Room preference

Malroth and his room preferences.

Room preference is a mechanic in Dragon Quest Builders 2 that shows the kind of room a villager wants.

Overview

Each villager Dragon Quest Builders 2 has preferences for their assigned room: size, fanciness level, and room ambience. Each named npc has a set preference, while npcs scouted in Explorer's Shores are randomized. While animals and monsters do not show their preference residents register, they do have preferences as well.

The size, fanciness level and ambience types can be checked in the room info panel, visible by pressing the minus (-) button while inside the room on Switch, the view (two overlapping squares) button on Xbox, the Touch Pad on a PS controller and the 'M' key on PC.

Making 5 rooms that perfectly match the room preference of the residents who live there will unlock the Emblematic Clock recipe.

Size

There are five different room size: Tiny (♥, room size is between 4 and 15 square blocks), Small (♥♥, between 16 and 35 square blocks), Normal (♥♥♥, between 36 and 63 square blocks), Large (♥♥♥♥, between 64 and 99 square blocks), Enormous (♥♥♥♥♥, between 100 and 150 square blocks). Rooms bigger than Enormous do not get registered as rooms.

For room size, the game only counts available blocks inside the walls of the room.

Fanciness

Fanciness indicates luxury. Typically, gold items increase the fanciness indicator the most. Fanciness ranges from ♥ (simplest) to ♥♥♥♥♥ (most elegant).

Despite not having clear indicators of an item's fanciness level, elegance can be determined by how simple or complex an item is. For example, a Straw Matress is less fancy than a Rustic Bed, which in turn is less fancy than a Princess-Sized Bed.

Ambience

Ambience is the mood that a room has. It is affected by all blocks, crafting stations, decorations, farming equipment, fixtures, lighting and wall hangings used in the walls, floor and inside of the room. There are 6 types of ambiences:

• Normal, represented with beige.
• Cute, represented with orange.
• Cool, represented with blue.
• Natural, represented with green.
• Flamboyant, represented with yellow, and
• Cheeky, represented with pink.

All six types of ambience can co-exist within a room, but the room's overall ambience will be determined by the predominant one. The different types appear in the room information panel represented by a pie chart.

Generally speaking, items made with dirt and stone (like Stone Steps or Stone Pots) tend to have a Normal ambience, items made with wood (like the Rustic Bed or Wooden Floor blocks) tend to have a Natural ambience, items made with metal (like Silver Brick blocks or the Shower) tend to be Cool, items and blocks used by the Children of Hargon (such as Citadel Wall blocks) tend to have a Flamboyant ambience, and "girly" items (like a Princess-Sized Bed) might have a Cute ambience. Only two items have the cheeky ambience: the Naughty Night Light and the Book of Blue Prints.

When crafting blocks and items, the player can see the item's ambience on a bubble over the item's name. Dying blocks and items overwrites this ambience.

• White and Green dye make items Natural.
• Black and Blue dye make items Cool.
• Purple and Yellow dye make items Flamboyant.
• Pink and Red dye make items Cute.

List of villagers and their preferences

Villager	Size	Fanciness	Ambience
Malroth	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Lulu	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Rosie	Small	♥	Natural
Bonanzo	Normal	♥♥♥	Cute
Perry	Tiny	♥♥	Natural
Britney	Normal	♥♥♥	Cute
Clayton	Tiny	♥	Flamboyant
Saffron	Small	♥♥	Cheeky
Lillian	Normal	♥♥	Cool
Babs	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cheeky
Den	Small	♥♥♥♥	Cheeky
Magrog	Small	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Digby	Normal	♥♥♥♥	Flamboyant
Dougie	Normal	♥♥♥♥	Flamboyant
Ordelia	Enormous	♥♥♥♥♥	Cute
Serge	Small	♥♥♥	Cool
Anessa	Large	♥♥	Cute
King	Enormous	♥♥♥♥♥	Flamboyant
Gerome	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Zara	Normal	♥♥♥	Natural
Esther	Small	♥	Cute
Jeremiah	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Haydin	Tiny	♥	Natural
Molly*	Tiny	♥♥♥	Cool
Gillian**	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cute
Finn**	Tiny	♥	Cool
Slime (Skelkatraz)***	Enormous	♥♥♥♥♥	Cool
Hammerhood (Skelkatraz)***	Small	♥♥	Cute
Walking corpse (Skelkatraz)***	Normal	♥♥♥	Cheeky
Hellen***	Small	♥	Natural
Captain Whitebones***	Large	♥♥♥♥	Cool
Arisplotle***	Enormous	♥♥♥	Flamboyant
Gremville***	Enormous	♥♥♥	Flamboyant
Griswold***	Enormous	♥♥♥	Flamboyant

*Molly can be unlocked upon visiting the epilogue Buildertopia island, available after finishing 45 Tablet Targets and completing all Explorer's shores checklists.
**Gillian and Finn are part of the Aquarium DLC.
***These story-relevant monsters do not have their preferences visible on the Residents' register, but in-game testing has revealed these room preferences. They can be unlocked upon visiting the epilogue Buildertopia island.

Trivia

• Several of the characters share the same room preferences.
  • Malroth, Lulu, Jeremiah, Gerome, Captain Whitebones: a large (♥♥♥♥), very fancy (♥♥♥♥) flamboyant room.
  • Rosie, Hellen: a small (♥♥), simple (♥) natural room.
  • Bonanzo, Britney: a normal-sized (♥♥♥), moderately fancy (♥♥♥) cute room.
  • Digby, Dougie: a normal-sized (♥♥♥), very fancy (♥♥♥♥) flamboyant room.
  • Arisplotle, Gremville, Griswold: An enormous (♥♥♥♥♥), moderately fancy (♥♥♥) flamboyant room.
• No resident has a normal ambience room preference.