Since the old thread is locked, I'll just post this here. I dreamed last night about the housing system change. In the dream, I decided to switch my house out for the new style early so I could get it over with, and then I realized that since I hadn't waited till the automatic switch, my items were still in my old house, which someone else had just bought. Luckily, when I ran/floated up to them and managed to ask if I could have my stuff back, they let me take it without making me prove that it was my house or anything that would have required more talking (you know how sometimes in dreams, your tongue gets all tied up or whatever and it takes a ton of effort to say things?). Then I found out that some people were still living in their old houses, so I asked the staff about that and they managed to recover my old tree house by putting a little model of it on a shelf with some little models of the new houses, which all had the same generic cottage style. (I had tried to "skin" my new house to look like a tree house, but could only get it to look like a bog house, a modern house, or a patchwork house.) So it was basically the coding of the new housing system with the look of the old, making it compatible. I still had to live on a street instead of in the trees, but there were other houses on the street (albeit cottagey and not tree-y).
Unfortunately, in order to fully reclaim my old house, I had to fight a gigantic armored rhinocerous, strong enough to break through a chain-link fence.
Fortunately, I had an armored dinosaur to ride on.
The fight ended up basically consisting of the two giant animals ramming the shit out of each other over and over, and it looked like my dino's armor was breaking away faster, but in one last surge of power, I won. :D
After that, the dream basically segued into something about looking for people and writing a paper, with a mishmash of elements from random fictional sources.