Welcome to Anchorstone Isle!

The Relentless Guild Neighborhood in Founder's Point

Getting Started with Housing

On December 2 EVERYONE will be able to:

1. Visit neighborhoods and look around
2. View your decor collection
3. Add new decor to your collection via achievements, quests, dungeons, raids, and purchasing it from vendors
4. Earn housing XP by adding new decor to your collection
5. (Pretty sure) you can craft and sell decor

On December 2, only people who have pre-purchased Midnight will also be able to:

1. Purchase a plot
2. Build and decorate a home
3. Level up a home with Housing XP
4. Gain access to new room types and decor budget via Housing Levels

Housing Features not available until Midnight Launches (March 2026):

1. Night Elf and Blood Elf exteriors
2. Neighborhood Endeavors
3. Leveling past Housing Level 5

Next Steps with Housing (if you have pre-purchased Midnight)

When you first log in, you'll be given a quest which starts you on the tutorial. Complete all parts of the the housing tutorial, including buying a home. This will grant housing XP to get you into level 2. Don't miss out on housing XP by skipping the tutorial.

If our Guild Neighborhood is already set up, you'lll be able to talk to Lyssabel (Alliance) or Tocho (Horde) to see other neighborhood options, and select our Guild Neighborhood.

If you end up buying a home in a Public Neighborhood to get through the tutorial, you'll be able to move it to the Guild Neighborhood easily and without cost if your Alliance. I'm not sure on the mechanics if you buy in Razorwind Shores first, but I do know that Horde guild members can have homes in an Alliance Guild Neighborhood.

During Early Access, the only way to gain housing levels is by buying new decor items. The first time you buy or acquire an uncommon or better decor item, you will get 10 housing XP. All decor items you can purchase inside the neighborhoods is common quality and will not grant housing XP. Most, if not all, decor items purchased from vendors anywhere else in the world is uncommon or better and will grant housing XP the first time you acquire it.

It takes 1190 Housing XP to go from level 2 to level 3, which means you'll need to buy or earn ~119 uncommon or better decor to get enough XP for Housing level 3.

Decor earned via any completed Achievements and Quests will contribute to your pool of Housing XP, even if you have not pre-purchased Midnight. Most players will probably start with enough XP just from the tutorial and having been playing the game over time to put them somewhere between Housing Level 2 and 3.

Helpful Tips to avoid getting overwhelmed

Housing is not a competition! You don't need every item in the game to make a good home. In fact most of the staple decor and the most versatile decor comes from vendors right in the neighborhood.

If you want to get into dyes, use WoWDB and Wowhead to preview what dyes will look like on items. Pick a few favorite colors to go with to keep everything matching and looking good together. See also the whole section on dyes lower down on the page.

Start with SMALL rooms! Smaller rooms are easier to fill and figure out how you want to arrange, and they are larger then you might expect. The Medium and Large rooms are REALLY big and can feel very empty if you don't have a plan for them.

If you want to use larger rooms, use the wall panels to subdivde them for unique layouts.

Just start putting things down and playing with them! You may be surprised how quick and easy it is to make a nice bedroom. Experiment with floorplans and layouts too.

Housing Resources

House Leveling Guide - video from SoulSoBreezy

WoW DB Housing Hub - Excellent datasbe of datamined decor items, including info about where to get the item if known. You can create private lists/sets that will show you the total cost of all items in the set.

Wowhead's Player Housing Hub - All of the offical info and stuff.

WoW Housing Profession Crafting - Info on crafting mats and skill levels for every item that is craftable during Early Access.

WoWThing - Help you figure out which of your characters have which reputations and professions. This will help with buying and crafting decor.

YouTube Lumber Farm Guide - how and where to get lumber

A Guide to Garrison Herbs - For cheap and easy herbs to use in housing dyes, but it may take a while to build up enough herbs if you want a lot of dyes.

Best Getting Started Videos

Looking for Inspiration or Ideas?

Playlist of housing tour videos - Newish Youtuber Pank has been visiting a lot of homes on the PTR and Beta.

Subreddits where people share cool things they made during the PTR, lots of creative interior and exterior builds from both neighborhoods: r/PlayerHousing, r/WoWHousing

Join a Housing Discord server (linked below).

Advanced Housing decor/ideas from Cottage Wizard. Also there are just TONS of Housing videos on YouTube.

Useful Addons

Home Bound - Shows you all current in game achievements that reward housing decor, tracks what you have completed and what you haven't, and previews a 3D model of the decor rewards.

Decor Vendor - Helps you track, organize, and locate in-game decoration vendors across all expansions.

How to Get and Use Furniture Dyes

Updated list of all dyable furniture.

New assets made for housing can be dyed, such as most of the items found on the neighborhood vendors. Most general decor items cannot be dyed. If an item can be dyed it usually has 1, 2, or 3 dye slots, affecting different parts of the item. The item is changed permenantly (until dyed again by you, or having the dye removed by you). Dyed decor will remain dyed in storage.

Housing dye can be bought and sold on the auction house. Dye can be used from your bags, your bank, or your warbank. Dye is consumed on use. If you want to use the same dye in all three dye slots, you need three of that dye in your inventory.

There are 62 different dyes! WoW Housing Dye Palette is a useful tool to let you quickly see examples of all the dyes used on various pieces. It is organized like the in-game dye palette.
This Wowhead article uses all the same example rooms, but they are arranged in alphabetical order.

Scribes and alchemists can crush herbs from any expansion into housing dye pigments, which can then be crafted into housing dyes using the Dye Station in the neighborhood.

A Guide to Garrison Herbs - for cheap and easy herbs, but it may take a while to build up enough herbs if you want a lot of dyes.

For example if you want a blue dye (like Zephras Blue), you should collect Silverleaf, or Terocone, or Icethorn, or Stormvine, etc. These can all make all of the blue housing dye pigments.

Then an alchemist or scribe crushes 10 Silverleaf (or 10 Terocone, etc) to create 1 blue housing dye pigment. Herb crushing for housing dye pigments is NOT THE SAME as a scribe's normal herb milling ability. Housing dye pigment crushing is found under Classic Alchemy or Classic Inscription, search for "housing" in your professions interface.

Then use the dye station to turn 1 blue housing pigment into any 1 of the blue housing dyes.

Preview how an item will look with dye on WoWDB!

From the right menu, if it says the item is "Dyeable", click on View 3D Model.

Click on the slot you want to dye (e.g. Wood, Metal, General), then click the color you want to use in that slot.

NOTE: You can use ANY color dye in any slot, you aren't restricted to "wood" dye in the "wood" slot! Also, in game the slots are just 1, 2, and 3, not named.

Things to Know

After a home is created, any character on your account can visit/edit/manage the home.

The character who is the owner of a home is mostly cosmetic. The owner is faction locked for public neighborhoods. For guild neighborhoods, the owner must be a member of the guild. For charter guilds, the owner must be on the charter. The owner's name will appear on the in game Neighborhood roster. It seems like the owner character can be changed at any time, assuming the new character meets the requirements listed earlier.

Currently your account may only have a maximum of 2 homes. You can only have 1 home per faction neighborood, so if you want 2 homes, you must have 1 in Razorwind Shores and 1 in Founder's Point.

Housing decor is NOT faction locked to own or use, however there are some decor items that require a certain faction or race to purchase.

Discord Communities

Architects of Azeroth - ask Leiyan if invite is expired

WOWKEA - ask Leiyan if invite is expired

Home Exterior Options

House building exteriors ARE faction locked. Only Human exteriors are available for Founder's Point, while only Orc exteriors are available for Razorwind Shores.

Night Elf (Founder's Point) and Blood Elf (Razorwind Shores) exteriors will be available at Midnight's launch.

NE/BE stuff isn't in 11.2.7, it's for Midnight launch.

— Jesse Kurlancheek (@kurlancheek) November 21, 2025

Datamined Exteriors

Horde Exteriors

Orc Buildings

Blood Elf Buildings

Alliance Exteriors

Human Buildings

Night Elf Buildings

Types of Neighborhoods

Guild Neighborhoods

These are created by the Guild Leader, and only members of a guild may own a home in them. The Guild Leader decides the name of the neighborhood. The GL can assign the "neighborhood manager" role to specific ranks, which will give those people the ability to choose monthly endeavor events. Although the neighborhood map still has 55 plots, guild neighborhoods are unique because they are allowed to have multiple layers, which open automatically once a layer is about 80%-90% full (exact number not yet known). The upshot is, there is space for everyone in a guild neighborhood.

A guild member's character of any faction can join and own a home in a guild neighborhood regardless of faction.

Charter/Private Neighborhoods

These are created by a player, who must find other players interested in joining their private neighborhood. The owner of the neighborhood has control regarding who can live in the neighborhood, what events happen in the neighborhood, and the name of the neighborhood. Limited to 55 plots.

A charter member of any faction can join and own a home in a charter neighborhood regardless of faction.

Public Neighborhoods

These are generated on demand as new players want to find homes. They have no owner, endeavour events are chosen automatically, the neighborhood name is generated automatically. Limited to 55 plots.

A player may only join a public neighborhood with a character that matches the neighborhood's faction.

Neighborhood Tours

Each Neighborhood map has 55 plots, numbered 0-54.

Note: Music in these videos was been added by the content creator, so don't let that factor in. The neighborhood soundtrack can be heard here.

Note: These video tours are from Alpha, during which home exterior customization was disabled, so in these videos all homes will look like either simple Human or Orc homes. Datamined home exterior options for Human, Orc, Night Elf, and Blood Elf are linked above.

Horde Neighborhood: Razorwind Shores

Razorwind Shores Neighborhood Map

Video Tour from Nobbel87

Video Tour from HousingGeek, Part 1

Video Tour from HousingGeek, Part 2

Alliance Neighborhood: Founder's Point

Founder's Point Neighborhood Map

Video Tour from Nobbel87

Video Tour from HousingGeek