[Housing] House

[Multitallented]

House - Increases max town population by 1. Reduces town daily power by 3, consume 1 days of food, and generates $25/day. Can be rebuilt from a Shack

Type: Structure (town tier 2), Size: 9x9

Research Cost: $500, Build Cost: $250

Requires: 4 (glass or thin glass), 48 (wood or log or cobblestone or stone or sand or clay or wool or glass), 16 (log or stone brick or sandstone or brick), 1 wood door, 2 chest, 1 furnace, 1 bed, 1 sign, 1 (wool or carpet)

Protections: BlockBreak, PvP, OpenDoors

 

[Multitallented]

@Balance Team what materials should be allowed in building houses?

I use a 2 material requirement. I like to require a lot of one material and half as much of a secondary material. The most common would be wood and logs, but I don't want to limit creativity. What should be allowed as complimentary materials?

 

[WitchOnaRampage]

@Multitallented please clarify what you mean by "allowed" vs "required"? And your "Requires" list in the first post - was this a list of possibles and are you now seeking to tie that down to definite requirements?

I was thinking a required secondary material might be glass panes but certainly not as much as half of the log/planks. Your min req of 4 panes or glass sounded reasonable.

Another idea, if it's possible, would be to require at least a small number of logs/planks/steps/slabs/fences/doors to be of the same wood type (seeing as fences and doors are now available in all the wood types in 1.8). However only a small number, so that players can still use multiple wood types in a house if they so choose.

 

[Multitallented]

Sorry, let me try explaining a little better here: http://herocraftonline.com/main/threads/please-help-me-design-structures.55051/

 

[Ruger392]

Stonebrick logs wood etc

 

[ShadowRavynn]

Can't you just allow any of the building blocks to be used in each place? why do we need to limit what types of items the player can use?

Requires: 4 (glass or thin glass), 48 (wood or log or cobblestone or stone or sand or clay or wool or glass), 16 (log or stone brick or sandstone or brick), 1 wood door, 2 chest, 1 furnace, 1 bed, 1 sign, 1 (wool or carpet)

can you not instead say something to the effect of any combination of 64 blocks of the following types: (and list out the allowable blocks only once)

 

[Multitallented]

Can't you just allow any of the building blocks to be used in each place? why do we need to limit what types of items the player can use?

Requires: 4 (glass or thin glass), 48 (wood or log or cobblestone or stone or sand or clay or wool or glass), 16 (log or stone brick or sandstone or brick), 1 wood door, 2 chest, 1 furnace, 1 bed, 1 sign, 1 (wool or carpet)

can you not instead say something to the effect of any combination of 64 blocks of the following types: (and list out the allowable blocks only once)

I can, if that's what you want. I figured that having 2 independent sets would promote more creativity instead of just making one giant cobble box. Don't think that people won't do that. I've seen things .... @_@

The other side of my argument is that people should be able to tell what kind of structure they are looking at.

 

[ShadowRavynn]

yes - that IS a nice feature to try and get ppl to be more creative

what if you then say something like...

48 of any type of building block + 16 of any OTHER complimentary block type?

 

[Multitallented]

Yes that's what I'm trying to do. What are those blocks though?

 

[agedbear]

@ShadowRavynn read my looong post on this thread
http://herocraftonline.com/main/threads/please-help-me-design-structures.55051/
I think that you and I are on the same page with being allowed any type of block as a building material for the main structure. To define what the building is we should require the use of certain decorative blocks.