Do you use Create Custom Furniture?

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Hello everyone!!

I’ve been keeping an eye on Custom Furniture tool (as well as the one for creating clothes) for a while now, to see if the team hasn’t forgotten about it and is still adding new features. However, I’ve noticed two things:

  • I almost never (if ever) see creators/streamers/players using it.
  • It hasn’t received any updates with new parts, even though the game has received a ton of new objects and clothes.

This is a truly amazing tool, so I was wondering why people don’t use it? Is the fact that it works in isolation a problem? (I imagine it is).

I wonder what it would be like if all the objects in the game could be customized in a similar way to what we saw in Project Rene.

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Maybe not in the sense of pulling and stretching, but in the sense of changing parts like the Custom Furniture tool proposes. BUT, why would the team spend time making anything if players don’t use this tool? So I decided to create this topic to ask:

Do you use Create Custom Furniture?

  • If yes, when and why?
  • If no, why?

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I believe the answers in this thread can help the team gain a clearer vision of what can be done to make its use more interesting and immersive for players.

In my personal opinion, the biggest problem with this feature today is that it’s “separate” from the purchase mode. That is, it’s in the purchase mode, but as a tool and not as an integration. It exists to allow us to create chairs, tables, lamps, PCs, and beds, but it doesn’t apply to chairs, tables, lamps, PCs, and beds that already exist. This creates a kind of disconnect where cognitively using it seems to require more effort and is less rewarding than choosing a ready-made object (when in theory, or in the ideal systemic view, the opposite should be true). Anyway, I’d love to know more. Your participation is very important, and I’m counting on your feedback to take this topic further!

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Yes, I completely agree - it’s exactly about the “disconnect.”

When I first saw this feature, I used it actively. But over time, I lost interest in checking it out - nothing changes there, while the rest of the game is actively updated. So I’ve even started to forget about this feature, since it’s so separated from the rest of the building mode. Thanks for reminding me! I hope the developers will also remember it and start integrating its capabilities into the game more organically :+1:

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I do sometimes, but I’d like to see the furniture bench improve the Handiwork skill the same way as the other workbench, rather than just taking you into the build mode menu. One good thing at least is that the custom furniture bug (where it becomes unselectable after reloading a save) seems to have been fixed in the latest update.

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I use the custom clothing feature constantly to make different tops, pants/skirts, jewelry, and watches.

As for the furniture one, I used to use it. However, now when I put any of my custom furniture into a property and then I install the preset, it says “Items not owned are not applied” or something like that. The custom dining chairs are not visible, and you have to delete the table because it won’t let you put any other chairs there either.

I wish they would make more options for the custom furniture, and make the custom furniture shareable!

OH! And since I use the one in CAZ constantly, I’d really like more options added!

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For me most of the custom furniture is simply not visible when I put it down in the game. It was not the case some time back but after one of the lastest patches it started to become invisible. Since then I am simply ignoring this option.