Welcome to the Rivendell Steadings!

Update 48 sees the launch of our newest premium neighbourhood, the Rivendell Steadings. Nestled high in the mountains just to the west of the Vale of Imladris, players now have the opportunity to call Rivendell home! Here’s everything you need to know about how to visit the neighborhood and purchase a home for yourself. 

When Will Rivendell Housing Be Available?

Rivendell Steadings will debut at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on Thursday, April 30th. When access is enabled, there will be an initial slate of fifteen neighborhoods available to explore and purchase. As neighborhoods fill up, more layers become unlocked. 

For the first week of Rivendell Steadings being available, the threshold for the housing system to generate new layers will be greatly reduced to help ensure that demand can be met. 

How to get to the Steadings:

There are multiple ways to get to the Rivendell Steadings. The main entrance of the neighborhood is a quick walk south-west from the Rivendell stables, right before the tree bridge crossing. You can also access the neighbourhood from Bree-town via the Broker’s Office as well as from the new Rivendell Steadings Broker’s Board in Lalia’s Market. 

Exploring the Steadings:

Upon speaking with the Rivendell Housing Broker Hirthamel you can accept his quest and tour the neighbourhood. This quest leads you through all the major points of interest, housing types, and amenities that can be found within to help familiarize yourself with the space. 

Within the Steadings, you can find a small Town Center that offers a variety of services and crafting facilities, as well as a Stable-Master near the exit to help you get to your adventures. 

Each Steadings neighbourhood has two standard homes, four deluxe homes, and one kinship home. Anyone can purchase the standard and deluxe homes, but your kinship will need to be Rank 7 or higher to purchase a kinship home. As of this writing, a kinship can own only one home, so if you are planning to move your kinship, you will need to abandon your current kinship home.

Each home in the neighborhood has the following hook features: 

• Exterior 

• All Mobile Yard Hooks 

• Property Fence Hook 

• Ambient Environment (aka – Dayfile) Hook 

• Music Hook 

• Hitching Posts 

• Personal Mailbox 

• Interior 

• Furniture, Floor, Wall, and Ceiling Decoration Hooks 

• Wall Surface and Paint Hooks 

• Floor Surface and Paint Hooks 

• Lighting Hooks 

• Music Hooks 

• Personal Chest 

• NEW FEATURE: Ceiling Surface and Paint Hooks 

New Feature: Ceiling Surface and Paint Hooks:

The Rivendell Steadings introduces two new types of hooks to the housing system – Ceiling Surface and Ceiling Paint. Much like Walls and Floors, you can now customize the appearance of your ceilings in the Rivendell Steadings. Currently, any existing Floor surface and floor paint will work in their respective ceiling hook types. In the future, new surfaces will be introduced to help make your ceiling stand out! 

How to Purchase a Rivendell Home:

To purchase a home directly speak with Hirthamel (found in the Rivendell Steadings town center and in the Bree-town Broker’s Office) or by using the Rivendell Homesteads Broker’s Board in Lalia’s Market. This will open a menu that will show you all available Rivendell Neighborhoods and the houses that can be purchased within them. From this panel, you can purchase them directly using Mithril Coins or Homesteading Coins. You can also click the Tour House button to go directly to the property and walk around it prior to purchasing it if you like. 

While you are visiting an unpurchased home – either via exploring the neighbourhood on your own or via the Tour House button, you can choose to purchase the home using the For Sale sign at the yard entrance of the property.

Where to Find Decorations:

What would introducing a new neighbourhood be without also introducing new decorations to go alongside it? Update 48 includes many new Rivendell and Elf themed decorations for you to enjoy in your new (or existing) homes. 

• Hithramel, the neighborhood broker, offers a variety of items – including many new decorations made just for this neighbourhood. 

• The Rivendell Steadings Housing Furnisher offers many of the same items as Hithramel, as well as lights and other special effects decorations. 

• Cachúnir in the Last Homely House offers a variety of new items as long as your standing with the Elves of Rivendell is high enough. 

• The Rivendell Decorations Vendor in Lalia’s Market offers a variety of decoration bundles in exchange for Homesteading Coins. 

• This season’s Adventuer’s and Traveller’s Steel-bound Lootboxes include a variety of Rivendell and Elf themed housing decorations. 

• This year’s anniversary rewards include an assortment of Rivendell-and-Elf-themed housing decorations. 

Additional Housing Goodness:

The Rivendell Steadings isn’t the only thing to be excited about for housing with Update 48! 

• Many hook types have seen the size and coloration of their artwork adjusted to help make them more easily usable in areas where hook density is high. 

• The Kingstead and Eastfold premium neighborhoods now have Property Fence hooks for all homes. 

• The Belfalas premium neighborhoods now have Light Hooks for all interiors. 

• An assortment of existing “huge” yard decorations can now be used on regular yard hooks. 

• Banners Galore! The Decoration Vendor in Lalia’s Market has been updated with Shagana, Gondor, and Rohan themed banner bundles that can be purchased for Homesteading Coins. 

Happy Homesteading! 

And here we are, at the end of this overview and excited to launch the much-anticipated Rivendell neighbourhood! It has been a long time coming – and something we know you all have been looking forward to since we first suggested the idea of it those many years ago right after the launch of Lyndelby. 

Development had some starts and stops along the way as other initiatives took center stage. Over the years (and over the last couple of months), we’ve been listening and learning, and we hope that the Rivendell Steadings represents some of what we’ve learned from all your feedback – including neighbourhood launches and the 64-bit server consolidations. 

Many thanks to you all who eagerly jumped into Bullroarer to test out the neighbourhood and its features!  
 
Mae govannen and welcome home!