Room limit concerns

[Oaks]

I like this game so much.

Just finished the desert level, back on the Isle of Awakening. My mind already races to end game, when I will kick back with my villagers and build them all houses.

However, that 100 room limit counter already clouds my thoughts. A shame that it is so.

A couple questions:

Is 100 actually pretty low or did you find you were able to accomplish all you wanted with this limit?

Is there perhaps a mod that raises the limit?

What are some tricks to stay below the limit? I imagine you can build a house for someone, build rooms but don't place doors so the room isn't counted as a "room". Any other thoughts?

[Double]

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any mods for this game

[Fireball1765]

You need the corners for the rooms as well, so having a spot that looks like
__X_
XX_X
__X_
__X_
will remove it from the room count. Also, making the room too large to count also works. You can do this by removing doors between rooms or even by removing one block in the wall then hiding it behind something else.

[lilisaur]

100 is too low to give everyone their own personal bedroom, plus do all the other things. You can have up to 60 residents and there are over 150 different room recipes, so you have to choose what you want - you can't have them all.

Fireball1765 has provided the most common solutions - fake corners, oversized rooms, and an open space like a window that isn't a window block. Fake corners are used the most but often require the room to be placed against a cliff or other structure so as to disguise the missing corner. When that trick isn't available a camouflaged Magnetic Block (which you probably don't have yet) will also operate as an open space but has the benefit of looking like a normal block. All these solutions take advantage of the fact that the room is no longer enclosed within 150 blocks: so be careful not to make a fake corner or open hole into another room such that the combined remains 150 or less or else you've just made a larger room out of two smaller ones when maybe you didn't want either counted. You can however stack fake corners and holes such that fake room A leaks into fake room B and fake room B leaks into the open world, thus making fake room A part of the open world.

Note that any room that doesn't count as a room can't be used by residents to cook, sleep, or otherwise generate gratitude by its contents. So you want to reserve your 100 for productive rooms and use fake rooms for things like hallways or purely decorative areas. (Sets like pools, Slime Stacks, the Draky Stacks can be placed in fake rooms though - these sets generate gratitude by themselves, regardless of whether they are in a room or not.)

Also be aware that you don't need a true door to make a countable room. You can also use doormats and curtains - but these "door-like objects" will still create rooms that count against the limit you so don't think you're getting around the issue by using them instead.

[OBACHAN]

My goal is to build private rooms for all named NPCs, although I haven't accomplished that yet.
Yes, upper limit 100, that's not much...

(Sorry for the weird English, I'm using machine translation)

I have collapsed the border mountain and built facilities above the border line that can be shared by residents of both countries.
A swimming pool, music hall, spa, etc. that straddles the two countries.

Use fake walls in the bathrooms, air vents, bookshelves, etc.

I'd give up the separate men's and women's bathrooms...

[Oaks]

Excellent information, thank you everyone.