Housing not valid anymore

[Viper]

I barely built a small house i got the "House is valid" message then 10 mins later when i placed a bed and made it my spawn after crafting it and a few other things.. my house was no longer... valid.. what a friggen annoying thing this is...


So i had to start over again.. housing was valid.. and then when i got everything else going... boom again not valid.. what c rap awful none sense is this....?

I heard in the older patches it didn't matter if the house was small.. medium or large.. as long as it had a flat surface... a table or so.. lighting... and a door... etc.

Is it me or is this game screwy with its current housing..?

So putting a table.. a chair.. light(s) and a door or two won't work..?

and yes i did check the blocks and all.. cause i get the housing is valid message but each time
i put the bed in make it my spawn then log out come back or place something else.. its no longer valid.

Any help i would be greatful of.. thank you

[dreynar_swag]

screenshot?is it close to coruption/crimson?is it large enough?

[Viper]

No it is not and thats the thing when i make it large enough to house 3-6 NPCS including myself i place the tables chairs.. etc right when i set the bed and set my spawn point a while later it tells me the housing is no valid.. or when i log out and come back in i get the same message this housing is not valid.


I am testing it right now just made two small houses gonna see if it does it again..

cause all the hard work i put into making large houses seem to not stick as valid and i have no idea why. And i don't use any materials that were created with crimson or corruption

[genoforprez]

I think it has to be at least 50 or 60 tiles large or something to that effect.

When you build the house, are you placing all of the blocks and walls yourself, or are you trying to use pieces of the environment? If you try to incorporate blocks/walls that are part of the environment that you did not place yourself, I think there is a possibility the game will not recognize them as a house. I think that happens with walls anyway.

[dreynar_swag]

also be wary of placing furniture on platforms that act as floor for a room it can give invalid housing or not allow a bed to work properly.And if your room is biger than 250 tiles or something it can turn invalid.

[Viper]

@Geno I am placing it all myself and when i have finished (Medium - Large) It tells me the house is valid then after some time the NPC will leave the house for some odd reason i will go to that house and check it.. and it'll then say not valid housing.

And this house was bigger than 50 or 60 i believe it might of been 70 - 100.
Then i made another smaller house that was 52 i believe it was fine

And W+M1 yeah i thought it might of been but when i checked it out
it was just 204 tiles so it did not exceed the 250 which what baffled me..
I assumed maybe its cause i added a few tubs and toilets..?

Thank you guys for giving me advice the 250 tile limit i had no idea about
And now i do know its my 4th day playing the game and already been banned from a server cause i was supposedly hacking and spawning items. Guessing there is a huge issue with players spawning and using scripts?

[Viper]

Originally posted by genoforprez:

I think it has to be at least 50 or 60 tiles large or something to that effect.

When you build the house, are you placing all of the blocks and walls yourself, or are you trying to use pieces of the environment? If you try to incorporate blocks/walls that are part of the environment that you did not place yourself, I think there is a possibility the game will not recognize them as a house. I think that happens with walls anyway.

It would seem i can't make 2-4 story housing (medium - large)
Which i find sort of dumb.. it tells me the housing is valid and the npcs do have a way into that housing.. i am just baffled as to why it reverts back too not valid housing is it a glitch?
Or a bug that has been around for a long while?

Cause i even use the rulers on the game and i double check to make sure the blocks and all are in correct number and all..

Its frustrating me now..lol

I resorted to just making very really small houses for them with just a candle a table and chair and two doors...

Seems as if they made housing a bit more.. uhh difficult? Complex?

[Viper]

Originally posted by W+M1:

also be wary of placing furniture on platforms that act as floor for a room it can give invalid housing or not allow a bed to work properly.And if your room is biger than 250 tiles or something it can turn invalid.

I made a two - three story house with stairs and all that is needed i got the valid housing message
then a couple mins later again got the.. invalid just after i put a fire place and chinmey
Is there a bug or a glitch that has been around for a long time? Or have they made housing a bit more difficult? Complex..?

Its frustrating me atm cause i have seen other people on MP they have created bigger castle like housing and they got all the npcs and the housing is valid even when they got the blocks far apart from another.. or is that cause of a mod they use?

Sorry to be a bother its just baffling too me how some are able to make extremely large housing like mansions and such and yet the housing i make are nothing compared to those.. its like 4-5 small room apt unit style housing |==| <-- just enough for a lamp table and chair..

I had to just make a new world made the smallest housing i could for the npcs they are still there so.. not sure what to think lol

[genoforprez]

Hmm. Do you have any screenshots of the houses you are building by any chance? Maybe that would help. I personally always start with small houses, but I always end up building one giant castle out of stone bricks and moving every NPC into their own room.

Some other things that come to mind:

1) You say there is no corruption/crimson nearby, but was there ever at any point? Sometimes you can end up with like one pixel of crimson grass, or there is still some corruption/crimson wall somewhere behind the environment, so the game still thinks there is a corruption/crimson zone. If you've smashed a demon altar at any point, there might be a random pixel of corruption/crimson nearby created by the altar. If you have the decontaminator thing, you could just try spraying it all over the damn place around your houses just to be sure. Make sure there is no corruption/crimson coming up toward your houses from underground. All housing must be at least 45 blocks away from all corruption/crimson on all sides.

2) Are you farming anything? Especially are you farming any corruption/crimson type plants or monsters?

3) What are you using as your light source? Not every item that emits light counts as a light source (e.g. blue candle).

4) Try placing a couple of sunflowers around the house this keeps happening with. Sunflowers reduce the corruption/crimson rating of the area around it and if the game thinks there is a little bit of corruption nearby, a couple of sunflowers might block the effect.

Sorry if you've already thought of all these. Just spitballing things!

[Viper]

Originally posted by genoforprez:

Hmm. Do you have any screenshots of the houses you are building by any chance? Maybe that would help. I personally always start with small houses, but I always end up building one giant castle out of stone bricks and moving every NPC into their own room.

Some other things that come to mind:

1) You say there is no corruption/crimson nearby, but was there ever at any point? Sometimes you can end up with like one pixel of crimson grass, or there is still some corruption/crimson wall somewhere behind the environment, so the game still thinks there is a corruption/crimson zone. If you've smashed a demon altar at any point, there might be a random pixel of corruption/crimson nearby created by the altar. If you have the decontaminator thing, you could just try spraying it all over the damn place around your houses just to be sure. Make sure there is no corruption/crimson coming up toward your houses from underground. All housing must be at least 45 blocks away from all corruption/crimson on all sides.

2) Are you farming anything? Especially are you farming any corruption/crimson type plants or monsters?

3) What are you using as your light source? Not every item that emits light counts as a light source (e.g. blue candle).

4) Try placing a couple of sunflowers around the house this keeps happening with. Sunflowers reduce the corruption/crimson rating of the area around it and if the game thinks there is a little bit of corruption nearby, a couple of sunflowers might block the effect.

Sorry if you've already thought of all these. Just spitballing things!

Screen shots no.. sadly i deleted the old worlds

Right now i am not having issues with really small housings..
They are staying there and no issues with the validation.


Replying to #2 I usually clear out the land and put stone or dirt blocks back or add any stone or dirt blocks if i run into crimson or corruption blocks.

replying to #1 I have yet to run into a demon altar i've even go as far as too clear out a extremely large area that i don't plan on using off the back.

I never thought of sunflowers i should get some seeds incase.

and no no you are helping thank you i just want to build like a hotel style medieval kind
but each time i get a two story or more it just.. doesn't stick on being a valid housing

Could it be that larger two or more story buildings are no longer valid housing...?

I usually just head into free item servers do the /i for bombs and use em on tiles makes things a lot more easier to clear out blocks

i have played Starbound i loved that game cause it let you run wild on letting you create whatever you could think of just like mine craft this game though it seems a bit limited though and i looked at the wiki there aren't any actual stairs?
It would be nice if the cooking pot were usable lol.. ah well still a great game
just the MP function still trying too figure out why people seem so angry at times