No One Ever Is The Blame... for the RuneScape Housing Disaster
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Your Runescape Home Is Gone and It Took 2 Decades To Build
The "RuneScape housing disaster" refers to the chaotic launch of the massive Player-Owned Housing Rework and 120 Construction skill update in RuneScape 3 on July 13, 2026. While not a literal server-destroying cataclysm, the update's messy rollout led to widespread layout deletions, broken quest states, and overlapping visitor plot bugs. [1, 2, 3]
What Caused the Launch Chaos
- Layout Erasure: Old house layouts were not preserved during the transition to the freeform system, forcing players to completely rebuild. [1]
- Quest Soft-locks: Certain active quests (like You Are It and Love Story) became temporarily blocked until players completed the new Rimmington construction tutorial quest, There's No Place Like Home. [1, 2]
- Homestead Overwrites: A critical bug allowed visiting players to accidentally overwrite or glitch house plots when interacting with shared community Homestead spaces. [1]
- Missing Utilities: Standard features like kitchen cabinets, kettles, and specific aquarium decorations broke or were temporarily disabled upon release
- Will they fixed it or returned it to the way it should be?
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