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How to Test the New Houses

OK! Now you can test some parts of the new housing system. We're concentrating here on furniture and decoration (later releases will add the ability to craft new furniture, expand houses, cultivate land and use imagination to grow your yard and home street).

To try it out, get in the game type "/home" in local chat (it is deliberately hard to do right now so that people don't get confused and think this is *the* permanent switchover — this house is just for your testing and customizations will eventually be reset). When you're at home, there will be a new button which takes you back to the regular game world.

Once you go inside, you'll see the new furniture tab by your inventory and a "decorate" button at the top-right of the game. Go crazy. Upgrading furniture is all free right now (in the future, some upgrades will be subscriber-only and some will cost credits).

You can't get any more furniture for now and you also can't give, trade or sell furniture until the next release (or maybe the one after that). However, you can bring your stuff over to the new house and not worry about it getting lost when we reset (we'll keep it all safe) — it is just the furniture customizations that you'll lose.

To move furniture around and place items on furniture, you need to be in "decoration mode", which will hide your avatar and allow you to use the arrow keys to pan around your house.

You'll be switched to decoration mode automatically when you drag something out of your furniture bag, but you can also hit the "decorate" button in the top right of the game window.

To change wallpaper, ceilings and floors, hit the "swatches" button which appears in the top bar when you're in decoration mode. You can stamp the patterns on or drag them into place. For wallpapers you can either to a single segment or the whole wall at once.

Finally, though the land outside your house is fixed for now (you can't expand it or add/remove resources yet) you do have a customizable signpost outside: you can use that to add up to five signs pointing to the home streets of people from your friends list.

Any questions? Thoughts? ;)

See also:  Blog post  •  Video Demo

Note: If you don't see any furniture (or just your trophies) inside your furniture bag when you enter your house, type "/home" again.

Note 2: You can type "/home" from wherever you are in the world, including other people's houses.

Note 3: We will give plenty of notice before the real switchover to the new housing system and, if you own a regular in-world house at that time, all of the items inside it will be moved over automatically. You don't have to move everything yourself.

Note 4: Many questions and answers have been summarized in this (unofficial!) FAQ

Posted 10 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Wow! Loving this! Nice surprise to be able to sample it now. Can't wait for what's coming. Thank you, thank you!
    Posted 10 months ago by ElleD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It looks fantastic! Thank you so much for all the work you're putting into this.
    Posted 10 months ago by Tryvalen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shelves! Herbs and veggies in the same yard! Customizable furniture! Attic space! I love it! The only thing that makes me go "Huh?" is the lack of a back door; for some reason, it looks a little weird.

    Can't wait for changing background, naming your own street, etc., etc. It all sounds amazing.

    Forgot the best thing - you don't have to go dragging all the way across Ur to get home. You take your home wherever you go! (Does this make us all turtles?)
    Posted 10 months ago by Oxeye Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I apologize if that already was answered but I'm too sleepy and excited at the same time to read the whole thread. *blushes* It's 4am here right now :O

    1- So, I would like to know if anything I place on the floor inside my home other people will be able to pick them up? 

    And if I place dolls on the shelves people can still pick them up or everything on the floor, table, sofa inside my home/garden is not available to be picked anymore if someone else visits?
    Posted 10 months ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I apologize if this was already mentioned, but my icons float slightly above my shelves.
    Posted 10 months ago by Abby Cadabra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lila Clemenceau: items placed when in decorating mode are not takeable by other players

    Abby Cadabra: icon placement is a known issue

    Cryztal: cupboards, yes. many kinds!

    Xial: not sure why you think it'll be hard to fit things in your new house? it will be expandable to much bigger than existing houses
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Several reloads and still no furniture in my furniture tab :(
    Posted 10 months ago by Shailer Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shailer: type /home again
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dang it - of course I would have already spent my monthly allowance of currants on clothes - LOL!!! Looking fwd to getting in and playing with everything!!! Fabulousity, TS devs!!! You are amazing AS ALWAYS!!! (((TS)))
    Posted 10 months ago by Hab Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Bees!: Working now after another lo0g out/log in :) Hooray!
    Posted 10 months ago by Shailer Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wow... Amazing!! No problems, took afew refresh on initial entrance. I like how the mini street view automatically updates!! I tried every wall, ceiling and floor out.... all great!!!

    Afew things:
    1. I would like to see a mouse kind of drag to move your screen across, it was hard to have to remember to use the keys to move across.
    2. A slight tutorial would be nice, I had to try and find how to decorate and how to change wall floor and ceiling.
    3. Will we need to pay again and again to use the same style of furniture??

    Overall... GREAT EFFORT!! I love this, and I know we are only in beta, so I can see AMAZING things for you guys!
    Great work!!
    Posted 10 months ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Every time I walk into my house I get a big smile on my face. This is awesome, Tiny Dev Specs. :)
    Posted 10 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now I'm excited to see how this effects the world. No more block street signs. No more apartments and bog houses that are built into the street. Will the doors just close and be generic now? Will the building there still exist? So many things Eye Wonder about.

    The model homes, oh how I love to go there to fill up the veggie gardens. That will just be gone I suppose? Will they be replaced with more community gardens? 

    I'm sure I have more questions that I'll be asking and I know you'll just JUMP to answer them all! 

    =)
    Posted 10 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was decorating my house and than I was invisible... Kind of funny to not being able to see myself in my own house :D I only realized it because I was wondering: "How do I move left to place that couch?!" when I discovered I should just walk to the left with my invisible glitch...
    Posted 10 months ago by Calathiel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Will the doors just close and be generic now? Will the building there still exist?"
    Some buildings will still exist and be explorable, but most will be gone. No block streets either.

    "Will they be replaced with more community gardens?"
    Maybe? Your own back yards and streets can have a lot more gardens (if you want that). You could start a community garden!
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't log in at the moment (damn employer) but from what I see in the pics, there is only one floor in the house. Sorry if this question was already asked, but will we be able to add more floors later?
    Posted 10 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And the same goes for bigger bags? They will be locked if someone visits too?! Thank you so much for answering!
    Posted 10 months ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Sorry if this question was already asked, but will we be able to add more floors later?"
    It's answered in the original topic - yes!

    "And the same goes for bigger bags?"
    Not certain what you mean here...
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, I mean if the bags get put on the floor inside the house they will still be locked and others won't be able to pick it up as long you place them while in decorating mode?
    Posted 10 months ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some buildings will still exist and be explorable



    tysm for answering! This sounds exciting!
    Posted 10 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • what fun!

    whew, I read all 8 pages.  now it's my turn

     - we can only have (up to) five friends on our signpost (at a time), ok.  But is there any way to get to a sixth friend's house without redoing the sign each time?
     
     - is there any way to know who has ME on their signpost? how many other glitchen do?
     
     - I dropped a regular inventory item in my new backyard (as pig food), when I dragged it back into my inventory, the game went back into decorate mode. I don't think it should do that.
     (someone else already reported this, but it was worth a second note)

    that's all for now
    Posted 10 months ago by mr granberry Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "If the bags get put on the floor inside the house they will still be locked and others won't be able to pick it up as long you place them while in decorating mode?"
    Yes. But cabinets are designed for this and have more storage - they're better for the job.

    "But is there any way to get to a sixth friend's house without redoing the sign each time?"
    Set a teleportation point, teleport from their profile, or follow a sign at one of your friends' houses.

    "is there any way to know who has ME on their signpost? how many other glitchen do?"
    Not currently

    "I dropped a regular inventory item in my new backyard (as pig food), when I dragged it back into my inventory, the game went back into decorate mode. I don't think it should do that."
    We'll fix that!
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "... items placed when in decorating mode are not takeable by other players".

    Not the case in my house. It appears that things placed on my table (or at least one of them) are safe, but nothing else I've placed while in Decorating mode is safe.
    Posted 10 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • this has grown to be a monster of a topic so sorry if this has been noted already.

    in the future will we have to purchase the item before being able to preview it by placing it in our houses? often times after placing a furniture item i don't like how it works in the room, that could become quite costly if they were all to be available only through credits (i wish we could do this with clothing as well cause sometimes clothes can look different ingame). 

    when you drag a someone else's furniture to your inventory you enter decoration mode.. and can't get your inventory back until you exit their house.

    also, i'd really love if we could have more than 5 people on our sign posts or when group housing comes have a more robust linking ability.

    liking the new housing, can't wait till we can have more floors and plots etc. :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Fur Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Djabriil: iiiinteresting - i'll look into it

    Fur: you can preview any item of furniture without paying anything - click on it and it changes in-place (you can drag the choosing window aside to see)
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Highly addictive!!!
    Posted 10 months ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would like to be able to un-upgrade my furniture, too - I changed my bed and now I can't change it back.  
    Posted 10 months ago by Kitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kitty: yeah, we should add that!
    Posted 10 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is seriously tremendous. Such a blast turning my house into something more like home sweet home.  ((((Thank you)))))

    P.S. Hopefully some window options are in store?
    Posted 10 months ago by Christine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is great and you are great.

    I love my new rock and attic so much! I already put all sorts of things in my attic, so I hope that I can reach them when all this lovely furniture disappears! ;)
    Posted 10 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • firstly, 5 of my original trophies dissappeared. *cries*
    secondly, when will the test houses be removed?
    thirdly, can we use the houses for extra plots for now?
    Posted 10 months ago by Kristabel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok this might have been mentioned but this is now a rather large thread.
    When I want to split things in my inventory, to fill up a slot, it won't let me.  For example I usually have 2 slots of brocolli, I used one lot on a feeder so want to fill the slot with more brocolli so other things don't go in it.  I drop half on the floor and then pick it up to put into the spare slot and it automatically goes back to where it came from.  Is this a known issue and will it be fixed so I can put things where I want in my inventory.
    Posted 10 months ago by Latajea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am also having Djabrill's problem with placed items being retrievable by guests.  In my case, dolls placed in chairs were able to be picked up by non-keyholders invited in.
    Posted 10 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe the feeling will be different when there is more customizable content outside the house, but for me it would seem much nicer if /home (or some other future tool) took you inside your home, rather than some intermediate place of limited interest.

    Perhaps I am more sensitive to this, as my computer is slow and every screen's worth of loading is free time draining away.
    Posted 10 months ago by Biff Beefbat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So I don't know if this has been mentioned, but when I started out I had the option for 2 beds. Then some random buggy shenanigans later, one of the beds ended up in my regular (non furniture) inventory, taking the spot of one of my bags. On reload, my bag showed up in the right place (the bed was not there anymore), but after that, last I checked, I only have the option for 1 bed in my tester house; the other one seems to have vanished into the ether.
    Posted 10 months ago by juv3nal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I haven't had any issues so far...I was just curious about when the next release was?

    Thanks for being so patient :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Pickle Bob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i love the way the swatches panel is drag-able.  any chance that the main UI might be broken apart into modules or pieces like that? (or even better be able to pop out into their own little window)  I would love to be able to have the game window full screen on my main monitor and have my chats and inventory, etc in their own windows on my second and/or third screens.

    O, awesome update BTW!  Thank you so much for the ability to grow herb and plot gardens in the same area!  I'm a little bummed that our front yard isn't private or friends only, but it's not the end of the world...  I would also agree that it would be nice to be able to put more than five people on a signpost.   I think object rotation would be nice; for example the office chair looks weird to me and should be turned around toward the desk, or the desk should be rotated and against the side wall.  For that matter it would be nice to be able to hang pictures and wall lamps on the side walls.

    Thanks for the the hard work TS!
    Posted 10 months ago by ixaeon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • very well done, but i have a few questions.........
    1.  does everything have to stay against the back wall? 
    2.  will i be able to move my chair to sit at my desk?
    3.  will i be able to use my furniture; ie, sit on chairs, sofas?
    thanks for everything!    xoxoxoxo
    Posted 10 months ago by little peep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Could we please not loose mood and energy while we decorate? At least not during the testing period?
    Posted 10 months ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • New housing and decoration is GREAT and really fun!!! Some of the furniture items are just too cute, I really LOBE most of the "funny" things like the yeti bed, the fish lamps and the fried egg rug, not to mention the big hen-piggy-painting!!! Please, more stuff of that kind!

    My small remarks are (obligatory SORRY if this was already mentioned):
    - not only icons, but for example also music blocks tend to float a bit above side tables etc. And also other items don't place well yet, for example that small, white, dotted table decoration thingy doesn't place itself very well on shelves.
    --> In general I have the impression, that some of the measurement proportions and also the optical perspectives of the furniture items aren't 100% yet. Looks as though they were created by different illustrators and not coordinated thoroughly yet.

    - Perhaps more important than those fiddly remarks about the visual aspects:The system gets confused when I start to drag my non-furniture items when in non-decoration mode. It then automatically switches to the decoration mode, which, I think should be avoided. I.m.o it would be better if the furniture would stay "untouched" as long as I do not explicitely switch to the decoration mode.
    Posted 10 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok, I adore the new houses. The one actual bug I've encountered: decoration mode allows you to enter camera mode and take pictures, but you can't use the arrow keys.

    Now some suggestions:
    Unlike clothing, if I buy something I only get one of that thing. But if I "upgrade" to a different design, the original expenditure is wasted (except with swatches) So for example if I pay 25 credits to upgrade one of my ceiling lamps to be an octopus, then change my mind and pay 40 credits to make it a jellyfish, then change my mind and want the octopus back, I have to pay another 25 credits. I am very indecisive, this could get very expensive! I COULD set one lamp to be an octopus and the other to be a jellyfish and swap between the two, but might not think of it, and anyway that's a bit of a pain. I'm not sure how you'd get around this, but I know it would make me much happier. And for example otherwise someone who upgrades and changes their mind has totally wasted the money of the upgrade.

    I hope there are nicer free versions of things, not super fancy but nicer than plain wood, even just black or white versions in the same design. Otherwise people who can't afford to spend any credits will have very drab houses. I like the way that the free clothes allow a moderate amount of personal expression while still encouraging the fun of spending credits to look cooler, and I hope the free house decorations work the same way.

    There was something else but I forget...anyway, back to playing around some more! Whee!
    Posted 10 months ago by Sequoia Baer Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Would you guys be weirded out if I make a version of that OctoCouch IRL?
    It won't be till late this year or spring next year, unless someone wants to commission me to make it before that.
    Posted 10 months ago by Murri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I cannot imagine a more perfect setting than our new homes and once we go live I foresee being dragged from my computer by force to attend to mundane real life tasks...:o)...

    OK, as most of the buggy mechanic bits are being addressed I'm just curious about future outdoor attractions. Specifically, will we be able to add to our mining resources as in upgrading from 1 metal rock to a sparkly?
    Perhaps upgrading to own all 4 types of rocks?
    And of course what about all the other renewable resources such as fireflies, barnacles, peat bogs etc. ?

    But seriously, I'm so in love with my girly test house that I want to redecorate my real home RIGHT NOW!
    hahahaa
    Posted 10 months ago by Poney Tails Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Don't know if this has been asked yet but, as a firebog dweller I am unnaturally attracted to my firefly swarm and barnacles. Will we be able to buy/upgrade to these sort of features in future releases?
    Posted 10 months ago by snygyst Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So far i love it all... My street...my house, it's so cute couldn't of ask for a prettier house,but i've already spent nearly 400 free credits,i shall have to start saving my pennies for when it relaunch. 
    Thank you all at Tiny specks the wait was worth it :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Elfina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i found 2 weird bugs.
     1) at my orignal house a friend planted a pumpkin in my crop garden around noon on Thursday.  When i logged on later that evening and was told how to access my new house, in the backyard there was a pumpkin growing at the same stage as the one at my other house.  This morning, the pumpkin is fully grown at both houses.

    2) I put the trophies out on a shelf in my new house, and after doing so, i noticed that when they are examined they say this morning that i got them 11 hours ago, but that is actually when i placed them on display.

    Thank you
    Posted 10 months ago by Real Lunchbox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • so cool! hopped in game right before work . i am 14hours late to seeign this update- but so cool! cant wait to get hoem tonight and play. but for now off to work with me .. ;)
    Posted 10 months ago by serenitycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One great addition would be to allow us to fill the picture frames with photos made using the Snapshotting skill
    Posted 10 months ago by Kitsune Kyomoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've enjoyed playing with the new house - thanks for the opportunity - but in all honesty I'm a little underwhelmed.  The decor options available right now strike me as more appropriate to the real world than Glitch; they don't hold a candle to my bog house.  However, I'm aware that this is just the beginning and you can't release everything at once; I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.

    I love that I can move to and from my house so easily! That's definitely a win.  Thank you.
    Posted 10 months ago by martian-b Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks TS! the new houses are looking great so far!
    I am a little nervous that most things will be bought with credits or subscriptions....one thing i love about glitch is that you really don't feel too far behind the people with subscriptions. I hope that there are plenty of housing items/upgrades available for free! 

    also, only three or four of my trophies transferred over. don't know if that's a bug or not. just thought i'd let you know!

    will we be able to change the exterior *look* of our homes?

    if i tell one of my friends to meet me at my house in five minutes...will they be able to do so if i am not linked to their signpost?? how do we find our friends houses?

    thanks again for all you do. i have never been a gamer of any sort....and i just adore this game. 

    mwah!
    Posted 10 months ago by Beans, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
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