Voyage to the Ashlands: Building and Decorating

Ahoy, captains!

Our journey toward Ashlands continues. We’ve already shared a glimpse of ship customization, interface improvements, and armor transmogrification and dyeing. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the place every pirate returns to after a long voyage: home.

From humble hideaways to magnificent estates, the settlements you’ve shared have shown us just how inventive this community can be. Ashlands builds on that creativity with expanded building sets, new furnishings, and more ways to make every corner your own.

Whether you’re imagining a quiet coastal retreat or an ambitious pirate stronghold, here’s a closer look at what’s on the horizon.

Laying the Groundwork

Great settlements begin with versatile building pieces. We’ve listened to your feedback about the gaps that can make a design difficult to finish, from awkward roof corners to staircases in need of the right railing.

Roofs, Corners, and Finishing Details

A wide range of new roofing components is coming to the building sets, making it easier to create roofs in different shapes and sizes.

New sections offer gentle and steep slopes in regular and larger sizes. Additional corners, triangular roof corners, and larger corner pieces will help you tackle more intricate layouts.

We’re also adding roof ridges, ridge gables, and facade cornices to help close gaps and give your buildings a more polished finish. From a compact cottage to an estate with several rooflines, you’ll have more freedom to shape your designs.

Stairs and Foundations

Staircases are receiving upgrades of their own. New corner steps crafted from twigs, planks, and logs make it easier to change direction, while additional stone and log staircases offer more options for matching the surrounding architecture.

You’ll also find new railings made from branches, logs, stone, and rope.

The Old World set gains mahogany and cobblestone flooring in regular, large, and triangular shapes. For quicker construction, new foundations combine the base and floor in a single piece.

Old World foundations will be available with mahogany, cobblestone, parquet, or marble finishes. The Highland set is also getting a foundation that combines stone with wooden planks. Larger Old World beams round out the structural additions, giving ambitious builds more room to grow.

Arches, Columns, and Vaulted Ceilings

A brand-new collection of arches, columns, and vaulted ceiling pieces is coming to the Old World set. Rather than relying solely on prebuilt archways, you can combine individual architectural elements to create your own arrangements.

Build columns from separate bases, shafts, and capitals, then connect them with arch beams. Choose from pointed Gothic arches, rounded arches, half-arches, and rectangular openings. Ceiling vaults and corner vault pieces let you carry the design across an entire space.

With combinations of plaster, stone, and wood to explore, these pieces open up possibilities for seaside galleries, grand entrances, covered passageways, and more.

The Old World set is also gaining new doors, including small and regular interior doors, carved and stained-glass designs, double interior doors, and large double doors for more imposing entrances.

Making a House a Home

Walls and roofs are only the beginning. Ashlands also expands your choice of furniture and decorations, giving each building style more ways to express its personality.

Swamp-Inspired Furniture

Fans of the Swamp aesthetic will have a generous collection of furnishings to experiment with, from seating and storage to lighting and decorative accents.

The selection includes armchairs, benches, stools, tables, wardrobes, cabinets, racks, shelves, and a folding screen. Rope-suspended shelves, a bed, and other pieces offer even more ways to complete an interior.

Hanging lamps, floor lamps, a table candlestick, and a wall-mounted lamp provide lighting options, while hanging ornaments in several sizes add the finishing touches. Together, they can bring the atmosphere of the swamp into anything from a weathered hut to an elaborate home.

Bathtubs, Carpets, and Paintings

If your ideal hideout calls for a little more comfort, new bathtubs are on the way to suit a variety of building styles. Designs feature materials such as branches and leaves, old or dark wood, copper, iron, and combinations of iron and wood.

A new carpet collection includes small ethnic-style rugs, larger patterned carpets, and a runner. Use them to add warmth and character to bedrooms, corridors, sitting rooms, and wherever else your home needs a finishing touch.

Art lovers can look forward to more paintings, including seascapes, coastal and jungle landscapes, city views, still lifes, and portraits. Even pirates can appreciate the finer things.

The Heart of Your Settlement

Every settlement needs a centre, and Ashlands brings new designs to help yours feel at home among the buildings around it.

Indoor and outdoor variants are coming for the Coastal, Highland, Swamp, and Old World styles. Each reflects the character of its building set, while some also include atmospheric effects such as burning fire or rising smoke.

It’s a small but meaningful way to bring the heart of your settlement into harmony with the rest of your creation.

Practical Additions for Your Base

Not every new piece is just for show. Several additions are designed to make navigating and organizing your settlement easier, too.

Climbable Ladders

New vertical ladders come in different lengths and can be climbed to reach upper floors, raised platforms, and the tops of walls. You can also jump off at any point along the way.

They’re a useful alternative to stairs when space is tight or a full staircase doesn’t suit your design.

Dedicated Resource Storage

Keeping supplies organized doesn’t have to mean filling your settlement with matching chests. New dedicated storage structures for wood, stone, plant fibre, and clay give your resources a more distinctive home.

A storage basket for smaller items is also joining the selection, offering another way to make workshops and warehouses look purpose-built.

Weapon Displays and Armor Stands

Your hard-earned equipment deserves a place of its own. Ashlands introduces new stands, cases, and wall-mounted fixtures for displaying weapons and armor.

Firearm displays include cases for muskets and pistols, along with wall mounts for individual pistols and guns. Melee weapons can be shown on a universal stand or several wall plaques, including rustic stump-style and mahogany designs, plus an option for two-handed weapons.

Several armor stand designs are also on the way, giving you more choices for a private armory, a trophy-filled captain’s quarters, or a display of your favorite gear.

More Finishing Touches

Ropes and Nautical Decorations

Builders with an eye for waterfront scenery will find a new selection of decorative rope pieces. Stretch straight or sagging ropes between posts, or add coils and rope handrails to complete the look.

These details are well suited to docks, piers, and mooring areas, though we’re sure you’ll find plenty of other uses for them.

Decorative wooden boats are also joining the collection in upright and overturned versions. Place them along a sandy shore, beside a pier, or near a fisherman’s hut to make your waterfront feel more lived-in.

Your Next Project Awaits

These are just some of the building additions coming to Ashlands, with more to discover. From structural pieces to the smallest decorative details, our aim is to give you more freedom to create settlements that feel unmistakably yours.

We can’t wait to see how you use these new tools, whether you’re finishing a long-planned project or starting something entirely fresh.

Everything shown here is still in development and may change as work on Ashlands continues. Your feedback remains an important part of that process.

Which new pieces are you most excited about, and what are you planning to build? Let us know in the comments!

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