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→House Plan Examples: Additional info on planning doughnut houses
== Creation ==
Building a house is based on the [[carpentry]] skill for [[wooden house|wood]] and [[Timber_framed_house|timber]] framed houses and a mixture of both [[carpentry]] and [[masonry]] for stone or brick houses. There is no minimum [[carpentry]] skill requirement for a one tile (1x1) house. If your house is to be made out of stone, 30 [[masonry]] skill is required.
To create, right-click one of the wall sections and select ''Add to Crafting Window''. There are various wall plans and they require masonry & carpentry skill and a trowel for stone options; mallet and carpentry only for wood and timber framed options. Place the tool in the crafting window to see the options available to you. To start the creation process, you will also need to have the crafting items required in your inventory. Depending on the house style, this may be [[large nails]] and [[planks]], [[stone brick]]s and [[mortar]], [[wooden beam]]s, etc.
== House Plan Examples ==
Numbers listed above each plan is the minimum [[carpentry]] skill required for the ground/first floor of a wooden or timber house. You can also check [http://webdepp.sense-net.at/~toni/wurm/housecalc.php HouseCalc] for the carpentry skill and materials required for your custom plan without download. At this time, this tool does not incorporate timber-framed materials and as an outside resource, use at your own risk.
=== 1-4 tiles ===
The formula to calculate the carpentry skill needed to build a house is the number of tiles + the number of outer walls - 5. For example: a 4 by 4 wall has 16 tiles and 16 outer walls so it would take 27 carpentry on the ground/first floor. For multi-story houses the formula is the same but there's an additional requirement based on the number of floors.
===Doughnut Houses and Other Non-standard Houses===
Some styles of housing, like doughnut houses (a house shaped like a ring, with a hollow center) or other non-square shapes, may require a higher carpentry skill that these numbers give, because of interior walls required. Make sure you account for interior as well as exterior walls in your calculations. It may be easier to plan these kinds of houses row by row instead of all at once, if your carpentry skill is not high enough. Planning all outside walls, then inside, may work for a doughnut house as well.
== Adding a Roof ==
==Doors & Locks==
You'll need at least one door on your house (if you want to be able to leave!). Both single and double doors allow a cart to drive through. All doors to the outside should have locks and be locked. Without a lock, humanoid monsters may chase you inside and unwelcome players may also enter. If you are on deed in a '''finished''' house (first/ground floor completely built), on a PVE server, with correct permissions wetset, your possessions are safe, but no one wants unwelcome visitors. Install a lock, and then you can allow players and friends to visit anyway.
== Stone/Brick Housing ==
A [[stone house]] is stronger than a regular [[wooden house]]. A [[stone house]] takes more [[skills]] and resources to build, but offers more protection from [[decay]], [[stealing|theft]], and [[PvP|invaders]]. At least 30 skill in masonry is required in order to build a stone house, a player with less than 30 skill in masonry can not start or continue building a stone house.
==Underground Housing==
In order to do this you would need to activate a [[hammer]], [[mallet]], or [[trowel]] and right-click a flat, reinforced cave floor tile. Houses can only be built touching a cave wall if and when all the tiles are on deed and they do not have an adjacent perimeter tile. If any of the adjacent tiles are perimeter tiles the perimeter tile must be mined out. Alternatively, houses in caves cannot be built touching a cave wall if they are off deed. If you attempt to plan a house that is outside the previously stated parameters you will get the following message: {{event|inline| You cannot build here, there must be a gap around the building.}}
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'''NB: Houses built underground are safe from cave ins. '''
== Multi-Story Housing ==
* [[Toolkits]] - unofficial and unsupported house planning tools.
==Images==
<gallery>
File:Venice.jpg|An underground tunnel/housing
File:Stonefortress.jpg| Large stone house
File:Wood and timber.jpg| Wood and timber framed house
</gallery>
For additional housing creation inspiration
* [[:Category:Floors]]
