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#### Whimsical Wednesday - Houses Release 3

The game is now open! Check the new thread for feedback: http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/20792/
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The game is currently closed until sometime Thursday morning, Pacific time. The conversion process is running slower than anticipated, and we want to make everything goes just right, so we will not be open until we are ready.
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Good morning campers!
Today brings release 3 of the new housing system, marking a full reset of houses.
The game will be closed for a few hours while we perform the reset.
Do not be alarmed! Only houses are being reset.
After the reset is complete, your house will have been reset to the starter size, with no cultivated items and no furniture. Any upgraded furniture in your house or your furniture bag will be removed. You'll be given a small set of starter furniture in its place.
When you enter your new house after the reset, any items that you had in your old house or your testing house will have been moved into your new residence. Just unpack your moving boxes to get started.
A single moving box will contain multiple boxes for the old house, your test-house home street, test-house backyard and each floor of your test-house.
So that's what the reset entails, but what about new stuff? Well...
• Furniture can now be crafted by players. Get building!
‌• Your new houses will now have their own web page, linked from your profile. You'll be able to easily visit other people's home streets from there (as well as from their "info pane" in the game client).
• Once you've chosen/purchased a furniture upgrade, that choice is 'sticky'. If you upgrade a chair to style A, then switch it to style B, you'll later be able to switch back to style A at no cost. The same applies to your house chassis.
• The initial furniture we give you is soul-bound. This means you can't give it away to other players. Other items may gain this property in the future.
• Furniture can now be traded - either by using the 'give' verb, dragging it to another player or using the player-to-player trading system. You'll get an extra warning when you try to trade upgraded furniture. Auctions for furniture will be added in the near future.
• Furniture should no longer drop through the floor when you're placing it on your 2nd floor. Or your 3rd - houses can now be 3 floors tall.
• All street styles now have music.
• Furniture items all have their own web pages, as do the upgrades. You can browse and bookmark your perfect setup while you're waiting for the reset.
• The furniture bag is now sorted, to make finding your furniture easier. And it'll now be accessible anywhere in the world, to allow your to trade your items.
• The old houses are fading away. Visit the abandoned apartment blocks to reminisce.
There's probably some more stuff hidden in there too, so take a look around, kick the tires and lets us know what you think.
update #1: The housing FAQ has been updated.
update #2: The reset is taking longer than expected - the game will be closed until Thursday morning, pacific time. We are being EXTRA careful with the migration since no-one wants the movers to lose a single precious item.

Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink

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- This is fantastic - thanks Devs for all your hard work. Can't wait to move into my new home. I will miss both the firebog house and the mansion in Alakol I owned at one stage or another, but I can't wait to transform my new humble abode into something even better! I LOVE GLITCH!!! (and you, too, Tiny Speck...) xxx
  Posted 7 months ago by Jendaline | Permalink
- Oh hey, love the "Furniture that matches..." section of the pages, and the tags. Very helpful!!
  Posted 7 months ago by Cithra | Permalink
- Yay! :D Thanks for your hard work everyone!
  Posted 7 months ago by diaveborn ♥ | Permalink
- 998 stacks in a SDB is cool, if all item stacks are 999. :> {{ducks and runs}}
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- Give me all the SDBs. ALL THE SDBS! I will make them all and have an SDB business. SDBs for ALL GLITCHEN!
  Bex's Boxes! ALL THE BOXES! FOR ALL THE HOARDERS! Give me a tv show!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Love the construction tool! Happy, happy, happy that SDBs will hold 998 stacks.
  Posted 7 months ago by Ginnis | Permalink
- 998? Its gotta mean stacks, right? RIGHT? eek...
  Posted 7 months ago by Koftun | Permalink
- -- You all missed something when you made the decorations.. you forgot to add the Firebog-fish tank.. the little.. whatevers they were.. Sooo cute. I'd love one of those please. :3 Ok thanks.
  Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ | Permalink
- "plain furniture is soulbound because it's worth quite a few currants and we don't want players creating multiple accounts to get (more) free furniture"
  Good point - although those multiple accounts come with 100 credits which is now effectively transferable to another player (although admittedly someone's going to have to buy basic furniture in order to upgrade with credits in order to transfer them to someone else... hopefully more trouble than it's worth)
  Posted 7 months ago by Snazzlefrazz | Permalink
- Well this sucks.
  Posted 7 months ago by Rielle | Permalink
- To be clear, the SDBs haven't changed in size since yesterday - we're just telling you what it's always been
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Yes, stacks. Confirmed by Bees!
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- Ooooh, thanks Bees! I missed that important word "STACKS" My heart has re-started :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Cabinwood | Permalink
- Cithra, where do I find the "furniture that matches" thing?
  Posted 7 months ago by Filox | Permalink
- Btw, the description of the SDB doesn't use the word "stack". Probably where the confusion is coming from. :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- "you forgot to add the Firebog-fish tank" - http://www.glitch.com/furniture/firebog-fishbowl/
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- I was in my old house when I last exited the world. Where will I be when I log on again?
  Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ | Permalink
- We have to empty the WHOLE moving box at one go? Sheesh! I'm hoping that I have many more than one box per floor then.
  Posted 7 months ago by Marla | Permalink
- " where do I find the "furniture that matches" thing? " - on any furniture upgrade page: http://www.glitch.com/furniture/firebog-fishbowl/
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Filox - in the Furniture Upgrades section of the Encylopedia, click on an item and it will show you what matches it, underneath.
  Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ | Permalink
- Oh, another question: Rugs? When can we start making them? I assume same time as we can start making furniture, right?
  Also, YAYAYAYAYAY! /excitement
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- The SDBs are pretty much the best thing to ever happen to my hoarding little heart. Though not quite as necessary as they were before the music boxes and gems started stacking, admittedly.
  Posted 7 months ago by Miss Coco | Permalink
- Damn, I had just planted crops earlier today :( I thought the plan was to notify us at least a few days before the reset *shrug*
  Well, I hope no items on the floors get eaten by any bugs in the system. Just transferred all stuff from my old house to the test house today, would hate to see them forgotten by the Giants.
  Anyway, at least now I can start putting real effort to the house, knowing it won't be reset again :) Can't decide if I should specialise in some materials or branch to as many as possible. Would be interesting to know what approach others take.
  Posted 7 months ago by Souran Sweet | Permalink
- AAAAA Bees I love you!!!! :: loves :: :: runs over and hugs you :: Thank you thank you!!! OOooh I can't wait to get in-world!! =^____^=
  Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ | Permalink
- "I was in my old house when I last exited the world. Where will I be when I log on again?" - somewhere in the main world. probably groddle forest
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Do we get windows yet? I want some windows. And a better view of my attic like we had in R1, still.
  Posted 7 months ago by Elizabeth Park-Fowl | Permalink
- I'm looking forward to filling my front yard full of cherry and bubble trees, though I'm not looking forward to unpacking... Furniture crafting should be interesting, too, especially with all the planks I've got saved up now.
  Though speaking of furniture, the Firefly Jar Ceiling Lamp in the Encyclopedia needs its link fixed.
  Posted 7 months ago by Zigniber | Permalink
- "Rugs? When can we start making them? I assume same time as we can start making furniture, right?" - yes. they're a kind of furniture, even if you make them with the loomer :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- "Do we get windows yet? I want some windows" - not yet. soooooooooon, maybe
  "the Firefly Jar Ceiling Lamp in the Encyclopedia needs its link fixed." - good catch!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Suggestion for SDB. Some items show up better on a darker background. Be nice to have a free option to just change the color of the SDB to something darker (grey and black). Unless that exists and I'm not seeing it in the description. :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- I also like the *concept* of "soul-bound" furniture, but the not the term itself... from a quick google, it appears to be a WoW term, which puzzles me a bit - why not create a new, glitchy way of saying this?
  Posted 7 months ago by katlazam | Permalink
- Yay! Thank you Bees!!
  I shall create a Bex's Boxes (and Rugs) business now.
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Oooh... and now that SDBs are trade-able items, that means that you could have an SDB full of SDBs! I wonder how big a stack of SDBs will be. I suspect 1, but wouldn't it be cool if you could fit 999 SDBs in one stack, then cram those stacks into an SDB. That'd keep Bexatious working for quite a while. :P
  Posted 7 months ago by LokiPDX | Permalink
- oh wow oh wow oh wow oh wow oh wow oh wow oh wow oh wow
  Posted 7 months ago by crème | Permalink
- Ohhhh, an Inception SDB business. Boxes within Boxes within Boxes. Where will the madness end?!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Tibbi: look here
  http://www.glitch.com/items/sdb/
  Both light and dark backgrounds have a free option
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- That would be handy, Tibbi.
  It's hard to see bubbles in my inventory now, and hard to see some things in the SDBs.
  Posted 7 months ago by Filox | Permalink
- Thanks Windborn.
  Still I like the look of the Swedish-y box. The stripy one is kind of funny looking. Be nice to be able to change colors on the swedish-y one. That's all. Carry on. :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- Re: Soul-bound... so that implies that our house and street are... dun-dun-dun!... our soul! So keep up your streets and houses. Wouldn't want to have a shabby soul.
  So when you enter your street, you're entering your soul, but what is it that is entering your soul?
  Makes me want to go watch Being John Malkovich again... and wouldn't it be cool if we could have mini-doors leading into tunnels... that would send you into your home street. I could imagine some secret worm-hole entrance that would just warp you back to the inside of your own house. Perhaps the farthest corner of the back yard, or the farthest corner of the upper story! A short cut to the nether reaches of your soul! Maybe if you could jump over the bar in hell you'd find yourself in the dark places of your soul.
  Ooh the existential implications and stories are endless!
  And we need tea sets! In dimly lit rooms! So we can have our on long dark tea times of the soul!
  Wheee! I need less coffee today I think.
  Posted 7 months ago by LokiPDX | Permalink
- Huge big siiiigh of contentment! I'm so happy final housing is here, and excited to get started. Growing the house & land is such fun. :D I'm glad we got the chance to try out all the different styles, now we can choose what we want without wasting imagination on the wrong style.
  And a third floor, yayyy! I can put all my crafting machined up there and have sensible rooms.
  Posted 7 months ago by Phoebe Springback | Permalink
- +1 to Tibbi's idea, yes there are different SDBs with light and dark backgrounds but some of the styles only have one, it would be nice if each individual SDB style you could pick a light or dark background, or maybe on the more popular ones.
  Posted 7 months ago by Mithax | Permalink
- I think I left my deep fryer on, making onion rings. Will my house burn down?
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- "from a quick google, it appears to be a WoW term, which puzzles me a bit - why not create a new, glitchy way of saying this?" - the term isn't used anywhere but this blog post yet. what's a good name for it?
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- I just wanted to commend TS for how they have dedicated resources (namely Bees!) to help soothe our collective angst and answer our stream of panicky questions during this few hour shutdown. It may feel like forever to us (double forever?) but its really just a a few hours which must be completely frantic over at TS. That they have someone hanging in the forums, holding our hands right now is just, well, ubercool. So say I. :-)
  Posted 7 months ago by Koftun | Permalink
- Is it too late for all home owners to get little snow globes with tiny models of our old homes in them? You guys can knock those out in the next couple of hours, right? While doing all the other stuff too. :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Lord Bacon-o | Permalink
- @ Bees - GlitchLocked
  Posted 7 months ago by Vogon Blarg | Permalink
- Brain-locked?
  Question: When you purchase a design with credits, will that design be available for (free) usage on other similar items in the future, or will you need to re-purchase? Say, if I wanted two matching 25 credit chairs.
  Posted 7 months ago by Claire CK | Permalink
- Oooooh, shiny new things... exciting :0)
  Please can we have a firebog-style SDB, please, please, can we, can we?! One day? Soon?!
  Posted 7 months ago by geekybird | Permalink
- Brain-printed? Imprinted with your personal brain waves.
  Posted 7 months ago by Filox | Permalink
- @Bees "from a quick google, it appears to be a WoW term, which puzzles me a bit - why not create a new, glitchy way of saying this?" - the term isn't used anywhere but this blog post yet. what's a good name for it?"
  How about 'Housebound' or 'Bonded'?
  Posted 7 months ago by Azure L`daz | Permalink

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