HOME SECURITY Keys If your house is private, you can lock your house door(s). If you want to give people access to your locked house, you'll need to make duplicate keys. You can buy blank keys and key rings from a tinker or provisioner. Making duplicate keys requires you to have the tinkering skill. It is advisable to acquire a reasonable familiarity with Tinkering before you try to make duplicates. If not, you will break many keys before succeeding. To make a copy, double click the blank key and then target the key that opens the lock. To lock or unlock your door, you need only to double click your key and then target the door. If your door is locked, and you wish to enter, you do not have to use the key on the door. If the key is in your pack, you can double click the door to open it. The game will give you a message that you quickly unlock and lock the door. The door will be locked when it shuts. Players can steal your key(s) and they can take them from your dead body. Hidden players in your house House owners and friends are able to instantly reveal anyone hidden in the house with the detect hidden skill regardless of skill level. Texas Law If a player steps into your house, and is not a friend of the house, they will be flagged criminal to you. If you kill this person, you will not receive a murder count. Friends of the house will appear blue to you, but will also see non-friends of the house as criminally flagged. Friends too can kill others in your house without receiving a murder count. Locking Items down It is possible to lock a set number amount of items down in a house. The possible number of locked down items is listed on your house sign when you double click it. Once an item is locked down, it becomes too heavy for anyone to move it. This will allow for you to decorate your house with the peace of mind that ruffians or petty chair thieves will not be able to wreck or steal your furniture. To lock something down, say "I wish to lock this down" This will change your pointer into a targeting cursor. All you have to do is target the item and you will get the message that it has been locked down. To unlock something, say "I wish to release this" and this will unlock the item making it available to be moved. Items cannot be locked down in front of doors. Secure Containers It is possible to make a set number amount of items secure in a house. The possible number of secure containers is listed on your house sign when you double click it. Only containers can be made secure. When you secure an item, it locks it down. The item also is usable by all friends of the house. Players who are not friends of the house are not allowed to open and use this item. To secure a container say, "I wish to secure this" This will cause the item to be locked down and then made secure. To make a container to no longer secure say, "I wish to unsecure this" The item will no longer be secure, but it will remain locked down.