Housing | Activities Black Desert Online Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
The basics
In Black Desert you can purchase a house in every city or a bigger village. Depending on your needs, houses can be used as living places, warehouses or work places for your workers. Houses are not proprietary, so you don't compete with other players to get one. However, there is a raking that determines "owners" of such houses. This ranking is affected by decorations in a given room, or quality of items that you can find there. Thus, if you want a sign with your name in front of your house, you will have to spend a small fortune and pay attention to all the details. When you want to buy a house, you need to know its price. This price is not presented in silver but contribution points. In order to find more information about all the houses and chain-purchases, select the window visible on the photo. Just click on a city or a village.
Houses are directly connected to one another via chain-purchases. They influence the quality of furnishings that can be produced. Chains are marked with numbers, visible on the house icons (1-1, 1-2 etc.). In order to get access to houses with higher chain, you will have to buy houses with lower numbers first. Houses with bigger numbers offer more space for more sophisticated equipment. Houses that can be purchased are marked blue. Once you purchase a house, the icon will turn white.
House management
At first, there will be only a small amount of accessories that you can choose from. However, as you progress (and purchase further chains), you will be able to use more of them. One of the possible options is to transform your house into a workshop, where you can hire workers. This way, you will be able to produce better tools (axes, mattocks, etc.), and fishing rods that will improve your fishing abilities. In the control menu, you can find out how long it will take to finish a room or how much you will have to pay (contribution points).
Once you finish a room (e.g. a workshop), you can go to a foreman and hire one of the workers, and assign him to a task. It is crucial to hire workers from the same city where you purchased the house. Depending on his level, the worker will complete his tasks in a certain amount of time. To assign your worker to a task, open the screen devoted to workers (no. 1 in the interface) and pick one option from the list of houses. You need to supply your workers with the appropriate materials and resources. Resources that are required to produce a given object are visible in the workshop options. Such resources need to be placed in a warehouse first (a different NPC available in every town), and only then your workers will be able to use them. After you assign a worker, you will have to wait some time before he prepares an item for you. Crafting an object can take from dozen minutes to several hours. You can speed up the process by increasing your worker's level. The more workers are engaged in the process, the less time will be required to craft the item. Analogically, the greater the level, the less time will be required.
You can sell all your houses whenever you want. Selling price equals the buying price (contribution points). However, all the purchased accessories will be deleted. You will not lose contribution points but money that you invested in the house. You can only sell the last house from a given chain. For instance, if you have houses with numbers 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 and 1-4, and you want to sell the one with number 1-2, you will have to sell houses with numbers 1-4 and 1-3 first. This prevents purchasing only the best houses. It is a very good idea to purchase entire houses, and using the chains as workshops (with the highest numbers). Those with the lowest numbers can be used as warehouses that are always needed. This will save you a lot of effort if you decide to sell your house. You use warehouses all the time (lower numbers), and workshops (higher numbers) can be always transformed to a living place. Besides, should you decide to sell such houses, you won't have to sell warehouses to gain access to your workshops.