Welcome to the Kingstead Meadows Homestead (Rohan)!
Summary:
♦ Neighborhood Presentation
♦ Premium Housing
♦ Price
♦ Hooks
♦ Links
Neighborhood Presentation
The Neighborhood:
Welcome to the Kingstead neighborhood in West Rohan.
This homestead is located on the plains north of Edoras and offers stunning 360° views of the surrounding country. If you want to have your own farmhouse and live in open, grassy country, this is the place to be!
The Town Square:
As with all the other housing estates in Middle Earth, the Kingstead neighborhood contains many basic goods and services in a central area of the village.
This includes a vault-keeper, auctioneer, forge and relic masters, supplier, healer, home furnisher, task boards and collection boxes, and crafting stations. In addition, there is a housing broker here which will make visiting other neighborhoods quite convenient!
You will also have the option to pick up quests from here which will enable you to increase your reputation among the neighbors.
Access to the Kingstead Neighborhood
There are many ways to get to the Kingstead Homestead.
- The trip from Edoras/Aldburg/Snowbourn is quite easy and the landscape is definitely worth seeing.
- Edoras and Aldburg also both provide swift travel to the Kingstead neighborhood.
- You’ll find the Housing Broker’s Office in Bree (across the street from the Bree-town Hall), allowing you to visit or purchase houses in any of the Housing areas throughout Middle Earth
U25.1 – A Stablemaster has been placed in the social center of Housing neighborhoods that offers travel between a number of major destinations across Middle-earth and between housing homesteads.
Premium Housing
What is Premium Housing?
There are some important differences between the premium housing and the original four neighborhoods.
→ For a comparison between premium and classic housing : use this page.
To begin, purchasing a Premium house is done through the LOTRO store using LOTRO points. You can buy your house with either Mithril Coins or Premium Housing Writs.
Why would I spend real money on a house? What are the advantages?
There are a number of benefits that come with owning a premium house in Belfalas:
- You can own as many premium houses as you want on as many or few characters as you want, in addition to your original house in one of the other four neighborhoods
- You can own a Meadhall (Rohan only!) with a huge number of decoration hooks
- The smallest house in Rohan has more decoration hooks than any house in Eriador
- The two Rohan neighborhoods each contain one unique house with a unique interior that is a little bit different from the other houses of the neighborhood.
- Every house in Kingstead neighborhood has two interiors (3 for the unique one)
- Only a one minute cooldown on the house port
- Each premium houses have a Music hook in their yard, and multiple Music hooks inside the house (compared to a single one on classic houses)
- You can customize the dayfile of your yard using the Ambient Environment hook (changing the weather, adding clouds, etc)
- No monthly maintenance fee for VIP players
- …
Note: No Kinship houses in Rohan Homesteads!
Transfer, abandonment or seizure
In case you transfer a character or account to another server, the house is fully refunded. You will get special Writs that you can redeem for a new premium house.
In case of abandonment or seizure of the house, you will be reimbursed for up to 90% of the starting price through the Writs.
Prices
Each neighborhood contains:
- 10 Deluxe Houses (including 1 special house)
- 1 Mead-Hall
Note: There are no kin houses in Rohan.
The interactive map is only available on desktop version of the website, it does not work when accessing the site from a mobile device.
Hooks
| Deluxe House | Special House | Mead-Hall | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Interior Hooks | 118 | 118 | 171 |
| Wall | 40 | 40 | 46 |
| Yard/Furniture | 53 | 53 | 82 |
| Ceiling | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| Firepit | 1 | ||
| Light Hooks | 8 | 8 | 10 |
| Ambient Music | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Surface (Floor) | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Color (Floor) | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Surface (Wall) | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Color (Wall) | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Surface (Column) | 6 | ||
| Second Interior Hooks | 51 | 51 (+27 for Cave) | 56 |
| Wall | 14 | 14 (+8) | 16 |
| Yard/Furniture | 27 | 27 (+13) | 26 |
| Ceiling | 2 | 2 (+2) | 3 |
| Light Hooks | 3 | 3 (+3) | 4 |
| Ambient Music | 1 | 1 (+1) | 1 |
| Surface (Floor) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Color (Floor) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Surface (Wall) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Color (Wall) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Surface (Column) | 2 | ||
| Exterior Hooks | 39 | 39 | 71 |
| Enormous Yard | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Huge Yard | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Yard/Furniture | 22 | 22 | 44 |
| Doormat | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Hitching Posts (Mount) | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| Ambient Environment | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ambient Music | 1 | 1 | 1 |
