How I Think Housing Can Be Improved.

So I've been playing with the Housing feature for a little and I have some feedback.

Player Housing, for the most part, is quite bland, I feel. It gives some fun customisation and a place to hang out, but it feels somewhat lifeless.

My suggestions would be:

1. Give more life to the island.

On the island, you've only got static NPCs for company. Of course, you could invite another player, but the island would still feel a little soulless.

I propose the ability to place mobile NPCs like town citizens or animals. This would add just a little bit of movement to the island, which currently has none. Perhaps we could even have our own guard and golem NPCs, or maybe have a group of chickens wandering around. It would make the island feel a lot more lively, I reckon. It would also reduce the silence on the island.

Another possibility is to allow pets to roam on the island. For example, if I own many Wybels, I could let them all live on the island simultaneously, walking around and such. It could give some nice incentive to get more pets, and it would be really neat to see all of our pets living together in one place.​

2. Allow the player to do things on their island.

Currently, the island serves only to have a place where you can put the crafting stations and NPCs. Other than that, you do nothing on the island. There's so much missed potential here that could be further developed.

A potential addition to the island would be the ability to place resource nodes. Probably not too many, maybe limited to 3 or so of each type. It would be nice to be able to relax on the island and go fishing, or farming, or mining. Perhaps allow us to buy nodes using the corresponding crafting materials. It would be cool to have a Gudgeon node or a Birch tree in my backyard so that I have something to do.

Or, perhaps we could have the ability to make our own minigames on our island? Doesn't have to be anything too serious, just a fun game to relax to while on the island.​

Those are my ideas. Thanks for reading!

 

I like the idea of having pets roam around on the island!
Not sold on the idea of nodes though - I'm sure it could be done in a way to make it work, but it would be a really inefficient way to do profs and if you could have loads of nodes, then it would be too easy.

 

Oh and make everything half price