20.4 HOUSE UPGRADES
(See also: HELP HOUSING, HELP HOUSING SUMMARY, HELP SUBDIVISIONS)
Once you've purchased your house there are a number of different upgrades you
can purchase for the rooms in your house. These upgrades tend to be fairly
expensive compared to rooms as they represent either serious structural changes
to your house from a roleplaying sense or powerful magic.
Houses and Rooms: No Sale or Transfer
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Houses may not be sold, transferred, or traded in, although the individual
rooms and doors may be destroyed and some value may be recaptured in that way.
Destroying the rooms and doors of a house returns approximately half credit.
Plots may not be sold if they have houses on them.
UPGRADES LIST
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All upgrade costs* in houses built upon ships are doubled.
(*) That's costs, not refund value at time of destruction.
See HOUSING DESTROY ROOM UPGRADE, below, for further information.
Health regeneration (keyword: health)
- You and your allies will regenerate extra health while in the room.
- 40 room credits. (80 on a ship)
Mana regeneration (keyword: mana)
- You and your allies will regenerate extra mana while in the room.
- 40 room credits. (80 on a ship)
Endurance regeneration (keyword: endurance)
- You and your allies will regenerate extra endurance while in the room.
- 60 room credits. (120 on a ship)
Willpower regeneration (keyword: willpower)
- You and your allies will regenerate extra willpower while in the room.
- 60 room credits. (120 on a ship)
News access (keyword: news)
- Anyone may access the news from that room.
- 40 room credits. (80 on a ship)
Outdoors (keyword: outdoors)
- Remove the roof from that room.
- 10 room credits.
- NOTE: not available on ships.
Environment (keyword: see below)
- Change the environment to one of the available choices. You may only
have one environment per room - for example, if you upgrade a room to
garden, and it was formerly freshwater, it is no longer freshwater.
- 20 room credits.
- NOTE: not available on ships.
- Environments that may be selected are:
* Garden (keyword: garden)
- Plants will grow here.
- Trees are added to the room.
* Freshwater (keyword: water)
- Plants will grow here.
- You will not be able to fish from this room.
* Beach (keyword: beach)
* Grassland (keyword: grassland)
- Plants will grow here.
* Natural Underground (keyword: nunderground)
- Plants will grow here.
- Alchemical minerals may be extracted here.
- Diamond dust may be gathered here.
* Constructed Underground (keyword: cunderground)
- Alchemical minerals may be extracted here.
Security (keyword: security)
- Applies key sigil, monolith sigil, and eye sigil protections to the room.
- 5 room credits (10 on a ship)
Orb (keyword: orb)
- blocks track and flight in and out of a room.
- You can still pierce the veil out of the room.
- Airlord lightning will not be able to pierce the orb's protection.
- Traverse, the Yuthka Legenddeck card, and falcons will not be able to pass
through the barrier.
- This cannot be deactivated, it is always on.
- Not available for ships.
- 5 room credits
No Prism (keyword: noprism)
- For those desperate for privacy, this will prevent prisming into that
room.
- 40 room credits.
- NOTE: not available on ships.
Privacy (keyword: privacy)
- Veils your room in a cloak of privacy. People will not be able to
listen in on conversations there. Various things are stopped, including
eavesdropping, listening, mind listen, vodun/puppetry listen,
angel mindread, and forms of overhearing tells.
- 80 room credits. (160 on a ship)
- NOTE: An option to this is a bed, which is a much more powerful version
of a privacy room. See HELP BEDS for more details.
Stables (keyword: stables)
- Allows you to STABLE <LOYAL> (be it mount, pet, or minipet.)
- Mounts will no longer need or use food while stabled.
- If the loyal resets, it will now reset to that room instead of your
inventory.
- You may UNSTABLE <LOYAL> to remove it.
- 80 room credits. (160 on a ship)
Gates (keyword: gates)
- Prevents stabled mounts from being summoned with WHISTLE <mount>
or the platinum whistle artefact.
- Requires the stables upgrade to be purchased first.
- 20 room credits. (40 on a ship)
Observatory (keyword: observatory)
- Allows you to LOOK OUTSIDE and see the subdivision map.
- Not available in out-of-subdivision houses.
- 40 room credits.
Furniture Stasis (keyword: fstasis)
- Prevents furniture decay in the room.
- 80 room credits. (160 on a ship)
Humgii (keyword: humgii)
- Your own pet humgii! Will eat almost anything given to him.
- Can have his description customised (HELP CUSTOMISATIONS).
- 50 room credits. (100 on a ship)
Chess board (keyword: chess)
- A permanently installed chessboard for your house.
- 40 room credits. (80 on a ship)
Fountain (keyword: fountain)
- A bubbling fountain that supplies a stream of fresh water.
- Can have its description customised (HELP CUSTOMISATIONS).
- 20 room credits. (40 on a ship)
Plaster (keyword: plaster)
- Prepare a room for a mural!
- See HELP ARTISTRY
- 3 room credits. (6 on a ship)
Cellar (keyword: cellar)
- A room upgrade that allows the placing of Kegs/Casks/Barrels from
furnishing to age and store beverages!
- 10 room credits. (20 on a ship)
Plot sign (keyword: sign)
- A small wooden sign outside your subdivision home.
- Must be purchased/traded-in from the keyroom of your house.
- Not available for ships.
- 20 room credits.
Crystal Ornament (keyword: ornament)
- Allows the home owner to set up to three ambience messages
that will be displayed randomly.
- 40 room credits. (80 on a ship)
- Syntax:
PUSH ORNAMENT <message> Add a message.
PULL ORNAMENT <#> Remove a message.
TOUCH ORNAMENT List current messages.
TURN ORNAMENT Toggle ornament's visibility.
COMMANDS
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HOUSING BUY ROOM UPGRADE <keyword>
- Buys a specified upgrade for the room you are standing in. All upgrades
cost TWICE as much for houses on ships.
HOUSING DESTROY ROOM UPGRADE <keyword>
- Destroys a specified upgrade in the room you are standing in and
refunds you half the room credits that the upgrade currently costs.*
(*) NOTE: the refund value is half the room credits that the upgrade
costs appropriate to where it is located. If you own a home on a ship,
where upgrades cost double, you will be refunded half of the doubled
purchase cost.
HOUSING SHOW ROOM UPGRADES
- Shows the upgrades for the room you're in, if you own it.
(See also: HELP HOUSING, HELP HOUSING SUMMARY, HELP SUBDIVISIONS)