Housing Development Notes -- Updated December 2

In this thread, we’ll post notes from WoW developers as the various parts of the Housing system see final iteration, from Early Access all the way through the launch of Endeavors.

One aspect of Housing that we want to clarify before Early Access begins tomorrow is this: there are two types of neighborhoods that will be available after patch 11.2.7 this week-- public neighborhoods and guild neighborhoods.

Housing enthusiasts will already know that we’ve also developed a third type of neighborhood: Charter neighborhoods, which can be founded privately by ten players who are not necessarily in the same guild. Charter neighborhoods will not initially be available from the Neighborhood Steward. Our concern here is for the performance and stability of the game as we launch a very complex patch. We’re highly focused on delivering a performant game service as players create many neighborhoods over the next few days and weeks.

We’ve also seen questions from players about the arrival of Blood Elf and Night Elf exteriors. We’re in final development of these, and we expect to add them to the game as options for your houses in the 12.0 patch.

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With the initial release of patch 11.2.7, Draenor trees are not yet ready for harvesting. We expect that they will become harvestable in the coming weeks.

Players looking for Shadowmoon Lumber to craft items with Warlords of Draenor professions should instead harvest Olemba Lumber from Outland. The lumberjack in each neighborhood will trade Olemba Lumber for an equal amount of Shadowmoon Lumber until the trees in Draenor catch up.

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