Home, land and village extras

Open it from the game menu, Life plus, Home, land and village extras, or type /homeextras (short: /hx).

Your home

Nameplate: give your home a name, for example The Blue Cottage. Visitors hear it as they walk in, and people at your door can read it.

Welcome mat: a greeting of up to 120 characters that visitors hear as they come in.

Door chime: pick a soft chime, a brass bell, wind chimes or an old clock striking. Visitors hear it as they come in.

Decorations: buy a framed landscape painting (2500 points), a woven wall tapestry (3000 points) or a ceramic flower vase (1800 points) in the decor shop. Use one from your bag inside your own home to put it on show. Up to 6 per home. Visitors hear what is on show. Take them down again from Your home and they come back to your bag.

At a door

Stand at the door of a home and open At a door, or type /ring.

Ring the bell: the owner hears the bell wherever they are and can let you in with Answer your doorbell (an invitation for a week, the same as the home menu invitation). One ring every 30 seconds.

Pin a note to the door: up to 200 characters. The owner is told at login and when they come home. Up to 10 notes per door; one note every 2 minutes.

Inside your home

Look out of the window: the time of day, the weather where your door is, and who is standing near your door.

To-do list: up to 10 lines, read to you when you walk into your home. Pick a line to tick it off.

Time capsules: seal a letter to your future self for 7, 30 or 90 days. Up to 3 at a time. You are told at login when one is ready.

Visitor book: when you visit somebody, you can write a line in their visitor book (once every 10 minutes per home). Owners can read only the written messages, newest first.

Your homes

All your homes at a glance: each home, which way and how far its door is, and who is inside right now.

Home compass (/homecompass): every few seconds it tells you how far and which way your door is, for up to ten minutes, and switches off at the door.

Can my home move here: checks the spot you stand on before you pay for moving house.

Open house and the directory

Hold an open house for one hour: players on that map are told, and anybody who rings your bell during that hour is let in (with a one week invitation). Once an hour at most.

Home directory: list your home if you want people to find it. Find a home by name works for listed homes, your partner's, and homes you are invited to.

Land

Name your land and put up a sign: people stepping onto your land hear the name and the sign (each person at most once every 10 minutes).

Helpers: up to 3 friends may build and plant on your land like you.

Where is my land: which way and how far, or how far each edge is when you stand on it.

Land around you: every claimed plot on this map, its owner and name, and which way it is.

Settings: turn land announcements off, or ask to be told when somebody steps onto your land.

Fridges and cabinets

Give each fridge and cabinet a label such as Pantry or Tools, and hear all of them at once: where each one is, how many kinds and how many items it holds.

Rain barrel

Buy a rain barrel for 1500 points. While it rains where your home stands, it fills by one pot of water every three minutes, up to 30. Fill pots from it at your door or inside your home.