Packing Up Your House
Packing Up Your House
The house pack-up system allows players to convert an existing home into a portable restoration package. This makes it possible to relocate, temporarily remove, or reorganize a house without manually moving hundreds of items.
When a house is packed up, the system preserves your important housing assets and places them into organized moving crates.
What Gets Packed
The following house assets are preserved during pack-up:
- Locked down items
- Secure containers
- House add-ons
- Decorative plants
- House vendors and NPCs
- Certain special house items
Items are converted into restoration deeds and organized into categorized moving crates.
Moving Crates
After packing up your house, you will receive:
- A House Restoration Deed
- A Moving Crate Key
The restoration deed tracks all moving crates associated with your packed house.
Moving crates are automatically categorized to make unpacking easier. Examples include:
- Lockdown deeds
- Secure deeds
- NPC deeds
- Add-on deeds
- Decorative plants and seeds
Visual Restoration Deeds
Many restoration deeds visually resemble the item they restore.
For example:
- A crate restoration deed may look like a crate
- An add-on restoration deed may resemble the original add-on
- Decorative plant deeds may resemble the original plant
This allows players to unpack and organize large restorations more intuitively instead of sorting through hundreds of identical paper deeds.
Plants and Seeds
Plants are handled differently depending on their state:
- Decorative plants are preserved as restoration deeds
- Living plants are converted into seeds
- Dead plants are discarded
Generated seeds are automatically grouped into a seed crate.
Add-ons
Some add-ons can be converted back into normal add-on deeds.
Others are preserved directly as restoration deeds and restored later when unpacked.
Add-on hues and visual appearance are preserved where possible.
Vendors and NPCs
Player vendors and supported house NPCs are safely preserved during pack-up and restored later using NPC restoration deeds.
Restoring Your House
After placing a new house, use the House Restoration Deed to begin restoring your packed items.
The restoration system allows you to unpack your house in logical stages using the categorized moving crates.
Important Notes
- Keep your moving crate key safe
- Some temporary or invalid items may not be preserved
- Packed houses remain associated with their moving crates until fully restored
- Moving crates remain locked until opened with the correct key
- Houses cannot be packed up more than once simultaneously