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Deco Suggestion: Arcanist Statue
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I've found that these specific statues (with the arm outstreched) look good holding items aloft: Lanterns, fishing poles, pickaxes.... just grab your deco tool, place whatever item you want next to the statue, raise the item until the statue looks like its holding it... and you have a themed statue!
Alternatively the warrior statue can be used as a large 'vase' if you raise certain vegetation to cover the head. (although the sword still kind of sticks out a bit)
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those strands of shells from ML looks very good on em.
Brightest Light?
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I think the brightest would have to be the lantern that came with Tokuno expansion. I can't remember if it's the paper lantern, think it is. That lets out so much light, I pulled them down and replaced them. Lanterns would come in 2nd for brightness, but a good type of brightness.
A few more observations:
Candlebras and lampposts seem to light up the most floor space.
Tinker-made burners (looks like a candle with a metal halo/stand) seem to give the most muted light and work well under plants for a soft glow.
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Little tip for lighting, lock down multiple of the same light source item on the same tile, in the same z axis, and the intensity of the light is increased. The difference is subtle at first, but you can build it up all the way to a solid circle of light with no feathering round the edge, if you really like (useful for say, making a spotlight on a stage)
Display cases
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The monster statuettes are hard to display, without just tossing them around. I've actually been meaning to figure this out for a while, since I collect stuff I need to figure out how to display, anyways I just made some cases out of an east facing goza matt, some black cloth, and some stacks of silver coins:
This is an illusory display case so for the final product it requires a black staff for the 2 tile case and 2 black staffs for the 3 tile - which poke out a little on the east end but by now I don't care as I'm tired of messing with it. It's also somewhat limiting since you have to use this floor type at least for the area around the cases.
With "lids", this only has the box made from the floor tiles at the base:
Full, with black staffs raised up in front of the statues:
Directions for which tiles go where:
Multi-tiered:
Vendor or costume displays:
Area rugs
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Sarsmi:</font color=blue>
I made area rugs! I think I like them. We'll see tomorrow. There's definitely potential with the 'fringe' floor tile.
Sunflower
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Hazard:</font color=blue>
I saw a sunflower in my travels that you might like (as for recreating, I didn't toggle the individual pieces so you'll have to guess if interested).
Guildstones
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Guildstones now are just like any other house add-on (except that ones can't be created of course).
If you axe the guildstone it will turn into a deed, and 'remember' the guild information attached to it, so that when replaced it keeps the same information it used to.
Basically a form of rare deco, which holds a lot of strong nostalgia feelings with the original owners/guildmasters.
A new bird
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I was decorating today and noticed this little possibility by accident. A new bird perhaps?
It's made of a Diseased Bark and Tainted Seeds.
Tainted Seeds come as loot from Tangle, the red bog thing mini-boss in Blighted Grove. The Diseased Bark if one of the new rare crafting ingrediends that Lady Melisande, the peerless boss in Blighted Grove, drops.
Scarecrow
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I don't know about kickass, but it's pretty easy to do...
parrot perch
tall straw hat
squash
dyed leather do
I zoomed in so it's easier to see how high to raise stuff:
Rune Map
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Here is a picture of the roof of my house.
This mini map has active runes and soon to be books for the cities dungeons and shrines of tramel and fel. Public house. Location in rune book.
Housing Tile Fireplaces
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http://users.lmi.net/~noodle/netathene/info/HouseDecDesign/Fireplaces.jpg
Marble and Obsidian Plinth
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You can walk up onto it from any direction, and you can even still use it as an arcane circle! Voila, one marble and obsidian plinth.
Just for ref for anyone else who wants to do this or similar:
- Place the arcane circle
- Lock down each piece as per image in an above post (Thanks again Sarsmi)
- Enter customisation mode
- Place stairs as per page linked in an above post (I had trouble getting it to work when I did the sides in any old order, WNSE worked every time though)
- Raise each piece of arcane circle 6 steps
- Place all 9 goza mats by targeting the relevent square through the circle (A bit tricky, especially when they're black )
- Raise each goza mat 5 steps
Stacking runebooks for a rune library
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This is a picture of some ideas that Sarsmi came up with for displaying your books from a thread I posted early last year that might help you out with setting up your place.
As to the pics of my library, here ya go...
I used a combination of the two methods I outlined in my first post (was going to use one of Sarsmi's ideas, but I don't have enough lockdowns available anymore ). This is the first floor, mainly cities and Tokuno and Malas locations.
Second floor is my mining and resources. The two empty shelves on the west side are for a wood set once I get around to completing it.
Third floor has the treasure hunting book, lockpicking training, and regular monster hunting books.
And on the roof are the quests, rares and training books among others that just didn't really fit into the other catagories. I also designed a recall rune into the floor tiles on the roof for people to locate us easily in thier radars.
As to the lockpicking training house, I only used benches there since I had more available lockdowns over there. So what I did was built the second floor around the books...
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Personally, I like east facing libraries better. Plain books look like draws with handles. Here is my library:
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Here's a couple ideas fer ya ;-)
First shot is of my personal rune library, located in Avalon, Baja, still growing, and will probably end up expanding eventually, to a larger room Each set of colored books is a different 'of Baja' set. Black books are 'Dungeons of Baja', Gold- 'Banks of Baja', Blue- 'Moongates of Baja', Agapite- 'Mage Shops of Baja', silver- 'Shrines of Baja'. All sets are alphabetical and encompass all facets from Felucca to the Tokuno Isles.
This next pic is from the Avalon Rune Library, owned by Hazard. The first floor is open, which is Felucca runes; 'bout anywhere you would want to go
The books are housed in wooden shelves, with a rune on top of each telling what is in that shelf. Shelves are set to the public but locked down, as are the books, so anyone can access them. One of the oldest on Baja fer sure, Est. 1998, and with a staggering 56,570 visitors.
Curtains
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Using the different cloth bolts you can buy from tailors and weavers, you can make your own drawn curtains to seperate rooms:
Using plates and barrels to make granite storage containers
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Sarsmi:</font color=blue>
Tinker up different colored plates to be raised on top of full or empty barrels for colorful granite storage!
Chipmunks
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Made out of wool, a ball of yarn, a gold coin, sandals, a fancy shirt, and other items:
Turkey
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2 Bola balls, one raised one level higher than the other (the bottom one is dyed grey to be the plate), and then two lamb legs:
Decorating with monster statues
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Because they are all dif shapes sizes and colors you either have to just make em into a feature or scatter them around your house. I made a hall of statues in my castle to display them on goza mats raised to allow 2 statues per tile.
http://members.westnet.com.au/hjs_echo/pics/statuehall.jpg
In my previous two houses I put an actual art gallery style arrangement to display stuff. This is a pic of one of them.
http://members.westnet.com.au/hjs_echo/pics/gallery.jpg
Ankh Table
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I'm still decorating this as I go, but wanted to share it so far:
http://www.duaxmachine.com/alexander/TABLE_02.jpg
My ankh table, complete with a seat kept in honor of the King, snowy scenes of his shrines of Virtue, and small details as I add them. The rune with the blood underneath is obviously Sacrifice, and the rose on the other side of the snowglobe is "A Whispering Rose From Julia", the Companion representative of Sacrifice, so you can see the themes I'm trying for. Not the I think I'll luck into anymore roses named for Companions but it was a nice touch.
I'm trying to decide whether to put food on the table or not. *sighs*
Making Grape Vines
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MissEcho</font color=blue>
This pic shows how I did them for my wild west theme, on the roof of my shop in luna. I leave the roof free and just practice deco up there when the urge takes me lol
These vines are simple with two pocket dip (sth) 4 gnarled staffs, some vines and grape bunches. If you do it using east pocket dips you need to get staffs as loot (of monsters) to face the right way or use something else, logs would work.
http://members.westnet.com.au/hjs_echo/pics/westerntheme.jpg
I have also done a pergola with staffs going in both directions in a number of houses. This pic is not one of mine (couldnt find a screenie), but shows basically the idea. This uses nightshade and grapes as the vines.
http://members.westnet.com.au/hjs_echo/pics/pergola2.jpg
Pool Tables
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http://uo.stratics.com/homes/famous/houses/images/sphyrthird.jpg
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It looks like four large tables, dyed green, set together with some stringless yarn balls you can get from the NPC weaver, along with a black staff from the NPC smith and a glacial staff. Oh, and some beeswax from the provisioner
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Here is one I did years ago...
http://uo.stratics.com/homes/famous/houses/images/chrisVillaBtmFlr.jpg
6 bench's
15 green cloths
several colored gems
Black Staff
Lanterns Shadow Colored Buclkers.
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I forgot I did a pool table on siege quite a while back. Not particularly impressive. I did bumpers/rails out of black cloth and used anvils to make the feet. I'd do it a lot different nowadays. One thing that is impressive, you can't buy yarn on siege - I found the stringless yarnballs at an idoc from a period in time when you could actually buy yarn from NPCs. I still have about 20 of them, somewhere. Largish uncropped pic:
http://forbidden.dough.net/~sarah/VixenSiege2ndfloorinside2.jpg
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I used to do em years ago...fairly simple.
http://sothebys.jon2s.com/pluffy/howto.html
Easter Bunny
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http://forbidden.dough.net/~sarah/Bunnies.jpg
http://forbidden.dough.net/~sarah/SideBunny.jpg
(For the first one)
You need:
1 tricorn hat
1 wide brim hat
1 skull cap
1 black pearl
four piles of wool
2 stringless yarn balls
jin baori
waraji and tabi
2 spider silk
For the white bunny you will need the ultra white wool (dread spider silk), make everything out of ultra white cloth except the jin baori (made from regular white tailor reward cloth), and possibly the wide brim hat (can also be made from the tailor bod reward white cloth).
For the brown bunny, make the waraji and tabi out of dark brown cloth. Dye the jin baori, the four wool stack, the skullcap, and tricorn hat all light brown. Dye the wide brim hat dark brown so that it matches the hue of the other items.
Dye the double stack of yarn balls pink or red, this is to make the bow tie.
Stack and lock down in this order:
waraji and tabi
double stack of wool
jin baori
single stack of wool
2 red or pink dyed yarn balls
single pile of wool
black pearl
skullcap
tricorn hat
On the tile to the north of the one you're working on, lock down the wide brim hat. On the tile east of the bunny stack one spider silk on top of the other and lock them both down.
raise tricorn hat all the way up (7)
raise wide brim 6
raise skullcap 5
raise black pearl 5
raise top wool 4
raise 2 stack yarn balls 2
raise next wool 2
raise jin baori 2
raise double wool stack 1
raise waraji and tabi 1
raise top spider silk 8
raise bottom spider silk 8
The basket next to the brown bunny is from the spring decor collection. You can also use an empty basket and parasitic plants with colored eggs on top and maybe throw some carrots in for good measure.
*Note: you can also use a stringless yarn ball to make a less fluffy tail, in place of the spider silk
(For the second one)
Lets see...
2 body sashes made from pure white cloth
2 barbed leaf gorgets (they cover the holes in the sashes), dyed luna white
tourmaline
5 dread spider silk
purple kasa
purple flower garland
barbed leather suneate, dyed luna white
tattsuke-hakama made from pure white cloth
On the main bunny tile:
stack and lock down tattsuke-hakama, single dread spider silk, double dread spider silk, suneate, single dread spider silk, kasa, single dread spider silk, barbed leaf gorget, body sash, and tourmaline.
One tile to the south of the main tile:
stack and lock down barbed leaf gorget, body sash
One tile to the east of the main tile:
stack purple flower garland
Raise everything so it looks like the picture. Might want to raise the body sash, leaf gorget, and tourmaline on the main tile first as they can hide behind other things pretty easy.
Craftable Containers
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If your decorating a house and can't remember what chest or elf container you saw and liked and want all the containers in a quick and easy place to see I made this.
http://users.lmi.net/~noodle/netathene/info/CraftCont/
Hiding a chimney/hearth of homefire chimney
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Can't say for sure, since Id on't own one of those yet...but if I remember correctly, the chimney doesn't go up through the floor above with the hearths. But if it does, you can do the three tiles in thing you mentioned. And actually, you can do alot of great things with a design like that. I use something simillar in my house to give my library a built-in bookcase look. Plus there's a post a little ways down of a guy on Catskills that set his walls up to make a recessed storage area where he hass his chests sitting at. Looked really good.
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yep, they do poke thru
In one house I had ample room, and it was a custom, so I just built a roof over that area and one carefully placed opening for the chimney to poke thru (pretty sure it was one... may have been two) and that looked okay, but as with all things UO it was just a smidge off
At the castle it pokes thru the ceiling onto the middle roof, and as we all know, until Sarsmi figures out that goza trick without a misuse of abilities I can't decorate up there to cover it with plants, which works fairly well in most cases.
If you're not a flowers-type person I remember reading one time that someone had deco'd the chimney to look like a wishing well.
But yeah, best way to go is to just move the walls in a bit.
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As DevilsOwn says, disguise with flowers, it does make a nice looking wishing well. You can also place an elven washbasin over the chimney that pokes through, and a tiny bit of the chimney will be visible underneath the washbasin. You could also create a walled enclosure hiding the chimney and then hang pictures on those walls. Or you could enclose the chimney with walls that make it look like a mantel, and have the chimney bits poking up look like bricks in a fireplace.
Before disguising:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9602/hearth000213vf.jpg
After disguising: (be sure you lock down the Heart of The HomeFire before you go into customize mode so you can see where it is when you customize. It's much better than hit and miss customizing.)
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2453/hearth000115in.jpg
Weapons Rack
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Here's the weapons rack I made for my smithy area in my old house. Not the greatest or anything, but I like the simple designs personally.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b19/Desperado_SE/weaponrack.jpg
