How to earn more than one copy of decor items for World of Warcraft’s Player Housing

This week brought another in-depth preview of all things Midnight, which means there are new details on quite a few aspects of Player Housing. We learned a bit about how acquiring more than one of certain items will work, what to expect when planning on collecting pieces from sources like dungeons and raids, and how skilled you’ll need to be at your chosen profession before you can start cranking out decor.

We have heard in previous updates that the collection of items that you can place around your house is not unlimited. If you want to place three of the same table, you’ll need to make sure you have acquired three of that table. This seems fairly straightforward for basic items like chairs and bookshelves that we can simply purchase multiple copies of from vendors. But we have been wondering: what about decor that is awarded from non-repeatable or time-consuming sources?

We have an answer, and that answer is: it varies! For quests and achievements that award a decor item, you will receive one of that item. If you’d like to place multiple copies of that item in your humble abode, you’ll be able to purchase duplicates from an appropriate vendor.

The best example is one that we’ve been puzzling about since the very first reveal for Player Housing almost one year ago: Onyxia’s head. It was a safe bet that the way to acquire this mounted draconic noggin would involve the actual vanquishing of its owner in the Onyxia’s Lair raid in Dustwallow Marsh. It has now been revealed that the achievement More Dots from the 25-player version of the instance will net you one Head of the Broodmother.

If, for some reason, you would like two or more Broodmother Heads in your trophy room, you can seek out Axle in nearby Mudsprocket. This humble Goblin innkeeper will now sell you Definitely Real, Not At All Fake Head of the Broodmother in an amusing way to allow players multiple heads without breaking canon. No word yet on a limit for the number of mounted heads of Onyxia (real or fake) you can acquire, but we can definitively say it is at least two. It is also a distinct possibility that you’ll be able to line an entire hallway with snarling Broodmother Heads.

This ability to find a relevant NPC to sell you more clones of a decoration seems to scale with the difficulty of obtaining it in the first place. Back from the Beyond is the massive Shadowlands-wide meta achievement that awards a soul eater mount. Midnight will add a decorative Torghast portal to that achievement goodie bag, and you’ll be able to buy more portals from Ve’nari for “a tremendous amount of Stygia.” We won’t know for sure until all of this goes live, but I suspect that the steep cost corresponds to the all-encompassing nature of the achievement.

If you’re fearing that you’ll have to revisit thousands of legacy quests in order to collect their newly-added decor rewards, then good news: once Player Housing goes live, any decor from quests and achievements you’ve already completed will be available to you immediately. If you’ve been playing World of Warcraft for a significant amount of time, expect to hit the ground running with a huge number of decor rewards unlocked from the moment you break ground on your house.

We will, however, need to revisit legacy dungeons and raids to collect their various gazebos, sconces, area rugs, and other decor items. Dungeons will only have their final boss drop an item, while any boss in a raid has the potential to have an item on their loot table. A most welcome bit of news is that these items will have a 100% drop rate — no RNG nonsense for the Lich King’s coffee table (or whichever piece of furniture we end up lugging home from atop the Frozen Throne).

You will have to do some light farming if you want multiple copies of dungeon or raid decor, since every kill of a boss gives a guarantee of that boss’s decor item to drop. It does make me wonder about the upper limit on decor inventory for a particular item, as I’m sure by the one-year mark of Midnight I will have 52 copies of whatever tapestries and Titan support columns drop from Ulduar (but no stupid helicopter).

For those super-casual or brand-new players who won’t be starting out with a whole warehouse of previously-earned furnishings, there will be vendors right in your new Neighborhood that will sell you very inexpensive starter items for your home. These will be faction-specific depending on whether you live in the Alliance’s Founder’s Point or the Horde’s Razorwind Shores, but there will be a tucked-away area for smugglers to hide in both zones and offer the opposite faction’s decor to players who just want an Orcish brazier inside their Night Elf house.

Decor recipes will be added to the game across the board — every expansion will have items that can be crafted by each profession. The initial skill requirement sounds steep: you’ll need 80% of the highest skill to be able to start creating decor from a given expansion. For example, you won’t be able to create whatever decorative flasks will be available from the Shadowlands until you level your Shadowlands Alchemy to 140 out of a possible 175. It would be a good idea to go through your army of alts and make sure those profession skills are up to scratch before Midnight launches.

Details will surely continue to roll in about other decor sources such as Delves and Neighborhood Endeavors as we get closer to finally getting our hands on the deeds to our own Azerothian homes. Early access to Player Housing will go live on December 2 if you’ve pre-ordered Midnight, with all of the bells and whistles activating for the expansion launch in 2026.