Houses in Tikal aren't claimed by walking up to a free door and they don't cost weekly rent — they're won at a weekly gold auction, and kept simply by staying Premium.
- Premium account — required both to place a bid and to keep a house afterwards.
- Gold in your vault — bids are held (escrowed) from your temple depot, not your backpack.
- No level or guild requirement.
- One house per character. You can't hold two at once.
- Get Premium, if you don't already have it.
- Deposit gold in your vault. Minimum bids start at 50,000 gp; larger houses cost more (roughly 2,500 gp per interior tile, floor of 50,000). Raises go up in 5,000 gp steps.
- Find Balam, the Vault Keeper — the banker NPC in a city's temple vault.
- Talk to him and say (or choose) "houses" to open the House Auction board.
- Browse the open listings and place your bid. The gold is held from your vault until the auction closes — you're not charged unless you're still winning at settle time.
- Wait for the weekly settle: Sunday at 20:00 (Mexico City time). The highest bidder who is still Premium and doesn't already own a house wins the listing.
- Once you own it, you can open/close your own door, and buy furniture and a Scroll of Hearth (teleports you straight to your door) from Balam.
There's no rent to pay — but if your Premium lapses, your house is flagged to return to auction at the next Sunday settle. You can also voluntarily give it up early with the Relist option from the in-house panel if you no longer want it.
Right now, ownable houses only exist on the Tikal mainland map, in two cities:
- Yaxalún (the capital) — several houses of varying sizes
- K'iibal Cha'an — several houses of varying sizes
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