More types of furniture. I like to pimp my crib, that way thieves feel more welcomed prior to cleaning it out.
Never played a merchant so I don't know if there is a craft furniture skill or something like it already. If not, maybe a carpenter crafting skill - or a better name for a furniture maker?
Can use bone, wood, stone, hide, cloth. to make various items below:
All of these things could be made with different sdesc's than what is already available from the npc shops, giving more variety.
- Beds, cots, sleeping mats.
- Chairs, stools, benches
- shelves big and small
- chests (I think this may already be coded in ??), storage containers, lockboxes with keys?
- rugs, mats, animal trophy heads, animal pelt carpets - Like that tembo you killed, have it made into a life-like floor mat with open maw, or mount it on your wall.
- containers for water/food of different varieties. Although clay making may already have these - I have no idea.
- Various trinkets to place around the room - room dividers, sculptures from stone/wood/bone, armor/weapon racks, clothes closets..etc
- Anything else I'm not able to think of at this time to liven up rooms.
Of course, you have lower end gear for the poor folk, then be able to make stuff that would satisfy nobles and more privileged customers at the master level. Maybe gem-inlaid beds, chairs, etc.