Buildings

Types

 * Houses
 * Villages

Cost
Different sides of the board ask for different amounts to buy houses and villages. Below is how much one building costs based on what side of the board they are on:


 * Between Go and Dead: 50 emeralds
 * Between Dead and Go Fishing: 100 emeralds
 * Between Go Fishing and Player 1 fell off a cliff: 150 emeralds
 * Between Player 1 fell off a cliff and Go: 200 emeralds

Villages cost the same as houses but there must already be 4 houses there, so for example if you were to put a village on an unimproved Plains, it would cost 250 emeralds, since each building costs 50 emeralds and there are 5 buildings needed to be built.

Rules
You must own both biomes in a color set to put any buildings on any of the properties. Another rule is that you must evenly upgrade the properties, so for example you cannot have 3 houses on one biome in a set and 1 house on the other one/two. However, you may upgrade different sets at different rates from each other. In one board game there are 32 houses and 12 villages, but it is common for players to create more to expand the availability of the buildings.

Buildings can not be placed on structures or characters. Buildings can also not be placed on mortgaged biomes.

Sometimes it is not worth it to put buildings on biomes if no one seems to land there. (See §Selling Buildings)

If at least one biome in a set is mortgaged, then no more buildings may be built on any of the other biomes in the set.

Using Buildings
The purpose of houses and hotels is to increase the rent of a biome. This is the most evident and easiest way to win Minecraft Monopoly, seeing as how it makes the person who bought the buildings richer. The more houses and villages, the higher the rent rises. A common example of this is a player putting a village on The End. This makes the rent go from 50 emeralds to 2000 emeralds. This puts a giant hole in the pocket of the player(s) who land on the biome.

Selling Buildings
Sometimes, a player can no longer afford to keep buildings on a biome and must sell them to the bank. Players often run out of money in their hand and cannot mortgage anything to help hand over for rent. When this happens, players may sell their buildings to the bank. However, buildings only sell for half of the price they were bought for. The following is how much you get for selling buildings on each side of the board:


 * Between Go and Dead: 25 emeralds
 * Between Dead and Go Fishing: 50 emeralds
 * Between Go Fishing and Player 1 fell off a cliff: 75 emeralds
 * Between Player 1 fell off a cliff and Go: 100 emeralds

When selling biomes, no buildings may be on it, first they must be sold to the bank as described above.