Deconstructing Furniture

Ertosi · October 2018

Please consider allowing us to deconstruct furniture. Obviously furniture deconstruction shouldn't return all of the materials that went into making it, but it could be set up like weapons and armor where you at least get back some of each resource. It could be set up so items could only be deconstructed at the appropriate type of crafting station that makes them.

It would provide a nice alternative to trying to sell unused furnishings to other players or NPC vendor.

What do others think of this idea?

ghastley · October 2018

Furniture isn't like weapons and armour, as very little of it drops in regular play. It also gets placed into instanced homes, where it doesn't cause any issues for other players.

Deconstruction of weapons and armour meets a need of removing surplus drops from the general game world, by providing an incentive for the players to do that. I don't even see a need for furniture to be sold, except to add to the general economy.

I just keep one house as a warehouse, and dump things there if I replace them. I have reached a kind of equilibrium with that, where I'm retrieving as much as I dump. Even low-grade stuff that's been replaced by more opulent instances gets re-used as clutter, or re-purposed as something completely different.

Jayne_Doe · October 2018

Why should our only option for unwanted furniture be to either vendor it, store it, or try and sell it on guild traders? That bedroll I crafted back when the quest to obtain your free inn room was actually a quest is just sitting there, unused. I could vendor it or try to sell it to another player, but why can't I just decon it for a few mats?

We get so much trash gear in the game that vendoring is largely what most people do, but you can still decon it all. So, why shouldn't we be able to do this with furniture we've created? We can certainly do so with gear we've created that we don't want anymore.

It should be limited to items that are not BOP, obviously. Perhaps even to the items we've crafted, though they'd have to add that tag to the coding.

Just because you don't mind dumping things in a house, doesn't mean that everyone wants to keep a house as just a dumping ground. Nor do they want to hang on to things "just in case" it might fit somewhere else. We can vendor them and sell them on guild traders - why not also be able to decon for a few mats?

Higuchi · October 2018

Totally support the idea!!! Would be great to decon these all. Worth considering, dear developers ;D

agegarton · October 2018

I think this is a great idea, especially as the concept of housing and furnishing has progressed significantly since the launch of player housing. Many players will have upgraded their homes and most likely switched furnishing style from their original choice. It would be incredibly useful if style stones and some of the furnishing materials could be regained through deconstruction.

It’s worth remembering that a lot of players will find endless grinding for mundane runes, etc., too time consuming (or just not interesting), and the price is high for those who do not engage in trade.

Someone above made the point that furnishings do not drop as frequently as weapons, armour, etc. But you know, it wouldn’t hurt to have more frequent drops of furniture and furnishing blueprints. So many players now have a home and space to fill up!

WolfStar07 · October 2018

I've crafted items that it turns out don't work in the space I wanted for it. Or even items that don't look as expected (before you could preview). I'd rather get those mats back, especially since selling furniture is a gamble.

Arunei · November 2018

I've been wanting the ability to decon Furniture for a whiiiiiiiiile now. Sometimes you make something and it's too big or too small, or it doesn't work like you thought it would, or it just gets cycled out. Why not be able to decon the stuff we don't need or want, like we can with gear? You can always break down a shirt back into raw thread, or a bedframe back into lumber, or a well into separate bricks.

Ertosi · April 2019

While running the Elsweyr prologue dailies and getting all the Khajiit furnishings I keep thinking how great it would be to have the option to deconstruct them.

And again, deconstructing furnishings should never give back full materials. No, no, no. It should just give you a small change of getting some of each material that went into it back, just like deconstructing any other item (weapons, armor, jewelry).

kind_hero · April 2019

Yes, I want to be able to do that as well, especially with the bound furniture that I no longer need because I learned how to make it or just don't have use for it.

I would like to get some mats, like the style material and some specific ingredient, like hardwood.

Dumping the furniture into some warehouse make no sense after a while, because you start to get more and more stuff.

Alastrine · July 2019

Breathing life into this thread to add my plea to let us decon furniture for whatever we can get out of it.

I can't think that this would be so difficult, as the system for deconning armor, weapons and jewelry is already there. We should definitely be able to decon items we have constructed ourselves, and also ones we bought in the crown store that are bound to our account.

I have a couple of houses that are filled with furniture I no longer will use because I either didn't like them after constructing them or my skill and pattern library has grown to where I can make much nicer pieces. Sure, I can unload them in the guild store for peanuts but I'd rather be able to go decon them for materials and the odd temper etc. We shouldn't have to sell them cheap unless we want to, or have to destroy them for nothing just to get them out of inventory.

Please plan this into an update soon!

redlink1979 · July 2019

I agree with this.
All the craftable stuff should be deconstructable either. Odds of successful mats drops should be similar to the odds of gear deconstruction and/or related to the char's crafting skills.

katanagirl1 · July 2019

Why not? I’m putting blue and even purple improvement mats into a lot of furniture just like in armor and weapons, and I could sure use some of them back.

Mysanne · July 2019

Yes please ! It's a good idea.

ghastley · July 2019

How about upgrades as an alternative? Rework a plain bed into a canopy one, by adding extra material, or a plain chair into a padded one?

katanagirl1 · July 2019

ghastley wrote: »

How about upgrades as an alternative? Rework a plain bed into a canopy one, by adding extra material, or a plain chair into a padded one?

That’s a good idea, but might be hard to implement because the two recipes (the original one and the upgrade) would have to be very similar in type and materials I think. For instance, you’d have to upgrade the regular Khajiit bed to the Khajiit canopy bed only. That seems like it would be too limiting to be very useful. I can’t think of many recipes that fit that criteria. When I think about how the game would handle comparing the recipes, it would get complicated really fast.

Dusk_Coven · July 2019

Ertosi wrote: »

Please consider allowing us to deconstruct furniture.

I think it's a reasonable idea though one that would require extensive planning and implementation time.
For all furnishings without a furnishing plan, they'd need to decide which craft and what mats to drop.
For all furnishings with a furnishing plan, part of that work is done, so the next step would be to code in the decon station a check that you have all the required skills -- furnishings often require more than one crafting skill line -- and allow it to drop the proper mats. (Otherwise I think they'd let you get a rune or two from an item that had a glyph in it … but they don't).

Not an unreasonable idea and not an impossible situation.

If they were to move ahead with this idea, maybe they could consolidate all furnishing-crafting into a single new type of station, like a "workshop", where you only make furnishings and all your plans are available in one place, nicely sorted by type.

rasdasa · August 2019

Deconstructing seems pretty logical too.

Jaimeh · August 2019

Ertosi wrote: »

Please consider allowing us to deconstruct furniture. Obviously furniture deconstruction shouldn't return all of the materials that went into making it, but it could be set up like weapons and armor where you at least get back some of each resource. It could be set up so items could only be deconstructed at the appropriate type of crafting station that makes them.

It would provide a nice alternative to trying to sell unused furnishings to other players or NPC vendor.

What do others think of this idea?

It'd be a good idea, we could get some of our rare materials, like mundane runes, back in this way. I frequently make furnishings that end up not being placed, because, for instance, my plans for the decorations changed, and storing them or selling them is not always an option due to slot space constrains, or because they are items from well-known recipes, that won't sell quickly. I guess the ones made in alchemy stations won't have that option, but it'd be great if we could have it for the other crafts.

actosh · August 2019

I like the idea, would be nice as well if u could "deconstruct/sent back" crown store furniture.
Not getting the full price back, but something like 33% of it or something. ^^

redlink1979 · August 2019

@actosh Send back crown store furniture?! That is delusion, mate. It will never happen.
I, as many others, will be more than happy if ZOS just allows us to deconstruct furniture (bought or crafted).

Dusk_Coven · August 2019

actosh wrote: »

I like the idea, would be nice as well if u could "deconstruct/sent back" crown store furniture.
Not getting the full price back, but something like 33% of it or something. ^^

I've never bought crown store furniture before. You can only convert Crown Crate drops to crown gems?

Taleof2Cities · August 2019

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

actosh wrote: »

I like the idea, would be nice as well if u could "deconstruct/sent back" crown store furniture.
Not getting the full price back, but something like 33% of it or something. ^^

I've never bought crown store furniture before. You can only convert Crown Crate drops to crown gems?

Correct, @Dusk_Coven.

For example, the Resplendent Sweetroll will convert to 400 gems ... if you don’t want to use it as a furnishing.

MechanicalMudcrab · August 2019

Totally agree, I would love to see furniture deconstruction.

volkeswagon · April 2020

Was thinking the same thing
We often get excess furniture that we have to find room for or destroy. Would be nice to deconstruct it. Plants and trees can then return wood and alchemy mats. Items that are not craftable can simply be labled as non deconstructable

skullberry · August 2020

Especially with the new antiquities, this would be very valuable. I have 4 Spellscar Shards from Craglorn, and since they're bound and worth 0 gold I either have to store them or destroy them if I don't want to display them. It would be nice to get some value out of furnishings that aren't wanted.