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11 The player witch in Witchbrook lives in a two-storey cottage on the edge of Mossport, inherited from a late aunt. It starts plain and a little neglected, and turning it into somewhere worth coming home to is a long-running thread that runs alongside classes at Witchbrook College and the witch business. The cottage grounds also hold a garden, and later a set of unlockable outbuildings.
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33 Furniture and Decoration
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55 Mossport has its own furniture store, Harbour Home, over in the Docklands area. It is run by a father-and-daughter pair the developer names as Justin and Violet. An issue of The Witchbrook Oracle carries a Justin and Violet MacEnzie writing in as father and daughter, which lines up with the pair described at the store, though the studio has not confirmed the surname for the shopkeepers.
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78 The store carries a rotating selection of furniture sets, each available in several colourways, and the stock changes from one day to the next. If nothing on the floor appeals, calling back the next day brings a different range.
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910 CategoryWhat It CoversFurniture setsRotating stock at Harbour Home, each set offered in multiple colourwaysFlooring and wallpaperApplied per room or per wall, so each space can read differentlyDividers and pillarsStructural pieces for breaking up the open floor planLightingFloor and desk lamps, each of which can be switched on or off individually to change a room's ambienceRugsFloor coverings sold alongside the furniture setsWall piecesPosters and crafted seasonal wreaths, placed through a separate wall systemClutter and trinketsSmall decorative items picked up outside the furniture store
1011 Clutter items, special furniture and other trinkets come from sources beyond Harbour Home: other shops around town, the Sunday Market stands, seasonal events, and rewards from certain resident quests and home consultations.
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1213 Placing Things
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1415 Moving furniture does not involve any heavy lifting. A flick of the wand casts the Telekinesis spell, which lifts an object and sets it wherever the witch wants it. Placement runs on a grid, and certain objects can be stacked on top of others, so shelves and surfaces can be filled rather than left bare.
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1618 Walls use their own placement system, separate from the floor grid. Wallpaper can be applied to specific walls rather than the whole room, and flooring can be changed room by room. Mixing pieces from different furniture sets and different colourways is explicitly supported.
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1820 The Cottage Garden
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2022 The garden is treated as at least as important as the house. Filling garden planters with seasonal herbs cuts down on foraging trips and gives quicker access to ingredients for potions, teas, salves, candles and other magical craftables, which ties the garden directly into Alchemy and the wider crafting loop.
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2225 The garden is also a customization space in its own right. Garden paths and fences are tileable and connect seamlessly as they are laid down. Wild Flower, the gardening shop, stocks planters, seeds and a range of garden decorations, which the studio says is enough to build anything from a cosy herb-and-flower homestead to a gothic cemetery.
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2427 Garden FeatureDetailPlantersHold seasonal herbs; reduce time spent foraging for craft ingredientsPaths and fencesTileable pieces that connect seamlessly as they are placedWildflower meadowA garden left to grow naturally, with watering, gradually sprouts wildflowers that spread outward over timeWeedsThe garden is overgrown with weeds when the witch first moves inBeehivesA flower-filled garden keeps hives happy and improves the honey produced from themVisiting animalsWild animals met out in the world may call at the garden and leave a small gift
2528 Later in a playthrough the garden may become home to what the studio calls a more magical kind of critter. No detail beyond that has been given, and the team has said it is holding it back deliberately.
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2932 Additional outbuildings unlock across a playthrough and are placed on the witch's own land. Greenhouses allow herbs to be grown out of season, which keeps a stock of craft ingredients available all year round; they can equally be used for potted plants or as an outdoor study nook. A handful of other placeable huts give easier access to tools that are otherwise only found inside the College grounds.
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3135 Cottages in Co-Op
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3337 Furnishing carries over into online co-op. Players can move furniture around and change layouts while friends are visiting, without interrupting the session.
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3540 Online play also expands the cottage lands to reveal additional cottages, unlocked according to how many players are in the game, so friends with different tastes are not sharing one interior. Three have been described: one styled around a watermill, one with a sunroom looking out over the brook, and one built into the side of a cliff edge. They are slightly smaller than the host player's cottage, and each gives its occupant their own space and garden area to decorate.
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44+The screenshots the studio published alongside the announcement carry a few details the accompanying text does not spell out. They are recorded here as observed, not as a full system description.
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47+DetailWhat the Capture ShowsHarbour Home menuA shop panel headed Harbour Home with a Furniture tab, a scrollable item list with per-item prices, a preview pane, flavour text for the selected item, and Purchase and Close buttonsThe Drifted setOne furniture set shown in full: Drifted Chair, Drifted Table (2x2), Drifted Bed, Drifted Floor Lamp and Drifted Table Lamp, priced 5 to 10 eachItem flavour textEach piece carries a short description; the Drifted Bed's reads that the salt-smoothed frame holds memories of the seaPlacement pricesIndividual pieces can also be bought straight from the showroom floor through a tooltip with a Buy prompt, such as a Counter priced at 100Wild Flower's addressWild Flower is signed as being on Pepper Street, and sells potted plants alongside its planters and seeds; a Striped Snake Plant is priced at 240BeehivesA hive interaction offers a Pet Queen action and shows a fill meter, with three hives placed together in the flower bedsCottage groundsThe map view of Shadbrook Cottage shows four cottage buildings arranged around the brook with a footbridge between them, off a road named Yew LaneClock and calendarA corner clock shows the time of day alongside the weekday and date, for example 2:00 PM on Sun 14
48+One capture's objective tracker reads that the witch should visit Pip's garage at the Lighthouse by the docks, which places her workshop at a named landmark, and another tracks winning each of the Mossport Cook-Offs.
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3750 Related Pages
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3952 Mossport covers the wider town, including the Docklands and the shops the clutter items come from. Seasonal Cycles covers the seasonal layer that the herb planters and wreaths sit on top of. Getting Started covers moving into the cottage in the opening hours of a run.