So I didn't realize the update was today, just got in and finished the teapot quests. It's....surprisingly fun!
I was also glad to see that by doing quests and ranking up, you get all of the Mondstadt style houses and mansion. I'm not big into the Liyue aesthetic. I'll be anxious to see what the Inazuma and Fontaine style housing looks like.
Anyways, the customization is fairly robust, and collecting recipes and junk is addicting. BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE MHY - WHY DID YOU ALLOW FOR 'SNAP TO GRID' BUT NOT CENTER THE GRIDS INSIDE THE HOUSE/ROOMS!?!? ARRGGHHSDLFKJSLDKFJSL.
Ahem, just had to get that out of my system.
Glad there's finally a use for all those sunsettas and mints and berries I've been collecting. Farming wood feels less rewarding than I had hoped, but it seems something easy enough to do through general exploration, even by accident, when hitting trees. Seems you can get 3 wood chunks per tree.
It's also cool that they gave us a usable blacksmith stand right off the bat. Once they have a crafting desk I won't need either of the cities after turning in dailies again. Cool shit. I hope we get a teleport spot furniture someday so I don't have to go into the menus and use the teapot each time I want to go inside. I also wish we could see recipes outside of the teaport world.
Which locale did you guys pick? I went with the floating cloud platforms. I wanted something fantastical and to be honest, the beaches in Genshin don't feel very beach like or tropical, so I'll wait on that.
I also hope we can eventually pick the music that plays both inside and outside of the mansion. It'd be even better if it was from the full soundtrack. I wouldn't mind listening to the JohnLee trailer or Ganyu trailer in my downstairs bar/dining room.
We also could use a training dummy or customizable enemy training area, so we could set the enemy in type and number, and just go at it. I'm sure that's in the pipeline down the road. Overall, I'm really happy that they added the housing stuff. It's gonna be a great time waster after resin is gone but I still feel like playing. Shame the recipes take so long to craft, but w/e, this is a MHY game, so they just HAVE to time gate you somehow.