Some features are just systems. Others are the reason you keep coming back. For a long time, housing and freeholds were missing from Verra — and the world felt it. You could fight for a node, trade across a continent and gear up for the next Harbinger, but there was nowhere to come home to.
That changes now. Housing and freeholds are back on EmberForge.
A piece of Verra that's yours
A freehold is land you claim and shape: your own corner of the world, set inside the living map rather than tucked away from it. Every account can hold one freehold — enough to matter, rare enough that every claim means something. Choose your ground, lay out your buildings and placeables, and watch an empty plot become a homestead.
A home that works for you
Your freehold isn't just for show:
- Gatherables accrue over time. What you plant and raise keeps growing while you're out adventuring, ready to harvest when you return.
- Warehouse storage gives your hard-won materials a safe place to live, close to where you'll use them.
- Placeables with sensible limits keep every freehold distinct and every neighbourhood readable — room to build something proud, without the clutter.
Woven into your node
Freeholds are tied into the node economy. What your land produces flows into crafting and the server-wide market, and the homesteads around a node become part of its story as it grows from wilderness to metropolis. A thriving node is full of homes. A home is a reason to defend your node.
Built on the EmberForge engine
Like everything on EmberForge, housing runs on our server-authoritative engine. Your land, your buildings, your stored goods and everything your freehold produces live on the server — persisted, protected by Aurora Borealis, and safe across restarts. Because the rules are data, we can tune growth, limits and storage as the community settles in, and keep improving housing while you live in it.
Come home
Log in, find your ground and raise your first walls. The forge kept the world alive — now it's time to make yourself at home in it. 🔥🏡
Read more in the wiki: Mounts, Housing & Social.