After a short time being removed from the Alpha, Housing has returned! Blizzard detail what’s new in week 2 of testing.
Decorating the outside of our houses is a big deal, and testing for it has begun! From flamingo lagoons to the actual walls and roof of the house, new decor items at the vendors, as well as rotating our house on the plot, there’s plenty new to check out.
Housing has been re-enabled. Here are the updates in Midnight Alpha Week 2:
What’s New in Alpha Week 2
- Outside decoration should now be enabled, allowing you to decorate the outside of your house. Build the flamingo lagoon of your dreams! This also means you can move and rotate your house around your plot as well.
- Similarly, you should also be able to customize the exterior of your house with various chimneys, roof options, dormers, and other architectural delights.
- A variety of decor is now available at the Neighborhood vendors. Shop away!
Fixed Issues
- The UI to select the destination house when visiting is no longer slow to load.
- A whole lot of other less visible fixes have been made!
Known Issues
- If you’re customizing your exterior and then you swap to any of the decor editing modes (Basic, Advanced, Customize, or Cleanup) the decor editing in that mode might not work.
- Workarounds:
- Avoid swapping straight between exterior customization to any of the other modes by exiting the House Editor completely.
- If you do end up in this stuck state in a Decor mode, exit the House Editor completely, and re-enter it.
- Workarounds:
- While editing the decor outside, if you try to move decor too far outside the plot boundaries, player movement might stop working or your client might crash.
- Workarounds:
- Don’t move stuff outside the edges of your plot.
- If your movement gets stuck, log out and back in.
- Workarounds:
- The red outline and gridlines that signify an “Invalid location” sometimes won’t show when moving decor or the House Exterior to an invalid location.
- The House Exterior may float off the ground slightly while dragging it. This is purely visual.
- Exterior doors are sometimes hard to click.
- Moving your house will reset your exterior fixtures so those will have to be set again if you move.
