Housing

Buy a deed for any higher tier and drop it on the hammer slot in your House View. Your house stays open and fully usable the whole time — storage, stations and Recall Home all keep working while the work goes on. Then feed the Upgrade Works and press Build when you are ready; unlike a construction site, an upgrade waits for you rather than starting itself.

• You only pay the difference. The walls already standing are not billed twice, so climbing the ladder rung by rung costs exactly what building the top tier outright costs. Starting small is never the expensive route.
• The wait is charged the same way. An upgrade takes the share of the target tier's build time that it is actually adding — not the full timer. Half a house is half the wait.
• Deliver from Storage empties your house into the works in one press: the chest, bags stored in it, and Stockpiles alike. It deliberately does not reach the bank — move material home first, the same as always.
• The deed's gold is paid in full at every rung, and a deed for your current tier or lower is refused rather than eaten.

Every tier has its own footprint, and the footprint is the upgrade you can see: a Small House is a 7×7 room, a Castle a 19×16 hall. Upgrading widens the room around everything already placed in it — footprints only ever grow up the ladder, so nothing you own is ever left outside the walls.

• Storage is one pool. The chest and the cap are the house's, wherever the walls are.
• Fixtures work house-wide — a Saw Pit by the far wall still speeds your crafting, and an Ankh anywhere in the house still resurrects you.
• Adjacency still means adjacency: a Crafting Bench only reaches a Stockpile standing next to it. With none beside it, it works out of your own backpack instead.

A carpenter can build boxes for a house. Carry one home, drop it on the floorplan, lock it down and double-click it — it opens like a bag and takes anything a bag takes, as many stacks as you like, and a stack itself is any size. The five differ only in how they look and what they cost to build.

Every facade in a tier shares that tier's price, materials, storage, build time, and plot size — what it decides is what your house is built from: a Log Cabin's walls are stacked timber, a Brick Town House is laid in running bond, a Marble Keep gleams. Ground-breaking rolls one at random, but it is yours to choose afterwards: double-click your house sign to open the Yard gump, and its Facade section lists every facade of your tier with the walls it would be built in. Pick one and the house is rebuilt on the spot — free, and you can change it again whenever you like. Only the owner can, and only from the tier's own list.

Every piece of furniture below (Craft Stations and the Stockpile alike) is placed and locked down the same way, once your house is complete.

1. Place it: drag it out of your backpack and drop it anywhere on your house's floor plan. It can still be repositioned or picked back up freely at this point.
2. Lock it down: say "I wish to lock this down." in Local chat while at your house, then click the piece of furniture you mean (a targeting cursor appears). Locking is required before you can open, deposit into, or operate it — and it can no longer be dragged once locked.
3. Release it the same way — say "I wish to release this." and target it — to unlock it and move it again. It must be completely empty first.
4. Reclaim it via its right-click menu to send it straight back to your backpack, no spoken confirmation needed. Also requires it to be empty.

Unattended refinement furniture: deposit raw material, hit the action button, and it keeps converting one unit roughly every 6 seconds on its own — about 600 an hour, even while you're offline or the server restarts. Each unit rolls against your own skill for that craft — the same odds you'd get refining it by hand, including your tool and ring bonuses — minus a flat 15% automation penalty, so a station is a little worse at the job than you are. A failed unit wastes the material. You still need the skill to work a tier at all: you can only deposit material you could refine yourself. Feed a station any tier of its raw material (Iron through Valorite) and it produces the matching tier of output.

Built at the Carpenter's bench (1,000 planks and 500 iron ingots, 75 Carpentry), then placed and locked down like any other fixture. It holds two of the carried crafting charms — the Smith's Lucky Hammer, the Silver Thimble and the Jeweler's Loupe — and keeps their bonus working while you craft at home, so a charm that took a very long hunt to find never has to ride in a backpack you might drop.

The trade is worth understanding before you commit a charm to one. Carried in your pack, those three buff you anywhere. Sitting in a case, they buff you only at your own house — the same reach the Craft Decorations below have always had. If you do your crafting at home, where the Craft Stations and the Crafting Bench are, it is a straight win. If you craft in town, keep carrying it. Nothing is forced: leave the charm in your pack and it behaves exactly as it always has.

A Display Case is heavy — it takes 1,000 of your house's storage, and whatever you put inside counts too. On a starter house that is a meaningful slice of the shelf, so plan the floor around it. The case shows what it holds: each charm's own icon sits in the glass, so you can read a case at a glance without opening it. It cannot be reclaimed while occupied — take the charms out first.

Six Ultra Rare furniture pieces — not built, only found (see the Dungeons page's Special Loot table and Dungeon Chests section). Placed and locked down exactly like a Craft Station above, and while locked at your house it grants a flat success-chance bonus to one craft skill, but only while you're actually crafting there — carry it off, or leave the house, and the bonus stops.

Bulk storage furniture for already-refined material — Boards, Ingots, Leather, Reagents, and Cooked Food. Unlike every other container in the game, deposited material is not stored as real items at all: it's converted into a plain count the moment it goes in, so a Stockpile can hold any quantity with zero weight and zero risk of running out of stack slots. Withdraw any material back into a real, usable stack whenever you like.

Once unlocked, its gump has one tab per material category along the bottom. Pick a tab, then hit "Add to Stockpile" to sweep every matching item currently in your backpack into that tab's counters (bags and the Bank are never touched). Click any material's row to withdraw its entire counted amount as a fresh stack.

The Stockpile's own build cost, and currently their only use. Right-click a large enough stack of the base material to compress it into one deed — a big, unblessed, tradeable stack-compression, not a Stockpile feature itself. No skill or tool needed, and it's instant.

Everyone standing in a house can see everyone else on their own floor — walking about, wearing their own gear, under their own guild tag and title. People on different storeys don't see each other.

What a guest may actually do is set on the House Access panel, in the House View header — separately for each floor, since every floor has its own plan and its own chest. A ground floor can be a workshop your friends are welcome in while the storey above stays private.

Co-owners skip all of that: up to ten per house, each able to use anything on any floor whatever the rules say. Co-ownership needs no friendship, because adding one is a deliberate act by the owner. What a co-owner can never do is anything that is ownership — moving, upgrading or re-deeding the house, or changing who else gets in.

A house nobody has configured has its ground floor open to visitors and grants nothing else, with upper floors closed.