Build, decorate, and customize your home in Azeroth with new housing features. Players can acquire their own houses and land, move into neighborhoods with other players, and establish guilds and neighborhoods. Endless self-expression awaits you!
everyone’s house
Housing is for everyone in Midnight. If you want a house, you can own one. There are no exorbitant requirements, high purchase costs, lottery tickets or burdensome maintenance costs. Your home is also shared between warbands, allowing different characters to come and go as needed (so orc characters can hang out in alliance homes without any problems). Housing rewards will also be shared across warbands, allowing any character to use the cosmetic collection no matter which character earns it. If you have an Alliance character and a Horde character, they can also both own one house in either the Horde zone or the Alliance Neighborhood zone.
Alliance Neighborhood Zone: Founders Point
Horde Neighborhood Zone: Razorwind Shores
It’s not just warbands that cross faction walls, but friendships as well, so you can live in and visit friends and guildmates’ homes and neighborhoods with minimal faction restrictions.
Embrace limitless self-expression
To help you create your perfect living space, the Housing feature provides a variety of customization tools with the option to design in basic or advanced mode. You can also collect different home decor items and dye, resize and place selected items anywhere in your home.
Azeroth lets you create a home that reflects your unique style and accomplishments. Whether you want to create the cover of Gadgetzan Times or design a space that strikes fear into the hearts of your visitors, the Housing feature offers endless possibilities for customization.
The appearance of the house can also be customized using features similar to the in-game barbershop, with four different theme kits available initially: Blood Elf, Night Elf, Orc, and Human themes. Select different towers, windows, facades, etc. It’s important to note that Horde characters can live in Alliance houses, and Alliance characters can live in Horde houses, but they can’t use opposing faction appearances in their neighborhoods. This means that Alliance neighbors will always have Alliance architecture, and Horde neighbors will always have Horde architecture. Neutral architecture can appear in either neighborhood type.
welcome to the neighborhood
Homes in World of Warcraft are divided into two neighborhood zones: Founders Point (for the Alliance) and Razorwind Shores (for the Horde). Each neighborhood consists of approximately 50 equally sized lots, all of which contain homes.
We want players with different location preferences to be able to find the plot that’s right for them, whether it’s based on atmosphere or looking for something geared towards a specific character. Some plots are located far away from everything for the hermit among us, while others are clustered into small cul-de-sacs of two or three houses, perfect for small groups of friends. Other homes are divided into larger groups for those seeking more hustle and bustle.
Similarly, each zone features a variety of biomes, from the eerie forests and autumnal farmlands of Founders Point to the lush oases and windswept cliffs of Razorwind Shores. In both neighborhoods, you’ll find a dynamic central hub area filled with both NPC activity and Endeavor.
There are two types of neighborhoods.
- public district – These are created as needed by the game server and anyone can buy a house in them. When a house is filled, a new instance is created, so players looking for a house will not see a message that all districts are full. Public neighborhoods are also run by the game. This includes naming it (with a semi-procedurally generated name), organizing it, and keeping the neighborhood running as needed.
- private neighborhood – These are created and owned by players, either by a guild as a guild neighborhood, or by any group of players as a charter neighborhood.
Commitment to initiatives
The initiative is a neighborhood-wide activity that anyone who lives in the neighborhood can participate in. Initiatives occur approximately once a month, and as new initiatives become available, Neighborhoods are provided with the opportunity to learn from the different cultures and factions of Azeroth by completing various tasks. Private Neighborhood players can choose from a variety of Endeavors, but they may also see Endeavors set to highlight events happening in the world. In Public Neighborhoods, the game server is responsible for choosing which endeavors to activate.
Each Endeavor has a set of tasks for neighbors to complete collaboratively. As tasks are completed, more NPCs of the area appear, different themed decorations become available to residents of the neighborhood (or visiting players from other neighborhoods), and the neighborhood changes visually to be decorated in that faction’s manner. The number of tasks required varies depending on the size of the neighborhood, so a neighborhood with 50 players requires more tasks to be completed than a neighborhood with 10 players. Similarly, if a neighborhood is less active, future Endeavors for that neighborhood will also reduce their requirements to accommodate that.
Add a unique touch to your home by completing themed initiatives around your neighborhood.
very rewarding experience
Players can earn rewards through a variety of sources: by buying from someone at the auction house, by completing achievements such as defeating Onyxia in her lair, crafting something using a profession, or just through adventuring. There are many ways to add to your collection.
Decorations should be taken from everywhere and from everything. We want you to find cosmetic rewards in all types of gameplay, not just in a single path. For example, certain jade-inlaid bookshelves may be obtained from certain quests in Pandaria, while other bookshelves may be obtained from vendors, professions, or various other forms of content.
Open House: Take a home tour
Take a 3D tour of the housing and see the evolving customization options.
Housing 101: Introduction
Home Decor Design Leader Jay Hwang guides you through home systems. world of warcraft. Learn about choosing a neighborhood, buying a home, decorating, collecting, and answer common community questions.
We explain the design in more detail in a previously published development article.
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