, weapons, jewelry, the works.

Set up this way, they'd be amazingly useful for quickly changing out your gear sets. So you buy one and place it; its empty at first, of course. You use it the first time and all of your gear moves to it, leaving you naked. After that, you can easily swap out your gear.

Essentially, it would take the place of the Dressingroom Add-on without needing to use any add-on or lug around the extra gear in your inventory. Just go home and click it to change.


I would also like to see variants of the large and small storage chests added. They'd hold more items, but only of very specific item types: Potion Case for potions, Larder for food, Scroll Case for treasure and survey maps, etc. They'd go a long ways to helping us organize our possessions, but not in an OP way as they'd only work for specific items.


Pirharri, Tythis and Nuzhimeh are getting lonely so why not add a bunch more followers? Followers are fantastic because they can provide services for you both in your home and out in the field.

• Stablemaster: Do your 1/day horse upgrade anywhere. As it would need a bit more to be worth buying, why not also give you a slight boost to mounted speed while he's out? No worry about it being OP in PVP as followers can't go to Cyrodiil or BGs.
• Fisherman: Counts as a fishing buddy to help you find those rares faster. Can purchase bait from him, or have him find a little bit of bait per day that he can give you for free.
• Blacksmith and Armorer: Each can sell you different specific crafting items. Each one can also repair all of your armor for free 1/day. Allow them to do the same for anyone in your group 1/day, but count each as 1/day no matter who owns them (ex you can repair at any purchased Blacksmith follower once; until your 1/day has cooled down, you won't be able to repair at another one owned by someone else.) Having both a Blacksmith and Armorer lets you repair a total of 2/day.
• Cook and Brewer: Can purchase basic crafting ingredients from you. Finds you a random recipe 1/day but you have to talk to them to claim it.
• Butler/Servant: You can give him a stack of anything (stackable) to hold. Will give out 1 item of the stack to each guest that comes to your home and talks to him. This would be great for guild events... "And the first 10 people who visit can talk to the servant to get a free Kuta!"
• Bards and Musicians: Singers or players of flutes, lutes, harps, or drums. Talk to them to change what song they are performing. Bonus points if you can talk to them to also change their instruments. More bonus points if they automatically sync up and play together if you have more than 1 nearby. Not only would they liven up your home, but who wouldn't want a personal Minstrel following them around singing of their great deeds, like the Brave Sir Robin?! Hate the idea of everyone running around with noisy followers? Make sure they are added with a new server setting which makes all followers mute and invis to anyone using the setting.

Kalik_Gold

Add mini game tables...

Jamdarius

Added idea nr 12 - about books furnishings and book shelves, I think all of us wants it.

Wise_Will

Stablemaster
Writ Boards
Writ drop off locations
Wayshrine
Ability to toggle day/night
Armour Stands
ability to build ponds

I shall add more as and when i think of some

Jamdarius

Wise_Will wrote: »

Stablemaster
Writ Boards
Writ drop off locations
Wayshrine
Ability to toggle day/night
Armour Stands
ability to build ponds

I shall add more as and when i think of some

Oh yes we need the ability to turn day/night time for houses, I mean I have been in so many enchanted forests type homes and we had to actually port in/out or wait in hope of the day change...

db0ssman

ZOS has already experimented with mannequins in some homes in Vvardenfell, so maybe they will put some in housing at some point.

Jamdarius

db0ssman wrote: »

ZOS has already experimented with mannequins in some homes in Vvardenfell, so maybe they will put some in housing at some point.

Check Items from game My Wishlist ;-) (hidden by spoiler as it is pretty long with all screenshots)

Jamdarius

added idea about limit cap increase

G1Countdown

Jamdarius wrote: »

I would also love to have water in this

If you visit Shimmerene and go to the Stable there is a trough with water. It does exist in game. But, it appears to be unavailable to players.

Funrukdurkha

Good ideas.

Jamdarius

elvici wrote: »

Good ideas.

Ty

G1Countdown wrote: »

Jamdarius wrote: »

I would also love to have water in this

If you visit Shimmerene and go to the Stable there is a trough with water. It does exist in game. But, it appears to be unavailable to players.

Yes I know, also seen in plenty of other locations that is the reason why I was so surprised why we can only make it as waterless item.

Also updated some ideas with pictures and more stuff (point 8. and 10.)
Added 14.

kind_hero

The large estates, especially the more recent ones are unpractical, because after you are finished with the decorations, there is little else to do, except for visiting the crafting stations or the banker, which usually, people place close to the entrance for convenience.

So my suggestion for the devs is to implement some sort of games specific to each large estate in which several players can take part. Like small scale pvp - for fun - capture the flag, or treasure hunting games with clues and a treasure set by the owner. You can also have pve scenarios, like the Dawnlight Palace being invaded by pirates, or you have a daedric portal opening in your home which you need to close by coordinating you friends to destroy some anchors in a window of time.

The large estates are almost as big a as a delve, so a lot of things can be imagined in that space.

Jamdarius

Added idea: 15 We should be able to decon our unused furnitures. Honestly I have placed a lot items in 1 of the homes I have just so I can store them, would be nice to get back some of the mats from those we have no use anymore.

Jamdarius

Added another idea 16. Items like cupboards for example should auto-detect flat surface of walls and be able to be glued to them with 1 click, as of now we need to work quite hard so that it is perfectly aligned to surface - not to deep inside wall and not to much from it so that there is no visible slit (surface drag on does not work well).