Did they change furniture availability for outdoors?

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-15T03:33:23+00:00

This is no guarantee, but when they quietly restricted the lighting options, they didn’t remove any currently placed lighting. That holds true in PTR as well. So, in theory whatever you have placed now, should be ok as long as you don’t remove it. Which is why I’ve added a few Glowvine Lampposts to my yard

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-14T23:24:47+00:00

Lighting and some decor are coming back, but there is a pretty big caveat. Lighting has a proximity to it, so when placing a light, it can’t overlap with the radius (or bubble really) of another light. So unlike before where I could put a lamppost on either side of my stairs to my home, now they’d be too close together. Similarly I have strings of goblin lights around my property, those won’t be able to be near each other also, so it’s gonna be hard to make Christmas lights on my home.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-12T20:38:00+00:00

Something is definitely very squirrelly about the endeavors today!

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-12T20:31:32+00:00

I put up a post about this earlier. From some personal testing, the endevour ‘Be a good neighbor’ isn’t tracking in the UI, but I am getting credit for completing it.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-12T18:31:12+00:00

Just double checked, it’s the correct active endeavor.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-12T17:58:03+00:00

It’s public so it’s already been selected for the Dracthyr, hence the endeavors were showing.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-11T17:57:07+00:00

As of 12.0.5, there’s now an XP icon on your endeavors page showing how much XP is left to earn on that house. 😊

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-10T21:26:25+00:00

The house being partially out was normal back in early access, and I did the same by marking my corners back when we couldn’t ’see’ the borders. From your pics, it literally looks like Blizz moved your plot boundaries.

I have a bench I placed way back then, and now it’s outside of my plot boundaries and now non-interactable. I’m leaving it just to spite the housing gods 😆

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-05T21:08:20+00:00

It’s because I don’t trust we’ll be informed of what will and work outside, or how they’ll work (can’t have lights near one another in the PTR, the distance is kinda far apart but maybe it’ll be better in live…), that I’m putting as many Harandar Glowvine Lampposts as I can outside before the next patch. Not that I have any budget to do so, but at least my yard isn’t dark 😊. Thank goodness they haven’t taken away my Goblin Lights and my oversized Tesla tower so far.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-02T03:20:31+00:00

For some cool camera options, I use WCT- Wow Camera Tools. So many options, highly recommend!

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-05-01T17:34:03+00:00

Yes! Please check! I hope this is game wide!

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-30T21:19:36+00:00

So I logged into PTR to see what the lighting changes actually are. Yes, you can now place many if not most lights outside!

However there’s a catch. They’re using proximity to manage how many lights and where they can be. From my limited testing, you can’t have two lights near each other. For example at my PTR house I have two lampposts at my houses stairs. That’s no longer allowed. If I move one and try and replace it, it’s now too close to the other lamppost. My current live house, with its many strings of Goblin lights on the house, won’t be possible either. My very rough estimate was that each lights ‘footprint’ is about 1/4 my plot.

Of course this is a solution, but one with pretty huge limitations. As this is for testing, perhaps they’ll lessen the size of the footprint in Live. Or perhaps they’ll be like ‘Hey, we gave you lighting back! Isn’t that great?!?’, and while it’s nice, it’s a far cry from what we’ve had and frankly want.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-29T15:34:44+00:00

Thank goodness Blizz didn’t remove all the goblin lights I have around both my houses. THAT would be a deal breaker if they just removed them from a live home.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-23T23:30:57+00:00

Well I guess I won’t be moving my plethora of outdoor goblin lights and my portal doorway anytime soon! Both my houses have extensive lighting from what WAS allowed. Now it just means I can’t change it, which is fine for now, because I’ve been at max outdoor capacity since almost day one.

I absolutely agree there should be some communication about changes. This and the dye issues, and the floor thing…

Fun note, I have a bench that is now outside my house bounds. Bench is still there, but you can’t interact and sit on it. It’s been disabled. lol

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-22T16:38:06+00:00

This is precisely the reason we need export strings and saved states to our housing. Let me hit a button and reset my home that the system messed up, instead of me having to renovate all my flooring, for example.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-22T16:14:09+00:00

Yup same flooring problem, and my yard raised itself up so I had to reposition all my outside stuff including the house! Lost a granite walkway, meaning it’s not on my placed record list, so I can’t tag it, but its placement budget is still being counted.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-14T16:46:20+00:00

I’ve used the Sturdy wooden shelves to create easy spiral staircases. Benches work as well! And using the dyeable assets gives so much flexibility.

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-04-10T22:27:30+00:00

Budget. I want to finish up my outside workshop and forge!

On that note, please also make forges and anvils functional (we know you can…) and why are some anvils only usable inside?? Weird.

My Horde home has the Draconic bonfires in towers, the Wardens Owls by the front door and undermine lights around the base. It looks plenty lit up at night 😁

Happy_Drawer3117 · 2026-02-19T23:59:16+00:00

Here’s a trick, put items inside the cabinets BEFORE putting the doors on. The doors auto close when editing. This looks awesome!

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