Mechanical benefit to decor items

66 votes

It would be nice for more insentives to have decorated castles other than the looks. I would not feel like i am "wasting" resources if there was some mechanical benifit. Lets say a castle room or hallway gets a "buff aura" if there is enough decoration points in there or something. Sure, powergamers could still disregard aesthetics if they'd like, but i think it would make most of us feel it would be much more worth it to make immersive, well decorated castles.

Feature Request Suggested by: Peder (09 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 14 Mar • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

10 Jun, '22
GreatApeApex
like enough blue torches in a room give you 5% buff to cold damage. Having 5 different types of decor in a room grants 5% regeneration. That sort of thing.
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20 Jun, '22
DB
carpets give u 15% increased move speed, just sayin.
03 Oct, '22
Tim
I'd like to see some more animation of decor items. Whether you can interact with them and they do a little fun animation or if it's actually useful. Would be really cool. For example the pillar mounted gargoyles with just the heads. You can interact with them and they do fun animations. Or the carpets do little rolls and jumps. Or the books fly about, vampire cuckoo clocks working, etc.

During sieges, they (pillar gargoyles) can open their mouth and pour out lava/or hot oil onto incoming enemies attacking your castle.

Sticking to the topic, you could have a kitchen and if we prepare food or drink blood from our castle or dining table we get a stronger buff.
12 Nov, '22
megafinz
Agree. I don't really care about aesthetics, so decorations for me just clutter the build interface and, most importantly, waste random resource points / books. Also some resources like clay are completely meaningless if I don't use decorations.
20 Jun, '23
Bob
Nah, I disagree. Adding mechanical benefits to decorative items will necessarily foist a metagame upon their usage, which will create a lot more ugliness. From what I hear, the honeycombed castles are bad enough without adding more mechanical complexity to the delicate balancing act of designing the game's PvP incentives. I think decorative items should remain purely so.