Flooring
| Flooring | |
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Flooring is the decorating item that relays the floor of a whole room in one go. A single piece covers everything from wall to wall, is used up in the process, and never stacks in the pack, so redecorating a large house means carrying one piece for every room. Pierre's General Store and JojaMart each put out one pattern a day, which makes collecting a particular design a matter of checking the shelf regularly, until the Catalogue makes the whole basic range free. Flooring works in the Farmhouse, in cabins, in the Island Farmhouse and in sheds and Slime Hutches, which is what turns a row of identical sheds into rooms that can be told apart. Several patterns live only inside the specialist catalogues, and one is sold for Qi coins at the Casino.
Overview
Laying it down is simple. The piece is used inside the room it is meant for and the whole floor changes at once, hallways between rooms included. Nothing is left over and nothing can be half-finished, which is why a farmer planning a three-room house buys three pieces. Each room created by a Farmhouse upgrade keeps its own flooring and its own wallpaper, so every upgrade is also an invitation to redecorate, and a kitchen can be tiled while the bedroom stays boarded.
Buying one at a time is the early-game route. Pierre's General Store stocks a single random pattern each day, drawn from the larger range, and JojaMart stocks one from a narrower range at a higher price. When the Joja pick happens to fall inside Pierre's range, both shops show the same pattern that day, so a farmer who wants variety has to come back tomorrow rather than cross the town. A Joja membership makes no difference to what either shop charges for it.
The Catalogue ends all of that. It is a piece of furniture sold at Pierre's General Store for a serious sum, and once it is placed in a room it hands over every basic wallpaper and flooring pattern, free and without limit, as often as wanted. For anyone decorating a full house, a set of cabins or a line of sheds, it pays for itself quickly, and it is the only practical way to try patterns out and change a mind. Holding shift while clicking an entry inside it puts the piece straight into the pack rather than sticking it to the cursor, which saves a great deal of fiddling when ordering several at once.
The specialist catalogues carry what the basic one does not. The Junimo Catalogue, the Wizard Catalogue, the Retro Catalogue and the Joja Furniture Catalogue each hold patterns of their own, and a farmer chasing a particular look has to track down the right book rather than keep watching Pierre's shelf. The Casino's prize dealer sells one floor for a very large pile of Qi coins, which makes it the most expensive piece of decoration in the valley by some distance.
Notes
A Cursed Mannequin has a habit of redecorating. Left standing overnight it will occasionally relay the floor beneath it with a pattern of its own choosing, and the floor it picks is always the one it is standing on, so the change spreads through whichever room it happens to be in.
Sheds and the Slime Hutch are the practical use rather than the pretty one. A shed used for Kegs, a shed used for Preserves Jars and a shed used for storage all look identical from the outside, and giving each one a distinct floor makes walking into the right one automatic.
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