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→House Plan Examples: Additional info on planning doughnut houses
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 ==
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 ==
