I was recently informed that Mr. Trelawny is the staff member that deals with housing so if you wouldn't mind could you answer a few questions I am curious about?

1. How do you go around deciding what things are good candidates to become housing items?

2. Is there a chance we get no auction housing item drops in the future?

3. When creating a new house to put into the game, where do you start? How do you figure out how you want it to look? Do you do the inside or the outside first?

4. This isn't really a question, but more of a comment. Can we please see more statue housing items in the game? I see amazing looking statues as scenary in all the worlds and it makes me sad that we can't have them as housing items.

Thank you for your time.

3. (This answer comes from our Art Lead.)
We start with a creative meeting to figure out an overall theme. Should the house be more Skull Island with waterfalls and swaying palm trees or more Aquilan with Roman architecture and brick pathways?

From there the house vision is sent to our team of amazing concept artists who turn words into works of art. They work with both the creative team and the 3D artists to make sure that the house hits the mark both in terms of overall theme as well as playability. Is the front door close enough to the dock? Are there interesting spaces for players to put furniture and set up "rooms"?

Once the concept is approved it's handed over to our environment art team. The first step is to gray-box the environment, following the concept and vision, so that we can run around in it and make sure it has that right feel to it. Cool vistas, hidden nooks, interesting rooms, they all start to take shape during this process. After the environment is gray-boxed and everyone is happy with the overall feeling then the artist will start adding the detail that will give it that final look. Geometry and texture detail, props, lighting, particles, etc. Typically the outside is built first and the interior second, but this isn't always the case.

(Mr Trelawny again ) Once all the artwork is done I attach all the parts in our design tool to turn it into a useable house. The artists do all the pretty work, I just use invisible nails.

4. There are quite a few statues out there, especially in Aquilla. Once the Aquila furniture is finished I am sure that you will be able to find one or two of them around.

Kelsey Fireheart on Jun 19, 2013 wrote:

I would love to know if and when we will be seeing more houses? I would love to see houses from Cool Ranch, Marleybone, Aquila, etc.

Thanks!

I would like to know this too. I've been expecting new houses with the updates, (especially with the MB/AQ update) but haven't seen them anywhere; not even bundles or the like.

One-Eyed Jack on Jun 20, 2013 wrote:

If? Absolutely! When? Why, sometime in the future of course! (Sorry we can't give specific dates here.)

He mentioned something about a Skull Island home which I never seen before and the closet I come is the Buccaneer Den. It does have a waterfall and some Palm Trees but he said Watersfall's so that must mean another Skull Island home and he did mention something about a Aquilan home so we're probably getting that to because you said we will be seeing more homes! :D

Mr. Trelawny, can you answer this question: Why was the Life Fountain Housing Item removed? It was removed when I almost had 25,000 gold. I wanted it so bad

Calamity Finch: I've been able to put pillows on tables. Don't have a bed yet, so I haven't tried.

SlightlyMadWizard on Jun 22, 2013 wrote:

Calamity Finch: I've been able to put pillows on tables. Don't have a bed yet, so I haven't tried.

Yea I have done that but somehow, it just doesn't.......feel right.

@Calamity Finch: Pillows can only be placed on floors and on tables, sadly beds and couches don't have the right "surface" for pillows. It’s a limitation of the system, but thank you for your feedback.

@Coolster: The Life Fountain was removed from the Crown Shop before launch at the direction of our Creative Director at the time.

@The Highlander Fox: I'm not sure that it was recently removed, but you are able to buy the Straw Hut from the Crown Shop for either 1,500 Crowns or 7,500 gold.