Housing

The Housing System allows characters to create a variety of properties including homes, shops, farms, inns, or even grand estates. Designed to integrate with existing gameplay systems, housing offers both mechanical benefits and narrative opportunities. Characters can customize their spaces, host events, and earn Housing Credits (HC) to expand their property’s functionality and features!

Overview

The Housing System allows players to unlock special housing-based rewards, receive housing events, and potentially add interaction opportunities with other mini-games. Participation in the Housing System is entirely optional.

• Players can freely create narrative-only houses and add them to the Landmarks database, free of cost, at any time.
• If you would like to participate in the Housing System, you can pick up your first property for free from the Housing Market; subsequent properties can be purchased from the Marketplace / Open Market with coppers, from the Housing Market with Housing Credits, or through completion of a quest or event. Properties may also be given as rewards for participation in other mini-games.
• Players are welcome to alter their in-character descriptions of any property -- if you want to have a friend stay the night, it's fine to "add" a second bedroom for them to stay in (or remove one for the "only bed at the inn" tropes, we don't judge 😈). You don't need to make any changes to your house's profile to reflect these narrative-only changes unless you want to.

Property Types

Learn more about properties and what they have to offer in the Housing Market!

• 🏰 Estate: A sprawling property offering prestige, extensive storage, and space for multiple rooms.
• 🌾 Farms: A functional property focused on resource generation through crops or livestock.
• 🏠 Homes: A simple, low-maintenance personal space with modest but reliable benefits.
• 🏢 Headquarters: An organizational base for coordinating groups or factions.
• 🏨 Inns: A hospitality space offering more interaction opportunities and recurring mechanical bonuses from visitors.
• 🛍️ Shops: A commercial hub optimized for trade, crafting income, and resource conversion.
• 🛠️ Workshops: A specialized crafting space optimized for mechanical efficiency and focused task improvements.

Housing Credits (HC)

• Housing Credits can be used at the special Housing Market to purchase upgrades, features, quirks, property-specific pets, and more!
• Each post set on your property or mentions your property in a significant way is worth 50HC; you will also receive credits each time any other character visits or mentions your property.
  • Make sure to click on the "Housing" checkbox and enter the property name in the textbox that appears to ensure credits are properly received!
• Housing Credits can be converted to Coppers at a 1:4 ratio, so 1HC = 4c. Coppers can also be converted to Housing Credits at a ratio of 5:1, so 1c = 5HC. Conversion can be completed from the Housing Market.
• Housing Credits may also be added to, or deducted from, your bank because of housing events, or results from mini-games.

Features & Quirks

Shortly after the creation of a property, Signe will reach out with a list of six Features and six Quirks. You’ll be able to select one Feature and one Quirk to personalize your property. These traits are intended to add flavor, depth, and opportunities to your property while introducing unique bonuses and challenges; you can purchase additional Features and Quirks, or customize pre-existing ones, from the Housing Marketplace.

• Features are narrative and/or mechanical bonuses that add distinct benefits to your property. Examples:
  • Clean House – This property naturally wants to stay clean. Cleaning-related costs are reduced by 5%.
  • Animal Haven – This property naturally draws in wild animals; it will have a higher chance of receiving events related to animal visitors.
• Quirks are narrative and/or mechanical drawbacks that add personality and occasional challenges.
  • Bug Haven – This property is quite popular with insects; it will have a higher chance of receiving events related to infestations.
  • Haunted – A restless spirit lingers in this property. It may occasionally make requests, and failure to fulfill them could result in minor damage or strange occurrences.

Housing Events

• Each month on the 1st and 15th, we will run a check to determine if an event occurs on your property and, if so, what type of event it is. Properties will start with a 50/50 chance of spawning an event or not; if an event is rolled, there will be a 50/50 chance for whether it is a positive or negative event. Items, offers, quirks, features, etc. may all impact these odds! Signe will announce results for these events in the #housing-events channel. We will try to ensure each property receives an event at least once every 2 months. Events will also be listed in the Property Events section of your Property Profile.
• Some events will may not require action, but may add fun or interesting elements to your posts, while other events may require action from your end; you will want to use your private support channel to indicate the actions you are taking and let us know once they are complete. Support will change "Incomplete" status to "Complete" in the Property Events section and make any other updates necessary.
• Players may also request a Housing event in #catalysts-and-games channel by sending a message there with something like "Requesting housing event for [house name]". You can request events at any time, as long as there are no more than 3 unfinished events active for the property.

Example Events

No Action Required Events:

• Bountiful Harvest! A wild patch of herbs or crops has sprung up near your property! You gain +50HC and some Moonlit Lavender.
• Visiting Merchant: A traveling merchant sets up shop near your property, offering rare goods and increasing local traffic. You can purchase a special, randomized item for 25HC!
• Helpful Spirit: The resident spirit has decided to lend a hand today! Gain +50HC and a 10% crafting success boost for your next crafting attempt.

Action Required Events:

• Bug Infestation: Your house has become infested with insects! To clear the infestation, you can:
  • Complete a post about the infestation
  • Pay 100HC for an exterminator (no post required)
  • Ignore the infestation -- failure to act may result in damage to property yields or further infestations, though!
• Spirit's Request: The spirit has a demand: "Bring me a token from the nearby forest" , you can:
  • Write a post fulfilling the spirit’s request
  • Pay 200HC to hire someone to retrieve the token
  • Pay 100HC to attempt an exorcism -- results may vary...
  • Ignore the request -- a random crafting space to be unusable for 1 month
• Structural Damage: An unseen issue in the foundation causes structural damage to your property, you can:
  • Pay 300HC for professional repairs
  • Write a post about addressing the damage
  • Accept -10% success rate for crafting tasks in a random room until fixed

Housing Market

• You can purchase upgrades, new features or quirks, and other unique bonuses for your properties through the Housing Market.

Updating Property Profiles & Inventory

• Your properties and property items are stored in your regular inventory and can be edited at any time through the Edit Player link (Members Database > click on your name > Click the "Edit Player" link).
• You can also list properties or property items for sale on the Open Market, or sell them directly for a randomized amount of coppers within the resell range.