Blizzard is continuing to peel back the curtain on World of Warcraft’s in-the-works player-housing system, this time revealing new details about how players will be able to decorate the interior of their homes on Azeroth.
In a blog post, Blizzard outlined what will be possible when it comes to decorating. Inside their home, players will be able to freely erect walls and create rooms, and further customize each room’s wallpaper, ceiling, and flooring. Blizzard said players can customize the inside of their homes however they want by mixing and matching decor, flooring, and aesthetics. New objects made just for the player-housing feature will come with a large variety of color choices, allowing players to dye objects as they see fit.
Blizzard additionally clarified that just because a player’s house may look like a shack on the outside, it could be a mansion on the inside with few restrictions in terms of the size or number of rooms. The opposite also applies, as what appears to be a mansion on the outside could be a single room home on the inside. It’s all up to player preference.
When it comes to actually customizing their home’s interior, Blizzard is giving players some options. Interior decorating can be done in two different decorating modes: basic and advanced. In basic mode, objects will have collision with one another enabled but will interact with each other in a way that you would expect, such as a rug automatically aligning with the floor and sliding under other objects or a window automatically aligning with a wall. Individual objects that naturally go together, such as books on a bookshelf, will stick together in basic mode as well, allowing players to more freely move larger objects without having to manually move every small piece that may exist alongside it (like books on a bookshelf or mugs on a table).
While players will have some control over how to rotate and align objects in basic mode, it’s the advanced mode where they can get into the real nitty-gritty details. In advanced mode, objects do not have collision with one another, allowing players to move objects into walls if they so desire, as well as have far more granular control over object angles and orientations. Blizzard gives an example of employees using bushes and putting them in the walls using advanced mode to make garland or transforming a bed into the prow of a boat for display.
Blizzard previously detailed how housing in WoW will be available to “everyone” and won’t come with “exorbitant requirements,” differentiating it from other MMORPG housing systems. Houses in WoW will exist, at least to start, in one designated area for the Alliance and one for the Horde, with the ability to join or create neighborhoods with up to 50 other players.
WoW’s housing system is set to debut around the same time as the release of the game’s 11th expansion, Midnight, though it does not yet have a release date. Meanwhile, its latest content update, Undermine(d), finally took players to the titular goblin city.