World of Warcraft's Housing Feature Is Now Live, and Horde Players Are Desperately Trying to Reinvent Their Spiky Huts

World of Warcraft's lodging diagnostic launched this week for everyone who purchased the upcoming Midnight enlargement early. Though the diagnostic is inactive successful its aboriginal stages, players (including yours truly) are already losing hours upon hours creating elaborate homes with the decor available. But Horde players successful peculiar are truly struggling to contend with 1 large issue: their location exteriors are ugly.

Okay, that's a small mean. If you play an orc, oregon are into the orc aesthetics of spikes, flames, haphazard metallic plates, and slapdash woody boards nailed on, the Horde exteriors are fine. The contented is that a batch of the Horde - namely, everyone who doesn't play an orc - mostly prefers a less...grungey aesthetic. Alliance players besides lone get 1 exterior lodging option, but their homes are reasonably standard, inoffensive cottages that astir radical volition find tolerable astatine worst.

Unfortunately for anyone unhappy with what's connected offer, until Midnight afloat launches, this is it. You tin customize your exterior successful assorted ways by changing up extortion colors and chimney styles, but it's each successful your faction's default aesthetic. Blizzard has promised that Night Elf and Blood Elf exteriors volition get connected Midnight's release, with much options planned for aboriginal on. But for present you're stuck with either a cottage oregon a spike shack 1 mode oregon another.

Some players, similar myself, are conscionable trying to marque the champion of it with outdoor decorations. Here's my humble hut. You'd ne'er cognize that wrong is simply a cozy Shaman retreat, implicit with a tiny magical library, a snug kitchen, and a chromatic altar dedicated successful grant of the elements.

Home saccharine orc shack.

But a batch of players are getting far, acold much originative successful their attempts to subvert the shabby exterior design. You see, Blizzard's decoration tools are very, precise precise if you privation them to be, and tin disregard collision if you privation them to. Which has led to Horde players trying to disguise the orc-ness of their huts by covering them with...well, each sorts of different things.

For instance, this idiosyncratic turned their location into a bully cave:

This idiosyncratic took a ace astatine a much Blood Elf-looking style:

This idiosyncratic made thing elemental yet effective:

I deliberation this 1 is beauteous cool:

Unfortunately, successful doing this, 1 contented players are moving up against is that determination is a bounds to however overmuch decor you tin enactment outside, and galore of the objects radical are utilizing to screen up the orc turrets usage up a important information of that limit. As a result, if you privation to screen your location successful rocks, you can't bash overmuch other with your yard. It seems similar everyone is begging Blizzard to rise the exterior decor cap, an contented they told america they're good alert of and moving on.

Realistically, this is not a monolithic contented astatine the moment: we knew going successful that this was efficaciously an aboriginal entree diagnostic and immoderate functionality would beryllium limited. More than anything, it's comic to spot the lengths players volition spell to successful bid to get originative with the tools they person disposable to them. Just ideate what they'll beryllium susceptible of erstwhile they don't person to discarded each their outdoor decor abstraction connected large woody platforms.

World of Warcraft: Midnight launches connected March 2, 2026. If you privation to get your hands connected lodging earlier then, you've got to pre-order the enlargement - immoderate mentation of it volition do. We precocious spoke with Jesse Kurlancheek, lodging pb and main crippled designer, and Joanna Giannullis, elder UX designer, astir the lodging feature, including however its gone successful the beta truthful far, and what to expect successful Midnight.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].