House

**Houses** are the dwelling places of villagers and are required for both the player's family and other villagers. You can house 1-4 villagers in each house, consisting of one male adult, one female adult and any children they produce together. Each house also contains a cauldron for cooking (but NOT a cooking grate). Houses are the only type of buildings whose walls and roofs can be customized by the player.

## Types of House

 Simple House
 House

## Construction

**Note:** Building a house to a steep enough terrain will change the stone foundation to a wooden, which changes the required materials from stone to logs.

### Simple Small House

**Simple Small House** has a stone campfire with cauldron, a storage chest with a capacity of 50 kg, and two beds: one big for two adults and one for a child.

### Simple House

**Simple House** has a stone campfire with cauldron, a storage chest with a capacity of 50 kg, and three beds: one big for two adults and two for children.

### House

**House** has a stone campfire with cauldron, a storage chest with a capacity of 50 kg, and three beds: one big for two adults and two for children.

## Customising

Houses can be edited to customize the design of the house and placement of doors and windows. Editing can also upgrade house parts to a higher tier. The higher tier the parts, the more durability they have and the greater the villagers' mood. By default, houses contain only the lowest tier parts. Higher tier house parts are unlocked from the start of the game.

To build tier 2 (wooden) and tier 3 (stone) parts, stand in front of the wall/roof before you build it, but after the foundation and framing has been built. With the hammer equipped, press E to **Edit**. Use the radial menu to select the tier and part desired. To upgrade a house part (for an existing house), first destroy the part then click E to Edit the part before you rebuild it.

Each house must have:

* A 'Wall with Door' part
* Adequate 'Full Wall' and 'Windowed Wall' combination for the rest of the walls of the house (may be all one or the other)
* Roof Walls (aka gable ends)
* Roof
* Non-swappable 'attic'

**Notes:**

* When you partially destroy a house for editing, the inhabitants will become homeless. Reassign their home once all parts are rebuilt.
* A house can't have two doors. To change the location of a door, first change the "wall with door" part to either a "wall" or "wall with window" part.

## Insulation

Player can add insulation (formerly known as "upgrading") to house walls which improves the mood of the resident and lessens the villagers need for wood. This can be done by first getting the Handyman skill, without it the player character doesn't have the skill to insulate walls. When that is done, then next equip a hammer and then right-click to open up the build mode radial menu. Choose "Add insulation" and all the house walls that can be insulated are highlighted in cyan.

Wattle and wooden house modules can be insulated with Daub. Stone house modules are insulated with Limestone.

 Wall
 Wall with window
 Wall with door
 Gable end (triangular wall)

The insulation can also be removed from the wall with the "Remove insulation" option (formerly know as "downgrading").

A table of what insulation does and how it works.

## Decoration

Update v1.2.0.0 gave players the option to decorate house walls, windows, and ceilings inside the house. To decorate houses the player needs to first equip a hammer. Then look at the desired decoration place (e.g. house wall or wooden attic) and press E to decorate (default key on PC). Update v1.4.0.3 brought players the option to also decorate the houses' exterior walls. Decoration also helps increase the mood of the residents.

### Wooden attic

Wooden attic has 4-6 slots to place decorations to, depending on the house type. The decorations will hang from the ceiling/wooden attic's support pillars. Slots 1, 2, 5 and 6 are the house's first and last rows while slots 3 and 4 are in the middle of the house.

### Floor

The floor (foundation) has 4-5 slots to place fur rugs, depending on the house type.