Can't hang rental sign for "Become a mighty man"

[KittenClaws]

I've built a house. I've stuffed it with expensive gewgaws from all categories. I even put a cow out front to increase house cost. There's a rental sign in my inv under "R", but when I press it, I just get three silhouettes of .. someone, I don't know who they are .. with requirements. I don't know how to check to see if their requirements are met with any official keystrokes or whatever, but what they say they want, I've got in the house. The rental sign never hangs, and those three silhouettes remain every time I press R. The window advises I can hover over the question mark for more information, but when I do that they just ask if the house is ready to rent. There's no option for E to accept them, but nothing happens if I press that anyway.

The quest objectives say I've more than met all requirements for the quest, except "hang a rental sign" and "rent a house."

I really wish this game had better ingame help support. This is such a delightful game, but the frustration it provides in such good measure is fast outpacing the fun I'm having playing it. What am I doing wrong here?

[Pesky]

The game shows building requirements differently. It's a long time since I played, but I think it shows requirements met in green, unmet in red. If there are any requirements unmet, you don't get offered the option for a renter.

I have a guess about what's wrong.

The game has a problem figuring out what 'a house' means. It generally goes by how you laid the foundations. If foundations ever joined buildings together, the game thinks all the resulting buildings are one house. This makes it calculate house properties and contents incorrectly.

I recommend you ignore your current build. If you have more space, try building another house from scratch. Do not use foundation blocks to organise spacing with existing buildings (you can use path stones instead). If you don't have other space, you're going to have to tear down that building first (you get all the materials you used back again, so you lose only your time and effort).

I had to do this myself.

[KittenClaws]

Thanks, I'll try that :) I didn't join two houses, just made one. But maybe making a fresh house will work!

[KittenClaws]

Just wanted to say for posterity that I restarted the quest today. Built a smaller house from scratch, kept it simple, and watched the animation at the beginning of the quest carefully. That informed me that the rental sign wasn't actually an input like the supplied building parts are, but instead something I select from the building catalog (for $0) and hang. That was the hangup to begin with. Once I did that, I got a set of three potential tenants. Their dialogues made a lot more sense then, and I could select the one I wanted. Problem solved. Maybe that's something to put into the quest info window, devs?