It's a pity furniture crafting was nerfed before it started.

cyberjanet · March 2017

Many many years ago, we went to a new Chinese district in the neighbourhood. It was excellent, and they served a dish very rare in that place at that time: Peking Duck. Afterwards we chatted to the chef/owner and asked if he had plans to serve another rare dish hardly seen outside China: Beggar's Chicken. He shook his head sadly, and said "Can't get the cray."

So it is with housing in ESO. Can't get the cray. And thus a bed costs more than another room at an inn.

Today I got my master heartwood harvester, 6 or 7 weeks into the update. Sigh.

Nestor · March 2017

I still have yet to make anything, as I don't have enough Heartwood. I supposed I could make one or two things, but certainly not enough to furnish a house.

Wrecking_Gorilla · March 2017

I have tons of mats and have crafted most everything in my house. I'm on ps4. Only been about a month.

STEVIL · March 2017

Six or seven weeks to achieve a "master" title??????

OMG

davey1107 · March 2017

I got master heartwood after two days. It just requires efficient farming.

FrancisCrawford · March 2017

Properly furnishing one's house(s) is going to take a LONG time.

Hopefully, ZoS will do some things along the way to help, such as improving lighting(!!!), making bankers/merchants more useful, or increasing houses' holding capacity for small items.

ThePonzzz · March 2017

I like that it's slow. I'm thankful for it from an economist standpoint.

cyberjanet · March 2017

STEVIL wrote: »

Six or seven weeks to achieve a "master" title??????

OMG

I know, right. 100 pieces of heartwood. On the bright side, I still have around 2k ruby ash, even after doing three woodwork writs a day since housing started and selling off several stacks. Also I've been buying sealed woodworker writs in preference to others.

Except for one random dungeon and one pledge, all of my playing time has been in gathering since housing started. Not what I call fun. I'm giving up on that now, maybe taking a break from the game though the Jester's Festival may intervene. All that time and nothing to show for it. It's like real life.

Turelus · March 2017

If you're actively looking for materials it's not that bad, I mean actually going out and farming every night to furnish your house.

If you're just farming nodes as you go casually and enjoying the rest of the game then yes it takes a while. I will once again echo everyone's points that Homestread was not meant to be about making a perfectly fully furnished home within a day.

Rohamad_Ali · March 2017

I harvested and crafted everything in my silent magnifico Inn I created . You just have to grind mats like mad . Farm farm farm and open as many inventory spaces as possible to hold it all .

STEVIL · March 2017

cyberjanet wrote: »

STEVIL wrote: »

Six or seven weeks to achieve a "master" title??????

OMG

I know, right. 100 pieces of heartwood. On the bright side, I still have around 2k ruby ash, even after doing three woodwork writs a day since housing started and selling off several stacks. Also I've been buying sealed woodworker writs in preference to others.

Except for one random dungeon and one pledge, all of my playing time has been in gathering since housing started. Not what I call fun. I'm giving up on that now, maybe taking a break from the game though the Jester's Festival may intervene. All that time and nothing to show for it. It's like real life.

See, my approach has been way different than yours.

i haven't been "gathering" as you describe. i don't "farm" at all. i dont go spend playtime doing stuff i dont enjoy just to get mats.

i run around doing what i like including daily delves and daily pledges for the undaunted, daily pub-runs for the mages guild and so forth. Along the way i gather what i pass by, what i pass near enough that it highlights. The only real change has been that i make a little more effort to take more overland routes between A and B rather than roads so i have more opportunities, especially if near water and i have slowed down my interior runs so that I now do stop and harvest crates and barrel and backpacks and urns again - mostly for furnishing recipes.

As such, while i haven't hit any of that "not what i call fun" stuff you mention, i have only reached like maybe 45 heartwood harvested by my most outgoing character and no the title is nowhere in sight. on the otherhand, i have fully decked over the back half of my Sleek Creek House with crafted orcish platform blocks, same for my velothi Reverie and even added a walkway along the walls to my Ample Domicile and those are just the tip of the iceberg on my crafting furnishings to-date.

key is, all that fun play i have been doing earned gold which along with my daily writs has enabled me to acquire tons of heartwood or regulus or whatever i needed to craft what i wanted from those recipes i gathered and bought.

Somewhere i hit master harvester on one of the furnishing ingredients but just by dint of play not by grind/harvest or other so-called "not what i call fun" time spent.

heartwood remains my third best, third most harvested among the f-mats.

The title will eventually come of course, just like the 10k grandmaster harvester did.

In the meantime, i love the views from my new decks.

I think there are quite a few folks who will find that some of the the many different and varied ways to "harvest gold" from this game and a little patience will avoid the "not what i call fun" and still advance their crafting thru guild store purchases of mats they don't easily come by.