# Room Related Ideas

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/room-related-ideas/29913>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Tags:** building\_suggestion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/room-related-ideas/29913 "2017-04-25T06:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![MostlyLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@MostlyLost](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/MostlyLost)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/room-related-ideas/29913/2 "2017-05-07T01:56:13Z")

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Yeah, there has been a lot of talk about this. I think there was a reference from one of the staff or heavy modders that rooms should be at least 6x8? I’ll see if I can find that, but in the meanwhile here are a couple links of relevance:

> [@Make Cramped Environment Debuff Less Powerful](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/make-cramped-environment-debuff-less-powerful/29898/10):
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> Besides your problem with the mod, keep in mind that they are not only checking for horizontal space! They need head space too. If your ceiling is just 4 blocks tall (from a tunnel mined with the 4x4x4 tool) then they will always feel cramped! You need at least 6 block tall space first, then they start looking for horizontal space.

> [@DT: Personal Space](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dt-personal-space/26838/47):
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> I just finished a new version of the personal space algorithm so that being in the corner of a room or along a wall will be the same as standing in the center of the room. It’s actually very similar to what @Agon describes. We just offset the the sampling box in the direction away from the walls. This should be in the next unstable release.

You (and several others) have talked about ideas like giving “morale points” (or some such) to furniture, windows, lighting, that sort of thing. It sounds like a good idea. It might - especially for multi-room dwellings - require that the longstanding “free-standing walls break roofs” bug actually get fixed if you define a dwelling as a roofed space but otherwise, the idea of having nice things leading to people feeling happier? That makes sense. Start with an open barracks - meh. A Hearthling can live in those. But eventually getting individual homes (especially if the “personal space” markers that have been described as suggestions get implemented) with fine quality, comfy beds, a couple chairs, a writing desk and table? Yeah, a Hearthling can live in there _with style_

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