I can build stairs upward, but why can’t I build stairs downwards?
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It would seem like an easy thing to do, but I guess there was some issue preventing it. I’d have to delve into the past threads to find if it was something from blizz or someone was speculating, but yeah, basements would be fun to have.
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The way I did it is I built floor one and two. Then I did floor three but further away and then empty stair down I think you can do stair down to from up there and boom basement after adding a room. Granted in my head I know it’s on the first floor just not touching the actual first floor.
This does require a bigger room budget but workaround is workaround.
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I assume it’s because there is no “down” with the way they designed the house instance.
Honestly, I think the best case scenario is that they just let us move the spawn point to a different floor once you make one.
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In my horde home I have stairs going up to level 2 from the entryway. I have a big room up there and then in the back I will have am open stairwell that I’ll put my own stairs in going “down” to the basement labs and dungeon area. Best we can do right now unfortunately.
I’m not sure if it’s still possible, but some people found a way to build a basement below their first floor. They were messing around with different connecting room configurations to trigger the ability to build downwards. It clearly wasn’t something Blizzard had intended as you would disconnect the moment your feet ever left the ground while in that floor -1 space.
If I remember correctly, they do very much so intend on adding them. It’s just going to take time.
Not too far from my house is the vendor for the spider webs, in a basement. They clearly know why we would want these. It creates immersion disparity, IMHO.
I created a work around by using a portal door that brings you into a older, basement/ storage area, stairs lead around to a door that make it feel like you are leaving a basement and entering on the first floor.
Adding a functional door on that floor helps sell that illusion.
However, as has been proposed before, just the ability to move the normal front door up one level would fix this. It would require a mandatory stairwell room naturally. But the door would be positionable on either floor level.
This could be a Level 10 alternate entrance feature.
I think they would need to make a foyer room that acts as the entrance wherever you put it.
I do not pretend to know why they can’t currently do basements.
My limited understanding leads me down a path of thought that is: we’re instanced.
Why not make the entry floor the second floor and let an optional basement be the first floor?
I manually made one by lifting my house and building a structure underneath it, but it’s not connected to the house functions, of course. I want either an actual basement or an access point from under a door you lift like another home in the neighborhood.