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Safehouse Customization

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“ Move furniture and decorative props around your favourite locations in the game. Repair broken items and clean up the mess. Craft items from an entirely new series of hand-made furniture and decorative props. Collect and move every framed pancake photo in the game to one place. Make pretty much any valid interior in the game your personal Safehouse with this powerful system.
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With the release of Tales from the Far Territory Part 6, players have the option to customize a Safehouse by rearranging furniture, crafting new furniture, hanging portraits on walls, and many other activities.

There are over 800 items that can be moved, broken down, and in some cases, built using this system. There are 150 areas that can be turned into Safehouses, along with several specific "exterior interiors" like the Mountaineer's Hut in Timberwolf Mountain, and the Lookout Towers.

Overview

Customization Mode

When entering an interior that can be customized, an icon of a house will appear in the top left corner of the screen.

  • Pressing Y (L1+ R1 on controller) will cause a pencil to appear in front of the house and the player to enter Customization Mode, and the game will show a blue outline over every object that can be moved around.
    • The blue outline shown over every object in Customization Mode can be used to navigate through the dark, without having to use a light source.
  • You can put things on the floor, the walls, on top of other items, etc. But every item has info that tells it where it can and cannot be placed. This is to avoid silliness.
  • You can remove Clutter (like shredded papers on the ground) by pressing the R button (you cannot get it back once this button is pressed).
  • You can craft a Framed Photo from photos you take using the Camera and even craft/loot Decorations to display inside any Safehouse.
  • Pressing Y (L1+ R1 on controller) again will leave Customization Mode, and cause the game to start saving (this is also a useful way to force an autosave).

Repairing Objects

You can currently repair a LIMITED number of items inside Safehouses.

  • Woodworking Tools are required to fix things, and repairing items raises the Repair skill.
  • Currently you can repair a lot of the broken/missing Cabinet Doors of kitchen Cabinets. Repairing restores them to their "original" state, and also restores all the container slots (so a Cabinet that had been missing a door and just had an empty space, now has the door and the door becomes a new valid container).
    • Destroying/Harvesting the Cabinet Door will make it impossible to repair that cabinet.
  • The roofs of the Mountaineer's Hut and Bricklayer's Retreat can be repaired (costs 20 Cedar Firewood). Repairing these roofs will increase the temperature bonus inside the buildings by +3 C.

Destroying Objects

Some items in Customization Mode cannot be placed into the player's inventory, they can only moved around or destroyed (typically large items).

Harvestable items can be destroyed quickly, but the player will not receive any materials for doing so (ex, destroying a Pillow takes 2 minutes and gives nothing, but harvesting it with a Hunting Knife takes 9 minutes and generates Cloth). Keep in mind that destroying/moving some objects, like sheet metal or Planks covering holes in the Hibernia Processing floors, can create fall hazards.

Limitations

General Limitations

  • Interior spaces only have a select zone that can be customized by the player. Walking outside of the Customization Zone (usually by exiting to the outside of the building via a door) will issue a warning to the player. Anything outside of this zone behaves normally and cannot be customized.
  • Work Benches cannot be moved, but the Vise can be removed from an existing Work Bench by destroying the entire object, and then used as a raw material in the construction of a new Work Bench. This means you can build a Work Bench in a location that is more useful to you, but only by sacrificing an existing bench, so there are still only ever going to be a certain number of Work Benches in the world. When you remove the Vise from an existing Work Bench, it becomes a regular table.
    • A crafted Workbench can be placed and carried around however.
  • You can still Break Down items to get resources from them when in regular gameplay. When you're in Safehouse Edit mode, you can Destroy items which goes quickly but you don't get any resources from it. This was to give you a way to clear areas quickly without making it magical or without some reasonable trade-off. If you want to harvest things for resources, don't destroy them in Edit mode.
  • You can't destroy containers that have items in them. For example, if you want to destroy a cabinet but there are items in one of the drawers, you will have to remove the items first. Keep in mind that if you destroy an item in a Safehouse, you can't rebuild it, so please be careful what you destroy because you may not be able to get it back.
  • Frozen Corpses and Corpses cannot be destroyed or moved, only "respectfully removed" as part of general Safehouse clean-up.

Console Limitations

This feature is very memory intensive, so it's very likely there will be a hard limit on consoles for how many items you can have inside an interior:

  • Most PC players should be fine, but it partly depends on your computer specs.
  • Building limits for console (Xbox, PlayStation) is likely be in the 100s of items per scene.
  • The Nintendo Switch will be the most restricted due to hardware limitations.

Safehouse Decorations

In general, you can take most decorative items (ex. wall hangings, vases, plates, etc.) and add them to your Backpack in the Decorations section. They have weight, so you will want to account for that when you move them around (some can be 5.00kg). The Travois can be a potential way to move large amounts of Decorative items around the world.

A Furniture Workbench and Woodworking Tools are required to build furniture for a Safehouse.

  • Items that only have a Decorative value will live in the Decorations section of the Backpack Inventory, and won't appear in the General tab to avoid your inventory being cluttered with a bunch of random stuff that doesn't have gameplay value.
  • When you drop decorative items in the world, they spawn a small Safehouse Decoration Box, because these items don't exist as "gear items" outside of Safehouses the way normal gear items (like food, or tools, or clothing) do.

For a full list of Decorative items, see Decorations.

Safehouse Locations

The following locations support Safehouse Customization. Keep in mind that inside and outside customization zones are counted separately due to loading zones/outdoor customization boundaries.

Note: Prepper's Abandoned Cache can be destroyed at the end of Sutherland's Tale, rendering it inaccessible as a Safehouse.

Lower Great Bear

Ash Canyon (5)

Blackrock (12)

Bleak Inlet (14)

Broken Railroad (3)

Coastal Highway (28) (17 on I/M)

The number of safehouses in this region are lowered if playing on Interloper/Misery due to ruined buildings (labeled as I/M)

Desolation Point (4)

Forlorn Muskeg (1)

Hushed River Valley (2)

Mountain Town (16)

Mystery Lake (16)

Pleasant Valley (18) (17 on Misery)

Timberwolf Mountain (2)

Transitions

Crumbling Highway (1)

Keeper's Pass North (0)

  • None

Keeper's Pass South (1)

The Ravine (0)

  • None

Winding River (0)

  • None

The Far Territory

Forsaken Airfield (10)

Sundered Pass (8)

Transfer Pass (1)

Zone of Contamination (10)

Transitions

Far Range Branch Line (0)

  • None

Places that do not support customization

There are about two dozen places in the game that players cannot build Safehouses in. These include:

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