Housing
The House Advantage
| Are you sweaty and covered in dirt and has your armour taken quite a beating? Why not take some time out, restore your strength, gather your bonuses and let someone else do all the work? In Runes of Magic every player receives their own house free of charge right from Level 1. |
The Way Home
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If you’re a human your house will be in Logar – or in the Valley of Preparation if you’re an Elf. Just speak to the housekeepers Meydo or Lamila Dya – and in no time at all you too will be able to enjoy the great benefits of having your own home: TP-, EP-Bonuses
Crafting Bonuses
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No Place Like Home – The Housing Menu
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This is where it all starts: The Housing Menu.
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This is where you can manage just about everything in your house. In the next sections you’ll learn how to use the housing menu to your advantage. |
Decorate to Your Heart’s Desire – and Receive Bonuses and Inventory Space!
Decorate your house with beautiful furniture and expand upon your skills and start levelling-up at the same time. Some furniture not only looks good, no, it’s also very practical. It can give you an amount of crafting points per hour depending on your level, or TP or XP for as long as you’re in the house – even during offline time.
Get your home just how you like it! You’ll find everything you could possibly want: rugs, wall decorations and even imposing fireplaces.
For Upward Climbers: TP and XP Bonuses
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XP bonuses give you XP which allows you to level-up. |
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The Elegant Engraved Square Table raises your TP by 25. |
The Sweetheart’s Pink Bed raises your XP by 25. | ||
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When you leave the game, it’s best to log out from within your house. This means that you’ll receive the hourly bonuses – even when offline! |
A Craftsman’s Delight
Homemade is always best! Homemade crafting materials not only speed up crafting at home but also help you gain an even higher boost to your experience. Every type of crafting is well catered for - Anvils for blacksmiths, laboratories for alchemists, pots and pans for chefs and much more.
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| Sawing Table with Crafting Bonus (Carpentry) of 50 Points | Weaving Machine with Crafting Bonus (Tailoring) of 70 Points |
Small Cooking Oven with Crafting Bonus (Cooking) of 50 Points |
You Can Never Get Enough: Inventory Space
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Specific furniture gives you additional storage space. |
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Practical and Classic: Treasure Chests |
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These chests come in a variety of different sizes: |
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| Lionhead Treasure Chest with 12 Inventory Spaces | Storage Chest with 20 Inventory spaces |
Be a Trendsetter: Mannequins
You can hold up to 10 pieces of men’s and women’s clothing and display them in style.
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Order in the Chaos: Placing Furniture
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You can place furniture wherever you like...
using the Housing Menu.
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More Space to Put Your Feet Up: House Expansion
Need more space? No problem. Try expanding your house with more floors, larger rooms, more storage, bathroom – the possibilities are endless. Change your ‘House Contract’ under ‘Accessories’ in the Housing section. Then open the House Menu, click on the symbol ‘Change House Type’ and choose your next abode.
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More Furniture – Even More Possibilities: House Energy
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Do you want more furniture than your house can handle? Also no problem! Raise your house’s energy and you’ll be able to place even more furniture.
To do this, open your house’s menu:
Click the Expand symbol and select the amount of energy with which you would like to expand your house.
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Two’s Company – House Friends
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Invite some friends over and have them greeted by your housekeepers anyway you like!
Click on the House Friend symbol of your house’s menu.
Under ‘Choose Greeting for Friends’ you can choose how your friends are greeted when they enter and leave your house. |
Let Them Get Their Hands Dirty for You – The Housekeeper System
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Taborea’s housekeepers are very obliging sorts. They help strengthen you with white magic and prepare potions and sustenance for you. You can have up to six housekeepers in your service. This means you can get six times more storage space since housekeepers don’t mind lugging your armour about for you.
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Managing Your Housekeepers
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You can keep tabs on your housekeepers using the Housekeeper Menu. This can be found under ‘Housekeeper List’ in the house menu.
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Do you want to hire a housekeeper?
If you already have a housekeeper, select a housekeeper fo your choice and choose whether they should:
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Finding The Perfect Housekeeper
If you’re thinking about hiring a housekeeper, then you should consult not only your prospective housekeeper’s traits, but also those of your character. You can see in the Hire Housekeeper menu the applicants’ main skills; physical or magical buffs or food and potion preparation. Basically, housekeepers are jacks of all trades, however they are at their most effective if their skills match yours. If this is the case, you can look forward to buffs of up to 100%.
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Inventors and cooks bring benefits to all classes. Housekeepers with a talent for magic are especially suited to Priests and Mages. Belligerent housekeepers are the perfect choice for Scouts, Rogues, Warriors and Wardens. Protective housekeepers are a great match for Knights. |
Housekeepers Cook, Craft, and Do Magic – and Never Stop Learning
Give your housekeeper some on-the-job training to boost their skills. Each time you train your housekeeper their talent raises by 1, which also raises the strength of their buffs, potions and food. To do this, click on the skill you would like to improve in the Housekeeper chat window. Your housekeeper will continue to provide you with anything you desire while you train them.
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Magic Curriculum: Raises the level of magical buffs.
Battle Curriculum: Raises the level of physical buffs.
Defence Curriculum: Raises the level of protective buffs.
Cooking: Raises the level of prepared food. Your level also decides what, and how much, your housekeeper prepares.
Crafting: Raises the level of inventive skills and subsequently improves the strength of prepared potions. |
Consume prepared food within 24 hours or it will become unusable. Its effects last 5 minutes.
It Always Pays to Learn a Trade
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| 0-20 | Fullness | This bottle is continuously vibrating even when you are holding it in your hand. | Lets you grow. | 1 h | |||||
| 0-20 | Unbridled Enthusiasm | It hasn't any weight at all, is there really something in there? | Increases your movement speed by 15%. | 1 h | |||||
| 21-50 | Princely Look | The liquid inside is abnormally green. | Turns you into a frog. | 10 min | |||||
| 21-50 | Clear Thought | One sniff lifts the spirit. | Increases your spellcasting speed by 10%. | 1 h | |||||
| 51-80 | Lucky Target | Your housekeeper says sprinkling this on your body will bring you luck... You're not sure if you believe it... | Increases drop rate by 75%. | 2 h | |||||
| 51-80 | Galloping Gale | Grasp this bottle and feel the air accelerating all around you. | Increases riding speed by 30%. | 3 min | |||||
| 81-100 | Crazy Breakout | The energy in the bottle seems to want to burst out. | Catapults you into the air. | ||||||
| 81-100 | Scarlet Love | The bottle's temperature seems to reflect the passion in its maker's heart. | Increases your physical defence by 5%. | 10 min |
Housekeeper Values
You can find out what your housekeeper is capable of and how they’re feeling in the Housekeeper Chat Window under ‘Check Housekeeper’s Attributes’. This is also where you can unload armour and work tools on them for safekeeping.
How is Your Housekeeper Doing?
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Affinity: Housekeepers are capable of just about everything you desire if their affinity is 9 or more. Your housekeeper’s skills are also limited by their affinity to you. So, for example, if their affinity is 30, their skills can only be trained up to this level! |
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Charisma: Charisma determines the effect time of buffs and the number of potions and amount food able to be produced. |
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You raise affinity with your housekeeper through speaking to them. To do this, open the Housekeeper chat window and choose ‘Chat’. |
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Fatigue: After working or chatting, even the best Housekeeper can get a little sleepy. Chatting raises fatigue by 15, curriculum, cooking, and crafting raise it by 25. |
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Give your Housekeeper a few hours' break when they’re fatigued. After that they should be relaxed and ready to help once again. |
What Can Housekeepers Do?
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Displays the level of magical buffs. |
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Displays the level of food buffs. |
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Displays the level of physical buffs. |
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Displays potion level. |
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Displays the level of protective buffs. | ||
Playing Dress-Up
In the ‘Check Attributes’ menu you can place your armour and tools on your housekeeper under the Armour tab. You have 19 inventory spaces to choose from.
That’s everything you need to know about training your housekeepers. If you require any further information, just read the FAQ! Have fun!
The Runes of Magic Team
Housekeeper-FAQ
Are housekeepers permanent?
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Yes.
Do they take up space in your house?
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No. There is a special list allowing you to hire up to 6 housekeepers who require no space in the house.
Can I have more than 6 housekeepers if I upgrade my house?
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The maximum number of housekeepers is set at 6, irrespective of house size.
Do all housekeepers cost the same?
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No. Each additional housekeeper costs twice as the original price.
Do Housekeepers’ personalities have an effect on gameplay?
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No. Parameters such as race, star sign or other character traits have no effect on gameplay.
How long do food buffs last?
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Prepared food must be consumed within 24 hours and once eaten the buff lasts 5 minutes.
How long are housekeeper items valid?
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They are valid for 24 hours.
I would like to hire a specific housekeeper but next to them is ‘hired’ in red.
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That means that this housekeeper has been hired by another player. The list refreshes every hour and you can choose another housekeeper of your choice who is not already in employment.
How long must I wait until fatigue has returned to 0?
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Fatigue is reduced by 5 points every 60 minutes until reaching 0.
