Warning: Sidequest spoilers for World of Warcraft: The War Within Patch 11.1, Undermined, below
Characters who complete a sidequest in World of Warcraft Patch 11.1 can unlock their very own apartment suite. While a far cry from full player housing, World of Warcraft fans can get a taste of the upcoming feature once Patch 11.1 launches.
During Blizzard’s inaugural Warcraft Direct presentation, World of Warcraft announced Undermined, its first major content update for The War Within. It also gave fans official confirmation that player housing would finally be coming to World of Warcraft during Midnight, the second expansion of the Worldsoul Saga.
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However, it seems like Patch 11.1 will actually contain a preview of player housing, albeit in a limited way. While racing across Undermine in the World of Warcraft update, fans can find a wanted poster nailed over a rental sign, leading them to the Barrelbottoms apartment complex. They then meet Mama Keara, one of the apartment’s tenants, and uncover a conspiracy in which Moz Barrelbottom, the “benevolent landlord,” is paying a biker gang to attack locals so he can charge them a premium for his protection. After rescuing captured tenants and defeating the gang, players help Mama Keara defeat Moz and take the deed to the apartment complex, where she awards the hero with a penthouse suite, free of charge.
Undermine Apartment in World of Warcraft Patch 11.1
Outside of Garrisons or Class Order Halls, this is the first time World of Warcraft has given players a personal living space like this. According to Wowhead’s screenshots of the apartment, the room’s charmingly shabby appearance or location cannot be changed, meaning fans are stuck with a view of the city that is blocked by a comically large sewage pipe. However, the room does have a unique innkeeper, allowing characters to set the suite as their home point for quick access via Hearthstone teleports.
Few details are known about how actual player housing will work in World of Warcraft yet, but fans can expect the system to be significantly more robust than this Undermine apartment. The full feature arrives in Midnight, which is currently expected to arrive in early 2026. However, the updated roadmap for World of Warcraft in 2025 has the expansion’s reveal planned for the summer, with player housing potentially arriving before the end of the year, so actual details will likely start arriving soon. Until then, fans can hang out in their new penthouse suite right now on the Patch 11.1 Public Test Realm, and officially once Undermined releases, likely on or around February 25.
In this opening chapter of The Worldsoul Saga, you’ll journey through never-before-seen subterranean worlds filled with hidden wonders and lurking perils, down to the dark depths of the Nerubian empire, where the inscrutable Harbinger of the Void has gathered her arachnid forces to bring Azeroth to its knees.