Player Housing in WoW Midnight: Homes, Neighborhoods and Decor

Housing in Midnight: What Matters Right Away

Player Housing is a permanent part of World of Warcraft Midnight. Early access opened on December 2, 2025, and the system reached everyone who owns the expansion when Midnight launched on March 2, 2026. Only Midnight owners can buy and edit a house, though some decor can be earned without the expansion.

Houses belong to your whole Warband: you can have up to two, one in each faction neighborhood. Every character can enter and rebuild them, so an Orc is perfectly welcome in an Alliance home.

Patch 12.1 (Curse of Ula'tek) in August expanded the system a lot with Blueprints, Pet Beds and Large Exteriors. Patch 12.1.5 then added hundreds of new decor pieces and cut crafting costs for older items. Here is how it all fits together and where to start.

How to Unlock Housing, Buy a Plot and Move

You need Midnight. After your first login a starter questline appears: A House For You, My First Home, Welcome Home and Time to Decorate. It walks you through picking a neighborhood and plot, buying the house and placing your first furniture.

A plot costs up to 1,000 gold. The purchase is normally made by a character of the matching faction: Alliance settles in Founder's Point, Horde in Razorwind Shores. Once bought, every Warband character gets access.

If you dislike the spot, you can move the house to another empty plot. Open the House Finder or travel to the neighborhood, click the empty plot's Cornerstone and choose Move House. The house relocates instantly with all its decor, though a small gold fee applies.

• Homestone on the housing dashboard teleports you home, with a cooldown. With two houses, pick the right one first.

• Capital portals in Stormwind and Orgrimmar lead to your neighborhood.

• Guests enter by invitation and owner permissions, regardless of faction.

Neighborhoods and Their Types

A neighborhood is the shared space with vendors, neighbors and group tasks. Alliance has Founder's Point, built from Elwynn Forest, Westfall and Duskwood themes. Horde has Razorwind Shores, a mix of Durotar, Azshara and gloomy Forsaken corners. Each has a portal back to the capital.

Every neighborhood exists in many instances with about 50 plots each. When one fills up, new residents land in the next, and large guilds can spread across several instances.

Public neighborhoods suit anyone who wants a plot fast. Guild and Charter ones give more control over who lives next door. All three support visits, vendors and Endeavors.

The Dashboard, House XP and Endeavors

The main interface opens with H. A selector in the corner switches between your Alliance and Horde homes, and the window holds several sections.

• House Progress - level, XP and rewards.

• Homestone and House Finder - teleport home and browse plots.

• Endeavors - active tasks, timers and Neighborhood Favor.

• Decor Catalog - collected and missing decor with sources and storage counts.

• Blueprints - saved layouts.

House XP is the permanent progress of your home. The first time you learn a decor item you get 10 House XP (duplicates do not count), tasks from the active Endeavor add more, and the completed Endeavor coffer gives 250. After filling a level, talk to the General Contractor in your neighborhood to claim the upgrade. The cap is level 12, which raises placement budgets and unlocks Large Exteriors.

Neighborhood Favor is a separate bar tied to the current Endeavor.

Endeavors are themed neighborhood events lasting several days: residents fill the Favor bar together and earn Community Coupons, House XP and decor. Patch 12.1 brought four new themes.

Building: Modes, Budget, Dyes, Blueprints and Pets

A house has an exterior model, a plot and a separate interior. Room size is not tied to the facade, so a modest cottage can hide a huge interior. Rooms attach to doorways, you can build several floors, and since 12.1 the entry room can sit on any floor.

There are two edit modes. Basic uses a grid, snapping, collision and rotation, and items on furniture move with it. Advanced removes most restrictions: you can clip objects, float them, resize and rotate on several axes.

• Budget. Each item costs 1 to 5 placement points, and the limit grows with house level. Every copy counts separately: four chairs use four chairs from your collection.

• Storage. Since patch 12.1 it holds up to 10,000 items, and placed ones do not count.

• Dyes. Patch 12.1 reworked them: darker shades returned, new colors were added and crafting was streamlined. Alchemists and scribes make base dyes, and since 12.1.5 the customization menu shows which dye a color needs.

• Blueprints. They save a whole house, an interior, an exterior or a single room. There are 50 save slots plus a few hidden autosave slots, and the game backs up your build before replacing it. Not enough budget stops an import, while missing decor simply stays absent. Exterior and full-house Blueprints are faction-specific, interior ones work for both.

• Pets. Non-combat pets are assigned to Pet Beds: up to 100 indoors, with a lower limit outdoors. A bed costs 5 budget points. Hunter pets do not use this system.

Where Decor Comes From

Decor drops from quests, vendors, professions, achievements, dungeons, raids, events and the in-game shop. The collection is Warband-wide, so characters without a house can farm items too.

• Quests and achievements: story furniture, trophies, banners and statues; many quests unlock a vendor for extra copies.

• Professions: furniture, lighting and dyes; crafted decor from pre-Midnight expansions got cheaper in reagents and lumber in 12.1.5.

• Reputation and vendors: themed collections for renown or currency.

• Endeavors: rotating neighborhood sets.

Patch 12.1.5 added Legion and Warlords of Draenor decor from vendors, plus new pieces from activities. These include Aqir Invasions, the Labyrinth of Kindo'jan and the raid The Unbinding of Kith'ix.

Season 2 content also drops decor: the Altar of Fangs dungeon and the raid The Venomous Abyss. Its boss Ula'tek has trophies, with the set depending on difficulty, from Heroic to Mythic. The Tidebound Grotto has housing items too.

What Comes Next: Patch 12.2

BlizzCon 2026 showed housing in patch 12.2 (Eclipse): copy and paste for decor that keeps scale, rotation and dye, multi-select, and four more Endeavors. No release date has been announced.

Until then a sensible routine is simple: finish the starter quests, pick a neighborhood and open the dashboard with H, save up for the second house, and run Endeavors for XP and decor. Once your collection grows, save good layouts as Blueprints so experimenting with rooms stays safe.