Housing Mechanics

(formerly just about the ratings)

Last time I made a thread about housing, it was mostly about blocks the system could use. This one is more about mechanics and stuff.

1: Ratings

I've had my housing plot open sometimes and people have come over and said ''If this was Hypixel housing, I'd give this house a cookie'' and stuff like that. Hell, there was even one time where a horde of moderators + Salted came to my housing plot and said that it was good, even suggesting that likes should be added to housing


So I thought for a while about suggesting this, and now I finally will.

It's simple. Doing /housing rate on a housing plot will bring up a GUI like this but more intuitive and without the durability bar


Each glass pane represents a rating for the house. Yellow is amazing, orange is good, white is neutral, gray is bad, red is terrible.

Each rating goes into the overall rating for the house, which shows up when it is hovered over in the public islands menu. The overall rating would be 1-5 stars. If you had only ever gotten good ratings, you would have 5 stars. If you got a few bad ratings among them, you would have 4.5 stars.

That's pretty much all I have to say, I'd like to see a simple rating system like this implemented

2: Tags and naming

Looking for something specific? Well, it's hard right now. You'll have a difficult time finding showcases and stuff when there's mostly arenas and stuff. This would fix it.

First of all, going into the housing settings menu would have a ''Name + Tag'' button. Clicking it will have a selection of tags and one nametag at the top. Clicking the top one will allow you to type in a name for your plot. Then, the tags. These would include:

Town
Showcase
Arena
Hangout
Parkour
Misc

Here is the GUI


3: Tools

Building your housing plot can be a pain. Unlike in normal minecraft, there's no /fill function. So I have some tools for housing that could be cool to see

1: Trowel

In the minecraft Quark mod, there's an item called the Trowel. It randomly selects an item in your hotbar and places it when used. This is great for block mixing, as it creates natural-looking block mixtures. This would be really useful to see in housing.

2: Tape measure

Using this item on a placed block will allow you to drag it to a length you want it to be. This is good for making walls, but you can only use it if you have enough blocks to fill the desired area

 

Unbreakable: 1b should fix that

Anyway interesting idea - would housing be listed by rank? (Or could be filtered to be shown like that)

 

What if a player opened their housing to the public and people gave it terrible just to bully that person? Maybe it should be togglable for each plot owner, or only +1 like or not like instead of grades.


I dont see the use of the tools, because those are things that can be done by hand. Since the plot is rather small it wouldnt take too much time to build stuff by hand. But hey, not saying its a bad idea, just that I wouldnt use it prob.

The tags is an awesome idea!
I'd also like to see housing be public even if youre not on your island and maybe also like a guild/party invite so you dont have to invite several people / make it public just to show to a larger group.

 

That is a problem I considered, but for whatever reason I didn't make any attempt to find a solution to it

At least 1.20.2 allows you to have it open as long as you're there, no typing /housing public needed.