Houses

A House is your personal storage in a town: a weight-based store for items and a bank for gold, reachable only in the town it stands in. Each House town offers every character its own plot — but the House must be built before it stores anything, and each town's House is built, upgraded, and furnished separately. Items in storage weigh nothing on you; they count against the House's capacity instead.

Towns with a House plot: Aldermoor — Wyckmouth, Embervale, Hearthwick; Sundermere — Saltreach, Mistval; Merrowfen — Sedgeholm, Sootmere, Mirefield.

Building a House

Raising the House is a Construction build: it consumes materials from your pack plus gold (destroyed — a build, not a purchase), and grants Construction XP. The classic loop: chop logs, saw them into planks (Construction XP), then build with the planks. A House costs what its region is worth — the further out you settle, the better the wood it takes.

Region	Construction	Materials	Gold	XP
Aldermoor	1	40× Plank + 10× Stone	500	80
Sundermere	1	48× Ash Plank + 10× Stone	500	80
Merrowfen	1	60× Blackthorn Plank + 10× Stone	500	80

Storage capacity & upgrades

A fresh House holds 1,000 lb of goods. Each upgrade adds 100 lb of capacity, consumes planks from your pack (no gold — building, not buying), and grants 40 Construction XP. Every expansion costs a little more than the last, until the price flattens — from there, expansion stays the same price forever, at 100× Plank in Aldermoor, 134× Ash Plank in Sundermere, 160× Blackthorn Plank in Merrowfen.

Short on the plank your region calls for? An upgrade will take any higher-tier plank in its place — it spends your plainest planks first, so your fancy wood is only touched once the cheap stuff runs out. (Building a House still needs the exact plank its region calls for; only upgrades are flexible.)

Upgrade	Capacity after	Aldermoor	Sundermere	Merrowfen
1	1,100 lb	20× Plank	24× Ash Plank	30× Blackthorn Plank
2	1,200 lb	28× Plank	35× Ash Plank	43× Blackthorn Plank
3	1,300 lb	36× Plank	46× Ash Plank	56× Blackthorn Plank
4	1,400 lb	44× Plank	57× Ash Plank	69× Blackthorn Plank
5	1,500 lb	52× Plank	68× Ash Plank	82× Blackthorn Plank
6	1,600 lb	60× Plank	79× Ash Plank	95× Blackthorn Plank
7	1,700 lb	68× Plank	90× Ash Plank	108× Blackthorn Plank
8	1,800 lb	76× Plank	101× Ash Plank	121× Blackthorn Plank
9	1,900 lb	84× Plank	112× Ash Plank	134× Blackthorn Plank
10	2,000 lb	92× Plank	123× Ash Plank	147× Blackthorn Plank
11+	…	100× Plank	134× Ash Plank	160× Blackthorn Plank

Gardens

A built House can add a garden — private plots for Farming's cultivation: sow seeds, let them grow, harvest the crop. The garden expands in tiers; each tier is its own Construction build of stone, planks, and gold (destroyed), for a one-time XP reward.

Lvl	Plots	Materials	Gold	XP
5	10	60× Stone, 20× Plank	2,500	150
12	15	80× Stone, 30× Oak Plank	5,000	400
20	20	120× Stone, 40× Birch Plank	10,000	800

Furniture

Each built House holds one furniture piece per slot — passive bonuses that stack across every furnished House you own in the region. The full slot-by-slot catalogue lives in the Home Furniture guide.

Housing contracts

Don't fancy hauling planks yourself? Grant another player a housing contract on your House (up to 10 builders per House). A contracted builder can upgrade your capacity, expand your garden, and install furniture using their own materials and gold — the Construction XP is theirs, the improvement lands on your House, and they never see your stored items or banked gold. Contracts are granted and revoked from the House's Contracts tab; it's the realm's builder-for-hire economy.