6. Housing WildStar Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
This chapter describes the process of building your own house, as well as the bonuses that can be obtained from that. You will also learn about the requirements of housing.
Everyone wants to have their own place somewhere far from the civilization. In Wildstar, it is possible after achieving level 14. When you meet the requirements, you should go to your Capital City and get the proper quest. It consists basically of looking at various interior styles and then going to a house hologram nearby. You will be transported to your own castle in the clouds.
Building and Decorating
First thing you have to do of course, is to build the house. In the bottom right corner of the screen you can see a few options:
Landspace - Placing complete structures on your land. Using this panel, you will be able to build your first house. Most of the houses are available depending on your level, so at the beginning you will only have a few options. You can't build walls by yourself or decide what the internal structure will be.
Besides a house, you can also place a garden, a fairground or a mine, which will provide you with resources. It is very useful for crafting. Of course, these things sometimes break down and you will have to place new ones.
You can also set up special places with challenges available for you. After completing them, you will get a reward. Challenges can be completed again after some time.
To upgrade a given structure, for example a mine, you should have a special FabKit. FabKits may be obtained during the exploration of the world, as a reward for quests or, most commonly, from crafting.
House - Designing the external features like walls, doors, etc. You can even make fireworks constantly shoot to the sky.
Crate - Here you can find all the furniture and items which can be set up all over your house. If you happen to have some of them in your equipment, you have to right-click on an item and make it go to the Crate. From there, you just have to click "Place" to set up an item on the ground.
Vendor - It's a shop with various items ready to be place in your house. They usually cost quite a lot.
List - It's a list of all the items which you've set up in your house.
So you have a house and now it's time to decorate it. In order to do that, just enter the Crate option, choose what you like and click "Place". Drag the item to the place where you want it to be and then click the "Toggle Advanced Control" option, which will allow you to adjust the size, rotation and exact position of the item.
Bonuses
The house, besides its looks, may give you some bonuses.
Buff Board - Here you will find the teleport to outside your house. Once a day, you can choose whether you want a buff to increase the experience you gain from dungeons, from quests and monsters, or from PVP. It works for 23h, but unfortunately you loose it when you die.
Rest EXP - Your house provides the highest Rest EXP in the whole game. The more "comfort" increasing items you have, the more experience you will gain during your absence. You won't get it immediately after logging in, but it will be a bonus for killing monsters.
Additional resources for Crafting - You can place mines, excavation sites, etc. on your premises, from which you can obtain resources without having to run around the map.
Housing Challenges - You can set up places in which you can complete challenges from time to time. You earn random rewards for doing this, just like in normal challenges.