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If you are in a [[village]], you may be able to persuade someone with high carpentry skill to plan your house and add you to permissions.
== Finding a Location location ==
When you think you are ready to make your first house, the first thing you are going to need is a suitable place to do so. Bear in mind that you will want some basic resources nearby such as water, trees, and exposed rock for making a mine tunnel.
<b>Note: You cannot build a house inside the [[Settlement#Perimeter|perimeter]] of a [[settlement]] you are not a member of.</b> Although you can build a fence, it is considered very rude to do so without the consent of the settlement owner. [[Examine|Examining]] the ground tiles before you even start cutting down trees and leveling the ground will prevent further disappointment on your side and bad relations with your neighbours. It will say "This is within the perimeter of Settlement X" in the event window.
=== Flattening the ground ===
After you find a suitable location you normally need to prepare the area. Before you plan your house the ground needs to be completely flat. In order to flatten the ground, "activate" your [[shovel]] by double clicking on it, then right click on the ground where you want the house. This should display a menu with a Choose the '''flatten''' option. Select flatten and you will do just that. Note that flattening affects the eight tiles around the tile you flatten. If you do not have enough skill to flatten the exact spot you can dig dirt from nearby and drop it on the tiles to bring it closer to level. See also [[digging]].
== Woodcutting ==
For the [[planks]] and [[mallet]], you'll need to get some lumber. Activate your [[hatchet]] and go to the nearest [[tree]]. It's a good idea to right click the tree and ''examine'' it before you decide to chop it down, as only very old or overaged trees will provide a good amount of lumber. When you have found a tree that you are happy with, simply right-click it while your hatchet is activated and choose "cut down". You will need to do this multiple times before the tree is felled. Once it does fall you will see a felled tree on the ground (or just a log if the weight of the tree was below or exactly 24kg). Next you will need to chop up your felled tree in smaller pieces and create logs. Right-click on the felled tree while you have your hatchet activated and select '''chop up'''. Now pick up the log and we will go on to planks and creating the mallet.
=== Creating planks ===Creating planks is just as simple as any other action in Wurm, which is lucky since you will need a lot of planks to build your house: 20 for each wall. To make planks you activate your saw (starting to see the logic yet?) and right click on your log, choose '''create''' and then "weapons" and '''plankCreate > Construction materials > Plank''' in the sub-menu of create (plank being in the sub-menu of weapons). You can fail at creating planks at any carpentry level, be patient with this because it will happen a lot - it's completely normal. Repeat the log cutting and plank-making to create the amount of planks you need for the amount of walls you have.
=== Creating the mallet === Equip your [[carving knife]], right-click the [[log]] in your [[inventory]] and select '''Create/Weapons/> Construction materials > Shaft. Do this twice. Then right click one of the [[shaft]]s in your [[inventory]] and select '''Create/Miscellaneous/> Tool parts > Mallet Head'''. Equip the [[mallet head]] and right-click the shaft, and select '''Create/> Tools/> Mallet'''. If all succeeded, you now have a mallet.
== Iron ==
Next up is [[iron lump|iron]], this is the hardest part.
To find iron, activate your pickaxe, right click on a tile that says rock and choose '''prospectMining > Prospect''' from the '''mining''' sub-menu. Iron is the most commonly occurring ore in Wurm, but it can be a challenge to find. You may have to search through a lot of rock tiles before you manage to find an iron mine - but [[prospecting]] can help narrow down your search.
'''If you are unlucky with finding an [[iron vein]]''' you can also [[Foraging|rummage]] many rock tiles and collect the [[iron rock]]s which weigh 3kg and give 0.2kg of iron when melted. This is not much but may be enough to make the nails needed for building the house. This method is very useful for those without a public mine to use, or those who do not want to start a mine. You can easily get enough iron for your entire house, but it will be low quality nails.This way can also be a lot faster if you only need a low amount of iron and have many rock tiles around but no premade mine or luck with [[prospecting]] any iron. [[=== Prospecting]] for iron. === When you prospect a rock tile it show all ore veins within a 7x7 area. You can use this to approximate the location of the ever elusive iron vein. Once you get the message there is iron nearby, you can start to tunnel for it. The first rock tile will break after mining it approximately 60 times, all further tiles inside the cave take around 50. After you are two tiles in, you can start mining at different angles (up, forward, or down). Only the last action will decide which angle the mined tile will be, so once you receive the message 'the wall will break soon' start mining up, mining down or mining forward. There are many methods of building a cave, one of the most thorough method is to make your main shaft about 10 tiles long, then mine side shafts every other tile going in both directions.
When you have found your precious iron vein, it's time to start mining it to get to the ore. The '''mine''' option is also found in the '''mine''' sub-menu. Each mining action will deliver 20kg ore. You'll want to get to the iron inside the rock of these ores so you will have to smelt them. You do this by getting yourself another of those fancy logs and with your hatchet "create" a [[kindling]] from it. Once you have this little nifty piece of wood, you select your steel and flint, right click on the kindling and create a [[campfire]] with it (its under the container sub-menu). Now that you have your campfire, it's time to get smelting! Right-click on your campfire and "open" it, drag the ore from your inventory to the campfire's inventory.
Next there's waiting - lots of it. <em>MAKE SURE TO FEED THE FIRE WITH WOOD, OTHERWISE THE FLAMES WILL GO OUT AND YOU WILL HAVE TO START THE SMELTING PROCESS OVER FROM SCRATCH!</em> I suggest you mine more ore while you do this but of course if you want to idle you can do that, too. Right-click on the ore and examine it to check how hot it is. Once it reaches ''glowing hot'', you are very close to get your [[iron lump]]. When the ore has smelted, it is replaced by a 1kg [[iron lump]] in the campfire. You will need at least 3-4kg for the next steps.
== Iron Anvil = Small anvil ===
The [[small anvil]] is a crucial tool in Wurm. Get your two 1.0kg iron lumps from the campfire (they have to be glowing hot for this to work). Activate one of them, right-click on the other, and choose combine. Activate the mallet you made earlier and right click on the 2kg iron lump, choose create and pick small anvil. If you are lucky you will pull this off at the first try, so just repeat until you have your anvil.
=== Nails === Nails! This is what you need to keep your house together. Pick up a iron lump of at least 0.3kg and activate it, right-click on your anvil and '''Create/Tools/> Construction materials > Large iron nails'''. When you succeed with this you will get a handful of [[large nails]], you'll need one of these handfuls per wall of your house. You'll also need 2 [[small nails]] for the floor and one small nails for the roof.
===Door lock===You need one [[door lock]] per door to keep your house secure. While stealing is illegal on PVE servers, humanoid monsters (and unwanted player visitors) can enter an unlocked door. Activate at least 1kg of iron lump and right-click on your small anvil. Select '''Create/> Locks/> Doorlock'''. As your skill is low, this may take a few tries.
== Planning the house ==
For every tile your house will occupy, you'll need 1 carpentry skill. Also, for every wall you'll have you'll need 1 carpentry skill. So if you want to build a 1x1 house (the smallest house possible), you'll need 5 carpentry (4 walls, and 1 tile). To plan the house, go to your flattened piece of land, activate your mallet and right-click a tile, and select '''Plan building'''. You can plan additional (adjacent) tiles in the same way; selecting '''Plan building''' on a planned tile will remove it from the plan. When you're satisfied with your building shape, right click on it and select '''Finalize building'''.
== Building the house ==
Finally we can start to actually build the house. Activate your mallet and make sure you have at least one handful of large nails and a plank in your inventory, right-click on a side of your house and select build, pick wooden '''Build > Wooden door, /Wooden wall, or /Wooden window ''' (remember that you need a door to be able to enter the house). Repeat this on all the walls.
Next you will have to pick up more planks and continue to build, 19 more times on every wall to be exact since they all need 20 planks total.
=== Inner walls ===
Inner walls can only be planned once all the exterior walls of a house are complete. To plan inner walls activate a [[mallet]] or [[trowel]], right-click a tile border inside the house and select '''Plan'' > Wall''Inner wall''. On the wall plan select a wall type and continue as explained above.
=== Multi-story housing ===
Your house is now complete with a roof, floor and finished walls. It's probably quite simple; but when you're a more skilled player you could make something much betterand fancier, fancier and with more than one floor! See [[Multi-story housing|multi-story housing]] for more information.
=== Repairing your house ===
Your house walls may become damaged in time by decay, or can be damaged by someone trying to break into your house (except on Freedom servers). To see the damage on one of your walls, right click the wall and select examine. This will display [[quality]] and [[damage]] of the wall.
To repair your house walls, activate a [[plank]], right-click your house wall, and select '''repair'''.
=== Improving your house ===
The higher the [[quality]] of your walls, the slower they [[decay]], and the harder it is to break them for an attacker. To see the quality of one of your walls, right click the wall and select examine. This will display [[quality]] and [[damage]] of the wall.
'''Tip:''' To improve your house walls, activate a [[Plankplank]], right-click your house wall, and select '''Improve'''. Success and amount of improvement depends on your [[carpentry]] skill.
== Managing your permissions and Securing your Home ==
Permissions are used to control who has access to your home or building, to lock or unlock all doors with a [[door lock]] on them, to change the name of the building, or to destroy the whole structure. Just right-click your body in the character menu and select '''Manage > Buildings'''. Here, you can add players to a list to grant them different permissions for your building. To allow access, type their name into the ''add players to list''section. Click the add button, and they will appear on the list of manageable permissions.
'''No player can pick up items from a finished house without being added on the permissions of the building. Any player can get inside a finished house (but not pick anything up) unless relevant doors are locked with a [[door lock|door lock.]]'''
It's possible to build a house made of stone following the guide above ([[Account Types|premium players]] only), however the material requirements are different :
*Skill requirement : 30 [[Masonry]].*[[Trowel]] for building the stone walls.*20 x [[Stone Brickstone brick]] for each segment of wall.*20 x [[Mortarmortar]] for each segment of wall.*10 x [[Stone Brickstone brick]] + 10 x [[Mortarmortar]] for each floor segment (if you're doing a [[Stone stone brick floor]])
Basically once you have planned the layout of your structure you activate the [[Trowel|iron trowel]] and start building the walls. It is even possible to mix stone and wooden walls in the same house (based on which tool you start the wall with).
== Cave dwellings ==
It is possible to build houses in caves. You can build any type of wall underground, however you cannot build roofs in cave dwellings.
In order to do this you would need to activate a [[hammer]], [[Malletmallet]], or [[Troweltrowel]] and right -click a flat reinforced cave floor tile. The 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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