i have had issues with items moving after i exit my house, not a 100% fix but i usually just replace the piece that keeps moving, and about 90% of the time that fixes it, sometimes i even have to replace the piece 2-3 times, maybe its an item issue from the vendors at your housing vendors
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It’s not only neighborhood vendor items that do this. Those are just the most common because they’re the most useful for building custom stuff.
In about 6 weeks.
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According to these forums, it is a huge problem. Some people said that they’d quit housing over it. But, for me, I’ve had a problem once – it was with a rug that I stuck on a wall. I got rid of the rug idea and that was that. My house has stayed solid and in place for a very long time now.
It is weird to read the complaints as if it were thousands of pieces making the house unusable, but I’d have thought that collectively we could name the pieces to avoid. At a guess it would be a few rugs and people trying to do tricks with the wall decor units.
It affects other items as well – beams and platforms among others. Basically, anything you rotate could become affected, especially if you use shift to rotate.
People who do a lot of free building are of course affected the most because they’re turning shelves into staircases and otherwise whirling things around in 3 dimensions.
There was a panel or interview around Blizzcon where a dev talked about the problem. It involved words like “Euler” and “quaternion” and “mathematical ambiguity” all of which are outside my realm of expertise.
Confirmed devs on Discord have cautioned that the incoming fixes won’t solve everything, but they should solve a lot of it.
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I’ve never been able to reproduce the bug, but from reading the forums regularly, it seemed many items -could- do it and it wasn’t consistent. I’ve wallpapered with rugs with 0 issues and no clear idea of what I’m doing differently to be “bug proof”.
I’ve had it with various things, Hammers from the Dracthyr endeavor, Cushions, once or twice with forks from the Dracthyr endeavor and mirrors, once or twice with the nelf elune basins. Once or twice with barrels and chests. Though the largest offenders of that were the hammers, cushions, and barrels. Used a few of them for gym equipment and they’d constantly become askew. Typically what worked for me was picking them up and not using the shift key for adjusting rotation when placing them back down, but wasn’t a 100% fix.
It really just depends on the house and how you’re decorating it, and also maybe luck? For some players it does impact large sections of their build.
I can see how it sounds weird if you’re not having the same issue, my first thought when I ran into it was “oh no everyone’s going to think I’m crazy if I report this so it’ll never get fixed” lol; I’m glad it turned out I wasn’t the only one complaining about it.
Housing is already incredibly limited if you’re going for a non-human/orc/elf aesthetic, so for me I wasn’t really able to scrap my moving decor and pivot to a different idea…I was already on like plan E at that point
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