Decoration

You can place, remove, and adjust decorations if you have adequate permissions to do so.

Owners of a Lot, House, Basement, or Player Dungeon can decorate their own places (and decide who else can decorate in those places).

Governors and Stewards can also decorate in the non-lot areas of their Player Owned Town.

Not all items can be used for decoration. Also, a decoration cannot always be placed in a given location (the decoration will appear red when it cannot be placed in the current location, but will appear green when it can be placed in the current location).

You must be in Passive Stance (i.e. not in Combat Mode) in order to decorate.

Placing A Decoration

You can place decorations even when you are not in Deco Mode. However, to remove and adjust decorations, you must be in Deco Mode.

To place an item as decoration, click and hold down the left mouse button on the item, then drag the item to where you want to place it, and release the mouse button. If the item was green when you released the mouse button, the item will remain in the position in which it was placed. If the item was red when you release the mouse button, the item will return to wherever you dragged it from (the red color indicted that decoration could not be placed in that location).

Changing A Decoration's Size & Orientation

While you left-click and drag a decoration, you can use the following commands to adjust its orientation and size (these are the default keys):

• Fast Rotate Left or Right: Press Q or E
• Slow Rotate Left or Right: Hold down the LEFT SHIFT key while pressing Q or E.
• Snap 45-Degree Rotate Left or Right: Hold down the CTRL key while tapping Q or E (aligns to compass points).
• Enlarge or Shrink: Hold down the LEFT ALT key while tapping X or Z (allows for limited scaling in size; this does not work for some decorations).
• Flip 90-Degrees along Vertical Axis (Lie Flat or Upright) - Tap R (this only works with a limited number of decorations, such as swords and books) - note that the hot key for this command has been bugged for years. If this is not working for you, then go to Options, click on the Controls tab, scroll down to "start glyph combo", and change its hotkey to a keyboard command of your choice ("start glyph combo" is mis-assigned to the "Flip Vertical" function).

Removing a Decoration

To remove and adjust decorations, you must be in Deco Mode.

To remove decorations, click and hold down the left mouse button on the item, and then drag it onto the Avatar’s inventory.

You can also remove a decoration by opening the Decoration Palette, then click and hold down the left mouse button on the item, and then drag it into the Avatar’s inventory.

If you are Evicted from your lot, Unclaim your lot, remove your Basement, or remove your Player Dungeon, then any residual decoration in the unclaimed/removed locations will be sent to your bank.

Finding a Lost Decoration

See Decoration Palette.

Viewing the Decoration Log

• For a Lot and House - Double-click on the Property Marker. In the window that pops up, click the upper blue cog on the right side of the window, and then select "View Decoration Log". This log will show who placed the items, the number of items placed, and the date they were placed, but it only tracks the last month of decoration changes (older entries are erased).
• For a container on the Lot or in the House - right click on the container, then select "view log" at the bottom of the list. This log will show who deposited and removed items, the number of items transferred, and the date they were transferred, but it only tracks the last week of transfers (older entries are erased).

Storing Decorations in Property Manager

For details, see

• Property Manager
• Lot Deed

Decoration Limits

Lots

Decoration Limits for LOTS

Lot Size	Exterior Objects	Exterior Lights	Interior Objects	Interior Lights	Containers	NPC's	Basements	Player Dungeons
Market	100	4	0	0	20	1	0	0
Row	200	8	600	80	75	2	1	1
Village	475	16	675	120	88	4	1	1
Town	800	24	1000	180	112	6	1	1
City	1125	32	1325	260	164	8	1	1
Keep	1750	40	2350	310	220	10	1	1
Castle	2200	64	3400	370	260	12	1	1

Basements

The chart below shows the decorations limits for basements. Note that these limits are based on the basement size, not the lot size. So, if a row size basement is placed on a village size lot, the basement still has row size limits.

Decoration Limits for BASEMENTS

Basement Size	Exterior Objects	Exterior Lights	Interior Objects	Interior Lights	Containers	NPC's
Market	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Row	0	0	2000	60	250	2
Village	0	0	2375	100	330	4
Town	0	0	4000	200	420	6
City	0	0	5625	250	615	8
Keep	0	0	10750	300	825	10
Castle	0	0	16000	350	950	12