New Furnishing ideas!

Vaoh · February 2022

I enjoy Housing in ESO and wish there were more interactable furnishings to provide new functionality to our homes. Here are some ideas:

Scrying Table

What is it:
• An interactive furnishing which allows the player to scry leads for any zone.

How to Acquire:
• Purchasable at the Solitude achievement vendor for 50,000 Gold.

Achievements required:
• Leads Master Investigator (150 leads obtained).

Calligraphy Desk

What is it:
• An interactive furnishing which allows the player to write their own book. This process consumes a “Book, Plain” furnishing in order to create a furnishing called “Book, (player chosen name)”. These books are placeable anywhere in your home.

How to Acquire:
• Purchasable from any “Mystic”-class NPC vendor.
• Calligraphy Desk costs 25,000 Gold.
• Book, Plain costs 1,000 Gold.

Achievements required:
• A new chain of three achievements are added to the game under Character > General. This Has Words On It?, Library Frequenter, and Bookworm. These require the player to read 10/100/1000 bookshelves.
• Book, Plain - This Has Words On It? (Read from 10 bookshelves)
• Calligraphy Desk - Bookworm (Read from 1000 bookshelves)

Painting Easel

What is it:
• An interactive furnishing which allows the player to paint their own picture. This process consumes a “Painting, Plain” furnishing in order to create a furnishing called “Painting, (player chosen name)”.
• These paintings are placeable anywhere in your home AND can be sold to other players since they are unbound. This could turn painting into an actual in-game profession to make gold if you’re good!

How to Acquire:
• Purchasable from the Summerset achievement vendor.
• Painting Easel costs 10,000 Gold.
• Painting, Plain Small costs 1,000 Gold.
• Painting, Plain Medium costs 1,000 Gold.
• Painting, Plain Large costs 1,000 Gold.
• Painting, Plain Huge costs 1,000 Gold.

Achievements required:
• Complete the quest “The Perils of Art” in Summerset.

Planter

What is it:
• An interactive dirt mound furnishing which allows the player to place a “Seed, (ingredient name)” furnishing into the Planter. This seed represents an alchemy ingredient which normally grows out in the world as a harvestable node. Does not include rare mats like Crimson Nirnroot.
• The Planter automatically grows after 12 hours and can be harvested granting 1 alchemy material. There is no cap on the amount of Planters or Seeds which can be placed in a home, but there is a cap on the amount of times the player can loot Planters per day, which resets at the same time most things do (such as daily quests).
• Maximum loot opportunities per day: 20

How to Acquire:
• Purchasable from any “Alchemist”-class NPC vendor.
• Planter costs 1,000 Gold.
• Seeds costs 100 Gold.

Achievements required:
• Botanist (Learn every non-DLC alchemy trait).

Teleportation

What is it:
• A Dwemer Displacer can be linked to another Dwemer Displacer. Interacting with these items will cause you to teleport from one to the other.
• A Dwemer Receiver is similar to a Displacer. The difference is that the Receiver can only receive.... it is does not allow you to interact with it to teleport back.
• A Void Portal is an interactive furnishing which allows the player to click from a distance to port to it, just like throughout the Markarth main quest.

How to Acquire:
• Dwemer Displacer and Dwemer Receiver are purchasable from any “Global Achievement Vendor”-class NPC vendor.
• Void Portal is purchasable from the Markarth achievement vendor.

Achievements required:
• Dwemer Displacer and Receiver - Halls of Fabrication Vanquisher (Vet Halls of Fabrication Hard Mode complete)
• Void Portal - Savior of the Reach (Complete delves, quests, etc in The Reach)

Anyway just some ideas

TheImperfect · February 2022

I love all your ideas!

alberichtano · February 2022

Right now I would be happy with a pickaxe and a ladder... The most basic stuff is just not there.

But yeah, planters of different kinds would be nice. A la Fallout 4. Not necessarily with the growing-part, but just to have planters at all.

Vehlir · February 2022

Have been wanting point to point portals for soooo long now, anyway we can get them I'd be thrilled. Like all 3 of your ideas regarding those.

Also really LOVE your book idea too. I love that feature in Minecraft, given TES' incredible world class lore and it's fantastic RP community it could make for some amazing creations. Even for more practical gameplay applications it would be really neat. Guest books, to-do lists, sign up sheets, guild rosters etc etc the list goes on and on.

Ayalockheart · February 2022

Portals would solve a lot of our problems but also create other problems and I understand why we don't have them, or possibly wouldn't ever have them.

I wish we could have different spawn points tho: Zeni would select few, based on points of interests (house areas), house size and feedback. These would allow us to set a different spawn point through housing configuration menu.. Houses like forgemaster falls and Seaveil would become more flexible on what we can build without need to go around through the entire place to reach certain areas of the house. That could partially as well fix the slot limitations without touching the cap since we would be able to block off pathway we don't want to use but have to go through nowadays.

I do like some of the other ideas mentioned in this thread but I believe that gets dificult for zeni to control what is going to be put on those painting canvases and books ... (worth mentioning that EHT addon allow us to create our own books right now and no moderation is done - - so with that in mind, naturally, would be better to have it as part of the game so everyone could have access to whats being written).

I do agree that we need more usefulness for houses.... I personally have built so many houses right now and I'm currently struggling with reasons to continue doing it so, simply because it feels a bit pointless to have 722526 decorated houses that end forgotten over time or never visited again once is done.

Vaoh · February 2022

Ayalockheart wrote: »

Portals would solve a lot of our problems but also create other problems and I understand why we don't have them, or possibly wouldn't ever have them.

I wish we could have different spawn points tho: Zeni would select few, based on points of interests (house areas), house size and feedback. These would allow us to set a different spawn point through housing configuration menu.. Houses like forgemaster falls and Seaveil would become more flexible on what we can build without need to go around through the entire place to reach certain areas of the house. That could partially as well fix the slot limitations without touching the cap since we would be able to block off pathway we don't want to use but have to go through nowadays.

I do like some of the other ideas mentioned in this thread but I believe that gets dificult for zeni to control what is going to be put on those painting canvases and books ... (worth mentioning that EHT addon allow us to create our own books right now and no moderation is done - - so with that in mind, naturally, would be better to have it as part of the game so everyone could have access to whats being written).

I do agree that we need more usefulness for houses.... I personally have built so many houses right now and I'm currently struggling with reasons to continue doing it so, simply because it feels a bit pointless to have 722526 decorated houses that end forgotten over time or never visited again once is done.

The portals idea was mainly because I wish we had spawn points as well:( I’m just not sure if actual spawn points are an option to implement. Main issue with portals is being able to get out of map but then again we can already do this and it’s not as if we gain anything from doing so (besides having fun).

I think the in-game profanity filter can help with the book situation. It’s also similar to how we have unique Guilds which players can link in chat/put tons of their own text for, I bet books can work too.Painting stuff I like to believe could work in terms of having a mass amount of tiny squares on the technical side and then creating a UI option which is very good for painting. Some people are extremely talented at that sort of stuff.

But anyway just my hopes maybe someday they might add something awesome. Top priority certainly would be spawn points/portals to help with big or unique builds.

Elvenheart · February 2022

I love all your ideas! And I’ve long wished for a portal system. It could utilize different graphics, like trap doors, ladders leading up and down, actual magical portals of different types, etc.

Monweel · February 2022

I've always wanted planters to live the ol' farmer's life, and your book idea is great too! I can only see a problem with the paintings (server capacity, inappropriate drawings) but other than that, yes please!

MaisonNaevius · February 2022

Leyawiin Platform, Wooden Large / Wooden Small

Very disappointed that it didn't come out.