Portal:Housing

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Housing Avast! After a long day of pillaging on the high seas, a pirate just wants a place to hang his swag, drop his boots, and relax in the style of his ill gotten riches. What better place than his very own house? Puzzle Pirates currently offers 10 different types of housing to own from the humblest shack to the grandest estate and everything in between. Houses can be furnished, decorated, painted, and personalized to fit any personality and preference. Housing bazaars are built by the governing body of the island and individual houses may be purchased from the bazaar's front room. Once purchased, a house is owned until it is returned by the owner and a pirate may own as many houses on as many different islands as he likes. There is no rent or upkeep cost and no dormant time limit for it to exist. A house is a great place to invite your hearties over for a game of poker or a round of drinks and spend the evenings whiling away the hours sharing stories with your crew. Show New Selections Selected Article A left-facing townhouse. A townhouse is a type of housing that pirates can purchase. With 7 rooms, the townhouse is a middle sized house compared to the full housing selection offered. Townhouses may be occupied by up to 4 pirates; the owner and 3 roommates. The townhouse rooms, except for the basement, may be painted and decorated just like in other houses and have a rather large amount of free floor space compared to some other houses. During the original housing release, the townhouse was called a "house". This name was changed to "row house" with release 2005-08-12 and then finally changed to the current "townhouse" with release 2005-08-18. A townhouse costs 40,000 PoE and 40 doubloons on green oceans. Learn more about housing... How to... ...arrange furniture The "Arrange furniture" interface. Click for larger view. Decorating a house is an important part of pirate home ownership but can be confusing. Here's a few quick steps to get you started on your home improvement project. 1. While in the room you are wishing to decorate, choose arrange furniture from the house panel on the sunshine widget. Be sure that whatever furniture or paintings you wish to place are currently in your inventory. 2. Clicking on the arrange furniture button brings up the furniture interface showing the entire room. You may now drag any items of furniture from your booty inventory onto the screen to activate them. 3. The furniture will appear on the screen slightly transparent. In this mode you may move the mouse around to select exact location and use the arrow keys or mouse wheel to select object orientation or appearance. 4. When satisfied with placement and orientation, click the mouse and the object is placed and becomes solid. Continue process with as many furniture items as wanted in the current room. 5. Click commit changes on the left side of the screen to apply the changes to the room. At any time, you may also click cancel changes to exit the screen and return all non-committed furniture to your inventory. Now you're set to decorate your own pirate house like a pro! Selected Picture The exterior view of a right-facing mansion. Categories Houses Buildings Furniture Paint Did You Know? When housing was introduced with release 2005-08-10, it became one of the first truly customizable aspects of a pirate's life. Prior to this, there were limited ways to express one's self outside of painting the walls of a shoppe or a ship. The only other game element that involved placing and changing items was governorship of an island; a high profile post reserved for a select few. The release of housing and furniture changed all this allowing for the first time full customization of a pirate's living quarters in the form of house choice, paint, furniture, and decorations. In addition to this, furniture also opened up a new merchanting enterprise and put more uses into the classic commodities.