ESO U46 PTS: Bismuth Steam Baths Screenshots
The “Bismuth Steam Baths” house can be purchased for 1.2 million gold after earning the achievement: West Solstice Grand Adventurer – Complete 16 non-repeatable quests in Western Solstice.
This house has a ton of great features to build around! And you can go far out into the water – to build from scratch and/or set a slaughterfish death trap >:)
In fact, it almost suffers from having too many awesome features: it will be hard to decide where to build and what to block off.
Here's another one; ignore the house and live in this cool shell if you want:
Houses with this "problem" always make me wish I could get more than one:
#eso housing wishlist: obtain multiple instances of the same house.
I'd love multiple Sleek Creeks, Moon-Sugar Meadows, Willowponds, etc. for my main account! Right now you can kind of do it by having multiple accounts / using both NA and EU servers. But the time, effort, and even money required to get all of the achievement furnishings, crown/crate items, etc. to build the way you want on multiple accounts is seriously unrealistic.
In BSB, I most want to use the pool area:
Sadly, no, you can't jump over that fence into this giant-sea-creature-graveyard. The side areas are totally inaccessible. But again, there's already so much good stuff in the usable area.
The house itself is pretty standard Summerset style:
For me, one of the biggest drawbacks is this looooooooooooooooooooong interior between the entrance and the house's namesake / one of the best parts: the actual steam baths.
#eso housing wishlist: a 2-way portal furnishing that could take you (instantly*, not load-screened) between locations in a house.
It would help so much to take visitors directly to your build location, instead of wasting hundreds of slots on cover-up.
(Example: if you ever visit some great builds in Potentate's Retreat, almost all of them keep the entry interior empty and build outside. It's one of those silly things – as Weather Control was – that you have to tell streamers or contest judges to ignore. And for Home Tours, since there's no way to provide a description, you count on a visitor already being familiar enough with housing to know, or at least being curious enough to not leave immediately when greeted with an empty hallway.)
(*By "instantly" I mean a black screen is fine, but full load screens like those in Hall of the Lunar Champion are a frustrating barrier.)
Finally! The steam baths in the very back:
So gorgeous! So many creative things you can do here! ...Once you get here. 💀
Anyway, the interior has even more nice features and side rooms, with and without baths, but with only 600 slots, these are going to be ignored by most from-scratch builders. Players who just want a beautiful house and don't mind decorating sparsely might be happy:
The scattered light from the bismuth windows above is really pretty. I'm happy we can get one crystal with this effect from Antiquities:
Solstice Bismuth, Large Tower:
Sadly it is (confirmed) from treasure maps: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/677218/solstice-treasure-map-leads-and-lootable-rewards-sources-rng-bugs – which means it won't realistically be obtainable enough to get multiples for years.
(If you actually read this, please leave feedback about this too! Reply to the forum post above, or in-game.)
By default, the balcony is reached through this enormous room on the second floor. Again very pretty, but tons of dead space – compared to the other amazing areas with special features, this just isn't worth spending slots on.
See also:
Futerko's video tour
U46 PTS: Solstice Zone Screenshots - Part 1
Update 46 PTS: Solstice - furnishings, a few more zone shots, new achievement dyes
PTS 05.05.2025 update on the Argonian House Boat
See you in Solstice!
