Cannot put housing items on wooden loft but others can

I have seen many residents and apartments where people used the wooden loft housing item to make a loft and they have furniture on the loft.

However, I am unable to put ANYTHING on the loft! It does not matter what I try to place, it always shows the purple "cannot place" color and it will not place. Other people have all kinds of things on their lofts in their apartments but for some reason, I am not allowed to put things on the loft. I have tried chairs, beds, small tables, other furnishings, yet it is ALWAYS purple and will not place. All those things that I have mentioned, I have seen others with those housing items on their loft, but I am not allowed to put them on mine.

I have stairs leading to the loft and I tried placing things while standing in every position possible both on and off the loft.

Does anybody know what the problem could be?

Float the items you want "on the loft" in mid air.
Float the loft underneath them.
You now have the illusion they are "on" the loft.

I have no clue what you mean. What do you mean "float the loft underneath them" and "float the times 'on the loft' in mid air"?

Basically they're not actually placing the items on the loft, it just looks like that.

You'll need to look it up YouTube as it's something you need to see to understand (and it takes a bit of practice to get right), but basically the items "on top" of the loft are being floated up into the air and then the loft is being placed underneath them. It gives an illusion that the items are on the loft, but in fact they're not connected at all.

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In addition to what has been said:

Lofts are considered "tables" by the game - any item thats labeled "tabletop" can be placed directly on the loft (if the option to place items on surfaces is active).
Anything that isnt a tabletop item - and most larger furniture items arent - has to be "floated", which involves using a glitch to place furniture in places where it doesnt belong, like in midair or on a loft.

here is a 5.5 guide on how to float objects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhlfvASvro

I wonder when Squeenix will finally give us a vertical axis instead of having to go for those unreliable glitches.

Even after you learn how to properly float, it takes just a small mishap to reset the whole work to zero.

It's a coding limitation, that requires more effort than what a lot of people could be bothered with.

When you see of forums, here or elsewhere the sheer talent from those that do. You can appreciate not only the vision, but foresight to go in to the effort to even bother.

The others have provided links for you, good luck with figuring it out. I would just happily settle for an internal space on a Small property to at least be scaled to HALF of a Medium... but anyway, can't see that happening either.

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here is a 5.5 guide on how to float objects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhlfvASvro

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Openly showing people how to exploit bugs wow

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It's a coding limitation, that requires more effort than what a lot of people could be bothered with.

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While this is no doubt the reason, I am 100% positive they intended lofts to act like....well lofts but like a lot of things they promise (egi glams) they're not going to do it.

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While this is no doubt the reason, I am 100% positive they intended lofts to act like....well lofts but like a lot of things they promise (egi glams) they're not going to do it.

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The thing is that they're coded as very large shelves and you can only place tabletop items on them.

The workaround is that they're coding increasingly large furniture pieces as tabletop, but it's still not everything, and it comes at the cost of blurring the actual categories of furnishings.

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The thing is that they're coded as very large shelves and you can only place tabletop items on them.

The workaround is that they're coding increasingly large furniture pieces as tabletop, but it's still not everything, and it comes at the cost of blurring the actual categories of furnishings.

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We're already blurring the categories when it comes to function because we use many items in ways other than intended.

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Openly showing people how to exploit bugs wow

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In which world does this make the game worse? It's ridiculous that I can create a perfect designer's house but cannot place an NPC on a loft. Without bugs in housing, houses would look 100% simpler, and people couldn't use their creativity to create beautiful houses. I find your comment hypocritical, to be fair, and I hope that Square Enix will address this.

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Originally Posted by RedAkihabara

In which world does this make the game worse? It's ridiculous that I can create a perfect designer's house but cannot place an NPC on a loft. Without bugs in housing, houses would look 100% simpler, and people couldn't use their creativity to create beautiful houses. I find your comment hypocritical, to be fair, and I hope that Square Enix will address this.

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I'd like to think they're aware that ppl use this "exploit" as they have even awarded prizes in official contests to ppl that used the exploit to decorate their housing.
hopefully it's something they finally address when they further expand the item capacity of housing next expansion

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In which world does this make the game worse? It's ridiculous that I can create a perfect designer's house but cannot place an NPC on a loft. Without bugs in housing, houses would look 100% simpler, and people couldn't use their creativity to create beautiful houses. I find your comment hypocritical, to be fair, and I hope that Square Enix will address this.

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Not sure why you necro'd this thread to reply to a troll that hasn't posted in almost 3 years.

If you're trying to bring the continuing problem to SE's attention, we keep bringing it up over in the Housing subforum on a semi-regular basis and like to point out the situations where their Community team made content winners out of players that were clearly using third party mods and so had an unfair advantage over those players who cannot or choose not to use those mods.

They know. Either they don't care, or they've got some weird technical thing going on that they can't fix for all platforms.

If the floating glitches and others we take advantage of in housing solely using tools provided by the game were considered exploits, SE would have stated that by now. The only thing I can think of that SE has specifically asked players to stop doing is placing items in the "void" (outside of the normal housing interior) but it still happens because SE doesn't do anything to those players that are doing it.

At this point, I feel they should just allow any item (inside) to be placed anywhere, in any direction, at any angle, floating wherever you want without having to hack the system. I bet we'd see even more amazing stuff if they would just remove placement restrictions. I understand there are many reasons this shouldn't be allowed outside, but can't really think of any reason this shouldn't be allowed inside.