Housing

Overview

All players have access to a housing and housing plot. Unlike worlds, where blocks are not placeable, players can customise their housing by using purchased blocks to build their own houses and builds on plots. There are other customisations available as well, such as sceneries, custom housing names, and welcome messages. Commonly, housing plots are used to house chests and store items.

Accessing Housing Plots

While in a town or village, a player can access housing plots. There are two main ways to access housings: either with commands or with the /housing GUI. 

To access your housing plot, run the command /home, /housing <your IGN> or, do /housing and select the “Go Home” option on the far left. There are several ways to moderate players arriving at your housing. This includes the /h access command, which allows you to toggle levels of access of your housing to different groups of people: to the public, to players on your friends list, and to players in the same party. Moreover, you can kick, ban, or unban other players from their housing plot.

To access a specific player’s housing plot, run the command /housing <other player’s IGN> to get teleported directly there or, do /housing and select the “Visit Others” option on the far right and type the IGN of the player to visit. If you do not have access to that player’s housing, you will not be teleported and a popup message in chat will notify you accordingly. 

To access public housing plots with players present, run the command /housing and select the “Loaded Housing Plots” option second from the left. From there, you can view a list of player heads that, when moused over, show the housing’s owner, the housing’s name, and how many visitors are at the housing. Click on a player's head to get teleported to their housing. 

To access housing plots of your friends besides using /housing <other player’s IGN>, do /housing and select the “Visit Friends” option second from the right. From there, this display is similar to the “Loaded Housing Plots” section.

Once at a housing plot, do /world, talk to a House Elf and select the “Worlds” option, or use a Warp Key to leave a housing and return to a world.

Building Your Housing

To get started with building at your housing, it is best to turn your housing plot boundaries on with /house border on. This will spawn in a rectangle of red wool on your plot to indicate the region where you can build inside of. Only the region within that rectangle can be built on, between Y level heights of 90 and 256.

Other players can build on your housing plot if they are residents. To add a player as a resident, do /house addresident <IGN>. Take caution that residents will be able to access all chests at your housing plot. Unfortunately, residents cannot use item frames/paintings or use the housing owner’s House Elf to purchase blocks from the Mine Depot. 

Housing Upgrades

Initially, a player’s housing plot is 29 x 29 blocks. To upgrade the size of your housing plot, head to Ernie’s Estates, which is a white bricked building to the right of Grimlott’s Bank entrance in Diagonal Lane, London, and speak to Ernie. There are four different plot upgrades a player can have: the default size of 29 x 29 blocks, the size two plot upgrade of 39 x 39 blocks for 500 Gold, the size three plot upgrade of 49 x 49 blocks for 1000 Gold, and the size four plot upgrade of 59 x 59 blocks for 2000 Gold. Take caution that: buying the next available plot size will override your current highest available size, plots cannot be downsized, and no refunds will be given if all plots are purchased at once.

Housing Commands

There are a variety of housing-related commands to further customise one’s housing. This includes custom welcome messages, custom housing names, time of day, the weather, the biome, etcetera. Additionally, there are commands to help moderate who is allowed at one’s housing and even commands to make building at your plot easier, such as /h fly, which, if not bought yet, can be purchased for 20,000 Gold. To view the available commands, do /h in-game or check the commands page.

House Elf

At every housing plot, there will be a House Elf NPC to assist in customising your housing plot. Upon talking to your House Elf, there are different features to take note of. The “Time Settings” option allows the customisation of the time of day and toggles the day cycle. The “Plot Size” option displays information on the plot upgrades available. The “Sceneries” option allows a purchased housing scenery to be enabled at a rate of one per minute. The “Worlds” option works the same way as /worlds. The “Mine Depot” section allows the purchase of blocks and decor. The “Visit Friends” and “Loaded Housing Plots” options both work the same way as their /housing counterparts. Lastly, the “Heal” option gives the player full health and hunger. To move one’s House Elf, use /h elf when standing at the desired location.

When talking to another House Elf at another player’s housing, there are fewer features to use. Only the “Visit Friends”, “Loaded Housing Plots”, “Worlds”, “Go Home”, and “Heal” options are available.

House Shopkeeper

At every housing plot, one Shopkeeper NPC can be added. This allows visiting players to purchase items that the player has put up for sale. To spawn in a Shopkeeper, use /h shopkeeper when standing at the desired location.

Sceneries

Besides building on your housing plot, your housing can be customized even more with sceneries, which make up the blocks surrounding your housing plot. There are several different ways to purchase sceneries: notably with different currencies in-game or with real money through the Potterworld store. Keep an eye out on the store, as sceneries available for purchase will be constantly updated with new releases.

Some housing sceneries can be purchased with Gold. At Ernie’s Estates in Diagonal Lane, London, players can purchase a Desert, Swamp, or Jungle Scenery for 600 Gold each.

An Interwizard Scenery was claimed in Arena Season 1 by players with an Arena Score of 35 or more.

Other housing sceneries can be purchased with Voting Tokens. At the Token Shop in the Trophy Room below the Great Hall, players can purchase a Mushroom, Savannah, or Survival Capitol Scenery for 1000 Voting Tokens each.

Once you have purchased or claimed a scenery, talk to your House Elf at your housing and use the “Sceneries” option to enable a scenery, or use the command /house scenery. 

Obtaining Building Materials

There are several ways to obtain blocks, models, and tools for building. Building materials and tools can be obtained from the Mine Depot section from talking to your housing’s House Elf, or from miscellaneous shops throughout Hogsend, the Marketplace, other player’s shops, or shops in London.

Besides using specific tools to remove certain blocks, such as the Efficiency 5 Iron Pickaxe for Crafting Tables, there is one block that is only removable in a specific way: End Portal, with a mailbox appearance, blocks. These must be Shift and right-clicked on to be broken down.

The table below displays the different categories of items that can be purchased from the Mine Depot along with the description and items sold.

Within the Mine Depot is also the Furniture Buyer. Here, players can trade in certain items for Gold. These items have gone outdated due to resource pack changes or otherwise.

When purchasing building materials, take note that traditional Minecraft crafting, plant generation, and Redstone technologies will not work on housing plots. This means that players cannot use a crafting table to break down wood to get other items, grow saplings or vines, and TNT blocks will not explode, etcetera. 

Block Variations

Certain blocks can transform into different blocks or models depending on the way they are placed or the items placed within them. The tables below display the resulting block/model that is produced from altering the given block’s state, and what item, if placed in a Flower Pot, produces the corresponding model.

Unobtainable Materials

Due to technical limitations, certain blocks/models are not available in the Mine Depot. This includes any blocks from Minecraft Java Edition version 1.11 and above since the server supports version 1.10 at the minimum. Hence, all blocks have to be 1.10 and below. 

Common build materials available in versions 1.10 to 1.13 that cannot be found in the Mine Depot include Beacons, Armour Stands, Lava/Lava Buckets, Brewing Stand variations, Trapped Chest, Hopper, Rails, Brown Mushroom, Iron/Gold Weighted Pressure Plates, Lapis Lazuli blocks, Cracked Stone Brick blocks, Shulker Boxes (1.11), Observers (1.11), Glazed Terracotta (1.12), Concrete (1.12), Concrete Powder (1.12), Coral (1.13), coloured Minecraft Beds (1.13), Stripped Logs (1.13), Prismarine Stairs/Slabs (1.13), Trapdoor variants (1.13), and Smooth Quartz (1.13).

Some Potterworld texture pack build materials are not in the Mine Depot due to world edit limitations. These include White Cabinet, White Wainscoting, Single Door Brown Cabinet, Chorus Plants (stack of books, small seat), Six-sided Wood Logs, Hogsworth Pillar, and Hogsworth Student Desks.

Moreover, blocks that work with magic cannot be used with spells on a housing plot.  Only Vanesco (Iron Ore) and Lumen Aestus (Soul Sand) blocks are obtainable through the Mine Depot. However, Reductamus (broken “Stone Brick” appearance), Divindo (broken "Gold Ore" appearance), and Leviomora (Nether Quartz Ore) blocks are unobtainable.

History

• In 2016, housing plots used to be showcased on Potterworld Cinematic.
• Until early 2020, /house fly did not exist.
• In February of 2021, hunger was removed from housing plots. This made it obsolete to eat cake, which would produce different models depending on how many bites were taken.
• House Elves at housing used to give free food.
• Building blocks used to be only obtained by going to the Mine Depot in Hogsend.
• All housings used to be in the same biome and had no weather.
• There used to be a maximum height limit of about 40 blocks above ground level. Now, it is 156 blocks or up to Y level height of 156.