House Configuration

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Houses in Medieval Engineers serve in the role of factions or teams. This joins multiple players together in a way that allows them to share permissions and identifies them in various ways in the game such as in Chat, the Banner Workstation and when using the World Map And Fast Travel. There are also diplomacy options for multiple factions. They can relate to each other as ally, neutral, or enemy. Houses can be accessed in-game by pressing .

This How-To page was originally written by ~CptTwinkie with help from Equinox and Dan2D3D. It will be helpful to note that the page was written from the perspective of CptTwinkie. Equinox and Dan2D3D moved between houses for purposes of demonstration. Used in much of the How-To are two houses called "Our House!" and "Their House" ("Their Hour" is a typo in "Their House"). Our House! represents your own house and, in the How-To, it is owned by CptTwinkie. Their house represents any house other then your own house for the purposes of diplomacy and administration.

Joining a House

Joining a house depends on the settings of the house. It's not too difficult but may require a couple of steps.

First, open Houses and choose a house to join. Click on the house and then the join button.

There are three things that might happen

The house doesn't accept new members

You won't be able to apply to join the house. You will have to convince the house master to enable member applications before you can join.

The house requires approval for new members

Members of the house will be notified that a new member wants to join the house. It is up to the members of the house with permission to approve member applications to approve or deny your request.

The house automatically accepts new members

You instantly become a member of the house.

If you send a member applications (default) you will see this notification:

File:House 02Join 2Confirm.png

If the house doesn't accept members or your request is denied you will get this notification:

File:House 02Join 3BFail.png

If you are accepted or automatically accepted you will get this notification:

File:House 02Join 3AComplete.png

Note: In this case, the house I applied to was the Engineer's Guild House

Creating a House

Creating a house is not any more difficult than joining one.

First, select the green tab on the left of Houses. This tab links to your own house if you are in one. When you are not in a house, as in this example, it will show you that you are not in a house and it will give you the option to create one. Click the create button to create a new house.

File:House 03Create 1SelectOwnHouse.png

Fill in the details page.

House Tag (Required): The House tag must be exactly 3 letters long.
House Name (Required): The House name must be at least 5 characters long.
Public Info: Visible to everyone.
Message of the Day: Visible to members only.
Allow join requests: Allows players to join the house.
Auto-accept join requests: Automatically accepts requests from players to join the house without approval.

Once you click Ok, your house will be created and you will see it on the Houses list.

File:House 03Create 3complete.png

Accepting Members

Once you have a house, if you leave it open to applications, you'll eventually have someone apply to join:

File:House 04AcceptingMemberApplications 1NewApplicant.png

Open the Houses list and click the tab for your own house.

Click the members tab to see a list of members in your house. This list also includes applicants and is sorted by Rank.

Click the applicant you want to approve or deny.

File:House 04AcceptingMemberApplications 4SelectApplicant.png

Click accept to accept the member into your house. Click deny to prevent the member from joining.

File:House 04AcceptingMemberApplications 5ApproveOrDeny.png

Click Yes to confirm your choice.

File:House 04AcceptingMemberApplications 6Confirm.png

Your changes are shown on the member list. If you want to remove a member from the House at any time, you can select the member and click the kick button.

File:House 04AcceptingMemberApplications 7Complete.png

House Diplomacy

Once you have two or more Houses in your world it begins to become obvious that some houses are friendlier than others. A House that cooperates well with yours may be considered an ally while a House that causes trouble for your House may be considered an enemy. There is a diplomacy system in place to formalize relationships between houses. These diplomatic relationships are reflected in other parts of the game such as Chat and the World Map And Fast Travel.