You've seen the content, now meet the creator. Tarlac shares his many creative
housing builds and decorating accomplishments including an updated version of
his MooShu home previously featured in a post here!
Along with many other Wizard101 decorators, I started decorating in the good
ol' rug glitching days. So imagine my surprise when, after returning from a
long break from Wizard101 I discovered that decorating had evolved with
features like castle magic, advanced movement, and house guests - on top of
seeing what incredible things decorators were now capable of.
By using these awesome new decorating tools, I was able to develop my own decorating style - creating cities or villages within my houses that are inspired equally by real life places and in-game visuals. In the houses I will share below, you will see examples of castle magic used to cover large areas, and house guests used to bring liveliness to my houses.
Monstrology in Decorating
One thing you will notice in my houses is the extensive use of house guests
created through Monstrology. Although collecting animus may seem laborious to
some, I find it to be a worthwhile investment of time and quite satisfying
when you finally create that awesome house guest you've been wanting. By using
house guests you can bring a great liveliness to your projects. A great way to
do so is using pet breadcrumbs to change the behavior of your house guest. You
can also set a breadcrumb chain that they can follow.
The Zafarian Outpost
Although this house is one of my early builds, it was made to test my limits
using the new decorative tools at my disposal. This was the first house where
I used advanced movement quite heavily to go past the bounds of the house
itself and use the rest of the landscapes within the house box to create new
areas - these areas being an elephant town, an umbra rhino hideout, a lion
village, and a gorilla treetop. While the options for Zafarian house guests is
limited, I was still able to use undead house guests. By using an opaque
castle magic spell, it will make their see-through appearance look normal.
The Yakooza Village
I've always been very interested in and amazed with Japan and its landscapes
and architecture. So my Yakooza village not only takes great inspiration from
Japan in real life but also the incredible visuals of MooShu in Pirate101. The
idea I had for this house was to transform it so that it no longer resembled a
red barn farm with the use of castle magic and house guests. I believe I was
successful.
As far as castle magic, I make use of three separate reflector chains to give
specific housing items different growth rates. Luckily, MooShu has a variety
of mobs that we can collect animus from, so creating house guests for this
project was easy. Using these tools, I was able to create what I think is a
great homage to MooShu.
The Great City of Tenochtitlan
Being of Aztec descent myself, I always found Azteca to be an awesome world.
So this project was a great way to use decorating to create something that
ties in with my culture.
Tenochtitlan was an ancient Aztec capital city in what is now Mexico City.
During its prime it was one of the largest cities in the world, with towering
pyramids, beautiful temples, and bustling markets with a wide array of foods
and luxuries. It was also an area plentiful of natural gems and gold.
For this project I decided to use the Pyramid of Lost Horizon, since this
house already had the figurative bones I needed. It is also absolutely
massive, so it was quite a challenge figuring out how to balance filling its
exterior and interior while leaving enough item space for decorative details.
Using two reflector chains to grow housing items and as well as strategically
placing those housing items allowed me to naturally cover a lot of ground. By
doing so I was able to build a central plaza and market area with several
smaller villages on the outskirts of the plaza. In the interior I was able to
create several different rooms, including a library, a council room, a hidden
sauna room, and even a mining operation within the existing tunnel network.
Azteca has a great variety of collectable mobs, so you will see quite a few
different-looking guests.
The Aquilan City-State
The ancient Greek or Roman city states were areas that were autonomous and
self-sufficient. I wanted this house to reflect that by having its own
military training grounds, temple, ship docks, colosseum, and other things a
city might need. This house also draws heavily from Pirate101, so I wanted to
include an Aquilan ship to add to that aesthetic. Creating ships from scratch
is quite a difficult task with the current housing items available, although
not impossible.
Another challenge I faced for this project was the existing landscape of The
Acropolis. The exterior, narrow pathways and weird-shaped outdoor areas made
it an interesting endeavor. Another challenge was that the house guest options
for Aquila are extremely limited unfortunately, so I used castle magic growth
spells on pets to add a bit of diversity to the house guest pool.
The Housing Community
I have been really lucky to have discovered such a great community, and to be
welcomed into it. One of the great things about this community is how everyone
is always so willing to help each other out, be it with ideas, advice, or
housing items. So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has
been so kind and welcoming, and encourage others who are just starting
decorating to join the community as well.
Thanks to Tarlac Mooncaller for sharing his amazing houses!
What do you think of Tarlac's creations?
Thanks for reading and see you in the Spiral!
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