Housing

Housing

You can place classic-style Ultima homes and UO Renaissance houses. A player may own 1 house per account. Each player may have 2 accounts in total, so no player may own more than 2 houses.

Storing Items & House Decor

Items inside houses do not decay, allowing you to decorate homes to your liking. However, if they are not locked down or stored in secure containers, anyone with access to the house can take them.  A secure container can hold 125 items and up to 400 stones. Locked down containers can hold 125 items and unlimited stones.

You may use house add-on deeds to upgrade your home with new features or decorations. Player can craft add-ons.

• How to use a House add-on deed: Double click on a house add-on deed and select a valid house tile.
• How to remove house add-ons:  Equip an axe and use it on the house add-on. You will receive a deed for the add-on in your backpack.

House Upgrades

You can upgrade your home’s max storage, friend’s list and ban lists using Ancient Doubloons.

House Security

Securing your home properly is the key to keeping your items safe from house looters. Keeping your front door locked is the baseline level of security.

It is recommended to have a house key in a secured container near the door. On the other side of the door, interior design that blocks access to where you store your non-secured valuables. Commonly handled with a “table wall” or by using few house add-ons.

Detect Hidden in Housing

Using detect hidden while in your home, or a home you’re friended to will reveal all hidden players within the house. You do not need detect hidden skill to succeed.

What can people use or take from your house?

Players can interact with certain items, even if they are not friended, a co-owner, or owner. For example:

• Use keyrings within reach.
• Use potion kegs within reach.
• Use charges on any house add-ons within reach.
• Take any items off the ground if the item is not locked down.
• Take any items from a non-secured container. A locked down container is not secure.

Secured containers are 100% inaccessible to non-friended players and can be kept in public spaces.

Castle Owners

Castle owners have an extra option on their house sign for managing their courtyard. Players can pay 500,000 gold to remove all characters (logged out and logged in) from their courtyards and reset runes to the ban location. This makes it easier to buy and sell houses without fear of the former owner having access.

Managing Access & Homeowner Command

When you place a house on Tides of Power, all of the characters on your account are considered homeowners.   You can add friends and co-owners, and ban people from your home. A home may have up to 15 co-owners, 100 friends, and 100 banned foes.

Managing Friends, Co-Owners, and Banned Players.

• How to ban a person: “I ban thee” and target the player.
• How to eject a person: “Remove thyself”
• How to add a friend or co-owner: Double-click the house sign, click FRIENDS, and click the Add a Friend (or Co-Owner) button.
• How to remove a friend or co-owner: Double-click the house sign, click FRIENDS, and click the Remove a Friend (or Co-Owner) button.
• How to remove a ban: Double-click the house sign, click FRIENDS, and click the Lift a Ban button.

Securing Containers

Owners, co-owners, and friends may access secure containers.

• How to secure a container: “I wish to secure this”

Locking Down Items

Owners and co-owners can lock down or release items. When an item is locked down, it cannot be moved.

• How to lock down an item: “I wish to lock this down”
• How to release an item: “I wish to release this”

Trash Barrels

You can add a trash barrel to your home to delete items easier.

• How to add a trash barrel: “I wish to place a trash barrel”
• How to remove a trash barrel: Use an axe on your trash barrel.

Public House

You can declare a house public. When a house is public, you can change the appearance of the house sign. Friends and co-owners of the home may set up a vendor to items.

• How to leave a public house quickly: “Remove Myself”

House Decay

Houses do decay on our shard. Homes that are not refreshed (open the door or double-click the sign) will decay after 14 days. All items within the house will fall to the ground where the home used to be, in the classic “IDOC” style of Ultima Online.

House Decay Status

• The house looks like new. Nearly 14 days until collapse.
• The house looks slightly worn. 1%+ towards collapse
• The house looks somewhat worn. 25% towards collapse.
• The house looks fairly worn. 50%+ towards collapse
• The house looks greatly worn. 75%+ towards collapse.
• The house is in danger of collapse.  95%+ towards collapse.

Buying and Selling House Deeds

You can buy a house deed from an NPC Architect. If you want to sell a house deed, find an NPC real estate broker and say appraise and target the house deed. The NPC will tell you how much its worth. You can drag and drop the deed onto the real estate broker to exchange the deed for a bank check.

UO T2A Houses

Castles and keeps are the largest houses available on Tides of Power.

UO Renaissance Houses