The wonderful Old Quest Home Environments have been gone for months now. We finally have a way to get them back, and they are actually better than ever. First, a huge congratulations and thank you to xAstroBoy for getting all of this to work, it wouldn’t have been possible without your hard work. I also want to give a shout out to The Mysticle for a step in his troubleshooting that helped get things working for me.

I want to preface this by saying that it is quite the process. You do need a computer to get this working. I will write down the steps below for you to follow a bit but I would strongly encourage you to just watch the video below as I show it all in much more detail, and seeing how these types of things are done is important.

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A couple of notes before starting.

• You will need a computer to do this
• It is a little technical but with this guide it should be doable!
• You are getting rid of the current “Loft”
• You can only have one environment on your Quest at a time so you will need to use the Quest Homes Editor each time you want a new one. There’s no need to start from scratch every time though, just start at Step 8 again for new ones.

Steps to Get the Old Meta Quest Home Environments Back

1. Enable Developer Mode on your Quest (Done through mobile app)
2. Download the Binary from GitHub – Link Here
3. Download SDK Google Platform Tools – Link Here
4. Make a Folder on your computer called Quest Homes (or whatever you’d like to call it)
5. Move the Files from Platform Tools into that folder
6. Relabel “adb” and “fastboot” as adb.exe and fastboot.exe (some users might not have to do this but in the official wiki steps by xAstroBoy he does say to add “.exe” to “adb”. The fast boot was a suggestion by AI when I was troubleshooting an issue.
7. Move the QuestHomeEditor download into that same folder
8. Download any old or custom home APK (Sidequest or Discord)
9. Move the custom home APK into your new “Quest Homes” folder
10. Plug Quest into the Computer (make sure you get a prompt to allow USB Debugging for your first time)
11. Open up Quest Home Editor
12. Click and drag the home environment app that you want into the platform
13. Press Cook APK in the top right corner

Troubleshooting

System Defaulting Back to Loft/Part of Loft/Seeing Black

When I first ran this after following these steps, it didn’t work. I was only seeing the old loft but without a floor now. I thought I’d really messed something up. This is where the fix from Mysticle comes in.

Here are the steps to fix:

1. Go to your Quest Homes folder, right click, and open up the terminal in that folder
2. Type: adb devices (if that doesn’t work, as it didn’t for me, then type .\ adb.exe devices) It should show that your Quest is connected
3. Type: adb shell (If that also doesn’t work, do as before and type .\adb.exe shell) This will grant you access to your Quest through the terminal
4. Type: am start -n com.oculus.panelapp.settings/.SettingsActivity –es “uri” “/home”
5. When you run the above command, make sure your Quest is on your head as you should then see a hidden menu from the settings pop up.
6. On your Quest, click on “Loft” even if it is already has a check marked, just click it again.
7. It might automatically switch to the new environment, but if it doesn’t, just cook the APK one more time and it will show up.

Falling Through the Floor

If you load up an environment and keep falling through the floor. Here is a fix for that.

1. Open up Quest Homes Editor
2. On the right, click on Cook
3. Uncheck the box that says “Auto Floor Collision (No Navmesh Item)
4. Click on Physics
5. In the list above, click on the surface that represents the floor (sometimes there are more than one)
6. On the bottom half of the right side menus, click on “Smart – walkable face of the scene”
7. Cook again and it should be good!

Which home environment will you install first?!

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