WoW Midnight Housing overview: All that we know so far
Get the latest details on WoW player housing from developer interviews and press events. Full breakdown of features, customization, and future plans.
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Key takeaways:
- Player housing is a permanent feature, not limited to the Midnight expansion.
- Players will decorate homes with trophies, crafted items, and earned collectibles.
- Each house’s interior is fully modular, allowing players to build multi-story structures.
- Neighborhoods are instanced and support social and seasonal activities.
- No pay-to-win elements: only cosmetic items will be available for real money.
We now have fresh details from a recent press event that offered a hands-on look at the system’s current development stage. While some features remain under wraps, there’s a lot to unpack. Here’s your fully updated guide to everything we know about WoW housing.
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WoW Housing release date
WoW Housing release date has not been officially confirmed by Blizzard yet. The most recent estimate for the player Housing system launch is Winter 2025, following the release of Patch 11.2.7, likely during the pre-patch for the Midnight expansion.
WoW Housing key features
The WoW Housing system is nearing completion, with certain Housing key features confirmed by developers, although some are still in progress.
- Permanent feature: WoW Housing is a permanent addition, not limited to the Midnight expansion, with future content updates planned.
- Customization: Players can fully customize homes with modular interiors, including multi-story designs, textures, and free placement of decorations.
- Decorations and furniture: Thousands of decorations from dungeons, raids, achievements, and crafting will be available. Some items are dyeable, but others may be recolored in future updates.
- Neighborhoods: Housing neighborhoods will be instanced, supporting seasonal events, local quests, and social activities. Players can live with friends or guildmates.
- Cosmetics-only: No pay-to-win features; all cosmetic items available for real money will not impact gameplay progression.
- PvP-free zones: Player housing will be free from PvP, with homes treated as sanctuary zones for relaxation and creativity.
- Neighborhood types: Players can choose between public neighborhoods with random players or private ones for friends and guilds.
- Cross-faction accessibility: Homes are shared across Warbands, allowing characters from different factions to interact with the same house.
- Diverse themes: Multiple aesthetic themes for housing customization will be available, allowing players to mix and match decor styles.
- In-game unlocks: Houses will be unlocked through moderate gold costs and short questlines, offering players a chance to earn rewards with minimal restrictions.
WoW Housing preview
Check out Blizzard’s WoW Housing preview, where many streamers test the system for the first time and build their own houses from scratch.
WoW Housing customization options
WoW Housing is offering both interior and exterior customization for players to personalize their homes.
Interior customization
Players can choose from two design modes: Basic and Advanced. Basic Customization offers easy-to-use options like object placement with snapping, collision detection, and a simple grid system. For more freedom, Advanced Customization allows unrestricted object rotation, resizing, and clipping, letting players place items in unique configurations. Additionally, dye customization will allow players to adjust the colors of furniture and other items for a more personalized touch.
Decor items are categorized into three ranks: Commodities, Investments, and Trophies, and players will be able to collect them through in-game activities. Items range from simple furniture to elaborate boss trophies. Some items are linked to achievements or professions, while others are available through crafting.
All decor items are account-wide, and players can easily trade them or sell them through the Auction House. With no dedicated housing profession, crafting professions like Blacksmithing, Enchanting, and Jewelcrafting will contribute unique items to decorate homes, ensuring that players can continuously enhance their spaces with new collectibles. Learn more in our All sources for Player Housing decorations post.
Examples include trophies like Onyxia’s head, thrones from raid bosses, and even a bathroom (with a non-functional toilet door). About 60% of items are repurposed assets, while 40% are entirely new.
Exterior customization
Exterior customization features are still being finalized, but players can expect options for outdoor decor, including items like mailboxes, hearthstones, and gardens. Homes will be placed in public or private neighborhoods, and players can choose to have a more secluded or social experience based on their preferences. Blizzard is working on integration features such as mount stables and interactive pet areas, and will continue to expand options over time.
WoW housing neighborhoods
WoW Housing offers customizable plots in both public and private neighborhoods, with various environments ranging from forests to coastal cliffs. Public neighborhoods are automatically generated, while private ones can be created by guilds or player groups with custom access control.
Players can move homes freely without losing progress, as their house states are saved, and a cooldown is applied for returning to previous homes. Monthly Endeavors introduce shared tasks like crafting, gathering, and dungeon runs, rewarding players with decorations and upgrades. Each house has privacy controls, allowing players to set individual access permissions for friends, guildmates, or all players.
The system caters to solo decorators, social players, and guilds, providing options for customization, collaboration, and easy management.
Neighborhood Endeavors
In World of Warcraft: Midnight, Player Housing introduces Neighborhood-exclusive events called Endeavors, where players collaborate to achieve shared goals that impact the entire neighborhood. These monthly events provide a variety of tasks like crafting, gathering, questing, and completing dungeons or raids, allowing all players to contribute regardless of their preferred playstyle. Completing Endeavors rewards players with a new currency, used for purchasing exclusive decorations and earning Neighborhood Favor.
Neighborhood Favor is a reputation-like system that tracks a player’s progress within their housing neighborhood. As players gain favor, they unlock upgrades and rewards for their Player Homes, such as increased decoration limits and exclusive furniture.
Blizzard has teased several Endeavor events, including one inspired by the Emerald Nightmare, set in a central tree surrounded by thematic NPCs and lore from Val’sharah. These events promise exciting rewards like faction-themed decor, ensuring that each neighborhood feels unique and vibrant. More details on specific rewards and future updates will be revealed as the system develops.
WoW Housing FAQ
Why is WoW Housing being released just now?
Devs said, that players were asking for this feature for the whole game’s existence. However, since some solutions were impossible due to capacity limits, this idea was nothing more than a dream. The developers were unsure if this feature would be relevant for the game. But now, they decided to give it a confident form. They base key aspects of WoW player housing on the community’s wishes. They don’t just work on what housing has to be. They also keep track of what it is supposed not to be.
Is WoW Housing similar to Draenor Garrison?
Blizzard has been very clear: this is not a return to Warlords of Draenor’s garrisons. The mistakes of the past—isolating players and tying power progression to housing—are not being repeated. There’s no auction house, no PvP, and no combat advantage to owning a home. It’s purely cosmetic and social.Blizzard has been very clear: this is not a return to Warlords of Draenor’s garrisons. The mistakes of the past—isolating players and tying power progression to housing—are not being repeated. There’s no auction house, no PvP, and no combat advantage to owning a home. It’s purely cosmetic and social.
Will WoW housing be in Midnight only?
Despite debuting in Midnight, housing is a permanent system meant to span future expansions. The teaser showed Stormwind-style architecture, but that’s only the beginning—players will have access to a variety of themes and styles over time.
Housing for WoW Classic?
Waiting for WoW player housing to appear in Classic expansions would be a strange guess. However, we had some anecdotal evidence of housing development in Cataclysm Classic game files. All of this can be a sign of WoW housing coming to Classic expansions, too. Blizzard hasn’t commented or made any claim on this topic yet, so we can only dream about such an outcome.
When will WoW Housing be released?
The official release date for WoW Housing has not yet been confirmed by Blizzard. The latest estimate for its launch is Winter 2025, after the release of Patch 11.2.7, likely during the pre-patch for the Midnight expansion.
Many players were thrilled by the official reveal of WoW housing in the Midnight expansion—a long-awaited feature requested for years. While excitement is high, there’s still a lot of curiosity and concern about how it will all come together. We’ll keep this article updated as new details emerge.
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