Chamberlain - Room Names for Housing

Chamberlain lets you name the rooms in your player house. When you walk into one, a gold banner shows the room's name, then fades out when you leave. The name comes from the manor officer who announced guests as they entered each room.

To make a room, open the Build toolbox and click Square room or Round room. One drops where you stand and the name box opens right away. To fit it to the walls, pick the room, walk to a wall and click Snap nearest edge to me, or use Grow and Shrink. You can also grab the room on the house map and drag its corners. Rooms can overlap. Put a walk-in closet inside your bedroom and the smaller one wins while you're standing in it.

There's also a house map that draws all your rooms to scale, each in its own color, with a dot showing where you currently are. Hover a room to see its name and size if the label doesn't fit. The mouse wheel zooms and dragging an empty patch pans. The labels and your dot stay the same size.

Floors

A house with more than one floor can hold rooms on each, and a room upstairs won't fire the banner for the room under it. The game doesn't expose your height, so Chamberlain learns your floor from your stairs. In the Build toolbox click Stairs. Stand on the lower step and Mark bottom, then go up a bit and Mark top. Walk onto either one and it puts you on that step's floor. For a tall shaft, a fall, a balcony or such, drop a Floor pin instead. It sits on every floor and you set which floor it sends you to.

The house map has Add floor to start, up and down arrows to view each floor, and a Move to floor button for when it gets the floor wrong. If your stairs spiral or stack so one flight sits right above another, keep each flight's marks off the same spot, or they trigger each other.

Room name, description and talking head

Rooms carry more than a name. Set a color for the banner and map tile, write a description, and pick a face to read it on a talking-head box. Your computer can speak the description aloud in a voice you pick, kept on your machine and sent to no one. A room marked secret stays off visitors' house maps and room lists, but its banner still fires when they walk in.

Sharing

If you're grouped with other Chamberlain users, party or raid, you can send them your layout or request theirs, so a house only has to be mapped once. Every incoming request shows a consent dialog before anything is sent, and you can block players or houses that keep asking. Layouts you've received are listed separately from your own rooms and can be removed whenever. Sharing can also be turned off completely in the settings.

Good to know

• The build tools only show up in your own house. Ownership comes from the server, not your character name, so your alts can edit too.
• If you own a house on both factions, they're tracked separately.
• Floors come from the stairs you mark, not from elevation (the game does not expose elevation to addons). With no stairs marked, the house is one floor, as before.
• After an update, a What's New note pops the first time you step indoors and tells you what changed. Close it, or turn it off for good.

Features

• Make rooms by dropping a square or round room where you stand, from the Build toolbox.
• A gold banner shows the room's name on entry and fades on exit.
• An optional entry sound (a map ping) when you walk in.
• A house map draws your rooms to scale and shows where you and your party are.
• Zoom and pan the house map with the mouse.
• Edit rooms on the house map: move, resize, rename, recolor and so on.
• A talking-head "Yapper" reads a room's description like an NPC, optionally spoken aloud by your computer narrator voices (TTS).
• Secret rooms stay off visitors' maps but still announce themselves, use it to hide secrets and whatever.
• Multiple floors, with each room tied to a floor.
• Mark your stairs and the map will follow you up and down, and a Floor pin jumps you to any floor from anywhere.
• Time spent in each of your rooms is tracked and displayed on room tooltip.
• Share layouts with your party or raid, or export them to a text string others can import, export is recommended for huge floor plans with lots of text.
• Block players or houses that keep requesting your layout to harass you.
• A minimap button and slash commands (/chamberlain, /rooms).

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