🧱 Can We Please Get Some Clean Building Pieces in ESO?

Furyous
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I was previewing some of the new PTS structural items and it really highlighted a long‑running issue in ESO housing. So many of the walls and building pieces look like they are older than the pyramids, held together by moss and dust. Giant holes, crumbling edges, missing chunks… everything looks like it has already lived a tragic life before we even place it.

💀 Distressed walls
🩸 Cracked floors
⛓️ Spikes and chains
🕯️ Gothic gloom everywhere

If it is not broken, it is brooding. If it is not brooding, it is full murder‑dungeon energy.

And look, some players love that. Ruins, crypts, spooky lairs, dramatic gloom. Totally valid.
But not all of us are hiding a psychopathic inner architect who wants to wallow in ruin, pain and blood. Some of us just want a nice place to spend time with friends without poisoning them and adding them to the decor.

And here is the funny part. We are the mightiest heroes in Tamriel. We wield phenomenal cosmic power, reshape reality, banish Daedric Princes, save the world before lunch… yet somehow we are stuck building in what feels like murder‑death‑kill living spaces. Surely if we can defeat Molag Bal, we can manage a wall that is not already falling apart the day it is made.

And honestly, I am tired of making everything Necrom‑based just because it is one of the only clean structural styles we have. The irony is wild. One of the few pristine, intact building sets in the entire game is literally called NECROm. When the cleanest option is the one named after death, something has gone very wrong in the catalog.

The real issue is that clean, intact structural pieces are the rarest items in the entire game. This is not new. It has been the dominant pattern across the entire catalog for years. If you want to build something that looks new, maintained or even just not actively plotting your demise, your options are tiny.

✨ Imagine what we could build with more balance:
🧱 Clean Breton stone
🔥 Fresh Dunmer tiles
🌲 Intact Nord timber
🌞 Polished Khajiiti sandstone
📐 Neutral, unthemed building sets that do not scream “someone died here”

This is not about taking anything away from ruin builders or goth enjoyers.
It is about giving everyone the tools to build the spaces they imagine.

More variety means more creativity, more styles and a healthier housing system overall.

ZOS, please consider adding more clean structural sets in future updates.
A little balance would go a long way for the entire housing community.

💬 What clean styles or cultural sets would you love to see added? Let’s brainstorm.


  • iyx
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    Furyous wrote: »
    And honestly, I am tired of making everything Necrom‑based just because it is one of the only clean structural styles we have. The irony is wild. One of the few pristine, intact building sets in the entire game is literally called NECROm. When the cleanest option is the one named after death, something has gone very wrong in the catalog.

    That's because it's named after a dunmeri city dedicated to the dead, and the dunmers take great care in maintaining their burials.

    More clean walls and floors is good, but I think game desperatly lacking WEAPONS, weapon racks, armor racks, shields on the walls, and everything else for the armory. The decorations include a honey spoon, but no trivial weapons. That's really strange.

    Edited by iyx on January 16, 2026 10:16PM
  • Furyous
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    iyx wrote: »
    That's because it's named after a dunmeri city dedicated to the dead, and the dunmers take great care in maintaining their burials.

    I see they don't have ironic humor where you come from :(
  • Enemoriana
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    What's wrong with colovian and leyawin things?
    Some High Isle, Sunsport and Fargrave items look clean too.
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  • SilverBride
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    I wish we could repair some of the broken structures. Serenity Falls Estate has a column that broke off and fell on the walkway. I was able to replace the column with one that looks close to what the broken one was, but the broken one is still lying there on the ground.

    In some other houses I had to completely reskin the walls and floors to make them look good.

    It would be a lot better if we could just make repairs.
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    Yeah I wish we could also at least choose if a house is in disrepair or not. Why do so many places with a courtyard have the walls crumbling and giant piles of rubble? Are we too poor to afford repairs before we buy a place or something?
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  • Furyous
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    Enemoriana wrote: »
    What's wrong with colovian and leyawin things?
    Some High Isle, Sunsport and Fargrave items look clean too.

    I think the point is being missed here. There are thousands of housing items in the game, and the vast majority of them are distressed, broken, or gothic in theme. Not everyone wants to build a necromancer’s spare‑parts thrift store, some of us just want a clean, intact space to show off.

    The issue isn’t that gothic items exist; it’s that they’re added constantly, while new, non‑distressed building materials are almost nonexistent. It’s exhausting to see an endless stream of bones, skulls, bodies, and other gloomy pieces every patch, but almost no fresh, clean materials to actually build with. A little balance would go a long way for players who prefer bright, clean, or modern styles.
  • lillybit
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    My theory is the person in charge of furnishings has played too much Fallout and forgotten this game doesn't have to be post apocalyptic!

    Tho even in FO4 there's more clean options than we have...
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  • emilyhyoyeon
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    The AI is exaggerating a lot here. I would not say at all that the ''vast majority of them are distressed, broken, or gothic.''

    I'm not against more clean furnishing options but this is hard to read.
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  • Syldras
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    While I'm not against having a few cleaner building parts, I think what we get fits the world this game is taking place in quite well.
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  • spartaxoxo
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    I agree. Considering how much of this era's stuff supposedly lasted into the third, you'd think there would be more newer looking stuff
  • rockDokRock
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    "Some of us just want a nice place to spend time with friends without poisoning them and adding them to the decor."

    OK, that's the best line ever.
  • PrinceShroob
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    Actual answer: the vast majority of furnishings are player housing copies of things that are already used in the game.

    They might make a few furnishings specifically for housing for sale in the Crown Store, but most of what you can craft, loot, dig up, or buy from Zanil Theran are normal set dressing.

    They aren't going to make, say, "Khajiit furniture but with newer wood" unless it's actually used somewhere in the world. They might take your comments into consideration when making a new tileset, which would have accompanying structural furnishings. If you see an asset somewhere in the world that you'd like, it might show up on the Luxury Furnisher.
  • Morimizo
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    lillybit wrote: »
    My theory is the person in charge of furnishings has played too much Fallout and forgotten this game doesn't have to be post apocalyptic!

    Tho even in FO4 there's more clean options than we have...

    There's a whole bunch of settlement mods in FO4 that allow for repairing/restoring, which would be great if implemented in ESO for ruined/faded pieces.
  • Morvan
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    Why are we making AI generated posts now?
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  • Furyous
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    Morvan wrote: »
    Why are we making AI generated posts now?

    It's not AI writing my posts. It's just formatting. The ideas and the wording are mine. I like presenting them in a clean and readable way.

    Do you use spellcheck or grammar check? Same concept. A tool that polishes the presentation does not replace the person who wrote the content.

    If new tech makes you uncomfortable, that's fine, but it's everywhere now. The funny part is, that I always thought my generation (I am 60) was supposed to be the one with tech phobia and paranoia. Guess that flipped.
    Edited by Furyous on March 24, 2026 5:50AM
  • Morvan
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    Furyous wrote: »
    Morvan wrote: »
    Why are we making AI generated posts now?

    It's not AI writing my posts. It's just formatting. The ideas and the wording are mine. I like presenting them in a clean and readable way.

    Do you use spellcheck or grammar check? Same concept. A tool that polishes the presentation does not replace the person who wrote the content.

    If new tech makes you uncomfortable, that's fine, but it's everywhere now. The funny part is, that I always thought my generation (I am 60) was supposed to be the one with tech phobia and paranoia. Guess that flipped.
    You can't really claim that the wording is yours when you're having ChatGPT do it for you, that's different from a grammar check. The whole structure of your post screams AI generated, unless you somehow managed to perfectly mimic every single ChatGPT fingerprint, which is hard to believe.

    There's no problem in using tools for grammar and wording, I'm a non-native speaker myself so I get the idea. But I feel like if everyone starts making artificial posts instead of communicating as humans, the idea of having a forum kinda loses its point, we'll just be talking through a soulless robot filter, no personality.

    But that's just what I had in mind when I read this, not a big deal. I get that all the ideas were still yours and you used AI as a tool, this doesn't remotely make me uncomfortable, far from that.
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  • Furyous
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    Morvan wrote: »
    Furyous wrote: »
    Morvan wrote: »
    Why are we making AI generated posts now?

    It's not AI writing my posts. It's just formatting. The ideas and the wording are mine. I like presenting them in a clean and readable way.

    Do you use spellcheck or grammar check? Same concept. A tool that polishes the presentation does not replace the person who wrote the content.

    If new tech makes you uncomfortable, that's fine, but it's everywhere now. The funny part is, that I always thought my generation (I am 60) was supposed to be the one with tech phobia and paranoia. Guess that flipped.
    You can't really claim that the wording is yours when you're having ChatGPT do it for you, that's different from a grammar check. The whole structure of your post screams AI generated, unless you somehow managed to perfectly mimic every single ChatGPT fingerprint, which is hard to believe.

    There's no problem in using tools for grammar and wording, I'm a non-native speaker myself so I get the idea. But I feel like if everyone starts making artificial posts instead of communicating as humans, the idea of having a forum kinda loses its point, we'll just be talking through a soulless robot filter, no personality.

    But that's just what I had in mind when I read this, not a big deal. I get that all the ideas were still yours and you used AI as a tool, this doesn't remotely make me uncomfortable, far from that.

    So here is the input I gave Copilot to clean up for me, this is 100% my typing into it before it does anything:
    Sorry but you are going to have to point out the parts that are not 100% my ideas and concepts. I had a point to convey and worked to get to exactly where I wanted it. I then touched it up here and there after the fact (hence the edits) to try and make it clearer.

    You are trying to distract from the main point by throwing out a distraction that somehow by using AI to add a few icons and BBCode formatting it invalidates my points. I disagree.

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    Sorry, but you are going to have to point out which parts are not my ideas or my concepts. I had a point to make, and I worked to get it exactly where I wanted it. I made a few edits afterward to make it clearer, but the substance is mine.

    You are trying to pull attention away from the actual argument by claiming that using AI to add a few icons and BBCode somehow invalidates my points. I disagree. The formatting doesn’t change the ideas, and it doesn’t change the argument I made.


    Let me know what the AI idea and concepts are in the second version that invalidates my point (this line is 100% unaltered as well)

    PS Yes, I manually added the b and /b tags to make the header bold in the pre‑AI version.

    This whole discussion actually reminds me of arguments I had back in college (1980s) with the old‑school programmers who tried to belittle anyone using visual tools instead of writing everything in the VI Linux text editor.

    Do you know what happened to that mindset in today’s programming world? It died out. No one builds serious applications in plain text editors anymore. Tools evolved, workflows evolved, and people adapted. Same thing here.

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    Edited by Furyous on March 24, 2026 2:31PM
  • Furyous
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    Morvan wrote: »
    Furyous wrote: »
    Morvan wrote: »
    Why are we making AI generated posts now?

    It's not AI writing my posts. It's just formatting. The ideas and the wording are mine. I like presenting them in a clean and readable way.

    Do you use spellcheck or grammar check? Same concept. A tool that polishes the presentation does not replace the person who wrote the content.

    If new tech makes you uncomfortable, that's fine, but it's everywhere now. The funny part is, that I always thought my generation (I am 60) was supposed to be the one with tech phobia and paranoia. Guess that flipped.
    You can't really claim that the wording is yours when you're having ChatGPT do it for you, that's different from a grammar check. The whole structure of your post screams AI generated, unless you somehow managed to perfectly mimic every single ChatGPT fingerprint, which is hard to believe.

    There's no problem in using tools for grammar and wording, I'm a non-native speaker myself so I get the idea. But I feel like if everyone starts making artificial posts instead of communicating as humans, the idea of having a forum kinda loses its point, we'll just be talking through a soulless robot filter, no personality.

    But that's just what I had in mind when I read this, not a big deal. I get that all the ideas were still yours and you used AI as a tool, this doesn't remotely make me uncomfortable, far from that.

    Actually, after reviewing this, I don’t think you are going to be convinced by anything that doesn’t come from one of your echo chambers.

    I’m a 60-year-old autistic network engineer (over 35 years) with a computer science degree. This is how I think and communicate in real life. If it doesn’t match your expectations of how you think everyone should talk in misspelled abbreviations and slang, that's on you, not me.

    If you want to discuss it in Discord voice, I am fine with that. You will find I speak and think the same way there as I do here.
    Edited by Furyous on March 24, 2026 3:04PM
  • DMuehlhausen
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    I've always kind of found this annoying about all RPGs, but TES in general.

    One of the best examples in ESO is the quest during the main story where you go to the temple where Sai trained and you enter the catacombs. It's suppose to be this place of revered dead, and it looks like nobody has been in it for 10000 years. Lilke if it's this amazing special revered place, call homeaglow once in awhile to clean it
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    I'm still waiting for doors that are big enough to be used in Daggerfall Overlook.... Seriously, nothing fits in those big arches.
  • Furyous
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    robwolf666 wrote: »
    I'm still waiting for doors that are big enough to be used in Daggerfall Overlook.... Seriously, nothing fits in those big arches.

    |H1:housing:38:@Furyous|h|h

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    Edited by Furyous on March 24, 2026 8:27PM
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