A '''house''' is a structure built of [[wood]] or [[stone house|stone]] on relatively flat [[ground]]. Houses can be [[building plan|planned]] on maximum [[slope]]s of 6 dirts. The maximum length a house can be is 19 tiles.
A house preserves your possessions by reducing [[decay]], and to a degree, protects them from [[Stealing|theft]]. If the doors are equipped with a [[door lock]], no one may enter your house except the [[friend]]s you give [[writ|permission]] to, unless a door is [[lockpick]]ed. If the owner of a house has not logged in for 1.5 months, the house is marked as 'abandoned', and takes much higher [[decay]] damage.