Chests

Alpha-1 chest concept art.

Alpha-1 chest 3D renders.

Chests are a type of furniture that provides localized storage within a specific house.

• Players must obtain and place storage containers in their player-owned housing.
• Different grades of storage containers have different inventory capacities.
  • There are restrictions on the grades of storage containers available in different types of houses.
• Access permissions can be set to allow others to access a player's personal storage devices.

• • Personal storage chests may be set to permit access by family or guild members.
  • Transfer of resources and materials to alts will only be possible via player housing storage, as this is local to the specific house.
• Players are prohibited from moving goods out of depositories within a node following a siege declaration against that node.
  • Gatherables and processed goods that were stored in in-node housing and apartment storage chests become lootable upon a successful siege against the parent node. These do not become lootable if the node survives the siege- even if the housing buildings are destroyed or damaged during the siege.
• Corrupt players are able to utilize private storage in their Freeholds.

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

• Personal caravans may be launched from any point of storage (including chests).

Warehouses

Storage chest in an Alpha-1 freehold.

Storage points exist at warehouses within nodes and in chests (storage containers) that can be placed in freeholds and static in-node housing.

Household security

A permissions system will enable an owner to grant access to specific parts of their housing.

• Ability to open the door and enter the home.
• Access to crops.
• Ability to deposit or withdraw items from storage containers.
• Permission to use furniture or crafting stations.

A property has a single owner.

• Marriage enables family size to increase by one so that housing access can be shared.
• Access lists can be used to mimic co-ownership.
• Payment of taxes may be via a "gentleman's agreement".
• Mayors are able to allocate treasury funding to hire mercenary NPCs to defend their node during sieges.

It'll be a single owner based system for those types of properties- for properties in general, but it doesn't prevent players obviously from you know collaborating and pooling resources in order to achieve certain achievements in the game. – Steven Sharif

Carpentry

Empyrean furniture 3D renders.

Carpentry (furniture making) is a Crafting profession in Ashes of Creation.

• Quality furniture is able to be crafted in-game based on the skill of the craftsperson.
• Furnishing items with in-game functionality will be restricted entirely to those created by the carpentry profession.
• Crafted furniture may contain bonuses based on the quality and grade of the furniture.
  • For example: A cook using a higher grade stovetop will be able to craft food items with improved stats, such as an increased freshness period.

Your ability to craft more luxurious furniture comes with how much of a master craftsman you become in the Furnishing profession. – Steven Sharif

Housing decorations

Alpha-1 housing decorations.

Pre-alpha furniture and decor concept art.

Players may decorate their player housing and other types of buildings.

• Houses will be empty when purchased.
  • Players may be able to upgrade to pre-furnished sets when they purchase their home.
  • Pre-furnished sets will be almost entirely visual and aesthetic. Only items crafted by the Carpentry profession will have in-game functionality.

• Players may place furniture, artwork/paintings and other decor items in their player housing.
  • Items may only be placed in locations that are suitable for that item. For example: Statues, may only be placed in exterior locations (of Freeholds and Static housing).

• Each size, grade, and type of player-owned housing determines the number and type of items that can be placed in it. For example: You can place only the best furniture in mansion grade in-node housing.
  • Building skins may change the shape of a homestead but the space available for furnishings should remain consistent.

  When it comes to if you put a cosmetic house on top of your normal house, those cosmetics should be similar in size. The shape will change, so maybe the room layout will be different, but it'll still be like a one-story building. – Margaret Krohn

• Characters will be able to interact with furniture items such as sit in chairs and lay in beds.
• Players will not be able to alter structural aspects such as windows and walls.
• There may be decor items that are representative of unique weapons that are available in the game.

Quality furniture can be crafted in-game based on the skill of the craftsperson and availability of recipes, components and workbenches suitable to craft them.

• Furnishing items with in-game functionality will be restricted entirely to those created by the Carpentry profession.

Your ability to craft more luxurious furniture comes with how much of a master craftsman you've become in the furnishing profession... This isn't like you know, I want my house to look good, I got to fork over 50 bucks in cosmetics... Players can craft in-game based on their dedication and focus in that aspect the artisan tree. – Steven Sharif

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

• Prized items such as achievements and trophies may be displayed.

Player inventory

Alpha-2 inventory user interface early preview.

Personal inventory limits are tied to a backpack. Material and gatherable items are subject to quantity rather than weight limits. Caravans and Mules are intended to be the primary mode of transportation of goods beyond these limits.

• Mules can carry roughly 10 times more than backpacks. Caravans can carry roughly 10 times more than mules.

• Caravans will have carrying capacity limits and customizable stats, such as defensive points, speed and number of hired NPC guards.
  • In addition to expanded inventory capacity, caravans also provide ancillary benefits relating to successfully completing trade routes and other quests.
  • Items transported by caravan must be stored in crates.

Inventory capacity will be relatively limited for new characters.

• Inventory expansion and weight management training certificates are available in the Galleria at City stage economic nodes.
• A player's inventory has sections for different types of items. Quest items for example will not fill a player's regular inventory capacity.

• Item stacks will in general have quantity limits based on the type of item.
  • The stacking limit of potions might be one hundred. The stacking limit of food items might be 999 or 1000.

Players will have the ability to locate items that they have stored in various locations (such as personal storage and node warehouses).

We want you to know where the things are; and then the meaningful aspect of that thing is traveling to those locations to access some of those things, particularly as it relates to materials and raw gatherables. – Steven Sharif

Backpacks

Backpack concept art.

A backpack is an item crafted by artisans that provides personal inventory space.

• The higher level the backpack, the greater the inventory space.
• Different backpack types cater to different activities.
  • Gatherer's backpacks are intended to carry gatherables.
  • Adventurer's backpacks are intended to carry consumables and items.

In order to roleplay you need to be able to represent kind of what your character is doing in that world and you know part of what animation is doing is creating these sockets on the let's say the belt or the backpack that you know can plug in certain types of props or items that are created by the character team. – Steven Sharif

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See also

• Housing decorations
• Player housing
• Storage
• Crates