Land & Public Works

Bay City feels quite isolated on the world map. The new tunnel and road access are a good step toward making it easier to reach. Since there’s already work happening to improve Mainland edges and add waterways, it would be great to see some of that on the WEST and SOUTH sides of Bay City too. It would be nice to have waterways around the city, with a few rez zones where people can launch boats or stop and explore. That would make the edges feel more finished and make Bay City easier to get around.

Staggered release times for 2048 Linden Homes for European Timezones

The Bellisseria Sandbox provides examples of Linden Homes from different themes, each positioned within a clearly defined parcel area. This gives Residents a valuable opportunity to test furniture, decorations, room layouts, compatible add-ons, and other household content inside the type of Linden Home for which that content is intended. However, the covenant currently displayed in the region appears to reproduce the general Linden Homes Covenant. It does not clearly explain the special purpose of the Bellisseria Sandbox or distinguish between testing household content inside the provided Linden Homes and rezzing private houses or other large structures in the public spaces between the designated testing areas. I propose adding a sandbox-specific section to the covenant that explicitly establishes the following rules: Residents may use the Linden Homes provided in the Bellisseria Sandbox to test their own furniture, decorations, appliances, lighting, interior layouts, compatible home add-ons, and other household content. All Resident-rezzed content must remain within the visible parcel boundaries or designated testing area associated with the selected Linden Home. Residents may not rez their own houses, complete buildings, platforms, or other large structures in roads, paths, landscaped areas, open public land, or in the spaces between the designated Linden Home parcel boundaries. Resident-rezzed content must not block access to another Linden Home, designated testing area, road, path, or other public facility. Objects extending beyond the designated testing area, or obstructing public spaces, may be returned without warning. The existing sandbox return time and all applicable performance, scripting, maturity, and Community Standards requirements would continue to apply. Suggested covenant wording: Bellisseria Sandbox-Specific Use The Linden Homes provided in this sandbox may be used by Residents to test their own furniture, decorations, appliances, lighting, interior layouts, compatible home add-ons, and other household content. All Resident-rezzed objects must remain within the visible parcel boundaries or designated testing area of the Linden Home being used. Residents may not rez private houses, complete buildings, platforms, or other large structures in roads, paths, landscaped areas, open public land, or in the spaces between the designated Linden Home parcel boundaries. Resident-rezzed objects must not obstruct access to other homes, designated testing areas, roads, paths, or public facilities. Objects placed outside a designated testing area, or objects that obstruct public space, may be returned without warning. This clarification would confirm the intended practical use of the Linden Homes already provided in the sandbox. It would allow furniture creators and Linden Home residents to test scale, positioning, compatibility, and interior layouts before using items in their own homes. At the same time, it would prevent roads, landscaped areas, and other shared public spaces from being occupied by private houses, oversized builds, or objects unrelated to the testing of content inside the provided Linden Homes. This proposal would apply only to the Bellisseria Sandbox. It would not permit Residents to use ordinary residential Linden Home parcels as sandboxes.

At the moment, South Sansara has almost zero protected coastlines, except for a few around the rentable "Elements" regions near Bellisseria. On the World Map, Sansara already appears to have such a coast, but it actually doesn't. The entire coastline is overdeveloped with private parcels and ban lines. No provision of a Protected Waterway was ever made. Boat-owning parcel owners on this faux "coast" are basically trapped within their own parcels with no direct access to open seas. A southern coastline would give the Snowlands regions full north and south accessibility to boats and aircraft. Chamonix City could be encircled with a perimeter of protected water channels/regions, while allowing space for Chamonix City to expand further, should it wish to do so in the future. A southern coastline would link to existing protected coastlines north of Chamonix City that extend further north along the Snowlands, the Vehicle Testing Sandboxes, to Nova Albion, Bay City, the ANWR Channel and Heterocera continent. Please consider building Sansara a fit and proper southern coastline, something it has never had for the last 23+ years and is long overdue for.

Make the Zindra interior river navigable: add lock mechanics at Terri and Oritz dams Issue: The Zindra interior river (the "3"-shaped waterway between Terri and Oritz) is currently non-navigable because both ends are blocked by dams. Water level differences between sims prevent boats from crossing. As a result, this long interior waterway has almost no vehicle traffic, and GTFO deliveries cannot pass through. Why it matters: The river is already there. It just needs to be connected. Oritz has an SL Hub. With navigable locks, it could become a real waterway stop instead of a dead end. Dams currently consume prims and space but generate no activity. Making them functional would turn them into visitable, useful infrastructure. Proposed solution: Add localized lock mechanics at Terri and Oritz — similar to real canal locks or water elevators. When a boat enters the lock zone, the system raises or lowers it to the target sim's water level, then releases it. This is a known, feasible approach and does not require reworking SL's entire water system. Request: Please evaluate lock mechanics as a navigable-waterway feature, prioritizing GTFO-compatible vehicles, so interior rivers like Zindra's can support continuous boat traffic instead of ending at a dam.

Hello! We are seeking your ideas for new Linden Homes themes. If you have already suggested a theme or style on this board, it may be linked to here. :-) (Merging posts seems to disable access, sorry!) Suggest features, favorite house styles, or ideas that could serve a community. Our region designers will handle the execution, but your starting points are valuable for sparking creativity. Mood boards are encouraged! Please keep in mind that Linden Homes regions are designed as neighborhoods, with limited infrastructure such as roads, paths, small water features, and landscaping around the parcels. Comments are open!

In the past, support has previously said that they cannot handle abuse reports through the support portal. In addition, it is instinct for residents to file an abuse report for abusive content that is on Linden land. A recent clarification has been made on the forums (at https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/534114-horrible-building-in-newbrooke/page/2/#findComment-3079156 ) stating that abuse reports for Linden Home covenant violations need to go through the support portal in order to be routed to LDPW covenant enforcement team. This is really confusing, even to a veteran SL resident. No where in the covenant does it say that abuse reports for covenant violations need to be filed to the support portal. The only thing that is said is if you need help with your linden home. (Emphasis on "your", which implies only your linden home). Rephrasing it to something along these lines would really help clear up that discrepancy: "If you need help with your Linden Home, or to report Covenant violations:"

I would like to request a few things, like the ability to use the mahogany floor texture and the ability to change the trim color on the outside like how the current millbank halloween victorian haunted house has a black trim. Also to let us change the inside trim color to match the newer floor textures like mahogany for example, which is an option at the newbrooke homes. Thanks in advance for reading! ^^ Edit: included a pic for anyone who would like to see the black trim option, it looks very nice!

As well as we can forbid voice in a land. I suggest a feature where private IM can be forbidden. To make public areas, events, parties, cafes more social. Going on many events where local chat is totally dead. Also many just do group calls on events talking in IM instead of letting others lonely visitors into a conversation. Incoming IM while on such land could be pending and viewed after leaving area.

On Saturday 3 October 2026, I won my single Boopie #40 (Tier 4 prize) after an intensive two-day hunt to collect 400 Halloween buckets across Bellisseria. In the earlier 2024 and 2025 events, collecting 400 buckets awarded three Boopies (Tiers 2, 3, and 4) alongside a Tier 1 shelf unit to display these Boopies. Winning only one Boopie in 2026 felt disappointing. This year's Tier 1–3 prizes felt unrewarding, the prizes felt like left-overs from the Swaginator Hunt and I would have preferred staying with the three Boopies and shelf format of 2025 and 2024. The new "Next" button on the 2026 HUD halved the collection time compared to previous years. At first, I welcomed it, but this feature quickly made the hunt feel too predictable and repetitive, removing the excitement of exploring unfamiliar areas of Bellisseria. To address this, could the LDPW please introduce a dual-HUD system for 2027? I suggest offering a standard HUD (with the "Next" button) and a separate "Hardcore Halloween Hunter" HUD (without "Next"). To prevent exploitation, each HUD should maintain an independent counter. Reintroducing the three-Boopie prize structure exclusively for the Hardcore Halloween HUD would highly incentivise dedicated collectors. Finally, I request that the LDPW issue a Bucket Placement Advisory Notecard to resident hosts to ensure reasonable Halloween bucket placement. Additionally, hosts should be encouraged to adjust their parcel security systems to allow hunters sufficient time to collect buckets without being automatically ejected from a Linden Home parcel.