House Vault

Accessing House Vault

Requirements:

• Must be in a House (clanid > 0)
• Must have clanrank > 0 (not "None" rank)

Navigation: Common Room page → footer navigation → "House Vault" link

Opens House Vault interface showing current vault balance and available actions.

Vault Contents

Each House has separate vault storing:

• Gold: Shared gold pool (max 20,000 default)
• Gems: Shared gem pool (max 100 default)

Current Balance: Displayed at top of House Vault page

Example: "Vault contains: 5,432 gold and 12 gems"

Depositing to Vault

Permission Required: Minimum rank set by House (minwithdrawrank pref, default: 40)

How to Deposit:

• Enter amount of gold and/or gems to deposit
• Click "Deposit" button
• Gold/gems deducted from your inventory
• Added to House vault immediately

Limits:

• Cannot deposit more than you have
• Cannot exceed vault max capacity (20,000g / 100 gems default)
• Deposits are permanent (can't undo, must withdraw to get back)

Withdrawing from Vault

Permission Required: Minimum rank (minwithdrawrank, default: 40) OR Head of House with minimum level (default: level 10+)

How to Withdraw:

• Enter amount of gold and/or gems to withdraw
• Click "Withdraw" button
• Gold/gems deducted from vault
• Added to your inventory (or bank if goldtransfer setting = 0)

Gold Destination:

• goldtransfer = 0: Goes to player's bank (default)
• goldtransfer = 1: Goes to player's hand (on-hand gold)

Stipends (Head of House Grants Resources)

What is Stipend?: Head of House/Prefect gives gold/gems to specific member from vault

Permission Required: Rank >= mingrantlvl (default: 2) to grant stipends

How to Grant Stipend:

• Select House member from dropdown
• Enter amount of gold/gems to grant
• Click "Grant Stipend"
• Resources deducted from vault
• Added to target member's inventory
• Member receives notification (if showNot pref = 1)

Limits:

• Max gold per stipend: 1000 gold (default maxgoldstipend)
• Max gems per stipend: 5 gems (default maxgemsstipend)
• Member can receive max 5 stipends per day (default maxstipends)
• Resets at newday

Why Use Stipends?: Heads of House reward active members, help low-level housemates, distribute vault surplus.

Requests (Members Ask for Resources)

What is Request?: Member asks Head of House for gold/gems from vault

How to Request:

• Enter amount of gold/gems needed
• Enter reason/message (optional)
• Click "Submit Request"
• Request sent to House leadership
• Wait for approval/denial

Limits:

• Max gold per request: 1000 gold (default maxgoldrequest)
• Max gems per request: 5 gems (default maxgemsrequest)
• Max 5 requests per day (default maxrequests)
• Resets at newday

Head of House Approval:

• Heads of House see pending requests in vault interface
• Can approve (grant resources) or deny request
• Approval = resources transferred to requester
• Denial = request deleted, no resources transferred

VE Tax (Dragon Kill Tax)

When Tax Applies: Every time a House member kills the dragon (Voldemort Encounter)

Tax Formula:

• If House has 1 member: Tax = 90% of vault (default oneplayertax setting)
• If House has 2+ members: Tax = vault value / number of members

Example:

• Vault has 10,000 gold and 50 gems
• House has 5 members
• Member kills dragon
• Tax = 10,000 / 5 = 2,000 gold, 50 / 5 = 10 gems
• New vault balance: 8,000 gold, 40 gems

Why Tax Exists?:

• Prevents Houses from hoarding infinite resources
• Creates resource sink (gold/gems leave game economy)
• Balances House advantage (shared resources are powerful)
• Encourages spending vault before VE

Notification:

• Tax announcement posted to House commentary (if taxannouncement = 1)
• Heads of House receive YOM about tax (if showNot enabled)
• Player who killed dragon sees tax message at newday

Rank Permissions

House preferences control who can do what:

• mingrantlvl: Minimum rank to grant stipends (default: 2 = Prefects+)
• minwithdrawrank: Minimum rank to deposit/withdraw (default: 40 = high Prefects+)

Head of House Special Rules:

• Head of House can always withdraw (if level >= leaderwithdrawlevel, default 10)
• Bypasses rank restrictions

Settings

General Settings:

• allowgoldinvault: Enable gold storage (default 1 = yes)
• allowgemsinvault: Enable gem storage (default 1 = yes)
• maxgoldinvault: Max gold capacity (default 20,000)
• maxgemsinvault: Max gem capacity (default 100)
• leaderwithdrawlevel: Min leader level to withdraw (default 10)
• goldtransfer: 0 = withdraw to bank, 1 = withdraw to hand (default 0)

Stipend Settings:

• maxgoldstipend: Max gold per stipend (default 1000)
• maxgemsstipend: Max gems per stipend (default 5)
• maxstipends: Max stipends per member per day (default 5, 0=unlimited)

Request Settings:

• maxgoldrequest: Max gold per request (default 1000)
• maxgemsrequest: Max gems per request (default 5)
• maxrequests: Max requests per member per day (default 5)

Tax Settings:

• dktax: Enable VE tax (default 1 = yes)
• oneplayertax: Tax % for 1-member clans (default 90%)
• taxannouncement: Post tax to clan commentary (default 0 = no)

Strategy

For Members:

• Deposit surplus gold/gems regularly to build vault
• Request resources when needed (equipment upgrades, healing)
• Don't abuse request system (ask only when truly needed)
• Thank House leadership for stipends (builds goodwill)

For Heads of House:

• Set fair rank permissions (don't hoard vault access)
• Grant stipends to active/helpful members as reward
• Approve legitimate requests, deny frivolous ones
• Spend vault before VE to minimize tax loss
• Communicate vault strategy to House (when to deposit, when to request)

VE Tax Mitigation:

• Withdraw/distribute vault resources before member attempts dragon
• Coordinate VE timing to empty vault first
• Accept tax as cost of House membership