How to Fix Furniture Placement/Housing Error Without Wiping Entire House

[u/spindleblood]

So I already posted about this weird housing/furniture error some months ago, but I wanted to share that there is a solution (instead of full house-wiping) to fixing the problem that I just realized with the help of a Discord user...

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Original post describing the error message:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveNikki/comments/9nxw5o/house_had_all_furniture_cleared/

Error Text: "Data error of the house furniture. All of your placed furniture require to be cleared. Continue?"

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VNbPDkc.png?1

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I could not add/remove furniture in my house without getting the error described in the post linked above. I previously thought that the only way to get the error to go away was to hit the "Confirm" option depicted in the screenshot error pop-up. Warning: If you click that, it removes ALL of the furniture from your house! (Not a desirable option for those of us with many floors and tons of furniture placed!)

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I previously thought this error had occurred because the developers decided to change the amount of tiles/footprint a specific piece of already-placed furniture takes up or some kind of other housing-related update (e.g. new pavilion, new furniture items, etc.) which would cause some kind of overlapping furniture issue. Now I think it's actually due to an error with the Decompose Furniture feature. I somehow managed to decompose a piece of furniture that I already had placed in my house somewhere. That's probably what caused the game to freak out.

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Here is what I recommend if you get this error:

Instead of wiping everything, I tried to recall the last few items I had decomposed since getting the error. I knew plants and spice jars were items I frequently received many dupes of, so I started with those. I went to one specific floor of my home and removed all the plants and the extra set of spice jars, and -magically!- I was able to save my home again! Yay! No more spending hours doing an extreme home makeover, LOL. (However I do recommend taking screenshots of your house every so often in the event there is some kind of catastrophic house-related bug!)

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BTW, I submitted an error/bug report to the developers, so I am really hoping they fix the decompose bug. Not gonna lie, I am kind of anxious about decomp'ing any more furniture "dupes" in the event I have some of them already saved in my house somewhere.

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If you don't care about wiping your house for whatever reason, then obviously you can go ahead and wipe it to resolve the error. :)

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Also - I wasn't sure which flair was the most accurate for this post. I don't really think this a "guide" per se, but maybe a workaround for an issue? Information? I just figured I would share this to help other players from having to clear their entire Nikki house out and have to re-place all their furniture. If anyone thinks my flair is not accurate, please go ahead and change it to something more applicable. (Sorry still kinda new-ish to posting here!)

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Hope this helps someone!

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[u/ticklemelucky]

Oh, this happened to me a few times. I just stopped decomposing because I'd rather have extra furniture and no craftables rather than risk setting up each floor again.

It's annoying how the furniture decompose system doesn't recognize which furniture is in use/has certain specs like the clothes decomposing feature does.

[u/spindleblood → u/ticklemelucky]

Yeah, I reallyyy hope they fix it. It's weird b/c I am pretty sure I have successfully decomp'd the spice jar dupes before without causing the error to occur, but this time it decided to remove all but one.