2021 Q1 Furnishings, Houses, and QoL Improvements

bluebird · January 2021

Edit: Added screenshots from the PTS
Edit: Screenshots of the houses added in separate comments below, post was too long.

Hi all, here's a thread to show off / discuss the new Housing content coming alongside the Flames of Ambition DLC in Q1 of 2021! New year, new housing content, huzzah! 🎊🎉

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20 new Dwarven furnishing plans
We’ve added a new set of 20 Dwarven furnishing plans in the Markarth style. These have a chance to appear in Markarth Reward Coffers, which are awarded for completing world boss and delve daily quests in The Reach. These plans include various platforms, pillars, and stairways, as well as other structural components—including plans for a fireplace, a double door, and a tower!

Doorways, stairs, and a literal tower

Platforms of various sizes

A CHUNKY bridge

7 new Master Writ furnishing plans
Diagram: Dwarven Minecart, Ornate
Pattern: Solitude Yarn Rack, Colorful
Blueprint: Solitude Well, Noble
Praxis: Solitude Hearth, Rounded Tall
Formula: Vampiric Cauldron, Distilled Coagulant
Design: Provisioning Station, Solitude Grill
Sketch: Dwarven Crystal Sconce, Mirror

New Undaunted Furniture from the Dungeons

Fountain of the Fiery Drake: At first glance, this draconic accent seems straightforward, but a quick adjustment allows it to breathe flame. Basalt Pillar, Glowing: Though touching this lava-formed pillar bare-handed is inadvisable at best—it contains a molten core—gently blowing on it might just brighten its glow a bit. Try it and see!
^ Those two are from the Undaunted Vendor. The effect on both can be turned on and off. One has a slight orange glow, the other is breathing fire.
Plus 2 Trophies and 2 Busts

New Crown Store furnishings
Including a special Aetherial Well utility furnishing: This furnishing can be found in the Crown Store, or in the Services category, under the new Recovery subcategory. When placed in a home, you and your guests can draw power from this ancient relic to fully restore your Health, Magicka, Stamina, and Ultimate.

Surprisingly, also a number of other furniture purchasable from the Housing Editor (not confirmed, may change on live):
Aetherial Well resource utility on the left. Daedric items from the new Chimer/Daedric house and the Editor on the right.

Also a GIANT Sheogorath statue, a GIANT Ayleid Chandelier wich casts pretty blue light and shadow patterns, and a few GIANT trees. These are included in the 2 new houses, hopefully they will be purchasable directly from the Housing Editor for other homes as well.

Probably 3 furnishings in the Ayleid Crown Crates for Gems or gambling
Ayleid Gate Large

Ayleid Relief Blessed Life Tree

Aetherial Comet

2 New Music Boxes

3 monthly ESO+ Statuettes

1 new Target Dummy

2 new Houses
Kushalit Sanctuary: The recently abandoned Sheogorath shrine that locals call Assalkushalit features a statue to the Mad God within its stony hall. Whether you revere this Daedric Prince or want a home nestled in Red Mountain, this portal-ridden sanctuary can be yours!

Varlaisvea Ayleid Ruins: Ancient pillars along the Abecean Sea mark the site of once-soaring Ayleid architecture. Though none know the original purpose of these structures, some claim that soaking in the retreat's indoor crystal pool heals the spirit

Fast Travel Outside of Homes
There are many reasons to visit your lovely home, but sometimes you just want to use it as a handy fast travel point! For times like those, you can now select the “Travel to Outside” option when traveling to any of your homes, and it will take you right outside the front door without any extra loadscreens. You can of course still travel straight inside, as before, with the “Travel to Inside” option.

Furnishing & Houseguest Preview Improvements
You can now preview furnishings and furnishing plans directly from your inventory. No more guesswork when deciding whether to learn a plan! In addition, Houseguest previews on the Crown Store now include a selection of voice lines, so you can get a better sense of their overall identity.
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I'm super excited for the new Structural furniture, and the Quality of Life changes seem really good too!

Using homes as a wayshrine will be a lot easier, I'm sure console players will appreciate having the preview from inventory function that PC players had through AddOns, and the voice line preview seems to be a direct response to the Sereyne controversy

Overall, nice changes! What are all your thoughts? Anything in particular you're really excited for?

chuck-18_ESO · January 2021

I am unspeakably excited for an Ayleid ruin player home with more Ayleid furnishings! This has been a personal dream ever since I first played TES: Oblivion over 12 years ago!

Zypheran · January 2021

I'm a bit confused that they would implement the fast travel to outside homes , which i dont see anybody asking for, but not implement free travel from inside homes.... which has consistantly been asked for!

Jaimeh · January 2021

The Ayleid wall!

bluebird · January 2021

Zypheran wrote: »

I'm a bit confused that they would implement the fast travel to outside homes , which i dont see anybody asking for, but not implement free travel from inside homes.... which has consistantly been asked for!

Yeah, that's a good point. Though maybe they noticed that a lot of people use houses as wayshrines. Like, using Pariah's Pinnacle to port close to Maelstrom Arena, or using inns to quickly travel to cities; so now people can do that without having to go through a loading screen. Agree though that wayshrines from inside your house would be super useful.

seecodenotgames · January 2021

I also travel to homes for collecting survey craft mats.

TheImperfect · January 2021

Very sexy items.

moonsister · January 2021

I am super excited for the yarn rack! I was swooning for that when I first saw it in Solitude in the clothing station house.

Smith4HirePmMe2Order · January 2021

Meh.......

What housing really needs is the following QOL changes:
Exit wayshrines: to place into our houses so we can go exactly where we want to when leaving a home after doing what we came to do at the house. the reason people want exit wayshrines is so its easier to leave the house when they are doing doing what they came to it for, not to port outside the stupid door..... wtf is this current change? yet again you misunderstand or simply dont care about the community.

Writ boards & writ dropoff boxes:

Higher item limits:

Stable and Pack Merchant NPCs:

Guild banker and merchant NPCs for guild halls:

Convert all the decorative housing item games into usable mini games to play against friends & guests:

And FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLEY make new Super/multi Attuneable crafting stations with drop down menus so we can replace our 600+ crafting tables with 4 and pick what set we want to craft from a list. Make it so you have to feed existing attuneable stations to the new ones to unlock the sets.

A guild hall button in the G page of guilds so members/people can port directly to the guild house the GM sets with a @name and House out of a list.

Lastly Fishing, Farming, mining, wood cutting, and clothing plots would be cool to add. It would be even cooler if it was unlocked via collective guild effort so you could really feel like you were contributing to the guild hall as a whole.

as for the rest of this stuff coming out this year, we didn't ask for it/don't need it/ & don't care.
You are doing alot of stuff with the game, but NONE of it interests me or my guild tbh.
In fact they were disappointed after watching the stream saying it looked like the most boring year yet and that they will wait to buy it when its on sale at the end of the year IF they are still playing.. when that's the sentiment of a guild that's BAD, cuz were just a few people of the overall community which means if that many are saying that here, our feelings aren't isolated and even more people have to feel that way across the game. I cant keep my guild together and interested in the game if you are trying this hard to push players away. We wont even talk about the bad pvp changes you have made over the last 3 years.

Give us a whole year of solid high quality Housing updates with the stuff on this list, THIS is what we want/need. Not stupid things like NPC path finding. i still cant believe you wasted time on this when their were other more powerful and easier to implement, things that have been critically needed & begged for by the community sense housing day 1..

This is ESOs Dev team in a nutshell.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/705749206664740894/802682433014726706/video0.mp4
ESO Devs = QA from the video, and
Dev Team in the video = Eso community

bluebird · January 2021

Update: Edited the main post with pictures for most furnishings.

There were a couple of surprises in there, and it seems that this is the patch for MASSIVE items, lol. Like, the sheer size of some of those items is insane. I'm in LOVE with the Ayleid Chandelier though, and will definitely get the vampiric blood boiler thingy. Also, the Aetherial Well resource-restoring utility furnishing is much smaller than I anticipated.

Smith4HirePmMe2Order wrote: »

Meh.......

What housing really needs is the following QOL changes:
Exit wayshrines: to place into our houses so we can go exactly where we want to when leaving a home after doing what we came to do at the house. the reason people want exit wayshrines is so its easier to leave the house when they are doing doing what they came to it for, not to port outside the stupid door..... wtf is this current change? yet again you misunderstand or simply dont care about the community.

Writ boards & writ dropoff boxes:

Higher item limits:

Stable and Pack Merchant NPCs:

Guild banker and merchant NPCs for guild halls:

Convert all the decorative housing item games into usable mini games to play against friends & guests:

And FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLEY make new Super/multi Attuneable crafting stations with drop down menus so we can replace our 600+ crafting tables with 4 and pick what set we want to craft from a list. Make it so you have to feed existing attuneable stations to the new ones to unlock the sets.

A guild hall button in the G page of guilds so members/people can port directly to the guild house the GM sets with a @name and House out of a list.

Lastly Fishing, Farming, mining, wood cutting, and clothing plots would be cool to add. It would be even cooler if it was unlocked via collective guild effort so you could really feel like you were contributing to the guild hall as a whole.

as for the rest of this stuff coming out this year, we didn't ask for it/don't need it/ & don't care.
You are doing alot of stuff with the game, but NONE of it interests me or my guild tbh.
In fact they were disappointed after watching the stream saying it looked like the most boring year yet and that they will wait to buy it when its on sale at the end of the year IF they are still playing.. when that's the sentiment of a guild that's BAD, cuz were just a few people of the overall community which means if that many are saying that here, our feelings aren't isolated and even more people have to feel that way across the game. I cant keep my guild together and interested in the game if you are trying this hard to push players away. We wont even talk about the bad pvp changes you have made over the last 3 years.

Give us a whole year of solid high quality Housing updates with the stuff on this list, THIS is what we want/need. Not stupid things like NPC path finding. i still cant believe you wasted time on this when their were other more powerful and easier to implement, things that have been critically needed & begged for by the community sense housing day 1..

This is ESOs Dev team in a nutshell.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/705749206664740894/802682433014726706/video0.mp4
ESO Devs = QA from the video, and
Dev Team in the video = Eso community

The biggest QoL change would be if you used a shorter signature.

Seriously, a 35+ lines long signature?

Smith4HirePmMe2Order · January 2021

The biggest QoL change would be if you used a shorter signature. Seriously, a 35+ lines long signature?

Dont kink shame me bro!

Araneae6537 · January 2021

More structural furnishings and Ayleid furnishings — YAY!!!!! I can’t wait to see all of the Ayleid ruin as well!!!

bluebird · January 2021

Araneae6537 wrote: »

More structural furnishings and Ayleid furnishings — YAY!!!!! I can’t wait to see all of the Ayleid ruin as well!!!

Totally!!! I was unsure about the Ayleid ruin since it seemed very open-air, sparse, breezy, and well... ruined. But it's actually an insanely large Ayleid complex with overland ruins spanning several floors, as well as a large internal section with a giant hall and many pools. The house also comes with those gorgeous Chandeliers... (It will be even more mindblowing in a video that I'm sure people will upload - I keep getting lost so I won't even try, lol). Here are some pictures!

bluebird · January 2021

I shared some screenshots of the Ayleid house in my previous comment, so here are some screenshots of the new Chimer/Daedric complex. Wouldn't want this den of Daedra-worship to feel left out.

Two of the overlooks are accessible via Daedric Portal. Also, nice ash-rain outside.

Interior corridor, big central chamber, there's another corridor and then an exit to the upper overlook.

B0SSzombie · January 2021

Is that Sheogorath statue not the same as the one we got from the Crown Crates? Is it even bigger?

katanagirl1 · January 2021

I had hoped the Markarth furnishings would be added but it is still a very pleasant surprise! There is a lot to like there!

The new Master Writ plans are also awesome!

It would be a shame if the Ayleid grate and the tree are in the crates because that would mean I wouldn’t be able to get any, though.

I was all set to buy the Markarth house, but of course the Ayleid one is one I have always wanted.

I may have to get both! It would be especially nice if the Ayleid house came later in the year after my ESO Plus subscription renews so I get more crowns before then.

*fingers crossed*

bluebird · January 2021

B0SSzombie wrote: »

Is that Sheogorath statue not the same as the one we got from the Crown Crates? Is it even bigger?

It's hugely ginormous-er.

But yes, it's the same model sized up, just like ESO Statuettes are regular statue models sized down. The new Sheo statue is for real huge though; I think it looks awkward there in the new house as it eats up too much interior space in a room with lowered ceilings. I would put it outside, personally, although of course everybody has their own idea on how to decorate. (Here's a comparison in size next to the Psijic Villa - that's the Crown Crate Statue on the right, mind you, not the ESO+ Statuette even if it looks tiny

)

katanagirl1 wrote: »

It would be a shame if the Ayleid grate and the tree are in the crates because that would mean I wouldn’t be able to get any, though.

I was all set to buy the Markarth house, but of course the Ayleid one is one I have always wanted.

I may have to get both! It would be especially nice if the Ayleid house came later in the year after my ESO Plus subscription renews so I get more crowns before then.

*fingers crossed*

Ikr! Ayleid fans, rejoice! \o/ I was super lucky to have won some Crowns during yesterdays' announcement stream giveaway, so I might get both

I feel spoiled, but I don't look gift Crowns/horses in the mouth, and housing is what I do enjoy in ESO... guess we'll see though. Hope they won't cost too much (most furniture in the new houses are garbage in my opinion - the Ayleid is decorated with majority Imperial stuff not Ayleid, and the Chimer has a majority of Hlaalu/Redoran/Dres items rather than Daedric - so I don't think the furnished versions are worth much).

And yeah, I really wish they'd stop putting Furniture into the Crown Crates, but sadly normal furniture don't get preview images like that, only stuff that goes into the Crown Store or Crown Crates.

So if they follow their pattern, 3 of the upcoming furniture will be in the new Ayleid Crown Crate season.

Aptonoth · January 2021

Thanks for the pics I'll pass on both I like Sheo but he seems really out of place in a vvardenfell ruin I was hoping to have it be blank to dedicate it to a god of our choice or an azura one. The markarth one is likely out next month and I now am definitely getting it with more furnishings. The house will look fantastic now with all the furnishings it has. I wouldn't say no to a few more dwemer Knick knack's and science objects and plates/utensils would be the cherry on top but there is enough to work with.

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I really hope Argonian's get another house this year maybe even two. A large and huge one as the base game ones are so terrible they don't count leaving us with just Xanmeer. I like my Xanmeer but sometimes I want options to go tribal it up. Or hist tree it up.

moonsister · January 2021

I hope we get a house in Leyawiin. or anything looking Skingrad style

Futerko · January 2021

video tour from new pts house

https://youtu.be/ZN-LZKsBsfE

+ more screenshots also night time
https://imgur.com/a/HzTVK39

Taris · January 2021

Futerko wrote: »

video tour from new pts house
https://youtu.be/ZN-LZKsBsfE

+ more screenshots also night time
https://imgur.com/a/HzTVK39

Thanks for sharing. It's looking good!
Although i would have liked a little bit less ruined look

Zephiran23 · January 2021

Reminder, for those who played WOW when WoD was the expansion and what happened with garrisons (or another perspective for those who didn't). The actual DLC wasn't great and Blizzard added a whole bunch of solo content inside the garrisons that were unique to each character. There was harvesting and missions for your minions. So you'd log on and do everything for 1 character, log out and repeat as many times as you could stand and log off for the evening. Interaction with other players in guild, or generally, was minimal.

All the calls for more things to do inside houses are heading in that direction. For the game to feel like it is an active space in which to participate, it requires other players to be out there in as large a number as the servers can cop with. Yes, it's annoying to miss out on a node because you didn't quite get there in time, or someone's pet is in the way of a crafting station.

If everyone's locked in their own housing instance it makes things like world bosses and events (Harrowstorms etc) harder to complete and so less people are going to want to try and attempt them on a regular basis. If you can explain how that situation is to be avoided then please let us know.

Futerko · January 2021

and one more house, the last one from pts, short video tour

https://youtu.be/4elC8gddWLg

+ new furniture, also the scale of furniture compared to the house quest at 2:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HT0E9A_GsU

Jaclynn · January 2021

Why do I need to port to the outside of my home when all I need to do is port there, turn around, and (exit)? Much rather the cost to fast travel out of the home be removed.

rrimöykk · January 2021

What materials the nee Markarth structure items require? I need to start stacking my wares as the drop rates as so poor.

B0SSzombie · January 2021

Jaclynn wrote: »

Why do I need to port to the outside of my home when all I need to do is port there, turn around, and (exit)? Much rather the cost to fast travel out of the home be removed.

Saves time. Skips a load screen.

JHartEllis · January 2021

I'm really happy about being able to preview furnishings/plans from your inventory.

Araneae6537 · January 2021

Zephiran23 wrote: »

Reminder, for those who played WOW when WoD was the expansion and what happened with garrisons (or another perspective for those who didn't). The actual DLC wasn't great and Blizzard added a whole bunch of solo content inside the garrisons that were unique to each character. There was harvesting and missions for your minions. So you'd log on and do everything for 1 character, log out and repeat as many times as you could stand and log off for the evening. Interaction with other players in guild, or generally, was minimal.

All the calls for more things to do inside houses are heading in that direction. For the game to feel like it is an active space in which to participate, it requires other players to be out there in as large a number as the servers can cop with. Yes, it's annoying to miss out on a node because you didn't quite get there in time, or someone's pet is in the way of a crafting station.

If everyone's locked in their own housing instance it makes things like world bosses and events (Harrowstorms etc) harder to complete and so less people are going to want to try and attempt them on a regular basis. If you can explain how that situation is to be avoided then please let us know.

I don’t think anyone’s asking anything that would replace doing things in the world. Any sort of harvesting should be only a small supplement and should be account and not character based. Also, I’d love to see changes made to increase reasons to visit others’ houses (those who want visitors, of course, nothing forced on anyone). One of my friend’s houses is a hub where I often run into people as she has a transmute station and many other things very conveniently arranged.

But no, I wouldn’t want what you describe where there’s some sort of grind in player instances. GW2 did introduce a lot of nodes in housing but it was per account so no one was spending great time doing that and it actually encouraged interaction I think as many who had a loaded instance would invite others to join them.

Araneae6537 · January 2021

Taris wrote: »

Futerko wrote: »

video tour from new pts house
https://youtu.be/ZN-LZKsBsfE

+ more screenshots also night time
https://imgur.com/a/HzTVK39

Thanks for sharing. It's looking good!
Although i would have liked a little bit less ruined look

I reeeeally hope that ZOS will make the various Ayleid arches available as furnishings so we can add to or “repair” if we wish!!! I would absolutely love to customize my Ayleid ruin with Ayleid architecture!

Thank you for the video, @Futerko! I can’t wait for this to be released!

Edit: Fixed to give proper credit.

Taris · January 2021

yeah i hope so too! I have been in love with the Ayleid style since Oblivion

But credit goes to Futerko not me xD

Jayne_Doe · January 2021

Jaclynn wrote: »

Why do I need to port to the outside of my home when all I need to do is port there, turn around, and (exit)? Much rather the cost to fast travel out of the home be removed.

Agreed! No need for a CS-only expensive wayshrine furnishing. Just remove the gold cost. I understand the concern that players would just use a free inn room to port anywhere in the game, but I think if it's just limited to being able to port to any wayshrine that's in the same zone for free would be acceptable.

I do, however, appreciate being about to port outside my home, for times when I'm just using my house as a port. But, please, for those of us who actually use our homes for our characters and actually log off in their homes, having a free port out would be great. Or, if I'm porting there to put stuff in storage or what not.